Changing the special character arrows

MIOS programming (Assembler)
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As I’ve never really liked the appearance of the special character arrows, I went ahead and changed them. What I’ve done is this:

* make the arrows smaller and

* move them around so

* switching between the combined left/right arrow and the single left/right arrows keeps them in the same spot all the time

Code change in “special_characters.inc”:

;; char #0: left-arrow
db b'00000001', b'00000011'; 1st and 2nd line of special char
db b'00000111', b'00000011'; 3rd and 4th line of special char
db b'00000001', b'00000000'; 5th and 6th line of special char
db b'00000000', b'00000000'; 7th and 8th line of special char
;; char #1: right-arrow
db b'00000000', b'00000000'; 1st and 2nd line of special char
db b'00000000', b'00010000'; 3rd and 4th line of special char
db b'00011000', b'00011100'; 5th and 6th line of special char
db b'00011000', b'00010000'; 7th and 8th line of special char

;; ...

;; char #7: left/right arrow
db b'00000001', b'00000011'; line 1 / 2
db b'00000111', b'00010011'; line 3 / 4
db b'00011001', b'00011100'; line 5 / 6
db b'00011000', b'00010000'; line 7 / 8[/code]









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Excellent!

Find attached a replacement “special_characters.inc” file for people to conveniently drop into the “src” directory and then rebuild their setup_*.hex file.

It is so easy to setup the new GPASM toolchain that this is a good exercise for everyone to try out building their own .hex file instead of using the ones that come in the .zip file.

http://www.ucapps.de/howto_tools_gpasm.html

[special_characters.inc](< base_url >/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=647)

[special_characters.inc](< base_url >/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=3789)

3

Why thank you Wilba :wink: Actually I could have thought of just posting the “special_characters.inc” myself… ::slight_smile:

4

It could also be a nice exercise for you to change the original file in the repository (special_characters.inc), because I like the changed layout as well :slight_smile:

Best Regards, Thorsten.

5

Darn.

[me=nILS Podewski]hands wilba the 1c2s pcb[/me]

:smiley:

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Please note, that Wilba’s .inc file is not the latest one (e.g. $Id: $ header is missing)

Never overwrite files, only change them directly within the repository

Best Regards, Thorsten.

7

Done. :slight_smile:

8

It is so easy to setup the new GPASM toolchain that this is a good exercise for everyone to try out building their own .hex file instead of using the ones that come in the .zip file.

http://www.ucapps.de/howto_tools_gpasm.html

For those of you who don’t feel comfortable with that documentation, there’s a step-by step guide coming to the wiki this week as well, as part of the reworked windows toolchain setup. (out with the old, in with the new)