8 to 0 countdown timer

[rayel]

Hi
I was looking at a countdown timer sent in by Metal it was quite a way back 05-08-05 the title was countdown from 8 to 0
I like the ease of the program so I downloaded it then ran it
it ran right off no problems EXCEPT it counts up .What I really need is a count down time with a short code a possible
I am very green at this stuff so any help would be very helpful. Could some lead me to a solution to that program ?
if I get it to work I would like to try a 2 digit countdown timer from 10 to 0 with an output when it reaches 0 then start all over again

What I really am doing is making a 10 min id'r for my radio station when it reaches 0 it will turn on a relay it sets the play button on my radio shack voice module to indentify my station

Thanks for any help
Ray

 

[jayanth.devarayanadurga]

Post the code so that it can be modified to count down from 8 to 0.

 

[rayel]

Hi Jay
did you get my post ???
I had to send it 2 times I hope it went through
I noticed that it went to my original post is that the way its done.?
I thought it would go to your reply


Thanks Ray

 

[jayanth.devarayanadurga]

You have to use a Timer for the 2 sec delay. Which compiler are you using? PBP3 or PDS?

Edit: Post Metal's original code.

 

[rayel]

You have to use a Timer for the 2 sec delay. Which compiler are you using? PBP3 or PDS?

Edit: Post Metal's original code.

I am using PBP3
Ray

 

[jayanth.devarayanadurga]

I don't use PBP3. I can write code in C.

 

[rayel]

I don't use PBP3. I can write code in C.

Thanks for trying I don't know a thing about c or asm thanks anyway

Ray

 

[jayanth.devarayanadurga]

I can help you with mikroBasic Code.

 

[rayel]

I can help you with mikroBasic Code.

Jay Im not sure what mikrobasic is but I found a solution . I found that the n array counts from left to right in the lookup statement
so what I did was to reverse the digits order I took the first statement and moved to it to the last and then took the last to the first

I might be confusing you so I'll paste it here


'* Notes reverse (lookup n ) to count down instead of count up *
'* count up) Lookup n, [$40, $79, $24, $30, $19, $12, $02, $78, $00, $18], '
'* count dn) Lookup n, [$18, $00, $78, $02, $12, $19, $30, $24, $79, $40],

it works perfect it counts down from 9 to 0 then brings pin rb7 high for 3 seconds to turn on relay

I'll look into that mikrobasic
Thanks for your help
Ray