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Offline Rhombicuboctahedron

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Did any of you know that you can do this?
« on: November 10, 2012, 09:44:42 am »
Did you know that you can grab and move the dialog boxes on the nspire?
I was randomly found this out today, and it just blew my mind.
Also, are there any other mindblowing simple things i don't know about?
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Re: Did any of you know that you can do this?
« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2012, 09:45:24 am »
I did not know. I don't really care either since I never see them XD
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Re: Did any of you know that you can do this?
« Reply #2 on: November 10, 2012, 09:47:31 am »
I did know, but it's .... useless :P

Also, yeah, there are a bunch of little things like that (and some are way more "twisted" than that) :P
I'l lsee if I can think of some :D
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Re: Did any of you know that you can do this?
« Reply #3 on: November 10, 2012, 02:15:29 pm »
I never knew that because I always just press enter.  It takes longer to move the mouse than to just press enter.
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Re: Did any of you know that you can do this?
« Reply #4 on: November 10, 2012, 03:04:47 pm »
^Eheh. Indeed.
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Re: Did any of you know that you can do this?
« Reply #5 on: November 10, 2012, 03:22:15 pm »
Well on TINCS it's easy. But then, you can use the computer view mode :P

* A hidden(?) shortcut ? Scratchpad is also Ctrl-0

* A Very Quick way to have the nth anti-derivative of an expression ? Enter dn/dx (expr)   with n being a negative number ;)
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Re: Did any of you know that you can do this?
« Reply #6 on: November 10, 2012, 03:32:53 pm »
Are there hidden tricks to allow the use of Getkey/Output in BASIC programs or even tricks to increase Lua speed by 1000%?  *runs*
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Re: Did any of you know that you can do this?
« Reply #7 on: November 10, 2012, 03:36:32 pm »
* annoyingcalc smacks DJ
Silly DJ, TI would never be that nice


EDIT WOW I actually found a way, heres the tutorial
 

If that doesnt work try http://goo.gl/QMET
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Re: Did any of you know that you can do this?
« Reply #8 on: November 10, 2012, 03:58:42 pm »
Quote from: DJ_O on November 10, 2012, 03:32:53 pm
Are there hidden tricks to allow the use of Getkey/Output in BASIC programs or even tricks to increase Lua speed by 1000%?  *runs*
Ahem.

But actually, YES !
(on the lua part)
It's a bit far stretched, but it's about 1144%  on benchmarks :

http://trac.caspring.org/wiki/LuaPerformance#TEST8:functionsasparamforotherfunctions

(so to gain 1000%, do the bad thing first, then optimize :D)
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Re: Did any of you know that you can do this?
« Reply #9 on: November 10, 2012, 04:02:28 pm »
Quote from: DJ_O on November 10, 2012, 03:32:53 pm
Are there hidden tricks to allow the use of Getkey/Output in BASIC programs or even tricks to increase Lua speed by 1000%?  *runs*

nspire doesnt allow the use of getkey in BASIC progs? o.o
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Re: Did any of you know that you can do this?
« Reply #10 on: November 10, 2012, 04:04:22 pm »
Quote from: flyingfisch on November 10, 2012, 04:02:28 pm
Quote from: DJ_O on November 10, 2012, 03:32:53 pm
Are there hidden tricks to allow the use of Getkey/Output in BASIC programs or even tricks to increase Lua speed by 1000%?  *runs*

nspire doesnt allow the use of getkey in BASIC progs? o.o
Nope as they "restricted" it to Math only.
For example, you neither can't plto a point on the screen directly, for example (you have to use lists and such, which have to be pre-plotted etc.)

That's why Lua's nice:P
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Re: Did any of you know that you can do this?
« Reply #11 on: November 10, 2012, 06:00:07 pm »
The worst part is that the Nspire BASIC language lacks some functions that TI-80 and 81 BASIC has. At least I'm glad TI didn't try to push a paid Lua SDK on us like they did with the 83+ (Flash APP development) in 1999-2003 or so (the reason why almost every ASM game made before 2004 are 8xp files).
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Re: Did any of you know that you can do this?
« Reply #12 on: November 10, 2012, 06:02:10 pm »
On the Nspire, BASIC is meant for math functions and math functions only. For interactive stuff TI provides (and even recommends) Lua.
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Re: Did any of you know that you can do this?
« Reply #13 on: November 10, 2012, 06:45:15 pm »
Yeah but it took them 4 years before finally giving us Lua <_<. Beforehand, all we had was TI-BASIC. It sucked even for maths, because there are people who got troubles making BASIC math/science programs that were once easy to create on a TI-89. I wonder why they even removed the functions in the first place when the language is almost the same as on 68K calcs. It really looked like back in 2007-09, they were trying to eliminate calculator gaming entirely.
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Re: Did any of you know that you can do this?
« Reply #14 on: November 10, 2012, 06:52:32 pm »
That's pretty cool, but yeah not much of a point since they're such a large part of the screen anyways :/
(also I'm guessing it doesn't let focus move away?)

Here's another thing: ctrl+9/3 and ctrl+7/1 are like pgup/pgdn and home/end on a computer. Useful for that long documents list :P
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