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Help with on.help
« on: April 29, 2012, 07:08:08 pm »
It seems like the on.help() event doesn't work.

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function on.paint(gc)
 if helps then
  gc:drawString("Help",50,50)
 end
end

function on.help()
 helps = true
 platform.window:invalidate()
end

Nothing happens when you press Ctrl+H, I've tested this both on-calc and with nspire_emu. Any ideas?

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Re: Help with on.help
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2012, 02:44:48 am »
well, it's not really [ctrl][h], but [ctrl][trig], the button with that blue "?" above :)

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Re: Help with on.help
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2012, 07:10:25 pm »
Oh! Thank you for explaining! Somebody should fix that on Inspired Lua, it's wrong there.

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Re: Help with on.help
« Reply #3 on: May 01, 2012, 06:42:36 am »
There are quite a few things incorrect/incomplete on Inspired Lua and wiki, but it's a pretty good resource.
So what's the usefulness of on.help when you have to press two buttons to access it?
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Re: Help with on.help
« Reply #4 on: May 01, 2012, 07:57:57 am »
There are quite a few things incorrect/incomplete on Inspired Lua and wiki, but it's a pretty good resource.
So what's the usefulness of on.help when you have to press two buttons to access it?

A generic means to get information/help in a program, similar to F1, would be my guess.
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Re: Help with on.help
« Reply #5 on: May 01, 2012, 08:53:32 am »
There are quite a few things incorrect/incomplete on Inspired Lua and wiki, but it's a pretty good resource.
So what's the usefulness of on.help when you have to press two buttons to access it?

Please report them, really.
Any non-complete/wrong/missing/not-good-enough...

Thanks in advance !

Anyway, will fix that one right now.
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Re: Help with on.help
« Reply #6 on: May 01, 2012, 04:45:36 pm »
So what's the usefulness of on.help when you have to press two buttons to access it?
Yeah it's basically to get help. It's a prebuilt event, so why not use it? Other than the fact some might not be able to figure that out. Luckily, there's going to be a readme.
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Re: Help with on.help
« Reply #7 on: May 03, 2012, 05:42:38 pm »
Is there any way to access the on.help event through nspire_emu, because I don't see a trig button...

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Re: Help with on.help
« Reply #8 on: May 03, 2012, 05:45:33 pm »
Is there any way to access the on.help event through nspire_emu, because I don't see a trig button...
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