[SD] Re: Instalation of Shells
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[SD] Re: Instalation of Shells
I thought that the Ion Installer did more than un-zip programs. Then how
does the user use special functions (eg: ionLargeSprite).
-CalcFreak
----- Original Message -----
From: "Henk Poley" <hpoley@dds.nl>
To: <shell-developers@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 2:56 PM
Subject: [SD] Re: Instalation of Shells
>
> > Van: Aaron Fineman <amfineman@earthlink.net>
> >
> > I was wondering, do shells need to install themselves?
> > -Calc Freak
>
> Depends on what platform you are talking about, and what you want your
> shell to able to do. On the Z80 Ti's you make your shell like a 'normal
> program', there are plenty of examples with source (Ion, Sos, Venus). But
> if you want for example let your shell automagicaly startup when the user
> presses [2nd][ln], you will need to do some serious hacking (unless of
> coarse you are the happy owner/programmer of a Ti83+ which has hooks for
> such stuff).
>
> Henk Poley <><
>
>
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