Symbols

merthsoft · Post by **merthsoft** » Thu 17 Mar, 2005 9:14 pm

If this idea has already been made, just flame me, but I think a good app to have would be one that has a menu (like a second option for catalogue) that has the full character map of the clac (including all symbols, numbers, and letters), and (if possible) allows them in your calc withought it being replaced with a "?"...
Would that be possible?

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Thu 17 Mar, 2005 9:31 pm

might be useful for MLC 83 since the 86 version use many chars that the 83 cannot access in BASIC menus

Timendus · Post by **Timendus** » Thu 17 Mar, 2005 10:55 pm

There was such a program a looong time ago by Bill Nagel... Really simple program that would output any character given a value in X... I can't find it at the moment... Aah, what the heck, I'll make it for you:

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#include "source/includes/header.inc"

	ld	a,'X'
	call	getVar
	bcall(_putc)
	ret
	
getVar:
	push	af
	bcall(_zeroop1)
	ld	hl,op1+1
	pop	af
	ld	(hl),a
	bcall(_rclvarsym)
	bcall(_convop1)
	ret
	
.end
END

Download

Try this with it:

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For(X,0,255
Send(9prgmZPUTC      /      Asm(prgmZPUTC
End

Wooo, it outputs all chars!

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Fri 18 Mar, 2005 2:35 am

Of course u have to port it to the plus and change the Send(9 cmd by Asm(

Timendus · Post by **Timendus** » Fri 18 Mar, 2005 2:56 am

Timendus wrote:
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For(X,0,255
Send(9prgmZPUTC  /  Asm(prgmZPUTC
End

Though I kinda had done that... There's a 83 and a 83+ version in the zip file...

Edit: Playing with the includes from Mallard... Who wants the Ti-73 version?

dysfunction · Post by **dysfunction** » Fri 18 Mar, 2005 1:46 pm

Sweet, second ever TI-73 asm program!

Timendus · Post by **Timendus** » Fri 18 Mar, 2005 2:22 pm

Too bad it can only be run through the shell, so it has zero purpose

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Fri 18 Mar, 2005 3:12 pm

And I don't know if the 73 has those special chars

Snake · Post by **Snake** » Fri 18 Mar, 2005 4:04 pm

so what your program does is displaying ascii caracters on the screen and it permit you to copy it in a basic program (kind of...)

pretty cool if i'm not totaly dumb, i could use this in my project to display better graphics

merthsoft · Post by **merthsoft** » Fri 18 Mar, 2005 8:52 pm

Sweet...

merthsoft · Post by **merthsoft** » Sat 19 Mar, 2005 7:41 pm

Eh, sorry, but turns out that this isn't quite what I wanted, maybe if you could store what was just output as a string, so you could recall it, that would be nice.

Timendus · Post by **Timendus** » Sat 19 Mar, 2005 10:13 pm

Well ehm Bill Nagel's idea behind this was that you could store your text in a list instead of a string, and then you'd call a second Basic program to display the text for you with zputc...

And I'm not sure it is possible to have all characters in a string or in the Basic editor. But I'll go give it a shot for you...

Edit: Nope, that doesn't seem to be possible. All characters other than the capitals are interpreted as tokens... And it doesn't look pretty

I'm afraid you'll have to do it Bill's way:

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PROGRAM:TEST
{72,101,108,108,111}->L1
prgmOUTPUT
Stop

PROGRAM:OUTPUT
For(A,1,dim(L1
L1(A->X
Send(9prgmZPUTC   /   Asm(prgmZPUTC
End
Return

Will output "Hello"... or whatever you want depending on the contents of L1 or course...

merthsoft · Post by **merthsoft** » Mon 21 Mar, 2005 12:19 am

I figured as much, but that's kinda slow and sloppy, that's why an app would be nice, mybe work how the early omnicalc did, and paste it into the program...

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Mon 21 Mar, 2005 1:30 am

If you use Omnicalc font editor found at ticalc.org you can use the symbols you don't use often in games and change them so they look like graphical sprites

Timendus · Post by **Timendus** » Mon 21 Mar, 2005 1:45 am

Merthsoft wrote:I figured as much, but that's kinda slow and sloppy, that's why an app would be nice, mybe work how the early omnicalc did, and paste it into the program...

Well, since I am a Ti-83 programmer, I know virtually nothing of flash apps

But I don't really think it would be that easy... I'll let someone who can give an actual reason behind that feeling do the talking now

Apart from that, I could update the zputc thingy to output the list by itself (and not just one char), or use a string with hexcodes as input..? If anyone is interested/has ideas, just give a shout.