Grammer

[Yeong]

Yay! A app version!

* Yeong don't have to group Grammer every time he backs up now

will it run archived program?

[Xeda112358]

No, it doesn't run archived programs yet, sorry

[awalden0808]

USB Communication Error: Flash application has a bad signature.

[Xeda112358]

grrrr, I think it is because I changed the name using WabbitEmu and then I copied it from Wabbit. Gahh, nobody can seem to tell me how to fix this problem >.<

EDIT: Okay folks, see the Grammer 2 topic again (first post) for a version that is working

[mrmprog]

Ok! I just got all the grammer docs on my kindle,so now i have something to do tommorow. I already have some questions though. Are there only two particle effect? Also,how is stuff stored? if i have "quack" as a string, can i modify it like in Basic,or is it closer to axe?

[Xeda112358]

There are currently two particle types, but I am working on adding a few more (including the worm particle I have been promising). And strings cannot be edited like in TI-BASIC, so I am assuming they work similarly to Axe.

[mrmprog]

Here is the code I was using:

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:.0:Asm(prgmGRAMMER :ClrHome :ClrDraw :Line('30,30,60,30,1 :DispGraph :Stop

This has to do with an IRC discussion.

[Xeda112358]

Okay, so the issue you were having there (as dicussed on IRC) was that the homescreen would fill up with 3x3 squares. The reason was that when I wrote the code for ClrHome, I filled it with that char instead of a space. I have it fixed for the next version.

[mrmprog]

Ok, glad that will be fixed. After having grammer on my calc for a while(accompanied by some spectacular crashes ), I have some things to say. Is it possible to add a feature that lets you control the direction of gravity for particles? Can you put grammer code in a basic program? This is really awesome, I look forward to making some epic stuff with it.

[Yeong]

Can you put grammer code in a basic program?

it used to. but I don't know about now.

[Xeda112358]

When using the program version of Grammer, you can stick Grammer code in a BASIC program. Anything after the Stop is read as BASIC code and you start the Grammer code with a number in Ans then Asm(prgmGRAMMER. This won't work so much with the APP version, yet, but if you use the program I released somewhere around here, it will... Sorry, I am highly distracted at the moment

[mrmprog]

* mrmprog is having fun!

Is it possible for us to have custom particle rules? This would probably be really hard, but worth the effort in my opinion.

[Xeda112358]

It isn't available yet, but it is possible... >.>

[Xeda112358]

Update time!
Okay, with this version, there are some significant updates that will lend to some much needed features and that will help me add new commands.
Bug Fixes:
-Apparently I broke the sprite routines in the last version, but only for the non-hex commands. I fixed it here

Updated Commands:
-Now any variable name inputs aren't limited to named vars. For example, "DStr1" is a valid variable name (to access Str1)
-Fix has another mode for Hexadecimal mode. This makes all numbers get read as hexadecimal.

New Commands:
-Asm(
This lets you use an external, squished ASM program
-IS>(
This will use a pointer var to read variable data. It then increments the pointer var.
-Archive
-Unarchive
-Delvar
-solve(
This is actually going to be a command subset. This has currently 3 commands:
solve(0 is used to copy a var from archive or RAM to a new var
solve(1 is used to copy a piece of RAM to another location (copying forward)
solve(2 is used to copy a piece of RAM to another location (copying backwards)

I don't have any real example programs ready that display the new commands in action, but I can see these new commands as being highly useful. For example, using the IS>( command will make it fairly easy to make a parser. I actually made this because I was working on a drawing program that stored the drawing as shapes and commands as opposed to a bitmap.

I would like to add augment( and sub( to resize variables, too.

I hope this works out well for people! Hopefully I can add new sound and particle effects, sometime
I am also working on the start of an error handler, but I want to make it like a hook. Like, if you do something that will cause an error, it redirects the code to another part of the program for you to handle.

[awalden0808]

So I have yet another question. I've got two different control sets for my program (new one uses the Up+Left, Up+Right, etc. key codes.), and I also want to have the ability to save position by sending the coordinates to an appvar. I want it to test for the existence of the variable, then create it if need be, then require a second button press to make sure you really want to save it. I want it to have 4 bytes, the first two is the vertical coords, second horizontal. Then, when another pair of buttons is pressed I want it to recall the coordinates by pulling the first 2 bytes, storing it to the coordinate variable, then recall the last 2 and storing it to the other coordinate variable. Is this possible?