reading picaxe

[tea monster]

is there a way to read the code in a picaxe chip using the programming editor, as i cant find any reference to this. what i want to do is add messages in the serial oled display and dont fancy writing in the code from scratch and changing the bits i need,

 

[Goeytex]

Sorry, it cannot be done. There is no way to read the code out of a Picaxe. You will have to re program it.

This also means that the only copy of your code is what was saved with the Programing Editor. If that gets lost or
deleted you have to start from scratch. So its important to backup your code.

 

[nick12ab]

what i want to do is add messages in the serial oled display and dont fancy writing in the code from scratch and changing the bits i need,

Which serial OLED? AXE033 or AXE133? For AXE033, you use command number 253 with syntax shown in its PDF and for AXE133 you download the code for 18M2 off the Rev-Ed website and change the messages there.

 

[westaust55]

@tea monster,

If you have the Rev Ed "Budget Serial LCD" module which uses a PICAXE 18M2 then you can download the original display module firmware program from here:

http://www.picaxe.com/Hardware/Add-on-Modules/Budget-Serial-LCD-Module/
or directly form:
http://www.picaxe.com/downloads/axe133.bas.txt

Then just change the messages and download using the PE into the 18M2.

It is just a case of cut, paste, edit, download