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Calculator Community => Other Calc-Related Projects and Ideas => TI-Nspire => Topic started by: Rhombicuboctahedron on November 10, 2012, 09:44:42 am
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Did you know that you can grab and move the dialog boxes on the nspire?
I was randomly found this out today, and it just blew my mind.
Also, are there any other mindblowing simple things i don't know about?
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I did not know. I don't really care either since I never see them XD
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I did know, but it's .... useless :P
Also, yeah, there are a bunch of little things like that (and some are way more "twisted" than that) :P
I'l lsee if I can think of some :D
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I never knew that because I always just press enter. It takes longer to move the mouse than to just press enter.
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^Eheh. Indeed.
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Well on TINCS it's easy. But then, you can use the computer view mode :P
* A hidden(?) shortcut ? Scratchpad is also Ctrl-0
* A Very Quick way to have the nth anti-derivative of an expression ? Enter dn/dx (expr) with n being a negative number ;)
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Are there hidden tricks to allow the use of Getkey/Output in BASIC programs or even tricks to increase Lua speed by 1000%? *runs*
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/me smacks DJ
Silly DJ, TI would never be that nice
EDIT WOW I actually found a way, heres the tutorial
If that doesnt work try http://goo.gl/QMET
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Are there hidden tricks to allow the use of Getkey/Output in BASIC programs or even tricks to increase Lua speed by 1000%? *runs*
Ahem.
But actually, YES !
(on the lua part)
It's a bit far stretched, but it's about 1144% on benchmarks :
http://trac.caspring.org/wiki/LuaPerformance#TEST8:functionsasparamforotherfunctions
(so to gain 1000%, do the bad thing first, then optimize :D)
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Are there hidden tricks to allow the use of Getkey/Output in BASIC programs or even tricks to increase Lua speed by 1000%? *runs*
nspire doesnt allow the use of getkey in BASIC progs? o.o
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Are there hidden tricks to allow the use of Getkey/Output in BASIC programs or even tricks to increase Lua speed by 1000%? *runs*
nspire doesnt allow the use of getkey in BASIC progs? o.o
Nope as they "restricted" it to Math only.
For example, you neither can't plto a point on the screen directly, for example (you have to use lists and such, which have to be pre-plotted etc.)
That's why Lua's nice:P
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The worst part is that the Nspire BASIC language lacks some functions that TI-80 and 81 BASIC has. At least I'm glad TI didn't try to push a paid Lua SDK on us like they did with the 83+ (Flash APP development) in 1999-2003 or so (the reason why almost every ASM game made before 2004 are 8xp files).
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On the Nspire, BASIC is meant for math functions and math functions only. For interactive stuff TI provides (and even recommends) Lua.
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Yeah but it took them 4 years before finally giving us Lua <_<. Beforehand, all we had was TI-BASIC. It sucked even for maths, because there are people who got troubles making BASIC math/science programs that were once easy to create on a TI-89. I wonder why they even removed the functions in the first place when the language is almost the same as on 68K calcs. It really looked like back in 2007-09, they were trying to eliminate calculator gaming entirely.
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That's pretty cool, but yeah not much of a point since they're such a large part of the screen anyways :/
(also I'm guessing it doesn't let focus move away?)
Here's another thing: ctrl+9/3 and ctrl+7/1 are like pgup/pgdn and home/end on a computer. Useful for that long documents list :P
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It sucked even for maths
I would have to some what agree and some what disagree with you.
Some of my programs are pretty nice. My sumdivisors function helps me out every now and then.
However, it doesn’t let you use the full capacity of calculating.
My sumdivisors function is based off of the factorsmatrix function in the numbertheory library, which turns the factor function into a string and then divides that at the “*” and “^” areas to make a matrix.
While it is much worse than it could be, I still find uses for it.
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Well one thing that many people seemed to find particularly annoying was how the calc had no Input function like the 84+ had. It was eventually added, but under a different name.
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what was the name of the command?
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on z80 it's Input, on Nspire, it's Request (and RequestStr)
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ok :D also is there input on the ti-80 (I plan to make games on the schools collection, I already have programs running that throw math answers off
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You are gonna copy games by hand on every school TI-80 calc??? O.O That might be a bit of a waste of time IMHO since many troublemakers might just do RAM clears or accidentally trigger one due to dead batteries.
If I was you, I would make the game on one, but copy the code on paper and give copies of it to people.
And yes there is Input on the TI-80, but I don't remember if you can change the text at the start. I think you have to use Prompt.