[futurebasic] Re: [FB] Poke long event

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From: Dan Baeckström <dan.baeckstrom@...>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:15:14 +0200
 From the FBtoC Help viewer:

Thus changing the "2" parameter to a "1" would, to my understanding,  
return events for each tick.

This section of the FBtoC Help ("Adapting your code for FBtoC")  is  
very handy btw.

Regards,

Dan


On 27 Mar 2012, at 14:02, Spencer Ted wrote:

> To catch serial data coming in, it seems necessary to  do this:
>
> Poke Long Event -8,2 // emulates old behavior
>
> do
> handleevents
> fn GetAnalogues
> until gFBQuit
>
> The "Poke" line was shamelessly stolen from an FB example and, I  
> assume, causes the fn within the "Do" loop to be encountered, which  
> it obviously isn't, these days, with out the "Poke". If you follow me.
>
> Need we know something about the -8 and the 2 in the Long Event?  
> Presumably one or the other has something to do with how often that  
> embedded fn gets called...
>
> Is there some better way for the serial port - or, indeed, any other  
> - fn to be called fairly regularly?
>
> ted
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