Arraywrite SKIP not supported, DEC for common variable not supported, any ideas?

[CuriousOne]

No it does not works

A=DEC B gives "bad expression" error.

[Ioannis]

Yeah I forgot that. You have to make the calculations and then assign the value.

Maybe others have a better idea.

Ioannis

[mpgmike]

If you are wanting to convert to ASCii, just add $30 to numeric values. This works only for single digits 0 >> 9 though.

[Ioannis]

The addition of $30 will not convert numeric 123 in a three byte ascii value as requested. Either way two words are not enough in the first place. For a byte you need three bytes after the conversion, so for two bytes you need total 6 bytes holding the ascii values.

I suppose t5 and t6 are bytes. The following will read three bytes for t5 and another three bytes for t6 into temp array. If value of say t5 is 5 then the array temp will be "0","0","5" in ascii format.

arrayread temp,[dec3 t5,dec3 t6]

then you can transfer the 6 bytes to the place you want in the final array.

Ioannis

[richard]

for a 16 byte buffer going to this much trouble to format the last 8 bytes seems unproductive
why not just format the whole thing properly in one go to start with ?

[CuriousOne]

Why update whole screen all the time, when I need only two digits to be changed?

[richard]

Why update the buffer at all when you can do partial screen updates ?
if the buffer is not part of the screen update process then what purpose does it serve ?
makes little to no sense to me