Re: A89: PLEASE ANSWER MY QUESTIONS!


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Re: A89: PLEASE ANSWER MY QUESTIONS!




Dux Gregis wrote:
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xavier VASSOR <xvassor@mail.dotcom.fr>
> To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
> Date: Thursday, December 24, 1998 4:47 AM
> Subject: Re: A89: PLEASE ANSWER MY QUESTIONS!
> 
> >
> >Jeremy Moore wrote:
> >>
> >> C'mon people.  I thought we were supposed to help people with questions.
> >
> >OK here is it:
> >
> >> > > I also have some questions.  I'm sure they're easy for most of you,
> >> > > but I am a beginner, so please have patience.
> >> > >
> >> > > 1.)  When you wait for a key press (like when using idle_loop, I
> >> > > believe), how does that work?  Does it transmit the basic getkey
> >> > > number equivalent into d0?
> >
> >  idle_loop waits for the keyboard flag (kb_vars+$1C) to be set, and
> >then puts the keycode (MaxHandles+$1E) into d0.
> >
> >> > > 2.) How do you turn off the BUSY indicators as well as the whole
> >> > > status line.  I mean like if I push 2nd, I don't want it to display
> >> > 2nd.
> >
> >You have to disable autoInt 5.
> 
> I've tried that and it doesn't.  It's not in auto int 1 or 5.  What I ended
> up doing was moving the screen position over 8 bytes so that every time 2nd
> / whatever is pressed the 2nd is displayed on offscreen video memory.

Hmm.. are you sure ? Or maybe you have to disable bothe of them (auto
int 1 and 5)

Xavier VASSOR
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