Thanks for that. This really helps me to understand axe's syntax a bit better. I've been looking at the demos(and ztrumpet's snake), but haven't been making much progress yet.

pointers, yeah. also finding all of the special chars. They're not alphabetical in the catalog. I know why, but it's still annoying.

It was also somewhat difficult for me to create appvars too, although after I realized that the syntax for using L1 and appvars were identical, storing to them became easy.

posted newest update...(go to first ever post)
still havent made appvarring

Very nice update! I hope you can figure out the appvar stuff soon.

yep when i get time....finals need to keep my gpa lol

I'm assuming that you want to change the value in the appvar if your variable is larger then the one in the appvar?

Then try this:

.TEST

"appvSTUFF"->Str1
!If getCalc(Str1)->A
    getCalc(Str1,10)->A
End
I've done one of two things here -- I've either created an appvar named STUFF that's 10 bytes long, or if I already created that appvar sometime in the past, I've just found the pointer or address that tells me where the appvar starts.

1->{A}
2->{A+1}
3->{A+2}
5->{A+3}
8->{A+4}

3->C
The appvar is 5 bytes long - I've stored the numbers 1, 2, 3, 5, and 8 to the appvar.  I've also stored a random number to the variable C.

For(Z,0,4)
    If {A+Z}<C
        C->{A+Z}
    End
End
An appvar is just like a list in TI-Basic - The For loop runs through numbers zero through four, and the If statement checks items zero through four in the appvar to see if it's lower then C.  If it is, it writes whatever is in C to that item in the appvar.

For(Z,0,4)
    Text(5,Z*10,{A+Z}>Dec)
End
This runs through the entire appvar, displaying the new values.  This is what you should see:
3
3
3
5
8

sorry, this may be really stupid question...but you state that STUFF is 10 bytes long but you then say its 5??

Absolutely.  You can make your appvar 5 bytes long, 20 bytes, 1337 bytes... just change the 2nd value in getKey to the desired length.

also can you just lose the for loops if you only use the appvar to store 1 single number(just the high score)

Yup.
Try this:
"BLARG"->Str1
getCalc(Str1)->A
!If A
    getCalc(Str1,5)
End
.The above just either creates or finds an appvar named BLARG that is 5 bytes long

If {A}<S
    S->{A}
End
.If the value stored in the first byte of your appvar is less then S,
.Store S to the first byte of the appvar

Text(1,1,{A}>Dec)
.This is fairly simple - it displays the value.
.>Dec is the token in the math menu - in TI-Basic, it would turn a number into a decimal

Repeat getKey(15)
End
.Waits for the user to press [CLEAR]


Like this:
:GetCalc(Str1,2)->A
:if A<S:S->{A}:end
:GetCalc(Str1)->A
:Text(1,1:Text A:Dispgraph
the prob is this doesnt work and i dont know why....but then again im lazy and didnt type your code in...i will soon cause i know it works....

Thanks a lot for your help!!!!!!

There are several reasons why that won't work:

If A<S
    S->{A}
End
A is the location of your appvar.  Imagine your calculator has 100 sort of boxes (which represent a byte of memory), and each box can store one number. 
If we want find a box and use the number we put in there, we first have to know which box to look for. 
Luckily, the calculator numbers the boxes from 0 to 99, so we just have to remember what number box our number is in. 
'A' tells you which box to look for,
'{A}' opens that box and gives you the number inside.
This means that you shouldn't do
If A<S
but instead you should do
If {A}<S

:GetCalc(Str1)->A
:Text(1,1:Text A:Dispgraph

The 'getCalc(Str1)->A' is unnecessary.  You already know which box to look for, so you don't need to tell Axe to find the appvar again.

Again, you would need 'Test {A}', not 'Test A'.  Don't forget the >Dec token to prevent gibberish from being displayed.

If you don't begin your program with 'Mode 5' (and later end your program with 'Mode 4'), DispGraph is just going to overwrite your text.

o.0

For some reason, I find the abuse of HL to be insanely cool.

(I think it's HL...)