Re: A86: calc auto off

To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A86: calc auto off
From: rabidcow@juno.com
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 14:12:13 -0700
Reply-To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org

uh, if you're waiting for a password i don't think a few dozen clock
cycles is a problem.  if you really want the utmost speed, don't use any
rom routines, they waste time like crazy, jumping here and there,
swapping pages like there's no tomorrow... :)

displaying the status of 2nd and alpha isn't difficult. (set a flag!) 
actually, i say forget all the built-in routines and use the advanced key
routines i used in textedit (um, am using...)
getkey also will run silent link commands, so any program that uses
getkey can be controlled remotely, be that good or bad.

-josh

On Mon, 20 Dec 1999 21:14:02 -0700 "Kirk Meyer" <kirkmeyer@bigfoot.com>
writes:
>
>_getkey should also be avoided at all costs unless you can display 
>the
>status of the alpha and shift flags... even the _getky in TI's files 
>is
>slower than it needs to be, because it stores the keycode into _OP1.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Cassady Roop <croop@oregontrail.net>
>To: <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
>Sent: Monday, December 20, 1999 8:54 PM
>Subject: Re: A86: calc auto off
>
>
>> I think _getkey uses the APD, so it would turn off after about five
>> minutes.
>>
>> Cassady Roop
>
>
>

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