Hi there, John.

Which version are you using?  Is it the most current release?

One of our guys here uses PBP (PIC Basic Pro) for pretty much all of 
his PIC stuff and has absolutely no problems with page 
boundaries.  PBP takes care of all that stuff.

dwayne


At 12:10 AM 1/23/2008, J FLETCHER wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>   I'm writing a program in MEL PicBasic for a programmable timer. 
> It has a PIC16F876, a 20 x 2 LCD, a DS1307 RTC chip with coin cell 
> backup, a relay and a four-switch keypad (up, down, next, back). 
> When running it displays the time and day, and the next ON time 
> (e.g. 12:30 Tomorrow). From the keypad I can change the time and 
> day of week, and the ON time(s) and duration(s). The various parts 
> of the program work OK, but the whole program is going to be 
> between 2k and 4k long. Whenever the set of routines I'm testing 
> exceeds 2k, things go wrong. I understand that the PIC program 
> counter doesdn't automatically increment its highest bits.
>
>   I think that I need to run code in the first 2k when the timer is 
> just timing, and in the second 2k when an operator is changing the 
> settings. Can anyone tell me (1) how to force some of the code to 
> be compiled into the second 2k block and (2) how to cause the 
> program to jump between blocks? Can this be done within the Basic 
> code or do I have to edit the .ASM file somehow, perhaps using ORG? 
> When writing the Basic code I don't know where the boundary is. I 
> can only see this when it's compiled into a .HEX listing.
>
>   Any advice greatly appreciated, this is really holding my project back.
>
>   John Fletcher


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Trinity Electronics Systems Ltd    Edmonton, AB, CANADA
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Custom Electronics Design and Manufacturing

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