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PostPosted: Thu Jan 08, 2004 8:57 am    Post subject: Why are macros only 15 steps Reply with quote

I did a search but couldn't find a specific answer only that they are limited to 15 steps. (I will be venturing into extenders some time in the future but so far I am able to do everything with out it).
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 08, 2004 9:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've obviously misguessed (more often than not) the correct level of detail to use in answering questions like this. But ..

1) Because that's the way UEI designed the product.

2) Because they made macros execute so slowly that you wouldn't want to keep the remote aimed for more than 15 steps of a macro.

3) Because they used only 4 bits to encode the "body" length of objects in the KeyMove/Macro area, and didn't special case the value 0.

4) Because they copy the whole macro into registers before executing it, and only allocated a block of 15 registers for that (some extenders change that).
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 08, 2004 9:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ok...I guess that's just the way it is..tx
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 08, 2004 10:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's a limitation of the way the remotes were designed, but it's not a limitation for us. Several extenders allow either nested or concatenated macros.
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