Author Topic: Features Wishlist (Read 702975 times)

Quigibo · « **Reply #2925 on:** January 03, 2012, 02:00:17 am »

I see, so its mostly default options that this affects. While I disagree that those settings are intuitive defaults in the example tilemapper, I can definitely see situations where it could be useful to provide default settings for options that rarely need changing. There are several ways to do this:

A specific ifdef command
A isDefined() command
A "Define if undefined" command

I'm guessing the last one would be most convenient for programmers since it's targeted at default values. One idea for the syntax could be a double store arrow such as 8→→^oVar to mean "If Var is not already defined make it 8. But if it was defined, keep it as it was".

Freyaday · « **Reply #2926 on:** January 03, 2012, 08:42:06 am »

Quote from: Quigibo on January 03, 2012, 02:00:17 am

I see, so its mostly default options that this affects. While I disagree that those settings are intuitive defaults in the example tilemapper, I can definitely see situations where it could be useful to provide default settings for options that rarely need changing. There are several ways to do this:

A specific ifdef command
A isDefined() command
A "Define if undefined" command

I'm guessing the last one would be most convenient for programmers since it's targeted at default values. One idea for the syntax could be a double store arrow such as 8→→^oVar to mean "If Var is not already defined make it 8. But if it was defined, keep it as it was".

I like the doubled store command syntax. I suppose I can make it work. Although, expect me to abuse this thing as much as I can. It's a game I play.

Runer112 · « **Reply #2927 on:** January 03, 2012, 10:39:12 am »

I think that any of those options would be great. I had suggested an ifdef-like command because it seemed easier to just base my suggestion on an existing assermbler directive, but any of those options would serve the purpose. The first two would be more general and flexible, but maybe the third would actually be better with its more specific and smaller syntax.

Now, all Axe libraries need are conditional inclusion of routines based on whether or not they are actually used, like real routines and Axiom commands, and they'll be fully awesome.

Runer112 · « **Reply #2928 on:** January 10, 2012, 09:16:59 pm »

How about the ability to use Pt-Mask()^r with arbitrary buffers? Unlike Pt-Mask(), it only uses one buffer which is only referenced once, so arbitrary buffer support would be just as easy as with the three basic sprite drawing commands.

Also, the command list description for Pt-Mask()^r should probably be changed a bit. The sprite argument isn't a "grayscale sprite" like with Pt-Mask().

Quigibo · « **Reply #2929 on:** January 11, 2012, 06:07:10 pm »

Excellent idea! Also, I need to finalize the list of hijack-able routines soon to make the framework more stable so if you have suggestions for similar features in other routines, now would be a good time

Freyaday · « **Reply #2930 on:** January 11, 2012, 09:49:13 pm »

Circle()?

C0deH4cker · « **Reply #2931 on:** January 12, 2012, 02:26:05 pm »

Token<->string conversion would be nice.

Runer112 · « **Reply #2932 on:** January 20, 2012, 11:31:14 am »

A long time ago, the ability to enter inline data was added, so you could do things like Pt-On(X,Y,[FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF]). This is quite useful. However, inline data cannot be the operand of any math operations, like Text A+[0606060600]. Could this ability be added? I realize that you can perform math on inline data by putting the inline data first or in parentheses, but both of those are less optimized and look a bit less clean.

C0deH4cker · « **Reply #2933 on:** January 23, 2012, 05:29:02 pm »

the Pt-On() with the inline data works because whenever you use a data command (such as "", [], or Data() ), the command returns a pointer. The Pt-On() command's third argument accepts a pointer, so that is why it works. However, when you say A+[XXXX]->A, all youre doing is adding the pointer to the data to A. You could do this: {[06A9]+1}->A, which would store $A9 to A.

Builderboy · « **Reply #2934 on:** January 23, 2012, 05:41:14 pm »

Codehacker, Runer knows the difference between pointers and their data, he is remarking upon the fact that A+[XXXX]->A returns an Invalid Token error.

Thundermagnet · « **Reply #2935 on:** January 23, 2012, 06:02:50 pm »

I actually do not know if this exists in Axe, but in BASIC, "line(X1,Y1,X2,Y2,0)" turns off a line. Notice the zero.
This would be most helpful in my newest creation, Dodge2.

C0deH4cker · « **Reply #2936 on:** January 23, 2012, 06:19:13 pm »

Quote from: Builderboy on January 23, 2012, 05:41:14 pm

Codehacker, Runer knows the difference between pointers and their data, he is remarking upon the fact that A+[XXXX]->A returns an Invalid Token error.

Right. I just realized who it was that posted that. And i know that he knows more about Axe than almost anybody else.

* C0deH4cker feels stupid right now.

Hayleia · « **Reply #2937 on:** January 24, 2012, 02:09:45 pm »

Quote from: Thundermagnet on January 23, 2012, 06:02:50 pm

I actually do not know if this exists in Axe, but in BASIC, "" turns off a line. Notice the zero.
This would be most helpful in my newest creation, Dodge2.

A slow way to do this is
DrawInv
Line(X1,Y1,X2,Y2)
DrawInv
But it is quite slow

parserp · « **Reply #2938 on:** January 24, 2012, 04:44:08 pm »

Quote from: Hayleia on January 24, 2012, 02:09:45 pm

Quote from: Thundermagnet on January 23, 2012, 06:02:50 pm
I actually do not know if this exists in Axe, but in BASIC, "" turns off a line. Notice the zero.
This would be most helpful in my newest creation, Dodge2.
A slow way to do this is
DrawInv
Line(X1,Y1,X2,Y2)
DrawInv
But it is quite slow

well, that is a inverted line, not a 'turn off a line'.

EDIT: wait, nope. my bad.

thydowulays · « **Reply #2939 on:** January 24, 2012, 04:52:31 pm »

Quote from: Thundermagnet on January 23, 2012, 06:02:50 pm

I actually do not know if this exists in Axe, but in BASIC, "line(X1,Y1,X2,Y2,0)" turns off a line. Notice the zero.
This would be most helpful in my newest creation, Dodge2.

Thundermagnet, for what you're doing there is actually a pretty simple way to do it. As you may know, when a line goes off the screen, it disappears. So basically if you wanted a line to "turn off" all you would have to do is this: Line(X,X,X,100). Doing so will make the line disappear, and all you have to do is, to get it back, just change the 100, to a variable or a number below 96. Hope it helped!

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