Quote from: yunhua98 on December 30, 2010, 11:13:44 am

*cough*landslide victory*cough*
If Kerm had waited til next year to upload DCS7...
we got 2 POTYs!

It's not so fine and dandy over on Ceme.

Yeah I wish there would have been place for two wins, because DCS7 really deserved one too. I even went close to vote for it (I finally voted for Unity, Axe, Ndless and NewProg) because it's so great too. I thought it would get pretty close to Axe amount of votes. Regardless, congrats QUigibo, but congrats to Kerm as well for having gotten that many votes, still, and more importantly, congrats to EVERYONE who got nominated!

Question:

Okay, so I'm almost done with the new Axiom specifications and SDK and am beginning to convert my asm mode 7 engine to an Axiom at the same time as writing the axiom interpreter.  As you might know, there will be several new Token replacements specifically for Axioms.  Originally, I was planning to add 12 tokens to replace the parametric variables X1T-Y6T, but I decided against that now because I am introducing those as 6 entirely new variables to make communication with very large Axioms more convenient.  This is to prevent passing a gajillion arguments every time you need to call an Axiom that requires global variables.

So, I need to figure out a good spot to put these tokens.  I would prefer a single menu where I can use every or almost every single token on that menu.  I was thinking about the [2nd] [DISTR] menu but I could use the window tokens, zoom tokens, or another place instead.  Anyone have a preference?

Also, if you can think of a some generic token names that would be useful to you, but not too specific, feel free to throw them out there.  Also, all new tokens will have a left parenthesis attached, but you can close it like this() to use it as a no-argument token.  Some ideas I am considering so far are:

Start()
Next()
Up()
Down()
Left()
Right()
Render()
DrawL()
DrawR()
DrawS()
Print()


And don't forget, there are still all the TI tokens in addition to these so if you were writing an 8.8 sine routine for instance you could use sin^-1() or sinh().

Qwerty, I'm sure your idea is a good one, but I don't understand what you mean by it.  Can you explain?  I'm a bit slow

Hmm, that reminds me... can file objects read from variables in RAM, or only from archive?

Slightly off topic, but Quigibo, do you know of a sprite xor routine exactly like the one in axe, but that does 4x4 sprites?

So the new Axiom SDK is out.  If anyone wants to attempt one, you will definitely get to try it out on 1.0.0 before the official release.  The inc file is not totally finished because I haven't added the new token equates yet, but I'll get to that soon.  Let me know if you have any questions about the Axiom format, some things about it might be confusing.  One thing I'll mention is what the "Stored to" command modifier is.  EXP->DispGraph is a one argument version of this and EXP->float{EXP} is a 2 argument version.

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on January 06, 2011, 02:02:19 am

I can't tell about token names for now since I'm kinda tired but using the ones in an entire menu would be a good idea if it's all for the same thing, otherwise with all the renamed tokens it will get hard to find them in the CATALOG since they're not sorted alphabetically.

Yes, that would be great.  Is this possible?

Yes, it is, but I'm not sure whether or how well it's been documented.  What you want is the catalog hook(s).  One or the other of them - I think it's the second - is the hook that language localization apps use to reorder the catalog.  It's been years since I looked at that stuff, though.