Addressing multiple PORTs using one Variable

[flotulopex]

Can all the outputs be on the same port, preferably sequential?

As Henrik pointed, I'm somehow limited in the number of bytes I can use to address the NeoPixel strings.

Because of the very narrow timings, I cannot use routines to address the strings repeatetely with GOTOs/FOR-NEXTs/GOSUBs and so on. For this reason, I have to write code to address 24 bits for one Pixel in a row and only here, I can repeat the routine with one of the previous mentionned commands. This to say there is not only a timing issue but it is also about code length or space in the PIC.

Having this limitations in mind, I started my project addressing one string at the time and I've got plenty of time to display a minute based clock. Since all strings use the same common code and therefore the same variables, I can only differentiate them using different ports.

So if you mean to have only one NeoPixel string made of (4 digits x 7 segments x 4 Pixels [or LEDs] x 3 bytes per Pixel) + (4 Pixels x 3 bytes per Pixel) = 348 bytes, I can't address them in an array, as far as I understand it.

But what do you have in mind, please?