Re: A BASIC programming project.

[Tom Droege <tdroege@veriomail.com>]

The reason for keeping my control program "alive" is so that I can test and 
check out systems.  I really need to keep the  function keys as they are 
very useful.  I use them all the time as interrupts to get out of some 
sequence - like exercising the focus motor or the shutter.  This is very 
important for checkout.

As I recall, the QBasic program would run under Linux.

I do not use the cursor, so that can be dumped.  I do (all the time) use 
the color graphics to plot what the cooling loop is doing.

The problem with testing systems is that one constantly needs to do new 
things as you run into obscure problems.  The way I have designed the 
control program, I can just add a new thing, and it just stays 
there.  Later when I run into a similar problem the stuff is there to make 
tests.  Look around in the code and you will see lots of little tests that 
have been accumulated over time.

Tom Droege

At 11:24 AM 1/11/01 -0800, you wrote:

>Any BASIC programmers in the house?
>
>A useful project would be for someone to "Dumb down" Tom's
>QBASIC control program so that it does NOT use any cursor
>positioning, color, graphic modes or function keys.  If
>all it used were simple minded "print" statements the program
>would be much easier to run under Linux/UNIX.
>
>Chris Albertson