I have to say that every time it looks nicer and nicer. 

Thanks cyanophycean! Maybe we'll have some more soon.

However, I was wondering : for any update of nspire_emu, will it be "easy" enough for you to adapt your code to use the new nspire_emu ?

Hi, it shouldn't too difficult, unless 'nspire_emu' code suffers a major restructure which i do not anticipate for this type of machine anyway.

The download link doesn't work

I'm sorry, but for some unknown reason 'filedropper' is either down or refusing people to download?
Pelase, try this link instead: http://www.filefactory.com/file/1kaalg4t0nw5/n/ONspire_v1_rar
BTW Wayne, i've noticed that occasionnaly 'mviewer' does hang! The problem seems to be related to that fact that 'mviewer' doesn't release the stdio. So, sometimes we can't interact with emulator at all, unless the it is restarted. I've been trying to discover why, but so far no luck. Also, this seems to be the ONLY program that from time to time crashes and for which the most of the "image manipulation" key combinations do not work at all (in the emulator)!?. So i do acknowledge that we 'do have a problem' with mviewer...

Regards,

SpiroH your new Skins are awesome...

Thanks!

The only thing that doesn't work are the arrow keys in gbc4nspire and mviewer. I didn't test any other.

They work just fine with me!? Are you using the correct versions for cx? Proof:
gb4nspirecx:   mviewer_cx:

Since the cx release these utilities had to be updated. Try the links below, maybe they will help out.
ndless cx:     http://ndlessly.wordpress.com/category/ndless/
Ndless 3.1:    http://tiplanet.org/forum/archives_voir.php?id=3891
gb4nspire cx: http://tiplanet.org/forum/archives_voir.php?id=1649
mviewer cx:   http://tiplanet.org/forum/archives_voir.php?id=3900

Have fun ,

Thanks SpiroH, it's now really looking well!
BTW, the only glitch I found is that this v21 doesn't remember its screen position anymore, maybe it's because you've used again a new registry entry (5.0) and haven't updated all your calls to this entry!?

Oops, i just commented out that piece of code while adjusting for the new skin, and as it was getting too late i simply did not put it back (it happens ).
So here you go: http://www.filedropper.com/spirohv212  (now only the exe, no shot).

Have a nice holiday (I hope it's a holiday too today in your country),

Yes, it's a religious holiday here too 'Corpus Christi'.

Hope 'my small touches' don't upset you too much,
SpiroH

What??? I can't imagine this - look at all those hundreds of pictures of the Nspire on the internet. Do you think they would all be 'illegal'?

Not the picture in itself, BUT when bundled with an emulator that's a quite different story, i gather. But then i'm not a lawyer!
You know, these companies have a lot of power in judicial terms. I'm a bit afraid that's all.

Oh, I don't remember the links anymore, but I have ZIPed it for you and uploaded it here:
http://www.spaadyshare.net/65wpewnl7qgg/nspirepic.zip

Very good quality indeed. Thanks, I'll work a bit on it and will let you know.

WOW, I don't know what to say: simply perfect!

Thanks, not really, but a 'good step' in the right direction, we hope.

BTW, who's this Franz mentioned in the About-box?

Some 'better-quality german' guy i once met at Omnimaga. You just might have heard about him. If not, just drop at Omni and he'll be there.

Cheers,

PS1: Just posted a pic above to remember the difficulty to get it going.
PS2: I guess it's about time to invite some Photoshop guru(s) to improve the skin's picture quality, specially the keys' text and a lighter background. What do you think?

Since you mentioned "Touchpad proto" I've tried this with the original nspire_emu, and I've found both things on quite unusual keys:
The = sign is on the [,] key at the bottom rightmost corner, and the double-quotes " " are on the [F] key in the leftmost column.
Maybe this could help you to find the correct code for these 2 keys/functions!?

Unfortunately, they are NOT. You need to 'Reset CPU' after you've changed the keypad, so that the TI-OS properly recongnizes the new keypad.
So what you say is only valid for the 'Clickpad' not for the 'Touchpad Prototype'.

So let me explain it:
I always thought that both following actions would have the same effect:
1) pressing (or clicking on) the 'ctrl' button and releasing it again, and then pressing or clicking on any other key
2) pressing the 'ctrl' button and holding it down and then additionally pressing any other key.
And I'm quite sure that it's in fact working this way on a real Nspire, i.e. there's no difference between releasing the 'ctrl' key or keeping it pressed while pressing the desired key.

Yep, I know that. We're just trying to use a 'Touchpad', when in reality the Ti-OS sees a 'Touchpad  proto' keypad.
All the partial /k4-emulation using a /k3, most certainly won't work when the ctrl-key + 'some-funny-key' are pressed on the keyboard (as you've mentionned). But using the mouse, it should 'almost fine'.
When you use the keyboard keys separately (one at a time) what you get is the real 'touchpad proto' not the 'touchpad'. Yeah, i agree is rather messy at this stage (and not worth to continue the effort).

So in my opinion it would indeed be better to switch back to version v17_2 (with its /K4 method), and simply implement there those few new improvements you made in
v20_2 (i.e. ENTER/ESC on the LCD, the 3 key colors and right-click for ALL keys).
Since this /K4 emulation is much better (as you wrote in your previous posts), it will probably also be easier for you to implement any new features, because you won't always have to circumvent the glitches of the /K3 emulation with your own tricks.

Again, I say yay. That's why I've shown quite some resistence to follow the /k3 path (a few posts ago). Now things are clearer. Let's say v20_2 is just a "touchy prototype" for testing purposes. It costed some time, but now we know how it behaves.

Thanks again for your great work,

Many thanks to you too, for such a detailed answer that will also be useful to other potential users to make up their minds on which version to pick-up.

Ok, I'll try to update my last v17_2 with the latest 'color' + mouse-gestures (joking! ) and prepare a new version for testing.
Anyway, the v14/v20_2 (the /k3 variety) will always be handy to use when snappier cursor handling is required.

SpiroH

Ok, reporting about v20:

The different key colors are a nice gimmick, maybe you could change the color for 'key' a bit, because this orange(?) looks very similar to the red left-click (maybe using a light-blue or cyan?)

And now a few bugs:
1) left-click on the 'calculator' and on 'doc' show the 'ctrl'-indicator in the display (shouldn't do this!), but the executed function is correct
2) left-click on '=' doesn't give the = character but instead opens the same menu as if you right-click on this key
3) right-click on 'x' (the multiplication) gives the same menu as the key above, but should insert " "

But everything else is working fine - and I have my 'double-cursor-diagonal-movement' back again!

So, it seems you like the overall picture. Good!

A: About the colors, I'll do it for you. cyan is it?

B: Bugs:
1) I didn't notice that. Is that a serious problem? Maybe we can skip this for the moment. After all we are using different keypads!
2) I'll look into it. I'vr missed that one. I'll fix it.
3) I've noticed that but i couldn't find the corresponding ctrl sequence. Do you know it?

Ok, "Franz can have back the crazy speeding cursors" .

I'll be back later,