multiple send commands

mshunt

Just a quick question that I could be answer myself if I had a TP infront of me.

Can a SEND_COMMAND send more than one command in a single command.

SEND_COMMAND dvTP,"'@PPX PPON-PAGE PPON-ANOTHERPAGE'"

I'm guessing not, but like I say without a panel in front of me to test it on today I just can't wait!!!!

Feel free to flame me if I'm being an idiot!

If not, however it would be a useful future feature in my eyes for code optimisation etc...

Joe Hebert

mshunt wrote: »

I'm guessing not

You guessed right.

ericmedley

mshunt wrote: »

Just a quick question that I could be answer myself if I had a TP infront of me.

Can a SEND_COMMAND send more than one command in a single command.

SEND_COMMAND dvTP,"'@PPX PPON-PAGE PPON-ANOTHERPAGE'"

I'm guessing not, but like I say without a panel in front of me to test it on today I just can't wait!!!!

Feel free to flame me if I'm being an idiot!

If not, however it would be a useful future feature in my eyes for code optimisation etc...

it doesn't hurt to send two commands right on top of each other. Most AMX devices can buffer the commands.

So

SEND_COMMAND dvTP,"'@PPX PPON-PAGE"
SEND_COMMAND dvTP,"'@PPON-ANOTHERPAGE'"

You can even put them on the same line if it makes you feel better

SEND_COMMAND dvTP,"'@PPX PPON-PAGE"  SEND_COMMAND dvTP,"'@PPON-ANOTHERPAGE'"

mshunt

Thanks for the replies,

Like I said I thought not, It would just be a nice feature if you could group a number of commands to the same device in the same SEND_COMMAND

Perhaps that's a feature for Netlinx 4!

jjames

You can send BMF commands, which can change multiple attributes of a single button though. So it's KINDA like you can.

a_riot42

mshunt wrote: »

Thanks for the replies,

Like I said I thought not, It would just be a nice feature if you could group a number of commands to the same device in the same SEND_COMMAND

Perhaps that's a feature for Netlinx 4!

I don't really see how that's a feature. You can send multiple commands, you just can't send them in one send_command statement. Given that the syntax can get ugly with quotes and commas, etc, putting many commands in one send_command would be more effort with no gain.
Paul

jjames

a_riot42 wrote: »

I don't really see how that's a feature. You can send multiple commands, you just can't send them in one send_command statement. Given that the syntax can get ugly with quotes and commas, etc, putting many commands in one send_command would be more effort with no gain.
Paul

As I stated above, they do it with BMF - and while it can get hairy - it's sometimes useful, particularly with the iPad when sending multiple commands. It doesn't parse the commands as quickly as an 8400 or any other native device.

Granted I understand we're talking about two different things, but the idea is the same.

DHawthorne

I find, just to be able to read my code later, it's easier just to send multiple lines. A big, convoluted BMF can get way to hard to parse in human terms.

jjames

DHawthorne wrote: »

I find, just to be able to read my code later, it's easier just to send multiple lines. A big, convoluted BMF can get way to hard to parse in human terms.

I would agree, but you can break it out to separate lines like so:

send_command dvTp,"	'BMF-100,0,',
			'%R1,3,4,5,'	// Set rectangle.
			'%B,None,'	// Set the Border Style name.
			'%TSomeText'"	// Set Text using ASCII characters

See? Multiple lines - haha!

vining

jjames wrote: »

send_command dvTp,"	'BMF-100,0,',
			'%R1,3,4,5,'	// Set rectangle.
			'%B,None,'	// Set the Border Style name.
			'%TSomeText'"	// Set Text using ASCII characters

That's actually how I use it when I use it. You almost have to in order to make sense of it.

SEND_COMMAND dvUI_Arry[iUI_Indx],"'^BMF-321,1,%CB',BG_BTN_COLOR_ARRY[nUI_PicsArry[iUI_Indx]],
					     ',%CF',BG_FILL_COLOR_ARRY[nUI_PicsArry[iUI_Indx]],
					     ',%CT',BG_TXT_COLOR_ARRY[nUI_PicsArry[iUI_Indx]],
					     ',%EC',BG_TXT_EFF_COLOR_ARRY[nUI_PicsArry[iUI_Indx]],
					     ',%JB0 -200,-692',
					     ',%P',BG_PIC_ARRY[nUI_PicsArry[iUI_Indx]]" ;

Hedberg

vining wrote: »

That's actually how I use it when I use it. You almost have to in order to make sense of it.

SEND_COMMAND dvUI_Arry[iUI_Indx],"'^BMF-321,1,%CB',BG_BTN_COLOR_ARRY[nUI_PicsArry[iUI_Indx]],
					     ',%CF',BG_FILL_COLOR_ARRY[nUI_PicsArry[iUI_Indx]],
					     ',%CT',BG_TXT_COLOR_ARRY[nUI_PicsArry[iUI_Indx]],
					     ',%EC',BG_TXT_EFF_COLOR_ARRY[nUI_PicsArry[iUI_Indx]],
					     ',%JB0 -200,-692',
					     ',%P',BG_PIC_ARRY[nUI_PicsArry[iUI_Indx]]" ;

smash it all together in one, really large, incomprehensible line, that's what I do. There's job security in write only code, you know.



That's a joke, of course. There used to be a contest among C language programmers to write the most incomprehensible code to do something like print out 'hello world.' This was back in like 96 or so. Some of the entries were stunning, to say the least. I was never very good at that sort of thing as I was primarily interested in writing Fortran code at the time. Writing Fortran code became particularly lucrative as year 2000 approached. It paid to be a dinosaur back then.

edit: found the link on the first try:http://www.ioccc.org/

a_riot42

Even if they had the multiple commands in one send_command feature available, it would quickly run into the send_command character limit which is something that is dire need of fixing. There's no advantage to that feature with the character limit being so low.
Paul

jjames

a_riot42 wrote: »

Even if they had the multiple commands in one send_command feature available, it would quickly run into the send_command character limit which is something that is dire need of fixing. There's no advantage to that feature with the character limit being so low.
Paul

Good point.