I am trying to create a list of wavefile names soundList to play through an adafruit WAV shield ontop an arduino UNO. Since these file names are never going to change, and I am running out of sRam, I'd like to store them in PROGMEM but I get an error:
invalid operands of types 'const char*' and 'const char [5]'
to binary 'operator+'
Am I not able to concatenate strings in PROGMEM? I don't understand why.
for (int i = 1; i < 19; ++i)
{
const char soundList[i] PROGMEM = "Track" + i + ".WAV";
return soundList;
}
Also I am having a hard time then reading the wavefiles out of soundList?
pgm_read_word(&(soundList[i])));
any words of wisdom?
A for
loop is a runtime operation. You cannot perform runtime operations that assign to a PROGMEM
variable since the variable will be stored in (read-only at runtime) flash.
But since the only variable part is the number, store the other two parts in flash and create the filename at runtime.
#define FILEPREFIXLEN 5
char fileprefix[] PROGMEM = "Track";
#define FILESUFFIXLEN 4
char filesuffix[] PROGMEM = ".WAV";
#define FILEMIDLEN 2
...
char filename[FILEPREFIXLEN + FILEMIDLEN + FILESUFFIXLEN + 1];
// Read fileprefix into filename, append number, append filesuffix