How to send 10 bit ADC value as 2 bytes

[doug_h]

I'm reading the PIC ADC in 10 bit mode and storing the result in an int16 type. I need to break up the 10 bit value into two bytes so I can send them over the network. At the other end I need to combine the two bytes back into a 10bit value and store in another int16 type. Problem is I can't get this to work. I tried the make8() and it's not doing the job. Does anyone have a solution for this?

for e.g. If my ADC = 504 the highByte should be 0x01 and lowByte should be 0xF8
But using the make8() returns highByte = 0x19 and lowByte = 0xBC

What's going on?
Thanks

[rnielsen]

You should be using make16().

int16 variable;
variable = make16(high_byte, low_byte);

Try that.

Ronald

[doug_h]

Thx. I had a bug in my code in the calling function - all fixed now.