Re: LZ: Startup and ZS4.5
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Tony Lieuallen wrote:
>
> On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, Peter Cordes wrote:
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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
> > > 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.
> > > 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
> > > 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????
> > if the first character of a VAT entry is changed for a zshell string the
> > program can still be run under zshell but will be invisible to the
> > calculators functions. i know this is true because i wrote bad code
> > before :( and it messed with the vat entries so that some of them had _
> > or other symbols that are not allowed in varible names and the files
> > were invisible to the MEM DELETE SRTING menu. after i get some time i
> > will work on a program to do this.
>
> This is great! I've heard that one of the teachers I have this year makes you
> reset your calc, and I'm not cheating, but I don't want to have to keep
> reloading ZShell... Anyway, you'll have to make a program to put it back,
> right?
>
> The nice thing about Windows is that it does
> Tony Lieuallen not just crash... It displays a dialog
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ya i will make it so you will have to enter a new character or make it
so that there is a jump table of some sort for easy changing(i.e. A='+'
B='(' and so on) and maybe i will put password protection on the
program.
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