Thanks for every ones help.

Normally my label names do have some demarcation between them.

I checked the way the compiler deals with enums before I committed it
to the code.

I've added in the braces to the contents of the structs - I think it
makes it easier for everyone to follow.

I have made some progress, after running the code through my Pic
simulator - hoping that the Hitachi compiler will give me similar
results.

I've discovered that I have some form of 'pointing 'problem, if I
replace the  struct like so - everything works

display_type frames[3]={

  {
   0x81,
   //*messages[splash]
   "Greenkeeper v"
  },

  {
   0x86,
   //*messages[err]
   "Error"
  },

  {
    0xC0,
    //*messages[set]
    "Time"
  }
};

If I replace the actual strings back to the *messages[x] then what I
get is only the first character of the string, and no amount of
persuading seems to alter this, even if I try and copy the sub array
into a temporary buffer and then use that to copy into the display
buffer - which also seems a very long winded and inelegant way to
accomplish this.

The main calling code is now
{

strcpy(DisplayBuffer+1,&frames[index].display_no[0]);
DisplayBuffer[0]=frames[index].position[0];
display(DisplayBuffer);

}

Where index decides which frame within the frames array is to be
used. The hard coded zero is so that each part of the array starts at
the first character.

I also found that to get this to work I had to change the first
struct to

struct display_type
{
    unsigned char position[1];
    unsigned char display_no[14]; //THIS CHANGED FOR LEN OF MAX SIZE
in *messages[].

}

So I'm almost there, I could compromise and just use the code as it
stands, but I hate being defeated with problems, and the whole idea
was to make the menu code more portable between projects and easier
to maintain.

And before anyone points out that DisplayBuffer is not how I've
written the other labels, this is because this label was produced by
the Renesas project generator, and I just haven't changed it to my
style.

Colin
--
cdb, bodgy1@optusnet.com.au on 29.11.2003

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