Re: LZ: Startup and ZS4.5
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> 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
This might be an option. It's a little silly, though.
> 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.
No. This is too much and would be too complex.
> 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
This would be great if it could happen, but I don't think keypresses can be
passed on to ZShell this way. At the very least programs would have to be
made compatible. Comments from programmers and Magnus?
> 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)
Hmmm...a small preferences screen might be fine as long as it doesn't take
too much memory.
> 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????
Heh. I don't think so. You know, I'm really glad that the people in
ultimate charge of what goes into ZShell are able to exercise a little
restraint. I commend Magnus for keeping ZShell small (1,206 bytes) and
efficient. As far as I'm concerned, once he adds auto power off, contrast
changing, and a few other things (library support and so on) ZShell really
can't get much more practical and useful.
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