First, @meishe91, I'm flattered that you cited me as a reference.
Second, a pointer is a value that points to an offset in memory.  For instance, a pointer with a value of 10 points to the 10th byte (actually, it points to the 11th byte because it is zero-indexed, but lets say that it points to the 10th byte for now).  If that place in memory contains code, you can use a pointer to say, "execute this code."  If that place contains data, then you can say, "look at this data."  Code and data look the same in memory, the only difference being that executing data may accidently in your RAM.
Third, here is how applys to Axe, for methods and code:

Code: (Axe Basic) [Select]

ClrHome
sub(SH
Return
Lbl SH
Disp "Hello World!"When Axe compiles, it saves the location of Lbl SH in the first run.  By location, I mean that it saves offset from the beginning.  So, if SH comes 10 bytes from the beginning, it remembers that SH is 10 bytes from the beginning.
The, it hits the "sub(SH" line.  It says to itself, "hey, I know where that is!  It's 10 bytes from the beginning!"  So, it tells the output program to jump to 10 bytes from the beginning, and come back when it's finished.

With storing data, it works the same way.  If you have:

Code: (Axe Basic) [Select]

[0102030405060708->Pic1
Pt-On(0,0,Pic1Axe remembers that Pic1 points somewhere, and then supplys that location to the Pt-On command.

Questions?

On that, no. I think I can do that. My difficulty arises when I want to say... take Pic1 (above) and place it in an AppVar for use by the program in subsequent run. What I'm essentially inquiring about is the conversion from appvar to pointer and back again, without screwing up the data.

And, do all values for pointers have to be in hex?

ok. thanks. Your instructions just got my program completion from 2% to 35% within 10 minutes.

Now, I just want to double check something. Within the program, I will be using regular variables A through O, minus G, which I reserve for getKey stuff. So when I store those variables to an array, I can do

A->{LX}
B->{LX+1}
C->{LX+2}
...and so on
even if one or two of the variables max out at 1000, correct?

No!  The single bytes max out at 255 (or 127 if you're storing as positive and negative numbers instead of just positive).  To store larger numbers, they will have to take up 2 bytes.  Doubles give you up to 65535.

It makes the data storage a little tricky though since you have to remember that offsets with 2 byte variables is an offset by 2 for each variable.  You tell the parser to store 2 bytes by adding a ^r after the brackets.

So lets say A,B,and D are 2 byte variables and C and E are 1 byte.  You can store them like this:
A->{L1}^r
B->{L1+2}^r      B has to be 2 bytes after A
C->{L1+4}       C has to be 2 bytes after B
D->{L1+5}^r      D is only 1 byte after C
E->{L1+7}       etc.

Notice how you have to leave enough room for each variable.  Usually, this can get pretty confusing to index the array if you mix 1 and 2 byte variables.  In that case, its sometimes a good idea to just make them all 2 byte variables just for convenience.

Well ya, he is the one developing Axe but I don't think he has been working with it in programming nearly as much as some other guys have

This is so true!  I haven't really had a lot of time to actually fool around with the language myself since I'm constantly spending that time on new features.  I bet all those people you mentioned have used it more than I have hours wise.  I'll let you in on a secret though.  My ultimate goal is to make the game "Frog Flap" for the calculator complete with music, grayscale, and saving.  That will be my final project when the final version comes out.  It's another minigame from warioware btw.

Thanks Quigbo. So essentially, I'm doing what I did in my old Microsoft Word Simulator to store cursor location in ten files:

List size 2
File to recall: Doc3

So I'm pointing to term 5 for cursor Y and term 6 for X, except that Y is the first byte and X is the second. ok

I'll let you in on a secret though.  My ultimate goal is to make the game "Frog Flap" for the calculator complete with music, grayscale, and saving.  That will be my final project when the final version comes out.  It's another minigame from warioware btw.

:O nice ^^

But by final I hope you don't mean once Axe and Frog Flap are finished that you are quitting calc programming and the community completly? :O

No, after looking at the documentation, it appears to be done a different way (I have not tested this myself).
First of all, I can tell you that "LX" will not work.  You can only use L1-L6, and all those are is places in the RAM.  You don't actually modify user lists.
Now, assuming that you have all of your data in L1, this is how you would save it to the AppVar POKE:
Select(POKE)    // Select the AppVar POKE
Unarchive POKE  // Unarchive it if it already exists
GetCalc(27)->A  // Create/Overwrite an AppVar 27 bytes in size
conj(L1,A,27)  // Copy L1 to the AppVar
And to read from it:
Select(POKE)  // Select it
Unarchive POKE  // Unarchive it if it exists
GetCalc()->A  // Get a pointer to it
!If A
// It doesn't exist
Else
conj(A,L1,27)  // Load the data to L1
End

No, after looking at the documentation, it appears to be done a different way (I have not tested this myself).
First of all, I can tell you that "LX" will not work.  You can only use L1-L6, and all those are is places in the RAM.  You don't actually modify user lists.
Now, assuming that you have all of your data in L1, this is how you would save it to the AppVar POKE:

Code: [Select]

Select(POKE)    // Select the AppVar POKE
Unarchive POKE  // Unarchive it if it already exists
GetCalc(27)->A  // Create/Overwrite an AppVar 27 bytes in size
conj(L1,A,27)  // Copy L1 to the AppVar
And to read from it:

Code: [Select]

Select(POKE)  // Select it
Unarchive POKE  // Unarchive it if it exists
GetCalc()->A  // Get a pointer to it
!If A
// It doesn't exist
Else
conj(A,L1,27)  // Load the data to L1
End

That's not how you use the file commands. You will need to do this:
"POKE->Str1
Select(Str1)    // Select the AppVar POKE
If GetCalc(27)->A  // Create/Overwrite an AppVar 27 bytes in size
conj(L1,A,27)  // Copy L1 to the AppVar
Else
// Not enough memory
End

Thanks for clarifying, calc84maniac.
Also, you should be aware that you can use 8 digit mixed-case names for AppVars, so you *can* call your AppVar "Pokemon"