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by firstsolo
Wednesday 15th December 2021 5:17pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Sort of "concatination" question
Replies: 12
Views: 5773

Re: Sort of "concatination" question

OK, wow thanks for the "tutorial" its very useful and adds to the previous explanation of yours. Spent today re-doing my software with your information and it has resulted in much better readability and a big reduction in lines of code! I like that!! BIG THANKS! I wonder if the forum would...
by firstsolo
Tuesday 14th December 2021 7:48pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Sort of "concatination" question
Replies: 12
Views: 5773

Re: Sort of "concatination" question

It does help.
I have seen references to inheritance but skip over them as "difficult" to understand. Your explanation may well have opened the door to getting past the "baby stage" in Gambas programming and allow me to grow.

Many thanks
M
by firstsolo
Tuesday 14th December 2021 3:13pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Sort of "concatination" question
Replies: 12
Views: 5773

Re: Sort of "concatination" question

Hi Bruce, thanks for the info, I do know about the "." but did not use it! I assumed that if ".tag" worked then ".text" would or should... Anyway your original post has me re-doing all my code to be simpler, so a great result. As to why ".text" does not work b...
by firstsolo
Tuesday 14th December 2021 12:07pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Sort of "concatination" question
Replies: 12
Views: 5773

Re: Sort of "concatination" question

Hi Cogier Tried this With FMain["tbfrequency" & whichradio] .Font.bold = True .tag = "tag" .text = "Test" End With Font works, as does tag, but text returns "unknown Symbol "text" in class "control" in...... When I "debug" FMain[&q...
by firstsolo
Tuesday 14th December 2021 10:42am
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Sort of "concatination" question
Replies: 12
Views: 5773

Re: Sort of "concatination" question

Thanks very much ....works... now to reduce the size of my source file! Interesting that this form of construct is case sensitive. I had a problem initially as I had named the control "Radio1" (notice upercase R) but passed the name "radio1" lower case R, just cause I am lazy! It...
by firstsolo
Monday 13th December 2021 11:38pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Sort of "concatination" question
Replies: 12
Views: 5773

Sort of "concatination" question

I hope someone can point me in the right direction with this attempt at concatenation. I control a number of radios. Each radio has a container to hold the display parameters for that radio. For example: Tbfrequencyradio1, textbox to hold the frequency the radio is tuned to Tbstationnameradio1, text...
by firstsolo
Saturday 6th November 2021 6:35pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Gambas 3.12.2 unable to receive serial data on Raspberry Pi
Replies: 1
Views: 1748

Re: Gambas 3.12.2 unable to receive serial data on Raspberry Pi

OK so found my "error", but I have no Idea how I have "got away with this" for so long, luck I guess! in the FMain.form I named the serial port "serialport1" (yes its a different name to my first post, tried to start fresh!) in the FMain.class I initialised the serialpo...
by firstsolo
Thursday 4th November 2021 6:25pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Gambas 3.12.2 unable to receive serial data on Raspberry Pi
Replies: 1
Views: 1748

Gambas 3.12.2 unable to receive serial data on Raspberry Pi

Hi All, I have written software, in Gambas3, to control my radio using the serial interface. It use to work fine . Now I no longer receive data back from the radio, transmit still works, and the radio actions the command, but Gambas does not see the reply. Set up is: Raspberry Pi 3 (NO Bluetooth H/W...