mem connector anomoly / bus modules
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2018 7:21 pm
I discovered two useful (?) things today, totally unconnected ...
1) I was 're-wiring' my current project and noticed that I had accidentally disconnected a Mem>Mem link half an hour earlier. But to my amazement everything was still working normally! Whaaat?? However if I save the project like that and then reload it then, unsurprisingly, all is dead.
From which I conclude that a Mem connectors simply passes an address, rather than any data, and so even if you break the link this address is retained and hence things keep working. Anyone know if that's so?
2) The manual doesn't tell you, but the Bus Create and Bus Extract modules can use a Text module instead of a String (which needs all those commas) to specify the channel names.
As per the attached. It's a much easier way to enter & edit the channel names.
Only trivial I know, but every little helps!
H
1) I was 're-wiring' my current project and noticed that I had accidentally disconnected a Mem>Mem link half an hour earlier. But to my amazement everything was still working normally! Whaaat?? However if I save the project like that and then reload it then, unsurprisingly, all is dead.
From which I conclude that a Mem connectors simply passes an address, rather than any data, and so even if you break the link this address is retained and hence things keep working. Anyone know if that's so?
2) The manual doesn't tell you, but the Bus Create and Bus Extract modules can use a Text module instead of a String (which needs all those commas) to specify the channel names.
As per the attached. It's a much easier way to enter & edit the channel names.
Only trivial I know, but every little helps!
H