TIB: Re: 82 Programming Secret...
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TIB: Re: 82 Programming Secret...
TI doesn't tell you where their flaws are in the calculator. Things such
as detecting the ROM version wasn't discovered until recently in the 82
world (I'm talking about 1 1/2 years).
>Well, I'm not going to talk about how to detect your ROM version since
everyone already knows how to do that. I'm going to tell you how to get
rid of that annoying "Done" message when a program ends.
I was fooling around with a "dumb" game (I am making a library of dumb
TI-Basic games created in 2 hours or less) when all of a sudden I realized
that the "Done" hadn't appeared on the screen and yet the program had
exited. I kept fooling around (the next day) with another program to get
the same result to occur. It took a while, but I came up with the answer.
Put the following line of code at the end of any program and "Done" will
not appear:
Output(1,1,""
WOW! A simple (and quite common) command stopped that annoying "Done" from
appearing. You probably can come up with several uses for this. I have
used it extensively in my latest programs because I hate it when it says:
Thank you for
playing the
game.
Done
#
The # is the cursor. It looks ugly with the Done even to be on the screen.
ith my method of removing it, I make it look a whole lot cleaner and more
professional. It makes for a nice exit to a program, than a harsh ugly one.
Tell me what you think about this new finding,
Thomas J. Hruska -- thruska@tir.com
Shining Light Productions -- "Meeting the needs of fellow programmers"
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