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new statement for ubasic: select/case
« on: 24 / July / 2008, 14:39:55 »
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Hi,
I only write the general facts, because of my bad englich skills!

I have developed a select/case statement for the uBasic interpreter. Currently 2 versions are available (multi and single statement version).
Multi statement:
- close to if/then/endif
- slower because every case need 10ms, but save
- use up 4 times recursive

Single statement:
- only one statement, needs only one tick
- my tests are all fine, but I could be critical because of the 10ms (If anybody knows more, please let me know)
- use X Times recursive

Special features:
- you can use ranges: case 1 to 5;
- you can combine various values: case 1,3,5;
- you can make a default statement. It means if no case was true

Syntax:
select EXPRESSION
  case EXPR. [to EXPR.] | [,EXPR.2[, ...]]; STATEMENT
  .
  .
  [case_else STATEMENT]
end_select

Example:
Code: [Select]
for x=1 to 7
  select x
    case 1; gosub "neu"
    case 7; goto "EXIT"
    case 2,4; print "x=2 | x=4"
    case 2 to 5; print "x=3 | x=5"
    case_else print"x=6"
  end_select
next x
:EXIT
  print "fertig"
  end
:neu
  print "sub"
  for y=1 to 2
    select y
      case 1; print "y=1"
      case_else print"y=2"
    end_select
  next y
return
Output (multi/singleVersion):
sub
y=1
y=2
x=2 | x=4
x=3 | x=5
x=2 | x=4
x=3 | x=5
x=6
fertig

What do you think about this statement?

I attached the 2 Versions as diff files

CHDKLover
« Last Edit: 24 / July / 2008, 15:19:32 by CHDKLover »
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Offline PhyrePhoX

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Re: new statement for ubasic: select/case
« Reply #1 on: 24 / July / 2008, 15:04:16 »
great! i think this will come in very handy for scripting. unfortunately i am not much of a scripter, but let the scripting gurus speak :)
didn't hear from you in a long time, at least here in THIS forum ;)
by the way do you have scripts that serve a "real" purpose that already utilize this new statement? and how did you come up with the idea, or what made you think this would be good? adding this statement to the tokenizer sure as hell is alotta work and took some brains, congratz.

edit: i think i found an example where this will be good: a game of blackjack or some other games, paired with the random function :D (just an example :D)
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Re: new statement for ubasic: select/case
« Reply #2 on: 24 / July / 2008, 15:17:21 »
Hi PhyrePhoX,
you can use it for USB remotecontrol.

Example:
Code: [Select]
do
  do
    a = get_usb_power
  until a>0
  select a
    case 0 to 20; shoot
    case 21 to 40; press "zoom_in"
    case_else press "zoom_out"
  end_select
until is_key "set"
CHDKLover
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Re: new statement for ubasic: select/case
« Reply #3 on: 24 / July / 2008, 16:11:55 »
Oh, this is nice :)
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Re: new statement for ubasic: select/case
« Reply #4 on: 24 / July / 2008, 16:21:34 »
Great!

I'd love to use this to replace ugliness like this one and have it run in one tick:

Code: [Select]
:get_modedialpos
  get_prop 50 X
  M=-1
  rem - AUTO --------------------   P  --------------------  Tv  --------------------  Av  ---------
  if X=-32768 then M=0 else if X=-32764 then M=1 else if X=-32765 then M=2 else if X=-32766 then M=3
 
  rem -   M  -------------------- 3 DIFFERENT VIDEO MODES --------
  if X=-32767 then M=4 else if X=2597 or X=2598 or X=2599 then M=5
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Re: new statement for ubasic: select/case
« Reply #5 on: 26 / July / 2008, 14:13:35 »
did any of you make any tests so far?
shall i integrate it into "juciphox" and provide testbuilds, one with method a) and one with method b) ?
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Re: new statement for ubasic: select/case
« Reply #6 on: 31 / July / 2008, 09:39:33 »
alright, nobody responded, gonna use multistatement for now to be included in the collaborative branch. alright?
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Re: new statement for ubasic: select/case
« Reply #7 on: 31 / July / 2008, 10:01:45 »
Quote from: PhyrePhoX on 31 / July / 2008, 09:39:33
alright, nobody responded, gonna use multistatement for now to be included in the collaborative branch. alright?

I'd like the single one more, but I don't have time to test either. I can't tell if the timing can or cannot be a problem, but I would think it's feasible to test by writing a script with enough cases to fill the 8k script size limit and comparing get_tick_count before and after to see if it takes more than 10 ms to execute the statement? If it doesn't, there can't be a problem, can there?
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