Pig latin translator by Keith Raney
kthraney@clearsail.net

This program will translate any word you type in to Pig latin.  The way to use it is to send Piglatin.82p to your TI-82 (or TI-83 and TI-83 Plus (Keep in mind that I am currently working on debugging the 83 Plus version enough for public release.  It is much smaller and faster, since the TI-83 Plus has the cabability of strings and string manipulation)).  Start the program.  The title screen will come up, press enter.  It will ask for the word to translate, so type it in (You don't have to press 2nd Alpha, and type slowly, the program is slow when receiving strings and translating them.  If you type too fast, it may miss a letter.)  After you are done typing it in, press enter, and it will say "TRANSLATING..." at the top, and will translate at the bottom.  When it is finished, you will know it because it will say "DONE" at the top.

You may freely distribute this, and if you want to use a portion of the code, or even the whole thing in your own program, I don't mind, so long as you give me credit. This also goes for re-programming the program. Thanks!


Note to programmers:

If you really want to know how this program receives strings in Basic on a TI-82 calculator, what it does is displays to enter the word, and uses a loop coupled up with getKey to receive a key, and only the ones corresponding to a letter.  After this, it stores it into a list, and whenever you press enter, it starts on the second entry on the list and uses the Output( command to display the corresponding letters.  The reason that the program is so slow is because you have to go through a long section of code to display to the user what they are typing!  If you were to delete that section of code to where the user couldn't see what they were typing, it would receive strings MUCH MUCH faster.  I don't mind at all if you use this idea in your own program, in fact, you don't even have to give me credit for using the IDEA.  However, if you use any of my code, or all of it, PLEASE give me some credit.  I don't even care if it is at the bottom of your Readme (2) file.  Just give me credit somewhere. 

Future releases:

This program will be released in a Ti-83 Plus format, and possibly a TI-83 format, and these will be much, much faster, because they have string routines built in to the OS's of those calcs.  I don't know about the TI-83 version, because I don't have a TI-83.  However, I might be able to program it in TI-Graphlink software, and be very confident that it dosen't have bugs because it hasen't been tested, and I may do that.  But, expect to see the TI-83 Plus version soon.