BUM BUM BUM BUMP!

I'm a rabid fan of NspireIO who is using this for a secret project (that isn't terribly secret after telling 3-5 people about it ). However, it lacks a cursor, and the dev (compu) seemed inactive at the time, so I decided to implement it. (He seems to be active now - he has added lots of interesting features in SVN trunk!) Juju also has a need to implement it since KermMartian is using it for his LuaZM via the Prizm port of NspireIO, PrizmIO! After telling Juju that I would implement it (for his ease of porting), it's finally here... after quite a few feature additions so that NspireIO's cursor isn't "just any cursor!"

Screenshot demo:


New features:

• Cursor support. (Duh.) This can be disabled at any time. Note that if drawing is disabled, cursors are disabled.
• Blinking cursor support. This can be disabled at any time as well.
• Multiple cursor types include a regular block cursor (Linux X11 terminal style), underscore cursor (Windows Command Prompt style), and vertical bar (regular text box style).
• Cursor width adjustment.
• Custom cursor support.

It's very likely that very few, if any at all, will use those extra cursor options, but it was fun developing it anyway.
And voila, an needed update to NspireIO! (Version 2.1)

(If I seem to be making a big deal about this, excuse me - I'm just excited because this is probably my first serious release!)

Downloads:
Downloads are attached in ZIP and GZIP tar archives.
Mirror:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1016340/NspireIO/nspireio-2.1.tar.gz
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1016340/NspireIO/nspireio-2.1.zip

(To compu: I've made a change to the Makefile to make it more "compliant" - hopefully you won't mind This is based off of r37, so if you want to merge, merge from that point. Also, the code is under LGPL 2.1, like the SVN, so no worries there. )

EDIT: As always, the API is located in the header file, nspireio2.h. New binaries need to be built, I'll update within an hour.

EDIT 2: Dropbox mirror releases are updated. Attachment archives will be fixed soon.

EDIT 3: Attachments updated. Read README.txt for installation instructions. Also a few clarifications: 1) This is MY update, not compu's. Consider it unofficial, despite the version bump. 2) You may encounter issues when linking for certain compilers. You may need to delete the Ndless SDK's version of the NspireIO header and library before things will work. The cursor is enabled automatically, so seeing it in your program after the update is a definite way of telling whether you are linking/using the new version or not.

Do you mean alberthrocks's update or Nspire I/O itself?

So if I were to be making the impossible game for nspire, for example, I should use this?

So if I were to be making the impossible game for example, I should use this?

Absolutely not... unless you want to use ASCII squares for the game. I suggest using nRGBLib instead.

Yay. I'll merge your changes with my copy of PrizmIO as soon as possible.

Yippee!! And I'll take a nice long break....

Hi Albert, thanks for this nice feature
Yes, I didn't work on Nspire I/O for a longer time but I was always around in the forums - If you would've sent me a PM I would've integrated your changes into the trunk directly - but no problem, I'll do it this afternoon when I have time

And by the way, I made a lot of syntax changes a week ago:

The functions have completely changed and have the same syntax as
their stdio-counterparts now:
(with nio_-prefix)
fflush
fgetc
fgets
fprintf
fputc
fputs
getc
getchar
gets
perror
printf
putc
putchar
puts

All functions that don't have a FILE* stream / nio_console* c
argument, use a default console specified by nio_set_default().

Using the old syntax is possible by defining NIO_KEEP_COMPATIBILITY.

It is possible to replace the stdio-functions putchar, puts, getchar,
gets, printf, perror with nspireio functions by defining
NIO_REPLACE_STDIO, so you can use nspireio as stdin/stdout (just call
nio_use_stdio() at the beginning and nio_free_stdio() at the end of
the program).

Example:
#include <os.h>
#define NIO_REPLACE_STDIO
#include <nspireio2.h>

int main(void)
{
    nio_use_stdio();
    puts("Hello World!");
    nio_free_stdio();
   
    wait_key_pressed();
    return 0;
}
The same is possible with the UART functions (that work with disabled
interrupts) by defining UART_REPLACE_STDIO.

So, I'll merge your changes with r44 and probably release it as 3.0.

Added to nSDK? WHy not? THat would be genious!

Glad to see this is still updated. I thought a while ago that you left the community in response to the PTTKiller incident and I'm glad you stayed around. Looks nice btw.