New Server and Bluetooth Documentation v1.1

If you guys haven’t already noticed the big change in the outlook of our website and forum, you must have been missing out on the action. We decided to have a new website design to mark our successful migration to the new server and it looks really pretty in fact. A whole lot brighter too compared to the really dark theme we had initially.

The forum is currently empty since we have been really busy in the office with the amount of WORK to do, so please be patient with us while we repost certain items. But please go ahead and post a comment if you require assistance, have a bug report, a wish list and whatnots.

Aside from that, we have updated the FICE EBlue Documentation with code for integration with the FlamingICE. So it stands at v1.1 until we decide to add more stuff.

Thats about it for now. Release 2 for FIDE v1.4 (making that v1.4.1) is due for release sometime soon. You can expect hot-key enabling and code cleanup for the Data Comm. Tool.

FIDE v1.3 released!

It’s been a couple of days since FIDE v1.3 has been put up on the net for downloading but i haven’t gotten around to announcing it and such.

FIDE v1.3 is an improvement from v1.2 where i mentioned in the previous post that the bugs found while using structures have been fixed. And! The release of FIDE’s System Library v1.2 is a huge leap in improvement with the amount of changes that have been done. All the instructions that are available for use, its explanations and example codings are all there.

Work is ongoing for doing up a complete walk-through for new users to FIDE. So you might wanna keep a look out for that.

Updates!

Within a week of posting the workarounds for a couple of bugs in the structures as stated here and here, they were fixed (thats efficiency for ya)! New version with bug fixes will be releasing soon, along with added features and other bug fixes in the FIDE tools. AND! FICE System Documentation v1.2 will be up soon with loads of example codings and explanations as compared to the v1.1 release. So keep your eye open for it.

Users still using v1.2 till date can still take note of the workarounds until the next release.

(Release dates TBA. )

FOR…NEXT loop

The FOR.. NEXT loop has got to be my favourite control structure of all time. Just something to take note of though;

The control variable MUST be a local or publicly declared variable. The use of a variable that is called by reference is not allowed.

What i mean by control variable is this:

Example:

Dim i As Integer ‘i is the control variable

For i = 0 To 100

‘Statements Here

Next

Tip of the Day:
As everybody (well, almost everybody.. okay fine, programmers) knows, the use of the select case statement is similar to that of using an If..Elseif…Else..End If statement, however, if you’re into boosting the performance rate of the FI and optimizing your code for the best results, a good practice would be to use the If..Elseif..Else..End If statement instead of the Select Case statement for faster results. But in certain cases it really is easier to use the Select Case statement. But that depends on the individual programmer’s preference.

Select Case.. End Select | If..ElseIf..Else..End If

FIDE v1.2 has officially launched!

Meanwhile…

Do take note that while doing this is fine…

Select Case word

case 178 ‘Who

keyWords(kwInt) = RDAT(sInt)

kwInt = kwInt + 1

typeState = 1

case 124 ‘What

keyWords(kwInt) = RDAT(sInt)

kwInt = kwInt + 1

typeState = 1

case 128 ‘When

keyWords(kwInt) = RDAT(sInt)

kwInt = kwInt + 1

typeState = 1

case 218 ‘Where

keyWords(kwInt) = RDAT(sInt)

kwInt = kwInt + 1

typeState = 1

case 255 ‘Why

keyWords(kwInt) = RDAT(sInt)

kwInt = kwInt + 1

typeState = 1

case else

End Select

Having a commented line on its own in between the cases will trigger a syntax error.

Example:

Select Case word

case 178 ‘Who

keyWords(kwInt) = RDAT(sInt)

kwInt = kwInt + 1

typeState = 1

case 124 ‘What

keyWords(kwInt) = RDAT(sInt)

kwInt = kwInt + 1

typeState = 1

‘something like that <==============

case 128 ‘When

keyWords(kwInt) = RDAT(sInt)

kwInt = kwInt + 1

typeState = 1

case else

End Select

And you should always, ALWAYS have a case else right at the end before you End Select.

Speaking of ‘else’;

Something else (no pun intended) that you should take note of would be the IF.. ELSEIF..ELSE..END IF statement, is that it HAS to be in this particular format, unless you’re just using IF..END IF.

So yeah. Till next time!