Picking a BIT from a BYTE

[AndrewC]

A naive user might... but our forum members aren't naive... they just might occasionally 'forget' to scroll to the bottom of the page and instead of simply Displaying Results FROM THE "Last Month", they would chose to display them FROM THE "Beginning".

.. ahem

[AndrewC]

But seriously - have any of you "experts" who are patient enough to answer the same q's time and time again ever thought of grouping your answers into a Wiki type dynamic on line manual ?

[AndrewC]

... and to wrap this up this is the bit of code I was (re)inventing to look for any button press and then transfer out which button.

Button_read:
BUTTON_PRESSED = 0 ' set no button pressed to start
WHILE BUTTON_PRESSED = 0
BUTTONS = PORTB & BUTTON_MASK 'READ PORTB and pick out the bits I want
IF BUTTONS <> BUTTON_MASK then BUTTON_PRESSED = 1 'if any selected pin has been pulled to 0 then button pressed
PAUSE 10
WEND
Menu_1 = BUTTONS.3
Menu_2 = BUTTONS.4
RETURN

It works just fine now, thanks for the pointers. I've no idea why the bit extraction did not work the first time, sods law.

[Darrel Taylor]

But seriously - have any of you "experts" who are patient enough to answer the same q's time and time again ever thought of grouping your answers into a Wiki type dynamic on line manual ?

What's the fun in that?
Everyone gets all their answers from a wiki, and we've got nobody to talk to.

We are your "Living Wiki". And can answer questions that haven't even been asked yet. Then once answered, it becomes part of our own little PICWIKI (otherwise known as the FORUM). &nbsp; It may not be organized as well ... but it is DYNAMIC.
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[manwolf]

Now if someone could just fix that darn search .....

[Darrel Taylor]

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