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Re: Re: zStart - an app that runs on ram clears
« Reply #945 on: June 24, 2013, 02:39:22 pm »
I assume that level8 is a tool to compile calc pics with 8 shades of gray?

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Re: zStart - an app that runs on ram clears
« Reply #946 on: June 24, 2013, 03:29:51 pm »
I made it because I had bad side-by-side assemblies
What are these ? I guess that's a Windoze related thing. I never went deep with this crappy OS. :P

Also thepenguin, just to make sure : did you see my post saying that now the patch installs fine but doesn't run anything on RAM clear ?
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Re: zStart - an app that runs on ram clears
« Reply #947 on: June 24, 2013, 04:28:43 pm »
SxS is a Windows feature that allows multiple versions of the same software to be installed without interfering with each other, thereby allowing applications that expect incompatible versions of a library to be installed to co-exist peacefully. It's largely automatically, and works quite well for most applications. Unfortunately, Windows doesn't really provide an end-user GUI for configuring SxS, instead relying on built-in logic and programmer thoughtfulness to make it function. Consequently, if it does make a mistake, cleaning up is not easy.
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Re: zStart - an app that runs on ram clears
« Reply #948 on: August 06, 2013, 12:39:48 pm »
Why didn't I installed this earlier? Oo" This is freaking genius!

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Re: zStart - an app that runs on ram clears
« Reply #949 on: August 11, 2013, 08:00:03 am »
Bump: I can't install it on Ram clear, because I kbow that next Ram Clear, the calc won't turn on...

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Re: zStart - an app that runs on ram clears
« Reply #950 on: August 16, 2013, 11:20:09 am »
Oops, I'll fix this soon. I should probably add this thread to my watched list.
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Re: zStart - an app that runs on ram clears
« Reply #951 on: August 16, 2013, 12:42:41 pm »
This, and zStart seems to make Axe crash more often. I think that's come from the RAM usage...

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Re: zStart - an app that runs on ram clears
« Reply #952 on: August 22, 2013, 12:17:50 pm »
Feature request: when editing archived programs, they don't get rewritten back to archive if nothing is changed.

Bug report: launching an application from the Omnicalc quick apps menu doesn't register the context switch, resulting any temporary edit copy of archived programs hanging around until the application exits. As the issue occurs under Omnicalc's control, I'll understand if this isn't really fixable, though. It's not a fatal flaw anyways.
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Re: zStart - an app that runs on ram clears
« Reply #953 on: August 22, 2013, 12:47:48 pm »
Feature request: when editing archived programs, they don't get rewritten back to archive if nothing is changed.

Bug report: launching an application from the Omnicalc quick apps menu doesn't register the context switch, resulting any temporary edit copy of archived programs hanging around until the application exits. As the issue occurs under Omnicalc's control, I'll understand if this isn't really fixable, though. It's not a fatal flaw anyways.

The first one seems really easy and obvious.

The second, will probably be a little tough, but I'll try to figure out how it works.
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Re: zStart - an app that runs on ram clears
« Reply #954 on: August 28, 2013, 06:44:36 pm »
Oh sorry I forgot to reply. :P It works perfectly now. :)

Edit : Nope, the patch doesn't do anything. It installs fine but nothing happens on RAM clears. D:

I have the same results. zStart 1.3.012's run on RAM clear functionality doesn't seem to work, at least on Wabbitemu (OS 2.55; older versions work fine).

I also come bearing other gifts:

Bug reports:
  • When MathPrint is enabled, any of the shortcut key actions used from a menu eject control back to the home screen.
  • When uninstalling the run on RAM clear functionality finishes, "No" is printed over "Yes". But no erasing is done, so you end up with "Nos". A simple fix for this would be to append a 3-wide space (character code $EE (could a small font hook with a wider "s" ruin this fix?)) to the end of the "No" string.
  • The "Select font" option sometimes says "No" when no font is selected, but other times is just blank. I suspect that one of these behaviors is a bug. If showing the string "No" was the intended behavior, may I suggest a slightly more fitting string, like "None"?

Bug report/feature request hybrids:
  • Shortcut key actions do not work in contexts other than the home screen. This includes menus launched from these contexts.
  • A common, minor oversight of many programs/apps: if you use plotSScreen, you should mark it as dirty with set graphDraw,(iy+graphFlags).

Feature requests:
  • A negative feature: remove the confirmation on setting shortcuts? I don't think I've ever accidentally hit any of those shortcuts, so the confirmation seems a bit unnecessary to me. If you do want to keep them in, though, it wouldn't bother me much. But if you do, can you display some text between "Confirm" and "Set" (perhaps "Working..." or "Setting...")? On my calculator, the option setting/saving process takes about 4 seconds. It may take a non-trivial amount of time on others' calculators as well, and during this time, the calculator appears frozen.
  • A shortcut to toggle MathPrint.
  • Here's a big (code size-wise) one that probably isn't super important, but would be neat if it existed: instead of having individual options to control a few defaults, include an option that saves basically all settings as defaults (everything currently available and everything in MODE). If you were crazy enough to add this, you might also be crazy enough to be interested in adding a second option that does the same for the WINDOW and FORMAT settings.
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Re: zStart - an app that runs on ram clears
« Reply #955 on: August 28, 2013, 08:06:05 pm »
Well, I guess now I have to update it.
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Re: zStart - an app that runs on ram clears
« Reply #956 on: September 03, 2013, 12:58:24 pm »
Bumpity-bump. I'd like to use it in my code workflow...

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Re: zStart - an app that runs on ram clears
« Reply #957 on: September 03, 2013, 01:08:06 pm »
  • A negative feature: remove the confirmation on setting shortcuts? I don't think I've ever accidentally hit any of those shortcuts, so the confirmation seems a bit unnecessary to me. If you do want to keep them in, though, it wouldn't bother me much. But if you do, can you display some text between "Confirm" and "Set" (perhaps "Working..." or "Setting...")? On my calculator, the option setting/saving process takes about 4 seconds. It may take a non-trivial amount of time on others' calculators as well, and during this time, the calculator appears frozen.
I think that this is more in case you opened the "prgm" menu to look for a program, then think "lulz me stupid, I have set a shortcut for that one" then you try and do the shortcut without quitting the "prgm" menu (That already happened to me, and I really thought "lulz me stupid, I have set a shortcut for that one" afterwards).
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Re: zStart - an app that runs on ram clears
« Reply #958 on: September 20, 2013, 06:53:18 am »
How far are you with the update? TI 84+ SE won't install the ram clear hoook, although it says success.

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Re: zStart - an app that runs on ram clears
« Reply #959 on: September 20, 2013, 06:55:21 am »
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