Re: [Flashforth-devel] Thanks, and a question

[Mikael N. <oh...@gm...>]

Lowell,

I am sending this to you and the list.
It seems the SF mailing list system is on a summer break.

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 10:09 PM, <lo...@va...> wrote:

> Thanks for your work on FlashForth.  I did quite a bit of forth 20 years
> ago on a 6502, 6800, 6809 and eventually F83 on a PC but much of what I
> knew has gone cold.  I have been using PICs for almost as long.
>
> I tried ff3.6 but did not actually start using it until USB support was
> added to 3.7. I am using the bootloader as well.  Last night I downloaded
> and compiled the latest fro git (I assume it is pre 3.8) and it seems to
> work except for one thing. If I enter a word that does not exist in the
> dictionary or (now that I think of it) a duplicate that causes an error, I
> get a long line of gibberish characters printed to the screen.  If I am
> the only one experiencing this I will try to look at it this week to see
> where the problem might be.
>

It was a bug in FF. Introduced together with the double number parsing.
I have pushed a solution to git.


>
> By the way, I have several different hardware platforms. Sparkfun's USB
> Bit Whacker using the 18f2553, and an older version using the 18f2550, and
> something similar using the 18f4550.  I am working on a couple of
> automatic antenna tuners ( a T tuner, and a screwdriver antenna tuner),
> and a power meter. I have a 16x2 LCD display, a 16 switch key pad, several
> channels of A/D with averaging, and will also be using the servo code in
> some parts. I have several tasks running.
>
> So, again, thanks for your efforts. I am really enjoying it.
>
> Lowell
> kc7dx
>
> Nice projects. How are you reading the keypad ?
Scanning in a BG task ?

BR Mike