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Re: PCspire, run Nspire lua programs nativly on your pc
« Reply #30 on: March 17, 2012, 11:43:47 pm »
Ironically, I already have Löve for some reason :P

Are programs run with this faster than on calc? If so, is there a way to toggle the speed to that of an Nspire?

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Re: PCspire, run Nspire lua programs nativly on your pc
« Reply #31 on: March 18, 2012, 03:04:24 am »
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Are programs run with this faster than on calc?
IIUC, they shouldn't - it's one of the points of PCspire :)
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Re: PCspire, run Nspire lua programs nativly on your pc
« Reply #32 on: March 18, 2012, 06:45:12 am »
Yup, that is correct.
Since Nspire lua is event based, scripts use the timer to trigger updates in a specified interval.
And the timer in PCspire works the same, so the script should seem to run at the same speed.

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Re: PCspire, run Nspire lua programs nativly on your pc
« Reply #33 on: March 18, 2012, 10:55:38 am »
This has gotten me interested in the Love framework. It's interesting and I might use it.

For the TI-Image, what are the parts with "alalalalalalala" about?

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Re: PCspire, run Nspire lua programs nativly on your pc
« Reply #34 on: March 18, 2012, 10:59:10 am »
"al" represent a color, and in this case the color red, with a alpha bit so that it's invisible.
I replaced the white in his image with it to make it transparent .

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Re: PCspire, run Nspire lua programs nativly on your pc
« Reply #35 on: March 18, 2012, 11:02:38 am »
Is there a TI-Image optimizing tool of some sort? Or is there a list of optimizing rules?

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Re: PCspire, run Nspire lua programs nativly on your pc
« Reply #36 on: March 18, 2012, 11:05:41 am »
I use my online sprite editor (bwns.be/jim/sprite.html) for that, and/or do some stuff manually :)

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Re: PCspire, run Nspire lua programs nativly on your pc
« Reply #37 on: March 18, 2012, 02:33:23 pm »
looks very nice! :D
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Re: PCspire, run Nspire lua programs nativly on your pc
« Reply #38 on: March 19, 2012, 03:49:57 am »
How's the speed by the way? Is it dependent on the computer or will it run at the same speed on every computer? It would be nice if it was the latter, for those who wants to make animated screenshots.

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Re: PCspire, run Nspire lua programs nativly on your pc
« Reply #39 on: March 19, 2012, 05:37:32 am »
afaik its same on each computer. (same speed as the nspire)
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Re: PCspire, run Nspire lua programs nativly on your pc
« Reply #40 on: March 20, 2012, 12:10:47 pm »
People can already check out the code on https://github.com/jimbauwens/PCspire.
However, it's not yet noob proof :P
But it will :)

Currently these things need to be fixed:
- Drawing arcs (draws a full circle now)
- When invalidating specific screen parts, it can skip a couple of pixels. Shouldn't be a problem for most programs, but it needs to be fixed anyway.
- Text offsets need to be improved
- Images need better alpha support

These things need to be added:
- Tool palette (menu system that hardly anybody uses :P)
- Cursor changing. This is more hard because love2d doesn't support this directly

Stuff that I might never implement because they are very hard:
- math.eval (requires CAS engine and TI-Basic interpreter)
- D2Editor (requires rtf interpreter)
- Physics (love2d has physics, but it would be too hard to make it compatible with the chipmunk one on the nspire)


Programs I tested that work fine:
- Updated version of Cubefield
- LogoMagic
- Klondike Lua
- Some programs that use the EEPro widgets (I forgot the names, or maybe I didn't name them yet :P)
- Color Tetris
- BlockBreaker Lua
- Bloxorz
- some other tiny stuff I made :P
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Re: PCspire, run Nspire lua programs nativly on your pc
« Reply #41 on: March 20, 2012, 12:18:30 pm »
Jim, love actually does support changing cursors, check out the wiki :)
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Re: PCspire, run Nspire lua programs nativly on your pc
« Reply #42 on: March 20, 2012, 12:22:08 pm »
Hmm, I don't find it. Mind linking to the page with info?

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Re: PCspire, run Nspire lua programs nativly on your pc
« Reply #43 on: March 21, 2012, 08:11:25 am »
Alright, fixed the text offset and the invalidating bug.

DiagramNZ works properly with one little change:
It replaces the Lua function named "type" with a number value, causing some Lua parts of love not to function properly.
So, I just replaced "type" with "Type" (in the DiagramNZ source) and it worked fine :)
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Re: PCspire, run Nspire lua programs nativly on your pc
« Reply #44 on: March 21, 2012, 04:29:03 pm »
nice :)

and for that cursor change: here it says to make the real mouse invisible and place your own sprite on the trackable coordinates of the mouse...