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Calculator Community => Other Calc-Related Projects and Ideas => TI-Nspire => Topic started by: GB on March 12, 2011, 02:44:38 pm

Title: TI-Nspire Mouse Glitch
Post by: GB on March 12, 2011, 02:44:38 pm

A few years ago, I found out a funny little glitch on the TI-Nspire that lets you use the mouse cursor in My Documents. I forgot about it till recently. I've tested it on systems 1.2-2.1, and others have tested it to work in 3.0.
Here's how to do it.

Step 1: Make a new document (don't save it).
Step 2: Add just a Graphs & Geometry.
Step 3: Switch over to Plane Geometry View.
Step 4: Open "My Documents" while the unsaved document is still open.
Step 5: Delete "Unsaved Document".
Step 6: Press [Ctrl] and [Z] to undo the deletion.

You should now see the little mouse cursor on the Documents screen. You can move it around and click on things.

Title: Re: TI-Nspire Mouse Glitch and Hidden Characters
Post by: fb39ca4 on March 12, 2011, 03:05:26 pm

Cool! Are these character numbers in Unicode?

Title: Re: TI-Nspire Mouse Glitch and Hidden Characters
Post by: Deep Toaster on March 12, 2011, 03:13:35 pm

Nice, how'd you figure out the special chars?

Title: Re: TI-Nspire Mouse Glitch and Hidden Characters
Post by: GB on March 12, 2011, 03:16:23 pm

In the Hints section which I got to from the Home window, I found some weird symbols. So I copied them and pasted them in a Calculator window and used the "Ord(" command to find the numbers they corresponded with.

Title: Re: TI-Nspire Mouse Glitch and Hidden Characters
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on March 14, 2011, 03:46:41 am

Interesting, I should give this a try when I have a minute. I got OS 2.0 though so Idk if this will work.

Title: Re: TI-Nspire Mouse Glitch
Post by: Adriweb on April 18, 2011, 03:35:54 am

sorry for that bump, but I just tested it and it still works on OS 3.0 :)

Title: Re: TI-Nspire Mouse Glitch
Post by: GB on April 18, 2011, 06:18:44 pm

I just found that it works in 2.0 and 2.1 as well.