polling information in rs-232

[skimask]

i guess i didn't expose my problem clearly as i can see
yes i want to transmit the whole line (si i need to store it in a variable in some way)
to tell the truth, i have this radio that has GPS capabilities but it has to be "polled" so as far i can say , it does not transmit every second (the radio that is),.
so the radio transmit it's position every time i "poll" it.
after that i need to take that information and resend it to a gps software every second (to simulate a directly connected GPS)
plus i need to check for incoming data while this second by second transmit to the pc is done.( next strip of NMEA)
i guess it's better explained that way
thanks for the concern, looks like a real good place to learn picbasic

The holy GREEN MANUAL describes how to handle strings using HSERIN/HSEROUT quite well.
And you might even find a use for WAIT in there too.

[Tondunard]

The holy GREEN MANUAL describes how to handle strings using HSERIN/HSEROUT quite well.
And you might even find a use for WAIT in there too.

i'll check again (guess i haven't looked too well

Still searching.....

[b1arrk5]

As you already have the hardware uart connected to the GPS unit, I'll ask how do you have the PC connected? 4800 baud is standard for a GPS unit, so you're good there. Skimask has correctly suggested that you will find that PicBasic's Hserin command does let you accept an entire string at once, instead of reading in a single character at a time and building a string like you are trying to do. You'll have to declare an array variable big enough to accept all of the characters in your string.
I would use an interrupt to capture the incoming string from the GPS unit, and then either DEBUG or SEROUT to send the string out to the PC. There are a few serial interrupt example programs on the MicroEngineering Labs website, and there are a lot of examples on this forum, and debug and serout or serout2 are explained well in the manual.

Jerry.

[skimask]

I would use an interrupt to capture the incoming string from the GPS unit

HSERIN also lets you terminate inputting with a certain character when using the STR option, thereby eliminating interrupts.

[Tondunard]

thanks to all, it finally worked... (not as i have expected though)

what i wanted to achieve was to put all the characters in an array, but my programming skills are somehow limited for now (learning you know and HSERIN is tricky sometimes).

but i guess i'll get there eventually

i know it's a simple thing to do (for you guys or gals?) (noticed there's a Melanie with a lot of braincells around here)

i am not that bad in VB but going back a sequential way of programming is like (for me that is) going the other way around!

at 49 years old, i guess i am not that bad, just hope you all enlighten me of your knowledge somehow (but i don't want to be taken by the hand)

i am probably a NEWBIE in this pic programming but not a BEGGER who wants to have the job done by others!

So i guess i'll just keep on going on this little project of mine and thanks a lot again for the pointers.

i'll stick around.

[Archangel]

Hi Tondunard,
Welcome from a 52 year old noobie to any kind of programming, I have been hangin' out here for about 19 months now, it is fun to revisit my earlier forrays into PBP. The learning curve seems to have a few bumps in it, but this is the place to find the straight talk.
JS

[Tondunard]

Hi Tondunard,
Welcome from a 52 year old noobie to any kind of programming, I have been hangin' out here for about 19 months now, it is fun to revisit my earlier forrays into PBP. The learning curve seems to have a few bumps in it, but this is the place to find the straight talk.
JS

nice to meet you sir, hope i'll find some answers to all my questions (by searching this forum)

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