Re: TIB: Re: 82 Programming Secret...
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Re: TIB: Re: 82 Programming Secret...
It is good to share this information with everyone and I congratulate you
on your finding. But I am sorry to say it but that has been known
throughout the programming community. Or at least me and a few others that
I know. For the last 2 years. But I am sure that those who don't know
benifited from your report.
>TI doesn't tell you where their flaws are in the calculator. Things such
>as detecting the ROM version wasn't discovered until recently in the 82
>world (I'm talking about 1 1/2 years).
>>Well, I'm not going to talk about how to detect your ROM version since
>everyone already knows how to do that. I'm going to tell you how to get
>rid of that annoying "Done" message when a program ends.
>
>I was fooling around with a "dumb" game (I am making a library of dumb
>TI-Basic games created in 2 hours or less) when all of a sudden I realized
>that the "Done" hadn't appeared on the screen and yet the program had
>exited. I kept fooling around (the next day) with another program to get
>the same result to occur. It took a while, but I came up with the answer.
>Put the following line of code at the end of any program and "Done" will
>not appear:
>
>Output(1,1,""
>
>WOW! A simple (and quite common) command stopped that annoying "Done" from
>appearing. You probably can come up with several uses for this. I have
>used it extensively in my latest programs because I hate it when it says:
>
>Thank you for
>playing the
>game.
> Done
>#
>
>The # is the cursor. It looks ugly with the Done even to be on the screen.
> ith my method of removing it, I make it look a whole lot cleaner and more
>professional. It makes for a nice exit to a program, than a harsh ugly one.
>
>Tell me what you think about this new finding,
>
> Thomas J. Hruska -- thruska@tir.com
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