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[Wurmy1029]

Ok well hello thar. I just got a question for you wire gods ;3

Basically what I have is 2 values (lets say 2 and 3)
What I want is for both of those values to go into some chip or something.
The output of the chip would be constantly changing from 2 to 3, at a certain rate.

So is there a way to do this? Hope you understand what I want << Also the two variables that go in will be constantly changing..

So anybody know? Is this possible? :/
Any help is appreciated :D

[Shandolum]

You could use an expression chip.

I@Value1 Value2
O@NewValue
interval(1000)
Change=(Change?0:1)
NewValue=(Change?Value1:Value2)

You can modify the interval as you please. 1000 is equal to 1 second, 250 is equal 0.25 seconds, get the drift.
This is the time between it runs the expression.

[Wurmy1029]

Ooh Thank you very much :D

EDIT:
I got it to work... but I can&#39;t get it to work with 3 or more values.. could you explain how to do that?

[uoykcuf]

Ooh Thank you very much

EDIT:
I got it to work... but I can&#39;t get it to work with 3 or more values.. could you explain how to do that?[/b]

You could do that like this, but since i dont know how to use the internal timer youll have to add a external timer

N@Value Changer
I@Value1 Value2 Value3 Timer
O@Value Reset
Reset = Timer >= 3
TimerInt = ceil(timer)
TimerInt == 1 -> Value = Value1;
TimerInt == 2 -> Value = Value2;
TimerInt == 3 -> Value = Value3;

Damnnn... i love e-gate

[Shandolum]

You could do that like this, but since i dont know how to use the internal timer youll have to add a external timer

N@Value Changer
I@Value1 Value2 Value3 Timer
O@Value Reset
Reset = Timer >= 3
TimerInt = ceil(timer)
TimerInt == 1 -> Value = Value1;
TimerInt == 2 -> Value = Value2;
TimerInt == 3 -> Value = Value3;

Damnnn... i love e-gate [/b]

But you need a seperate timer chip for that thing
here is another way to do it

I@Value1 Value2 Value3 ..........
O@NewValue
interval(1000)
Number+=1
Number>2 ->Number=0** # 2 is the number of values you have minus 1. "3-1=2"
NewValue=sel(Number,Value1,Value2,Value3,.........)

Replace ......... with Value 4,5,6,7 or whatever.
Each time the code is triggered, the Number will be 1 bigger, if it is higher than a certain number, it will be reverted to 0, the code then selects the desired value based on the number. Interval can still be changed.

[Syranide]

You could do that like this, but since i dont know how to use the internal timer youll have to add a external timer

N@Value Changer
I@Value1 Value2 Value3 Timer
O@Value Reset
Reset = Timer >= 3
TimerInt = ceil(timer)
TimerInt == 1 -> Value = Value1;
TimerInt == 2 -> Value = Value2;
TimerInt == 3 -> Value = Value3;

Damnnn... i love e-gate [/b]

N@Value Changer
I@Value1 Value2 Value3
O@Value Reset
interval(1000)
clk() -> TimerInt = (TimerInt + 1) % 3;
TimerInt == 0 -> Value = Value1;
TimerInt == 1 -> Value = Value2;
TimerInt == 2 -> Value = Value3;

That&#39;s how you do it using the internal timer (changed code slightly to make it simpler)

[Shandolum]

N@Value Changer
I@Value1 Value2 Value3
O@Value Reset
interval(1000)
clk() -> TimerInt = (TimerInt + 1) % 3;
TimerInt == 0 -> Value = Value1;
TimerInt == 1 -> Value = Value2;
TimerInt == 2 -> Value = Value3;

That&#39;s how you do it using the internal timer (changed code slightly to make it simpler)[/b]

What exactly is the "% 3" doing? or did i miss something while going through the documentation.

[Psawhn]

Nah, it&#39;s just the modulus operator.

Actually, looking at that - that&#39;s a really nifty way of automatically resetting the timer. I would have just let the timer go up to infinity and used the mod for the states. Of course, cleaner code wins.

[Wurmy1029]

OOh thank you very much xD
I&#39;m kinda new to expression chips

[Syranide]

What exactly is the "% 3" doing? or did i miss something while going through the documentation.[/b]

Just like the above said, the modulo operator. Also known as "remainder after division".
In practice it basically means that when X >= 3 then substract 3 until the value is less than 3 again, hence the value will loop 0-1-2-0-1-...

Nah, it&#39;s just the modulus operator.

Actually, looking at that - that&#39;s a really nifty way of automatically resetting the timer. I would have just let the timer go up to infinity and used the mod for the states. Of course, cleaner code wins. [/b]

Not that it really matters, but you have to remember that precision is lost when values are too high, if you simply connect it to a timer it doesn&#39;t really matter, but if you have something that increase really really fast, if you do not reset it it will eventually start to loose precision and either it will stop counting up or give irregular values. But you&#39;ll only see it happen in very rare cases.