Alright, I just started programming in Axe today on my brand new TI-84 Plus Silver Edition.

I have two things I really need to ask about:

1. When I try to make programs, how do I type in things like Str1 and Pic1? They're not in catalog, and I can't really print lowercase letters... What do I do?
2. When I run the programs I can make after I compile them, I run them through the asm(prgmTEST), and it just says "Done." Even if I tell it to display an answer or whatever, it doesn't say anything at all. What do I do? Wait, scratch this, I ran it through MirageOS and it just ran it for a split second. How do I make it wait?

Thanks!

Great! And thank you!

Also, please don't think I'm a noob when it comes to forums. I've been on SMW Central for about a year now (and I am somewhat known by most users). So, I won't be double posting and making useless threads/posts and crap.

/\also, the majority of axe's routines draw to the screen buffer rather than directly to the screen, so you have to use DispGraph to copy the buffer to the screen.

good luck on things!

but now the program won't close, even with Clear pressed. What now?

Sorry, thats my fault. 45 is the basic keycode for CLEAR. What you have to use is 15.
Edit: Here are all keycodes.

Do I need the parentheses in getkey? I tried it without the . 45 and it did the same thing.

Yes, you need to type the keycode in parantheses.
All written after a dot is commenting text that will be ignored by Axe.
You just have to write
.KEYPRESS
Repeat Getkey(15)
End

So, I won't be double posting and making useless threads/posts and crap.

I deleted 17 so far. Just kidding, don't worry, our views is that everyone gotta start somewhere so if a new member double-post we will not yell at them or something like that, we will just point them to the right direction. Welcome here by the way

To type lowercase you activate the ALPHA function in the Axe menu, or you can use another utility like Doors CS7 or CODEX to enable them. Why Texas Instruments disabled lowercase by default is beyond me.

As for Str1/2/3 you need to go in VARS and there you can find them.

Good luck in your Axe programming venture

Also, please don't think I'm a noob when it comes to forums. I've been on SMW Central for about a year now (and I am somewhat known by most users). So, I won't be double posting and making useless threads/posts and crap.

Good to hear. Welcome to Omnimaga.

If you want to wait until a key is pressed, you should use

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.KEYPRESS
Repeat Getkey(15) . 15 = Keycode for CLEAR, take a look at the keycode picture in the Axe Parser folder
End

Alternatively, you could use getKey(0) to wait for any key instead of just Clear, which is my personal preference.

And your issue with the immediate done thing: I had this issue on my nspire, and the way I fixed it was reinstalling the OS. Not sure if that'll help your situation, but it's worth a shot. Make sure you use 2.43 when you reinstall, not 2.5 MP edition

I believe the only reason he was having this problem is because he was compiling the programs with the Ion/MirageOS header, which will immediately return if run with Asm() on the home screen.