Automatic VB6 to pic serial connection

[Ioannis]

I think that the new IDE can accept the old DLL's from the VB6 for example and use the old controls too. A friend of mine said he just open the libraries and workd ok.

I cannot test this as I got rid off the monster!

Also said that the old syntax is acceptable too (may be with some trick though).

By the way, Steve, is there a way to access a bit in a variable array in PBP? I meen for example like this: array[7].4=1

I know the link of Melanies that is accessing as an array of bits the whole byte array, but is not easy to remember the 267th bit!

I overcome this by reloading the array byte to a variable and then back to array again.

Ioannis

[Darrel Taylor]

is there a way to access a bit in a variable array in PBP? I meen for example like this: array[7].4=1

If you're really using constants as shown, then you can alias the location and access the individual bit

TheByte  VAR array(7)

TheByte.4 = 1

But you probably want variables for both the byte and bit index's ...

ByteIDX  VAR BYTE
BitIDX   VAR BYTE

ByteIDX = 7
BitIDX = 4

array.0((ByteIDX<<3)+BitIDX) = 1

[Ioannis]

Hey, look ma, how we can things more complicate!!!

OK, thanks for the tips Darrel. The second is clever, but I suppose it is cpu power hungry.

I 'll take the first, thank you!

Ioannis

[dhouston]

I know the link of Melanies that is accessing as an array of bits the whole byte array, but is not easy to remember the 267th bit!

It's simple enough to keep track of bytes & bits using the Division (/) and Modulus (//) operators.

267 / 8 = 33
267 // 8 = 3

33 * 8 + 3 = 267

[Ioannis]

Thanks for the tip Dave.

Ioannis