Post your ideas for new miscellaneous programs here, or build on ideas posted by other visitors.

Could someone make a new program to create windows like dialog boxes with a mouse?
I made one in BASIC with an asm librairy, it was very slow but it worked well. You could:
-Add text
-Add popup
-Add request
-Add buttons
-Put a title or not
Could an asm or C programmer make a program like that for 68k calculators?

TRY DOING IT WITH THE MOKA object oriented language, IT ALREADY DOES THE WINDOWS THE WAY YOU WANT'EM, JUST HAVE TO PORT THE CODE FROM THE MOKA SOURCE TO YOUR C PROGRAM IN THE TIGCC COMPILER

MOKA ? What's that?

Moka is an object oriented language that permit to develop native applications for TI-89 and TI-92Plus. Moka is a language, a syntax and a converter, but isn't a really a compiler. In fact Moka translate a object oriented language syntax in a compiled language. Actually, the compiled code is in C. Precisely, the Moka code is converted in Enhenced COOL (Enhenced C Object Oriented Language) then compiled with TIGCC. The Moka syntax is realy near the Java. If fact, so near that one can generate the javadoc of a Moka program.

/*I took this from the moka docs*/

after reading all these postings of new ideas , i was kinda wondering why ti doesn't expand a little further by providing a new method of designing and building your own calc. kind of like designing and building your own computer. for example.. selling the screen you prefer either in plasma color, or the traditional. or even a touch screen in color like modern palm pilots. then providing the key pad you prefer and the memory and os that is required for all of this.. and then some add ons like infrared communications hardware between calc-computer, calc-calc, and calc-whatever else has infrared tech. like palm pilots.. it would be great to control the audio and visual technology in my university lecture halls, they have infrared receivers

well i guess i'm just dreaming, but isn't this how all of this is first brainstormed???

Interesting, but remember, they're just graphing calculators, meant for math.

THAT WOULD BE COOL, BUT IT WOULD COST TI A WHOLE NEW LINE OF PRODUCTION, THEY WOULD HAVE TO PRODUCE EACH PIECE SEPARATELY BUT WITH A RELATIVE EASY WAY TO CONNECT, WHICH MEANS NEW PLUGS, NEW SOFTWARE, AND MORE MONEY TO SPEND, SO IF YOU PLAN TO BUILD YOUR OWN CALC IT WOULD SURELY COST YOU MORE THAN IF YOU BUY IT COMPLETELY DONE

AND I ALSO FORGOT TO SAY THAT THE INFRARED LINK IS ALREADY AVAILIABLe( http:// sami.ticalc.org/irlink/e_intro.htm ), SO IF YOU WANNA PLAY WITH INFRARED STUFF JUST MAKE A PROGRAM WHICH GUESSES THE DEVICE FRECUENCY OR IF YOU CAN GET THE RIGHT FRECUENCY IT WOULD BE A LOT EASIER, I MUST ALSO SAY THAT TI SELLS A KEYBOARD LIKE FOR 30 DOLLARS NOT COUNTING THAT SOME PEOPLE ARE ALREADY DOING SOME CONTROLLERS FOR ANY KEYBOARD

I DIDN,T KNOW YOU COULD POST FROM A TI83...:-)

I ASSUME THAT,S WHY THOSE LAST TWO POSTS SOUNDED ANGRY

NOT BECAUSE OF "CAPS LOCK"

I DIDN,T KNOW 83 HAD CARRIAGE RETURN AND WORDWRAP

I'm sorry, it's just that I usually don't look if I have pressed caps lock or not, but I was kinda angry because all of this z80 calcs who thinks that their calcs are way better than 68k calcs

well I wouldn't disagree; I just got my ti89 and tried to program with it...

SLOW! SLOW! SLOW! SLOW! SLOW!

and it can't even do subroutines/functions that can do more than mess with numbers. I can hardly get my 3D wireframe program to work on it! but my ti83+ runs the 3D Wireframe editor/viewer nicely (though it takes a moment to redraw when you move/rotate stuff; it IS just a ti83+ BASIC program, but much better than what I can get my ti89 to do).

If you want to even attempt to program for a 68k calc, you need TIGCC, MOKA, or something else, or you need to learn asm.

Or if you want the best results, use TIGCC with portions in assembly. :)

<Vx>

I think this guy has some problems. All I've seen him write is either A) complaints about the TI-89 (SLOW! for example), B) advertising his HiLevelz80 compiler, or C) bragging about how he's the best TI-BASIC programmer and complaining about other sucky BASIC programmers.

Listen, shkaboinka: you need to read you TI-89's manual.

Most of the problems you're having with it are because you think it works the same way as the TI-83. It doesn't, because for one thing it has a CAS (Computer Algebra System), which can sometimes be confusing for a TI-83 user since the CAS lets variables hold symbolic (i.e., non-numeric) values, such as x^2+5.

The CAS also has Exact and Approximate modes, which can greatly affect the speeds of calculations (Exact is usually slower).

What they should make is a TI-89 on a PCI card, with the screen and link port going out to the motherboard. There would be all sorts of ways to control vars on the hard drive from the card, etc., and would make it essentially unlimited memory.

Additionally, if they sold the screen with a connector, you could take it out of the computer and use it (sliding it into a case, of course) outside of the computer. Thinking about it more, that sounds like it has PCMCIA written all over it...

I have a crazy idea, although it is not very usefull. Modify the TI-81 ROM so it will run on a TI-86 (without hardware modifications). I think this would involve editing all the code so it would run at a different address. It seems it would be really difficult. Actually, the TI-81's graphing code runs faster than the TI-86's with the same processor speed.

The reason is that the 86's graphing program has more options and abilities, and therefor more time is spent on graphing. If it really bugs you that there is some difference between graphing times, just write a new graphing software. It's really not that hard of a thing to make. Avoids copyright laws, too. ;)

<Vx>

Actually, what really bugs me is that I cannot find anything that will crash the TI-81. It seems that unlike all the other models, it is crash-proof.

Just try jumping to random addresses.

That appears to be impossible, since there is no known way to execute user machine language on the TI-81.

i would like a program for the ti89 or ti83 that calculates split times and lap times. the lap times would be usefull for track coaches and runners and i want to use the split times to calculate how far ahead/behind another person you are in a race. It would be really nice to incorporate a feature that allowed for multiple racers with different start times. you could brobably use the stopwatch code that already exists and then have a way to press a key every lap or when a racer goes by.

please let me know if such a program already exists..

thanks

Also-i would make it myself but have no idea what i'm doing.

There's a timer app for the 83+ that does lap times.

I'm on it!