If you only have 1 hour a day, yes it is really short for you. Actually many things are made during the weekend, or during school hours

1) nspire Lua is Lua but with nspire framework functions in it (I mean it is not like the difference between TI-èBasic and Basic whom are really differents)

2) Yes. Personnally I learnt Lua while discovering and documenting Nspire Lua. But I'm not an example. On the other hand, learning a language is hard without a goal/project. Your goal : understand how Lua tables and meta tables work

3) You have the choice. So the question is "do you have time to learn completly Lua before learning the extra-functions of Nspire Lua ?" . If so, start open the huge Lua documentation and read it from begin to end. Same for lua-user documentation. Otherwise, use Inspired-Lua starting tutorials

4) What is a simple program for you ? For example I made in two days Nyan Cat. Two days is really short I think and a normal person will make it in 5-6 days. Give an example of what you think to be a "simple" program/game.

sidenote : a string is a table of characters. 'a' is a character, "aaaaaaa" is a string. But "aaaaa \n aaaaaaaaaaa \n aaa" is also a string.

Talking about connectors, few months ago I made a pcb chip for it :
http://levak.free.fr/ftp/nspire/dock-nspire/noname-brd.svg

Using KiCAD : http://levak.free.fr/ftp/nspire/dock-nspire/

Ok, back to work, at school I have many huge projects to do in a short amount of time so I guess make3D will slow down a little bit.

But during the past 2 days I've been working on something I couldn't believe it was possible, but in fact, the TI-Nspire Lua API .. well ... the TI-Nspire Framework in general has a real potential.

First, you have to keep in mind that I previously worked on a possible way for Make3D to be modular, like Blender, I mean, with multiple widgets all synchronised and fully customizable. This technique has a problem : each time you duplicate the widget, you duplicate the source code. Thus, we have to find a way to avoid this useless duplicated data which is the same all the time.

What I'd been working on, is importing, through strings, Make3D source code from MyLib. Indeed, this is possible !
It is possible, yes, but, I have to use a modified version of makeTNS for making it working which is not compatible with OSes 3.0.2 and sup. Why ? Because The source code isn't saved between <wdgt type="TI.ScriptApp"></wdgt> but in the symbol table in the beginning of Problem1.xml, the area where all variables of a problem are defined. Ok then, I just save the source code as a string variable, but keep in mind that tns documents are crypted and we don't know how to crypt it, and if we knew it we won't be in rights to reproduce it (legal issues). Luna uses the legal fact that TI can't crypt user's source code, thus, it is "clear" in the zipped archive.

So my modified version of MakeTNS only opens a xml file in the Problem1.xml format, and save it as a tns document only compatible with OS 3.0.1 - just resave it with OS 3.0.1 to make it compatible with newer OSes.
Here it is : http://levak.free.fr/ftp/nspire/Make3D/maketnsFromXML.py

Then, I made my proper "Makefile" that generates in a different way my Library file that has the entire Source Code as multiple public strings : http://levak.free.fr/ftp/nspire/Make3D/Makefile.sh

You will be able to see that it also generates a widget with the "include" method which loads and launches all strings from the library. It handles "basic" errors on start-up like if we didn't refresh libraries before launching the widget.

It keeps the save and restore states but it is a little bit of bullshit, welll, it is a little bit strange, but it works

The Makefile source code also includes my really-quick-coded-TI.Notepad-converter-from-text that converts a text in a valid xml widget - But as I said, it is impossible for now to launch it with an OS like 3.0.2 or higher.


Finally, the url changed since it is a little bit different (compatible 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.1):

• Make3D_debug - when working without library
• Make3D_lib - when working with library link. The redistribuable widget is included (only copy and paste it in a new document)

That way Make3D will act like a "viewer". When sharing a model, you won't share Make3D source code with it, only the "importer" script.


PS : I'm really tired I can't take the time to see any grammatical-syntax error, my bad ...

If we use Luna sources to make Text Editor compatible ... well ... I think that made a complete IDE like TI Nspire Computer Software is smarter, but it takes such a long time ...

The CX has Wireless. However, it's blocked to only have access to the Cradle made by TI. If we could code in ASM, we could use the Wireless to connect to devices of our own, or even other calculators.

No.

2100 : You should make a 3D trailer of your program/tool to make it awesome

Levak ?

Thanks.
TNOC 1.22 I released today fixes thoses memory bugs =)
And also it finaly renames correctly files \o/

http://tiplanet.org/forum/archives_voir.php?id=1922 (same link as before)