since i have a small 2gig sd card available of which i use about 100mb , i was looking to rewrite the menu routines i have just to store the lookup table data as the first step , since the menus are not as time sensitive as the large / medium fonts for the digits , some other chrs can be moved to SD as they dont need the speed as much in my app , i am hoping that it will free up about 40- 50k if i can write it well ,
this seem like the easy road to take.

changing chips is not the option i want to go to as the pcb is made , also since i have done all this code in PBP3 i prefer a chip that it supports , than redoing it using another language unless i really need to .

But i am finding the more i do and want to achieve PBP limited to 18f chips which at best is 128k.

i have looked at the ARM chips , for thier pricing,speed, RAm & program size space , and predone boards for prototyping

i have found that MIkrobasic supports the the ARM processors , so although i would need to learn the scripting of Mikrobasic , i would be as bad as having to relearn C and i could likly use a lot of the routines already done in pbp with only a small amount of changes MIkrobasic also supports PIC32 as well ???

i do like PBP , but its very limiting on larger project it seems

see how i go making a hex file of the menu items and see
knowing what i have , is there a some routines anyone has found that can be used for an example

the sd card is setup using the fat 16 with SDFS.bas code

cheers

sheldon