CurrentValue

John · Post by **John** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 1:56 pm

I tried to scratch my brain - not that I have any

but when I use CurrentValue(), it there a function to tell me if the money are from the Coin or Note Reader?

Or I need to parse all the acceptor blocks and to see if any of the Coins/Note numbers have changed?

davebush · Post by **davebush** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 1:57 pm

CurrentValue is from anything!

If it matters to you where the money's come from you can use CurrentValue to monitor for a change and then (as you say) you have to parse all the coins in all the acceptors blocks to see where it came from.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 1:59 pm

OK, but in our system I must tell if is from one or another.

Then I'll have to parse through all and do all the mathematics to see what changed.

John · Post by **John** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 2:01 pm

I cannot find a work around to find the source of the money.

Let's say I parse all the acceptors (coins and notes) and then do CurrentValue. The chances are that in between the parsing and CurrentValue, the user inserted more money - so the values from the parser and the CurrentValue will not match.

I can imagine this working only if I ignore the CurrentValue all together and just return a value every time I find a value by parsing all the acceptors blocks. You think this will be to slow?

Do you have any idea how to tweak this?

John · Post by **John** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 2:04 pm

Dave,

Thanks for the effort you are spending on my issues.

You are right in using the CV as a flag before going and doing all that parsing.

We've still not received any peripherals - they were due last Friday

so I can not do any testing - though on the other hand the deadline is this week.