Re: LZ: Startup and ZS4.5

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Re: LZ: Startup and ZS4.5

The problem with asking for everything under the sun for zshell is
that they might actually do some of it each time they upgrade.
That means it gets bigger and bigger and your calc gets fancier
and a lot less useful.


I think they've got all the features they need and I hope a few
others who think like I do will speak up so they'll know that
we think small is important.


Don't ask for everything you want in zshell.  It's not like your
pocket where you can carry what you choose and leave the rest home.
You have to carry what everyone else wants too.


I hope the people doing 4.5 will not let it get any larger.  Ever.
even in 5.0 or 15.0.  Not until the 85 memory increases.


It takes a lot of discipline to resist the temptation to add features
that you guys are asking for.  If they do add them all you'll quit
using zshell cause you wont have room for anything else.  Think
about it.


Barry


On Fri, 30 Aug 1996,  greg wrote:


> Well hey, Zshell 4.5 could just include a whole little control panel. Could
> have auto shut off options, startup options, font, turbo or unturbo calc
> option, all sorts of stuff... -greg
> 
> ----------
> > From: Peter Cordes <pcomp@ntsource.com>
> > To: list-zshell@lists.ticalc.org
> > Subject: Re: LZ: Startup and ZS4.5
> > Date: Thursday, August 29, 1996 10:06 PM
> > 
> > Min Idzelis 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
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > PCoMP
> > Visit Maximus Productions home page at: http://www.ntsource.com/~pcomp
>
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