Re: A86: CAS project


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Re: A86: CAS project




the interface should be pretty easy to use. (you'll see on tuesday).  the
thing that makes this possible is that it uses things called forms. this way
you tell it the form you'll be putting it in and there in the end (not the
tuesday release) it'll tell you what to do and if you do something wrong.
It isn't quite as easy as the 89/92/92+ one line input as a string, but with
forms it make everything a lot easier for me to code.

billybobIV
chad@dirks.com
http://chad.dirks.com

----- Original Message -----
From: <ZeromusMog@aol.com>
To: <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Monday, April 05, 1999 10:49 AM
Subject: Re: A86: CAS project


>
> In a message dated 4/2/99 5:06:05 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> e1066@sherbtel.net writes:
>
> > you'll actually be inputting the stuff in pretty
> >  print... surprisingly this will make it easier for me because I won't
have
> >  to parse (is that the right word?) a string to get things.
>
> That can be a REAL interface nightmare... while it sounds really cool to
be
> able to type things in pretty print, it can also be incredibly
frusturating
> when the program insists that you follow it's own rules for putting stuff
in
> parenthesis, square roots, etc., not to mention when it complains about
> things when you're not done with the equasion yet! If you've ever used the
> Power Macintosh's little graphing calculator thingie, you probably know
what
> I mean. If you do indeed make it input in pretty print, make sure that you
> spend extra time making it easy to use, and not too fussy...
>
>




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