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Re: Features Wishlist
« Reply #2460 on: July 20, 2011, 01:30:41 am »
Although it's easy enough to do manually, I (and probably others) would like to see randInt(). It would be especially cool if you could optimize it for constant arguments. :)

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Re: Features Wishlist
« Reply #2461 on: July 20, 2011, 02:26:11 am »
Yeah, I keep wanting to add it... but its so annoying because I need to special case it for 4 possibilities: (var,var) (const,var) (var,const) and (const,const).  In addition, I also have to incorporate the optimizations for modulus with powers of 2.  Without these optimizations, the command would be pointless because no one would use it knowing they could do the exact same thing faster and smaller with just as much code.
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Re: Features Wishlist
« Reply #2462 on: July 20, 2011, 08:23:05 am »
I think the new For(const) command could be nicely extended to For(expression). The expression would be evaluated exactly once, upon entry to the loop, and the HL before the For() would be preserved (just like in the constant version). Here's my suggested asm code generation:
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 push hl
  ;EVALUATE EXPRESSION HERE
  ex (sp),hl
  pop bc
loop:
  push bc
  ;LOOP BODY HERE
  pop bc
  dec bc
  ld a,b
  or c
  jr nz,loop

Or, if you wanted to employ the nested djnz optimization like in the constant version (which may not be worth it due to size):
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 push hl
  ;EVALUATE EXPRESSION HERE
  dec hl
  inc l
  inc h
  ld b,l
  ld c,h
  pop hl
loop:
  push bc
  ;LOOP BODY HERE
  pop bc
  djnz loop
  dec c
  jr nz,loop

Edit:
Hmm, this reminds me, what should happen when For() contains a 0? Should the loop be skipped?
« Last Edit: July 20, 2011, 08:29:11 am by calc84maniac »
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Re: Features Wishlist
« Reply #2463 on: July 20, 2011, 02:41:25 pm »
What's happened to me was when I do For(A,0,0) or two of the same number, it happens once.
When I do something like For(A,1,0) it doesn't happen (instead of an almost infinite loop like it used to...:) )

If you mean For(0) like in the newer ersions, idk b/c I'm still using 0.5.3 :P
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Re: Features Wishlist
« Reply #2464 on: July 20, 2011, 04:32:27 pm »
I know a maximum variable name length of 5 works out well for you because that makes each entry 8 bytes large, but in my experience so far 5 just isn't enough. I think 8 or 13 would be nice.


Also, bumping two old feature requests:

Can we have a feature like "Zeros()," but for any data.  For instance, something like this:
Command(1,12) would be the same as [010101010101010101010101]
Command([56],4) would be the same as [56565656]
Command(127,6) would be the same as Data(127,127,127,127,127,127)
Potentially, this command could even be used for repeating sets of data.  For instance:
Command([010203],12) would be the same as [010203010203010203010203]
Command("Text"[00],15) would be the same as "Text"[00]"Text"[00]"Text"[00]

So, what do you think?  Could this be a command?  I think it's a good idea, to avoid situations like this. :)

I really like that idea. What about changing Zeros( (det() to something more universal?

I would suggest changing the token replacement to Block(). Feeding 1 argument would create a block of the specified size filled with zeroes. Feeding 2 arguments would create a block of the specified size filled with a specified value. Maybe you could even add a Block()r command for creating a block filled with a specified word while you're at it, although this probably isn't as necessary as a normal byte-filling block command.

Quigibo, perhaps implement B_CALL(_DelRes) somehow? It would probably have to be manually called by the user at their discretion, but it would be useful for people who want to use L2. And for that matter, B_CALL(_DelRes) should probably be a part of the interrupt setup, which it currently is not.
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Re: Features Wishlist
« Reply #2465 on: July 20, 2011, 07:09:36 pm »
Maybe Data could be changed a bit so something like (Data([ABCD]),2)→GDB1 would store [ABCDABCD]?
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Re: Features Wishlist
« Reply #2466 on: July 20, 2011, 08:45:42 pm »
Wasn't Fill just changed to do exactly that?
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Re: Features Wishlist
« Reply #2467 on: July 20, 2011, 08:49:06 pm »
Wasn't Fill just changed to do exactly that?
It doesn't fill a repeating string of multiple bytes. You can accomplish this with Copy(), but either way he's suggesting a shortcut for the original definition of the data.
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Re: Features Wishlist
« Reply #2468 on: July 20, 2011, 11:00:19 pm »
I agree with all the features on this page. I was going to quote them, but that would be huge.

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Re: Features Wishlist
« Reply #2469 on: July 20, 2011, 11:02:09 pm »
Something that should probably be implemented is an optional, fourth argument to the For( command

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Re: Features Wishlist
« Reply #2470 on: August 02, 2011, 06:28:16 am »
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I'd like to have a debug macro (#Debug / #Release) and #Debug(code) would mean the code is only executed in debug mode, or something like this.
I'm am for the 4 args loops too.

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Re: Features Wishlist
« Reply #2471 on: August 02, 2011, 10:16:16 am »
In response to the poll, I'd rather have the smaller size for file reads. I don't know when anyone would be using time-critical file reads. In any case, it's always easier to copy a tilemap or level into RAM anyway since then it can be modified, etc.

Actually, just kidding. I can think of maybe a couple situations where a fast file read time could be nice. (Tiny Wings lol) Err, would it ever be possible to do both? I'm not very helpful, am I? lol :P


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Re: Features Wishlist
« Reply #2472 on: August 02, 2011, 01:06:31 pm »
decimals and negatie numbers should please be possible!!

But that isn't possable to make, or?
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Re: Features Wishlist
« Reply #2473 on: August 02, 2011, 01:48:31 pm »
Negative numbers are already there. Look at all the commands specifically for signed numbers, for instance.
If by "decimals" you mean "floating point," the answer to that is "no," mainly because floating point isn't normally necessary for games. Axe does have support for binary fixed-point numbers, though.
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Re: Features Wishlist
« Reply #2474 on: August 02, 2011, 01:51:26 pm »
maybe a built in picture to hex editor? with custom side lengths.