Next version of xLIB - features?

ninja_master · Post by **ninja_master** » Mon 03 Sep, 2007 7:37 pm

one thing that I think would be useful is the ability to find programs on your calc. Like in zList. Then is would be easier to create a program you want without the worry of knowing whether or not it's there. This would really help out with a program I'm making.

dysfunction · Post by **dysfunction** » Tue 04 Sep, 2007 11:13 pm

Hey tr1p1ea, did you improve the DI routine? It used to be that it was useful for games where you hold down the keys a lot, but it wasn't for games with rapid keypresses- with getkey, if you held down a key there would be a delay between it first recognizing the keypress and it recognizing the key was being held down. Say the arrow keys moved a character around the screen; if you held down right, the character would move right once, then after a delay start moving continuously right. Your DI routine, OTOH, recognized the key was being held down instantly. However, it seemed to miss one out of every several keypresses, making it unusable in many games. Now it seems that disadvantage no longer exists, which was a very pleasant surprise on my part.

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Wed 05 Sep, 2007 1:01 am

I did make a few adjustments but it mainly comes down to how you use the routine in your program.

dysfunction · Post by **dysfunction** » Wed 05 Sep, 2007 8:42 pm

Ok. Did you see my question on the previous page though?

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Thu 06 Sep, 2007 10:50 am

I guess i could add an option for you to store PIC's from the buffer or from the LCD directly. Also no call dispgraph which will stop them showing up.

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Thu 06 Sep, 2007 1:55 pm

Since the DI routines are apparently better now, Does it means it would now work in xLIB xLIB Revolution and Super Mario Smash Dance?

dysfunction · Post by **dysfunction** » Thu 06 Sep, 2007 4:20 pm

It doesn't seem quite good enough for XXR still, but any game that doesn't require absolutely 100% accuracy in keypresses would be fine I think.

Oh, I'm not calling Dispgraph. CreatePic updates the lcd by itself. How it seems to go is this: CreatePic stores what's in the graph buffer, but automatically updates the screen. StorePic (the TI-BASIC command) stores what's on the lcd, and (duh) doesn't update it. I want to be able to store the graph buffer, without updating said graph buffer to the lcd. Is that even possible?

kalan_vod · Post by **kalan_vod** » Thu 06 Sep, 2007 7:19 pm

dysfunction wrote:It doesn't seem quite good enough for XXR still, but any game that doesn't require absolutely 100% accuracy in keypresses would be fine I think.

Oh, I'm not calling Dispgraph. CreatePic updates the lcd by itself. How it seems to go is this: CreatePic stores what's in the graph buffer, but automatically updates the screen. StorePic (the TI-BASIC command) stores what's on the lcd, and (duh) doesn't update it. I want to be able to store the graph buffer, without updating said graph buffer to the lcd. Is that even possible?

Should be, have you tried to create the pic and switch back to the home screen? I am sure you still see a flash, but you could do the contrast trick (I know you have done this in the past).

dysfunction · Post by **dysfunction** » Thu 06 Sep, 2007 7:59 pm

Yeah, but the contrast trick is annoying, especially if you have a significant amount of pics to buffer to, because someone might think their calc is messed up or something. Sure, you can explain it in the readme, but it just looks unprofessional. I have very specific reasons why I want that ability, and I'm sure a lot of us would find it useful- in Kevin's gs routine, for instance, where he has to render the tilemap for each color layer.

calc84maniac · Post by **calc84maniac** » Thu 06 Sep, 2007 8:41 pm

Um, StorePic (the Basic command) also stores the graphscreen and updates it to the display....

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Fri 07 Sep, 2007 5:47 am

Errr DispGraph is a bcall that shows the graphscreen, its something that the xLIB storepic command does ... its not UpdateLCD. I will take that out of the routine.

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Fri 07 Sep, 2007 11:01 am

I didn't knew CreatePic stored also the graph buffer content, it's good to know

dysfunction · Post by **dysfunction** » Fri 07 Sep, 2007 2:14 pm

tr1p1ea wrote:Errr DispGraph is a bcall that shows the graphscreen, its something that the xLIB storepic command does ... its not UpdateLCD. I will take that out of the routine.

Oh ok, awesome, that's all I needed!

dysfunction · Post by **dysfunction** » Mon 10 Sep, 2007 3:53 pm

Not to seem pushy, but any progress on that tr1p?

calc84maniac · Post by **calc84maniac** » Mon 10 Sep, 2007 4:11 pm

No! Don't make him give a one month progress report ban!