On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:00:39 -0500, "Paul & Lynn Tyrer"
<Paul@paultyrer.com> said:
> Just to update, I am hopelessly new and lost. I was a VB basic guy years
> ago
> and remember a little of what I need to do but not a lot.
> I know I will need a place to store the count, and will have a call list
> up
> to 50 so when the count equals 10 I will have a call to put 1+0 on the
> screen.
> How do I :
> Create a place to store the count.
> Increment 1 to this count when the state changes
> compare the stored count so when it equals 50 I increment the lcd by 1
> 
> I was hoping to find a piece of code out there in Google land to help me
> but
> as of yet I have not been successful. However I do feel a sense of
> achievement coming this far.

Hi Paul,

It sounds like you are doing this in assembly language. At this point
you have learned a bit about PICs and assembly language. I would suggest
deciding what the purpose of the exercise is now, and by the way,
congratulations you've gotten this far. If you want to become more
proficient at assembly language, continue on the path you are on. But if
you want to get your project done, I'd suggest looking into programming
in C or even Basic. It gets the job done and for many people(myself
included) assembly language is something you use for a subroutine once
in a while, not your whole program.

On the other hand, you are very close to being done with the program as
it is. I don't know the book you've been using, style in programming
PICs changed at a certain point because Microchip's tools improved. Most
books I've seen use the old style where the program chunks were
delineated by "org" and variables were in "cblock". Is that how your
program is put together?

Cheerful regards,

Bob

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