Ndless 2.0 for TI-Nspire enters beta stage

[DJ Omnimaga]

By the way, when installing, is there a specific part of the screen on which the 2 or 3 weird horizontal lines must appear to confirm it was really installed?

[ExtendeD]

The dotted lines should in this version appear on the bottom lines of the screen.
The bars full of pixels just flash: if they don't disappear, then the installation has hung.

[DJ Omnimaga]

Ok, yeah I meant the ones with random pixels. I wondered if they had to appear at a specific part of the screen or if they could be random.

[ExtendeD]

The position is fixed: one at the top of the screen, the second at about 2/3 of the screen I think.

[DJ Omnimaga]

Ah ok, good.

On an off-topic note, is it possible for a TI-Nspire to enter test mode, as in blue lines of death on the 83+ or blue screen of death on the 83+SE, 84+ and 84+SE? When pulling a battery while an Ndless game is running, I see a blue line appear like when turning OFF a TI-89 Titanium or a TI-92 and it slowly disappear. When some 83+ ASM games crashed, this happened sometimes.

[dbenderboy]

how can i transfer the ndless_installer fils over to the directory or the calculator? i tried but it wont let me

[apcalc]

how can i transfer the ndless_installer fils over to the directory or the calculator? i tried but it wont let me

Just transfer them like a normal Nspire .tns document with the Computer Link software from TI's website!

[ExtendeD]

New beta (r382) fully compatible with the Touchpad area! Many thanks to Goplat and shrear for their help.
Programs should be rebuilt with this version to migrate their isKeyPressed() calls.

Changelog:

- isKeyPressed() compatible with Touchpad
- New Touchpad API
- New macros swap16 and swap32
- Fix KEY_NSPIRE_EQU (thanks compu)
- Add KEY_NSPIRE_FRAC (thanks shrear)
- Fix wrong restoration of the FIQ handler by the installer (thanks Goplat)
- Fix broken va_list and va_arg with char parameters (thanks Goplat and compu)

[dman2073]

Thanks a lot ExtendeD!!!

[critor]

I don't know if this has allready been reported, but I've got another ClickPad key error in common.h:

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1 2	#define KEY_NSPIRE_UP           KEYTPAD_ARROW_(0x1E, 0x001, TPAD_ARROW_UP) #define KEY_NSPIRE_CLICK        KEYTPAD_ARROW_(0x1E, 0x001, TPAD_ARROW_CLICK)

On a ClickPad keypad, the "click" key doesn't work, and pressing the "up" key does press the "click" key by the same time.


Correction:

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1	#define KEY_NSPIRE_CLICK        KEYTPAD_ARROW_(0x1C, 0x002, TPAD_ARROW_CLICK)

[broooom]

For those interested: I set up a build mirror that builds ndless from SVN every 24 hours.

The mirror can be found at http://builds.issrs.biz/ndless.

The latest zipped ndless release can always be found at http://builds.issrs.biz/ndless/latest/ndless.zip!

[DJ Omnimaga]

Nice. Make sure to disable it when it enters the 3.0 phase, though, as ExtendeD doesn't like Ndless alphas to be distributed in binary form until they reach public beta status.

[ExtendeD]

critor: you're right, it's now fixed.

[ExtendeD]

As suggested by critor, starting from r385 touchpad_scan() updates report->arrow for easier "touched" arrow scan. This allows smoother navigation in user interfaces by avoiding the keys to be pressed.
You will have to wait for broooom's build script to run before downloading the build.

[GB]

Do any of you all know what programs Ndless 2.0 is compatible with? I'm using one of the original TI-Nspire's.