On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Konstantinos Bibis wrote:

> Hello,
> i'm using a 16F877 PIC.
> I've written a small program in C.
> It is divided in 8 states, and each has it's own delay. I'm using delay_ms()
> to specify the delay.
> I wanted to define lets say a=100, b=359, c=7890, so in the program i can
> write delay_ms(a), delay_ms(b),delay_ms(c) etc, instead of writing tha
> actual number in seconds. I tried defining: long int a = 100(didint work),
> and later saw in the manual that delay_ms() is expecting a number in
> milliseconds.
>
> Is there a simple way to get aroound it ?

Get around what?  I've used delay_ms()for delays up to several seconds...
with a long int the maximum delay would be 65565ms or 65.535 seconds.  The
delay_ms() function does delay some number of milliseconds, there is also
delay_us() for microsecond delays and delay_cycles() for waiting some
number of instruction cycles.

What are you trying to do, exactly?

Dale

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