[A83] Re: libraries
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[A83] Re: libraries
No one wants libraries. Quite simply, libraries suck. Why is the 86 the
best calc? No libraries. Try suggesting on the assembly-86 list that you
want libraries...
> I am relatively new to TI assembly programming, and I wondered whether
> there is a good library system for the TI-83 calcs. The way I see it,
> the systems Ion and SOS use, are extremely limited because (1) they
> limit the total library size to 768, and (2) only up to 16 library calls
> can be used in one program.
>
> I have read a discussion in the archives of this mailing list of quite a
> while ago (October 1998) in which this issue is also raised, but I just
> wondered if the situation has much improved since then.
>
> My goal would be to create a toolkit library for the Ti-83, similar to
> for example the GTK+ toolkit (www.gtk.org) for unix, providing
> standardized behavior for for example buttons, list boxes, and so on. I
> think it will be quite much impossible to put this into 768 bytes of
> memory, using only 16 library calls (and even less if applications would
> also want to use other libraries).
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