Re: A89: PLEASE ANSWER MY QUESTIONS!

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Subject: Re: A89: PLEASE ANSWER MY QUESTIONS!
From: "Dux Gregis" <assets@eden.rutgers.edu>
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 16:36:26 -0700
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-----Original Message-----
From: Xavier VASSOR <xvassor@mail.dotcom.fr>
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Date: Thursday, December 24, 1998 4:47 AM
Subject: Re: A89: PLEASE ANSWER MY QUESTIONS!


>
>Jeremy Moore wrote:
>>
>> C'mon people.  I thought we were supposed to help people with questions.
>
>OK here is it:
>
>> > > I also have some questions.  I'm sure they're easy for most of you,
>> > > but I am a beginner, so please have patience.
>> > >
>> > > 1.)  When you wait for a key press (like when using idle_loop, I
>> > > believe), how does that work?  Does it transmit the basic getkey
>> > > number equivalent into d0?
>
>  idle_loop waits for the keyboard flag (kb_vars+$1C) to be set, and
>then puts the keycode (MaxHandles+$1E) into d0.
>
>> > > 2.) How do you turn off the BUSY indicators as well as the whole
>> > > status line.  I mean like if I push 2nd, I don't want it to display
>> > 2nd.
>
>You have to disable autoInt 5.


I've tried that and it doesn't.  It's not in auto int 1 or 5.  What I ended
up doing was moving the screen position over 8 bytes so that every time 2nd
/ whatever is pressed the 2nd is displayed on offscreen video memory.

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Re: A89: PLEASE ANSWER MY QUESTIONS!

From: Xavier VASSOR <xvassor@mail.dotcom.fr>