A86: Re: apology and asm question!


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A86: Re: apology and asm question!




Such a thing would be possible in an interrupt only (why bother with
[sqrt]key), but it would be a tremendous hog of resources, a generally
pointless thing, and a terribly bad insult to the purpose of a calculator.
I, personally, do not want a sheep (the most popular "screen mate") to be
urinating on my math. Thank you.

----- Original Message -----
From: Diego Pontoriero <diego@freenet.nether.net>
To: <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 1:14 PM
Subject: A86: apology and asm question!


>
> Sorry about that, I didn't meant to fuel any rabid off topic posts, but i
> finally fixed my subscription to the list so it lets me post (yes, i did
> go through the enitre communism saga) and wanted to test it out.  It
> works :P
>
> It seems the only posts left are mainly people who subscribe to the list
> to almost have people write code or programs for them, and people who post
> off topic.  So i feel compelled to ask an asm-related question.
>
> We are all familiar with virtual pets, but somewhat cooler are something i
> learned about recently (yes, I know they're old) are Screen Mates/Desktop
> Buddies/Whatever you want to call them.  They interact with the user and
> his/her desktop, but are not dependent for care/feeding/etc.  They're
> adorable if that sways you any, but I would be interested in programming
> one for assembly.  Is it feasable to have one running as a TSR at the home
> screen?  I have played around with user interrupts (Built in TI-OS for
> this purpose should be good) but found it hard to have the TI-OS coexist
> peacefully with something displaying on the screen while being able to
> perform math functions, etc.  So I do know that a combination user
> interrupt and sqrt key (but i don't know exactly how to use those) could
> achieve a little animated character on the desktop, with the sqrt key
> detecting key presses to activate/deactivate.  And i know the curXapp can
> be checked to make sure we are at the homescreen.  But I have had trouble
> in the  past detecting menus that pop up at the bottom and having the
> input keep going to the bottom of the screen.  Is there a way to decrease
> the size of the text input as if a menu was opened (IE: when you hit
> program, your text goes up a line and you are left with only 7 lines of
> input).  Then the character could dwell in the bottom line and hang
> around, and if it's possible to detect more free space on the home screen
> (less lines of input used) it could roam around more freely.  There could
> also be a screensaver mode... therefore, may possibilities, and anyone who
> would like to collaborate on the project can contact me.  But the bottom
> line comes down to detecting and "faking" in a way an open menu to
> decrease the lines of text input at the homescreen.  Any help or
> suggestions are welcome.  And this could help with another idea, of having
> a taskbar on the home screen (like the icky start bar in windows).  That'd
> be cool...
>
> Thanks
>
> Diego
>
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 RoniBarrett@aol.com wrote:
>
> >
> > We should petition ticalc for a new list. off-topic@lists.ticalc.org.
> > That way, when things get too far off topic, we can move it someplace
where
> > nothing is off topic.
> >
> > Jeff Barrett
> >
> >
>
>



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