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eval of the '812, ARMBasic 9.33b, [kernel 8.33 I do believe] - variables window from the BT tools tab
playing around with DIM blah(nn) as STRING & DIM stuff(nn) as BYTE
WHEN I did add the 'as BYTE' and played with it -- I got the corruption that I highlighted <---issue #1
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initially - I had the 'as BYTE' after the 'as STRING' but it still showed up on the top of the display -like the picture;; LATER I moved the 'as BYTE' as the first DIM'd statement and it didn't change the view in the window - okay - I can live with it
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issue#2 --> the 'as BYTE' array doesn't show all my data UNLESS I declare it as at least 64 (if I remember correctly)
I know that a (15) or (16) will not show but more than the two groups of hex characters
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I've tried to arrange the picture to show the program working, no errors running or loading, as well as the bulk of the program
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in the bigger program that I loaded and ran - I was attempting to clear the string memory but I used the "$" instead of 'as STRING'
is that an issue?? ALSO I did not assign any data to the string - I assumed it would zero it like a common variable. ??good assumpt??
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PS. will the variables window be available in the Multi-Core Basic Tools??

first time I ran it on a BasicChip - I got the same display of variables,
garbage after the name , and a short display of the BYTE data.

The memory dumps treat BYTE and STRING as the same thing, and what you see there is the 09 and 0B ASCII characters, which on a PC are graphic things.

here is some more info on the display of the variables - the length , the layout , the amount of info is the issue
this is on the BasicChip - I changed the DIM values as indicated in the RED annotations

maybe I misunderstood you -- the data inside the quotes is a display of the first few characters of the actual data ???
OKAY -- just changed the first few bytes of ShortMessage and got a good display of the ASCII data I put in there.
but there is stil the issue of AMOUNT of display -- the MSSG array isn't showing me the "f"[HEX] of the 15th element
AND if you display the first 3 character in the quotes - then MSSG should have " 1" as 31 hex is ascii 1.

Strings are terminated by a 0, so anything after that 0 won't be displayed inside the quotes.