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Calculator Community => TI Calculators => General Calculator Help => Topic started by: willrandship on June 21, 2010, 02:53:34 pm
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I know that only specific OS versions have it, but is it available on the nspire? I might be missing an option to turn it on or something. Anybody know if this is possible? I'd really like lowercase, it makes axe programs look much nicer, especially in app form.
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Lowercase isn't enabled by default. This applies to any version of TI's OS, including the Nspire ones. To enable it, you need asm programs, but a lot of apps can do that for you, including DCS and Axe Parser. To enable lowercase from the Axe Parser app, go into its option menu.
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Thanks! I originally thought that was to tell it to compile using lowercase!
This gives me fond memories of my 86....
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It is really retarded that TI made it impossible to enable lowercase without the help of apps and ASM programs when the option is already available on the calc. Back then I was sure it was a MirageOs hook, then I discovered it was already a feature.
/me stabs Texas Instruments again >.>
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It is definitely annoying. The corresponding getkey codes (ASM, not Axe or BASIC) are in the include file! I mean, it couldn't be that hard to expand the mode menu by one item, would it? They probably have a slight reason for doing it: lowercase letters are two bytes each. (Why they can't be one-byte tokens, I don't know. Silly TI, there are probably 26 rarely used math functions that people would be okay with becoming two-byte tokens.) Of course, the two-bytes thing is TI's fault anyway.
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yeah true, the two bytes thing is retarded too. I got caught when working on some games before. I decided to make everything lowercase and ended up running out of RAM. I had to find excuses to fit every possible caps sentence where I could, for example, making bosses yell in Illusiat 12.