So over the last couple weeks I have been working on a small side project that will be being used in an upcoming project of Iambian's and mine. This project is a Text Subsystem that would be used in an RPG.

Features
* Arbitrary Bounding Box
* 5xW Font (Borrowed with permission from DCS)
* Customizable Corners
* Word Wrapping
* Character  Wrapping
* Post processing Effect (see next list)
* Supporting Routines

Post Processors
* Italics
* Mirror
* Flip
* Inverse
* Underline

It comes with a host of supporting routines to make interfacing with it easier for the end coder

Routines
* NewLine
* HomeUp
* SetFulScreen
* SetBoundsStack

The program is interfaced with 2 Main routines these are DrawBox And PutStr. PutStr Puts the null terminated string pointed to by hd inside the bounded box that has been defined. DrawBox Draws the visual Box around the Text and takes the corner style in A.

The PutStr Routine supports inline modifiers for the text output that is supplemented via a macro.
Mod(Italics,Underline,Flip,Mirror,Inverse,WordWrap) OR any combination of the settings. Which makes adding effects to strings rather easy.

Ok enough Jargon Lets put some examples and screenies

.db "Welcome to Cemetech",CrlF,Mod(Italics,Underline),"LTTFW",0


.db "This Is right up",CrLf,Mod(Mirror,Flip),"This is not!",0


.db Mod(Inverse),"White",Mod(Clear),"Black",Mod(Inverse),"White",Mod(Clear),"Black",0.db Mod(Inverse),"White",Mod(Clear)," Black",Mod(Inverse),"White",Mod(Clear)," Black",0


Its' Word Wrapping is rather robust.


And it supports style changes by changing a byte in ram


Why is there no release? Because this is just a showing of it so far I have to polish some of the code and make some changes to make it so when compiled with a DCS program you don't have to include the entire DCS font map and other things. (saves a few hundred bytes worth of data!)

So thoughts and suggestions/Things you would like to see?

Looks like a very robust system ! I can't stop thinking of an OpenOffice-like program

Suggestions : would it be feasible to have different text sizes ? Embedded images ? Scrolling text for larger-than-screen document viewing ?

Looks like a very robust system ! I can't stop thinking of an OpenOffice-like program

Suggestions : would it be feasible to have different text sizes ? Embedded images ? Scrolling text for larger-than-screen document viewing ?

Text sizes no as its all based off a static font map.  In line images I see no reason why not but is past the scope of what im making(though I plan on editing the font to have basic ascii images for simple art/text maps) .  And anything is possible it's based around a putchar routine so you could technically make it do anything you wanted! I'll have a text stroller demo soon for an rpg. Just didn't get there the other night

Just to make debate. I personally don't see the point of a text editor on calc it's rather pointless when compared to pen and paper.  And is honestly more cumbersome ton work with then anything else. 

The biggest reason to have a decent on-calc text editor, I think, is so we can move away from the idea of using the built-in BASIC editor for programming. It's a bad editor for non-tokenized languages. If we had a real text editor then we might even be able to get named functions in an on-calc language.

I see this is coming along quite nicely. Good work guys!

looking awesome

Yeah the only problem I am having as of the moment is I need a masked sprite routine for the Corners. I will probably have to rewrite the code for the corners sadly to accommodate. When I designed it at first I did not account for the fact that I need them masked >.<