Author Topic: Undocumented TI-BASIC tricks (Read 84186 times)

kalan_vod · « **Reply #90 on:** January 04, 2006, 04:27:00 pm »

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QUOTE (necro @ 4 January 2006, 22:21)

yes, you unrapped a line break and as such, "not(...:not(..." is better than an "not(Ans:"...if I had a third line of conditionals in there, it would be better my way though

But there is a problem with both of ours, when you run it if xlib isn't installed then it says "Install Xlib!" but now the Ans is "Install Xlib!" so it receives a DATA TYPE error. So in order to stop that just place the first1 in a If Then
c1

-->

CODE

ec11
real(0
If not(Ans:Then
Pause "Install Xlib!
Return
Endc2

ec2
Then just place the rest of the code after End (The rest of the program).

necro · « **Reply #91 on:** January 04, 2006, 04:58:00 pm »

Indeed...but what about the whole Kitten-kaboodale (sp?)

:1
:real(0
:If not(Ans
:Then
:ClrHome
:Disp "PLEASE INSTAL XLIB BEFORE TRYING TO RUN THIS GAME
:Pause
:End
:If not(Ans
:Stop

kalan_vod · « **Reply #92 on:** January 04, 2006, 05:51:00 pm »

QuoteBegin-necro+4 January 2006, 22:58-->

QUOTE (necro @ 4 January 2006, 22:58)

Indeed...but what about the whole Kitten-kaboodale (sp?)

:1
:real(0
:If not(Ans
:Then
:ClrHome
:Disp "PLEASE INSTAL XLIB BEFORE TRYING TO RUN THIS GAME
:Pause
:End
:If not(Ans
:Stop

One thing disp doesn't wrap

.

c1

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CODE

ec1:1
:real(0
:If not(Ans
:Then
:ClrHome
:Output(1,1,"PLEASE INSTAL XLIB BEFORE TRYING TO RUN THIS GAME
:Pause
:stop
:Endc2

ec2

dysfunction · « **Reply #93 on:** January 05, 2006, 07:39:00 am »

Also, you misspelled Install.

dragon__lance · « **Reply #94 on:** January 06, 2006, 05:43:00 pm »

that's nice to know, Tr1pl1ea should include that peice of code in the readme so all games with xlib uses it

kalan_vod · « **Reply #95 on:** January 06, 2006, 05:47:00 pm »

QuoteBegin-dragon__lance+6 January 2006, 23:43-->

QUOTE (dragon__lance @ 6 January 2006, 23:43)

that's nice to know, Tr1pl1ea should include that peice of code in the readme so all games with xlib uses it

Well if xlib gets turned into a basic xlib game app it will not need the code above.

necro · « **Reply #96 on:** January 06, 2006, 05:59:00 pm »

I guess that is a vote for my proposal of making an xlib shell?

kalan_vod · « **Reply #97 on:** January 06, 2006, 06:26:00 pm »

QuoteBegin-necro+6 January 2006, 23:59-->

QUOTE (necro @ 6 January 2006, 23:59)

I guess that is a vote for my proposal of making an xlib shell?

Oh well I have been for it just didn't want Pat getting tired of working on it.

dysfunction · « **Reply #98 on:** January 12, 2006, 03:52:00 pm »

Apparently expr( doesn't work with the Goto command either, that's a shame.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #99 on:** January 12, 2006, 04:17:00 pm »

too bad

at least does it work with useful commands?

dysfunction · « **Reply #100 on:** January 12, 2006, 04:22:00 pm »

It does work with many useful commands.

On a slightly different topic, does anyone know a way in which I can jump to a section of program according to the number stored in a variable? Say variable A=5, is there a way to then Goto 5, or Goto 27 if A=27, etc?

kalan_vod · « **Reply #101 on:** January 12, 2006, 05:05:00 pm »

No but you could do

c1-->

CODE

ec1A
If Ans=1:Goto 1
If Ans=2:Goto 2
If Ans=3:Goto 3
....
etcc2

ec2

tifreak · « **Reply #102 on:** January 12, 2006, 05:09:00 pm »

Depends on what you are doing, but you can use While statments like goto/lbl commands, by manipulating the variable values...

Just keep everything in one big loop, say like this:

While W>0
All your fancy While commands go here
End
Return

And if you want out of the loops, just delvar W...

Make sense?

kalan_vod · « **Reply #103 on:** January 12, 2006, 06:24:00 pm »

QuoteBegin-tifreak8x+12 January 2006, 23:09-->

QUOTE (tifreak8x @ 12 January 2006, 23:09)

Depends on what you are doing, but you can use While statments like goto/lbl commands, by manipulating the variable values...

Just keep everything in one big loop, say like this:

While W>0
All your fancy While commands go here
End
Return

And if you want out of the loops, just delvar W...

Make sense?

Yeah and no memory leaks

.

CDI · « **Reply #104 on:** January 13, 2006, 12:04:00 am »

my 2 cents...

int(log(#)+1 = How many digits the number is

example

Text(0,0,sub(" 00000000",1,8-int(log(S)+1)),S

will return an 8 digit number at 0,0 on the GS no matter what (if S's digits are less than

Author Topic: Undocumented TI-BASIC tricks (Read 84186 times)

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