Re: LZ: Startup and ZS4.5


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Re: LZ: Startup and ZS4.5



list-zshell@lists.ticalc.org wrote:
> 
> Can i recommend something to the Zshell 4.5 authors... this stuff may
> be unnessessary, but it would be useful...
> 
> on [CUSTOM] [F1] a password prompt would appear. This way, a teacher
> couldn't see what is in Zshell if s/he found out how to access it
Change the position of ZShell to another spot on the menu, and change
the ZShell menu text to all spaces. Voila. Most teachers arent that
smart. :)


> 
> each program could have a password. I don't know if this would be
> useful, but sometimes you only want certain things to be private.
Just make an encryption program with a password. If the program was
encrypted, it would get rid of it
 
> auto-power off in Zshell, and in programs... if auto-off occurs in
> while running a program, on [ON] it would automatically resume... I
> have a fairly vague idea on how to impliment this. Make Zshell aware
> of every time a key is pressed during a program (i don't know how to
> do this, maybe a rom call????) If Zshell detects that more than 5 min
> passed w/o pressing a key, it would turn off
Kinda Useless, since it would require the interrupt from a lot of other
programs
 
> All of this could have toggles... like, sometimes, auto-resume might
> not be a good idea (teacher takes calc... calc turns off... teacher
> turns on, and still has evidence)
> 
> Can you hide strings from the [MEM] command??? So it's still in the
> calc, but not visible??? Maybe store all the program strings inside a
> big ZSHELL variable????
Um, what good would this do?
 
> All this in addition to the rumors i've been hearing.... library
> files... etc


> Min Idzelis


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