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Re: Doors CS 7 really coming out?
« Reply #210 on: July 12, 2010, 12:52:48 pm »
Ooh that's spiffy! This thing is gonna be a Mongsta! ;D

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Re: Doors CS 7 really coming out?
« Reply #211 on: July 13, 2010, 09:37:55 am »
Ooh that's spiffy! This thing is gonna be a Mongsta! ;D
Thanks, that's the idea. :) I just need all of you guys' help to make sure it's as stable and bug-free as possible when I release it at the beginning of September.



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Re: Doors CS 7 really coming out?
« Reply #212 on: July 21, 2010, 12:44:17 am »
In the interest of completing all of the To-Do items on my To-Do List and solve all the bugs on the same list, I have decided to push back Doors CS 6.8 beta from its original July 20th deadline (today) until August 1st or earlier, depending on how long each of the items takes. At this point, all of the major primary features for Doors CS 7 have been implemented in Doors CS, and almost all of the secondary features as well. All of the remaining To-Do items are minor fixes, and as I'm dealing with a current distribution of 606 bytes free on Page 0, 1202 bytes on Page 1, and 840 bytes on Page 2, I don't anticipate any sizeable additional features. Since Doors CS 6.7 was released, a bunch of new features and bugs have been implemented:

:: Plenty of optimizations for both speed and size, respectively making the shell feel faster and giving me more leeway for additional fixes and features.
:: Completed new sum(13) DCSB Lib function, facilitating attractive Menu()s in BASIC programs with minimal GUI effort.
:: Added [STO>] as method to break out of sum(12).
:: Expanded SE functionality within Doors CS desktop.
:: Repaired three bugs with GUIRTextMultiline scrolling calculations.
:: Adding scroll wrapping to DCS desktop. Scroll up at the top to go to the bottom, scroll down at the bottom to go to the top.
:: Moved GUIRTextLineIn, GUIRPassIn, and GUIRTextMultiline to an edit buffer for faster typing.
:: Reduced DCS Menu to three items: Display, About, Options.
:: Added more understandable BASIC Exec errors.
:: Added folder and screen saving so after using the Properties menu, running a program, or quitting, you start where you left off.
:: A plethora of bug fixes.

For your edification, especially for those who want to give sum(13) a try, you can download an informal release of the current internal beta (6.7.6) at the link below. If you give it a try, feel free to let me know about any bugs you find or feature suggestions that you have.

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From left to right: sum(13) in action, scroll wrapping, the new DCS Menu, and folder/scroll saving.

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Re: Doors CS 7 really coming out?
« Reply #213 on: July 21, 2010, 12:58:58 am »
As said in the other topic on Cemetech, nice job :)

Good luck with DCS 6.8 and the other betas :)

I downloaded the wrong beta, though (6.7) so I'm gonna update my copy now :P

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Re: Doors CS 7 really coming out?
« Reply #214 on: July 21, 2010, 02:00:28 am »
As said in the other topic on Cemetech, nice job :)

Good luck with DCS 6.8 and the other betas :)

I downloaded the wrong beta, though (6.7) so I'm gonna update my copy now :P
  Thanks for the good wishes, hope it works well for you. :)



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Re: Doors CS 7 really coming out?
« Reply #215 on: July 21, 2010, 09:59:04 am »
Nice, I'll have to try this out. Keep up the good work! :)
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Re: Doors CS 7 really coming out?
« Reply #216 on: July 21, 2010, 12:34:25 pm »
Nice job!  This is going on my calc right now! ;D

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Re: Doors CS 7 really coming out?
« Reply #217 on: July 26, 2010, 09:25:10 pm »
Shortly after the release of Doors CS 6.7.6, this release of Doors CS represents the penultimate beta version, containing implementations of very nearly every bug fix and feature request posed to me thus far in the two-and-a-half month resurrection of Doors CS development.  Doors CS 7 is swiftly looming, and I expect this release to be very close to the final version, nearly Release Candidate quality despite not being tagged as such.  It's extremely important that Doors CS 7 be stable, reliable, and as bug-free as humanly possible, so I urgently request that everyone try out this release and look for issues.  Use the editor, use the DCSB Libs, run your favorite ASM and BASIC programs, and try to make things break.

Here's the most important features and bugfixes among all those new since Doors CS 6.7 Beta:
:: Plenty of optimizations for both speed and size, respectively making the shell feel faster and giving me more leeway for additional fixes and features.  Tons of bug fixes based on reports from the loyal beta testers.
:: Fixes and additions to the DCSB Libs, including sum(13)
:: Expanded SE functionality within Doors CS desktop.
:: Repaired bugs in GUI text input functions, moved them to the edit buffer for faster typing, sped them up on 15MHz calculators, and added [CLEAR] as a backspace key to supplement [DEL] as a delete key.
:: Adding scroll wrapping to DCS desktop. Scroll up at the top to go to the bottom, scroll down at the bottom to go to the top.
:: Reduced DCS Menu to three items: Display, About, Options.
:: Added more understandable BASIC Exec errors.
:: Added folder and screen saving so after using the Properties menu, running a program, or quitting, you start where you left off.
:: Inclusion of an ALCDFix-like LCD delay tuner for those with TI-84+-series calculators, eliminating the need for that program.
:: Added features to FileOpen and FileSaveAs AP routines for ASM programmers

Again, please stress-test this release as much as possible, so I can ensure that Doors CS 7.0 will be rock-solid and reliable.  Feel free to request the latest builds of Document DE 7.0 and mobileTunes 3.1 from me that take advantage of the newest DCS features.  From here on out, Doors CS 6.9 Beta with a complete SDK is due by August 14th, Doors CS 7.0 RC 1 with complete SDK and manual is due a week later, and Doors CS 7.0 is still (knock wood, cross your fingers) on-track for a September 1, 2010 release.

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Re: Doors CS 7 really coming out?
« Reply #218 on: July 29, 2010, 02:14:37 am »
I'm glad to see this progressing. I don't know if I will have time to test this version right now, though. Hopefully soon.

Also Sept 1st would also happen to be Omnimaga 9th anniversary :P
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Re: Doors CS 7 really coming out?
« Reply #219 on: July 29, 2010, 09:41:10 am »
Kerm, DCS has come a long way, we have fixed the nspire powerdown bug!

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Re: Doors CS 7 really coming out?
« Reply #220 on: July 29, 2010, 06:22:46 pm »
Was the bug similar to Ndless power management issue?

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Re: Doors CS 7 really coming out?
« Reply #221 on: July 29, 2010, 07:58:28 pm »
Was the bug similar to Ndless power management issue?
I don't think so.  This bug had to do with a port I wasn't resetting properly, but which a real TI-83+ or TI-84+ fixes on its own.  TI's 84+ emulator makes no such repair, so I fixed my code to do the fix itself.



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Re: Doors CS 7 really coming out?
« Reply #222 on: July 29, 2010, 08:06:52 pm »
Aaah ok I see. I was more wondering about what the bug causes, though. The power management issue causes the LCD to not turn ON when turning the calc ON on some hardwares when Ndless is installed and you have to remove a battery and make the calc reboot to fix it.

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Re: Doors CS 7 really coming out?
« Reply #223 on: July 29, 2010, 08:32:04 pm »
DJ, completely different, the DCS bug makes it so that it does not turn on at all, you would be surprised how many people made the same comparison you did :P

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Re: Doors CS 7 really coming out?
« Reply #224 on: July 29, 2010, 08:45:07 pm »
Aah ok, I see, because the way the bug is called sounded similar x.x