Dimmer ramp to amount, integer versus % and/or how to concatenate them

Hi All,
I have the code below as part of my testing setup, its used to turn on the selected gate address, using a dimmer to ramp up to selected level, wait then ramp down to selected level, for the selected amount of times.
Mostly it works ok, but if i select 100 as the ramp up rate it will only get to 40%, I'm getting the value from a logic i/o linked to a slider to select from 0 to 100, so it puts 100 in there for the ramp rate, and will only get to 40% of maximum. If i manually put in 100% it will go to 100%.

What i have been trying to figure out is how to add the % sign to the value so it see's it as a percentage and not a number. Has anyone out there delved into the logic engine at this level and tried something similar?
As usual any help is appreciated.
regards
Trevor

Code:

Once GetLightingState(83) = On then
    begin
    clearscreen;
   Ramp_Up_To   := GetIntSystemIO("Ramp_To_Up"); 
   Ramp_Dn_To := GetIntSystemIO("Ramp_To_Dn");
    
    GA_Rate := GetIntSystemIO("GA Rate");
    GA_Delay := GetIntSystemIO("GA Delay");
    GA_Count := GetIntSystemIO("GA Count");
    GA_Address := GetIntSystemIO("Gate_Address");
 
 
     repeat
       GA_Count := GA_Count - 1;
       SetLightingLevel(GA_Address, Ramp_Up_To, GA_Rate);
       Delay(Ga_Delay + 5);
       SetLightingLevel(GA_Address, Ramp_Dn_To, GA_Rate);
       Delay(Ga_Delay + 5);
       clearscreen;
       TextPos(1695, 720);
       DrawText(GA_Count);
     until GA_Count < 1;   
   end;

 

H i Again,

I just figured it out, i found this little ditty...

PercentToLevel(ramp_level) and its value is converted to a percent for you.

 

Everything internally works in bytes (i.e. 0-255). The percentage option is just for us humans. When you enter a literal % in the logic engine, it automatically converts it to the corresponding byte for you when you compile the program (just like it converts tags to numbers). If you pass a variable as an argument to a cbus function, it will always be interpreted as a byte from 0 (off) to 255 (ON).

Similarly, everything returned from a cbus function is a byte, so if you want a percentage you can call the corresponding LevelToPercent function.