I'm extremely new to Axe, so this is probably just User error, but for me, Axe doesn't appear to want to compile programs. I copied an extremely simple sprite control from the documentation PDF to get a feel for how the language worked without accidentally destroying my RAM. When I tried to compile it in Axe 0.4.3, it gave me a File name error. Looking at the list of errors, supposedly I designated the compiled program as the source. However, I was never given the opportunity to designate any program names for the compiled code.

And just for reference, here's the code:

:.Steel A Parser
:[3C7EDBFFBDDB663C]→Pic1
:For(A,0,19)
:rand^88→{A+L1}
:rand^54→{A+L2}
:End
:For(A,0,19)
:Pt-On({A+L1},{A+L2},Pic1)
:End
:DispGraph

In all likelihood, any help will be a "duh" moment. But thanks.

Ps: I did search the forum for similar topics, but I didn't see any.

You can put additional stuff after the name, though. Example, you could have

.AXE The GameAnd if you compile for MirageOS or Ion, the stuff after .AXE would show as the file description in there.

Also welcome to the forums (and the world of Axe programming)

Thanks. That fixed the name problem, although apparently I got my arguments wrong. BASIC-like Syntax would be a good description of Axe from what I've seen. It behaves nothing like the TI-BASIC I'm familiar with. Disp Var gives a lot of weird scrolling text in symbols I've never seen on the calculator before.

And I'll be sure to post in the Bugs thread next time. I must have missed it.

I noticed the >Dec in the Documentation after I posted that, but thanks. Does anyone happen to know of a good tutorial on Axe with things like user interaction, such as an Axe equivalent of the Input() command in BASIC? Even getting the Pxl-On command to work would be great. Just Pxl-On(x, y) doesn't appear to draw anything on the screen, although that's likely because I'm confused by the whole buffers concept.

Pxl-On/Off is for sprites (see docu)
Use Pt-On/Off instead

Oh wait yeh.... was confused
Sorry about that...

the FIX command is extremely useful, if used right, you won't need to have dispgraph over and over again.  (i probably am wrong.)

and welcome. Warning: stay away from Moria, we are afraid of trolls


(lord of the rings)

Hey, I'm back from a vacation and just noticed this topic.  For your first question, the compiler ignores lowercase letters (unless you're compiling as an app) since program names can not have any lowercase letters.  Instead it will count that as part of the description.  So you were compiling the program "S" with description "teel A Parser" so my guess is that your source code file was also program "S".

The Axe language in general has very high similarity to both Assembly and Basic, so a strong background in either one will definitely help with programming.  An assembly tutorial will have some very useful information for you about how some things actually work and a Basic tutorial would help with program flow since the syntax is similar, however the optimizations are completely different and hardly any basic "tricks" can actually be carried over.  What programming languages do you have a background in?

Reading the entire commands list as well as the documentation should be enough to get started.  Some gaps can be filled with trial and error, other specific things feel free to ask in this forum, that's the primary purpose of it since there are no complete tutorials currently.