Structure lock: BOF bit 23

[Ben]

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@RavensFan wrote:

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...  It was in LV 7.1.  We had that version about a month or so before LV8 came out.  I think it went away then, and I didn't have it long enough to get to use it to be able to miss it.

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The jump from 7.1 to 8.0 was a big one for the world of DSC. I think the Tag Engine was retired and replaced with a relational DB.

Ben

[Ben]

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@paul_cardinale wrote:

Here's another fun one: Turn on bit 16 of the BOFs for a boolean constant, and it acquires latching action.

If you click on it, it will briefly change to T, then immediately return to F.

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You can right-click and do Data Operations >>> Change value to True.

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and then...

Brace yourself...

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The constant would be " ...true and nothing but the true so help me...

Ben

[Ben]

Se page 3-7 of the DSC course manual for LV 7.1 to see the lock icon.

Ben

[paul_cardinale]

I don't put bad things in my code (unless it's just a brain teaser).

I poke around a lot.  Sometimes I find interesting or funny things.  Sometimes I even find cool useful stuff.

As for that auto-resetting boolean constant: When you encounter something that's acting funky, doesn't it occur to you to just delete it and drop a new one?  (However if I wanted to be mean, I could turn on BOF bit 3 or 4 which makes it not selectable.)

[Ben]

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@paul_cardinale wrote:

I don't put bad things in my code (unless it's just a brain teaser).

I poke around a lot.  Sometimes I find interesting or funny things.  Sometimes I even find cool useful stuff.

As for that auto-resetting boolean constant: When you encounter something that's acting funky, doesn't it occur to you to just delete it and drop a new one?  (However if I wanted to be mean, I could turn on BOF bit 3 or 4 which makes it not selectable.)

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I omitted a smiley on that previous post Paul. I was jsut having fun.

Thank you fo rhte entertainment.

Ben

[paul_cardinale]

Sometimes I do funky things to make my code nicer:

Here a cluster represents a 6-bit data field, but only 4 of the 6 bits are used.  So I made those 4 booleans bigger than normal.

How about a boolean in the company colors:

And if you just want to get silly, there's always stuff like this: