[Featured][Beta] API - Why hasn't this been done yet?!

gangsta · Post by **gangsta** » Wed 30 Nov, 2005 1:45 am

beginning or end? or does it really matter?

Jim e · Post by **Jim e** » Wed 30 Nov, 2005 2:44 am

end of code and before the data.

gangsta · Post by **gangsta** » Wed 30 Nov, 2005 2:46 am

stupid, stupid me...says it in the readme...

Timendus · Post by **Timendus** » Wed 30 Nov, 2005 6:46 am

Good call Jim

@DarkerLine: He's using Latenite, which takes care of
.org $9D93
.db $BB,$6D

Timendus · Post by **Timendus** » Wed 30 Nov, 2005 7:38 pm

This is pretty cool

http://timendus.student.utwente.nl/~api ... q=download >> The bottom one

gangsta · Post by **gangsta** » Wed 30 Nov, 2005 10:57 pm

wow thx...i figured it out...turns out i wasn't compiling it 4 ion, like i should have...

blueskies · Post by **blueskies** » Wed 30 Nov, 2005 11:17 pm

Man, with Latenite and API, I'm really starting to get back into z80. All this new stuff is so fun!

gangsta · Post by **gangsta** » Wed 30 Nov, 2005 11:19 pm

i kno...i really started being motivated to program...

Timendus · Post by **Timendus** » Thu 01 Dec, 2005 12:24 am

That's the kind of responses that makes the effort worth while

Thanks guys

Timendus · Post by **Timendus** » Thu 01 Dec, 2005 1:47 am

gangsta wrote:turns out i wasn't compiling it 4 ion, like i should have...

By the way, that should't make a difference for the API. Unless you use kv's array.shuffle routine, which depends on ionRandom.

necro · Post by **necro** » Thu 01 Dec, 2005 3:35 am

it would be realy neet to see this incorporated into an ide of some kind in the future... good stuff

lloydkirk1989 · Post by **lloydkirk1989** » Thu 01 Dec, 2005 4:44 am

Isn't that what he just did with latenite?

Timendus · Post by **Timendus** » Thu 01 Dec, 2005 3:30 pm

Hmm, yes and no

I just suplied some tools that you can use with Latenite, it's not really incorporated in the IDE. But then again, who would know the difference?

Timendus · Post by **Timendus** » Thu 01 Dec, 2005 11:35 pm

Hmm, I just stumbled upon a nice limitation of TASM that I didn't know off yet:

I added two pretty nifty routines, based on Jim's idea:

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graph.output("string")
home.output("string")

So you don't even have to fiddle with pointers anymore when you want to display some text. Unfortunately TASM can't handle larger parameters than 16 chars, so minus the quotes that leaves only 14 characters for strings that are ouputted this way

I hope Ben will solve this problem for me with Brass...

I've also been experimenting with another way of adding comments. See the routine in the Sandbox for an example of how things should be commented in the near future for Latenite to be able to generate an XML help file from the source. As you can see the API website will show the information in the same way as the old commenting. I'll probably spice that up a little more, but it should do for now.

There are a few more tags, like destroyed registers, syntax highlighting style, et cetera, but those will either be taken care of by the API or made optional.

DarkerLine · Post by **DarkerLine** » Thu 01 Dec, 2005 11:40 pm

Maybe the graph/home routines should be renamed to large/small text routines? I don't remember there being a distinction between graph and home screen in assembly.