Problem using Else

[skimask]

Quite frankly...what a cluster! You really have to work on your flow. There's too many places where you expect a value to be during one if/then, and then be there again at another if/then even though you just got done changing it.

Give me a few minutes to work it out...

[tazntex]

Yes, I have a mess thanks for your help

[skimask]

Ok, for awhile, forget about your receiver...
Forget about the sync, forget about the preamble, forget about the checksum, forget about everything else. Pretend this TX is transmitting to nowhere and nowhere likes it that way...

You know how to set up your PIC, you can set the pins, etc....
You have 7 buttons, each connected to a PortB pin...
When these buttons AREN'T pressed, the pins are high, when pressed the pin is low...
Easy enough...

Write a program that does nothing but reads the state of the pins and sends that value out in a SEROUT statement of some sort.

[tazntex]

ok, on the transmitting side after stripping everything down I am sending the data for the button that is pressed and when I release each button I send the data again and it clears that particular output on the receiver. Seems to work ok. Thanks for everyones help and I read something here on the forum about closing the post when finished so,... if so how do I do that?

[skimask]

ok, on the transmitting side after stripping everything down I am sending the data for the button that is pressed and when I release each button I send the data again and it clears that particular output on the receiver. Seems to work ok. Thanks for everyones help and I read something here on the forum about closing the post when finished so,... if so how do I do that?

Well, what I'm trying to do is show you a much better way of doing things, one that's much much easier to read thru and takes up a lot less code space, by breaking it down, and building it back up again.

Closing - I wouldn't worry about it. I think I've only ever seen a handful of threads that are closed here.

[tazntex]

Thanks Skimask and everyone else who has helped me. I appreciate you trying to teach me by giving pointers, but this has been a rough one I am by no means a quitter, thought about it though, especially through the last couple of post. I am laughing now. Everything seems fine. I can pressed the button now portb 1-4 are momentary and stay on as long as I am pressing then go off when I release them. Every once in awhile one will stay on and I'll press the button and release it and that output will clear. Thanks again to all