Re: Programming Question (85)

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Subject: Re: Programming Question (85)
From: "Williams, Matt" <Williams.Matt@CON-WAY.COM>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 09:34:29 -0700
Reply-To: "Williams, Matt" <Williams.Matt@CON-WAY.COM>

What it is doing is trying to recall a picture name PICT.  Since PICT is
a string variable rather than a picture variable, it gives you a bad
data type error.  I can't think of an obvious way, but I'm not going to
say it's impossible, because usually when I program, I can find another
method to do something.
        -iceboxman

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>From:  TheobaldJ[SMTP:theobaldj@AOL.COM]
>Sent:  Sunday, October 12, 1997 2:30 PM
>To:    CALC-TI@LISTS.PPP.TI.COM
>Subject:       Programming Question (85)
>
>Ok, this seems like a simple problem, but I can't figure out if it's possible
> to do this or maybe I'm just not thinking right. Here is a very slimmed-down
> part of a program I started to write:
>
>:InpSt PICT
>:RcPic PICT
>:DispG
>:Pause
>
>That's it. All I want this to do is ask the user for a name of a picture
> variable store the name in the string PICT, and have the calc recall this
>this
> picture to the graph screen and then pause. But once it hits :RcPic PICT ,
>it
> gives me a DATA TYPE error. I assume this is because I'm trying to tell the
> calc to recall a string to the graph as a picture, which it can't do. I
>can't
> think of any other way to have a user input a name of a currently existing
> picture and have it display. Am I overlooking something obvious, or is it
>not
> possible to do this on the 85 using TI-Basic?
>
>Thanks for any help,
>
>Jeff
>