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Sorry I haven't posted in a bit... I haven't really been motivated that much to work on BasicNote right now. Also this past week I was volunteering at a STEM camp as a counselor so I wasn't able to work on it much then.

Currently the things I have been working on are the clipboard(copying and pasting), as you may know. Doing that is very easy internally (using some sub() commands), but graphically updating the screen to display the new text is a bit harder. My solution is pretty slow - since I have to display special text for w,m,[space], z, f, i, etc (all the chars that aren't 3 pixels in width), I have to re-display everything char-by-char, instead of line-by-line which would be way faster. obviously i can't display line by line because of how the OS does perfect kerning, and my program assumes that all chars are 3 pixels in width (which is way easier to work with). Oh, and obviously I don't update the entire page, just everything from the y value of the cursor down.

Anyways, hopefully I can get back to some more interesting stuff soon so I have cooler stuff to show you guys. Here's an update post, even though it's in my signature...

oh, and uh.. here's the current code for the entire text editor so far, if anyone is interested for whatever reason. there are some unfinished code lines btw
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(sorry for double post)

hurray, just finished pasting code (not completely sure it's bug free yet though). graphical updating is finished, but it is very slow, so I will wait a little bit before putting that into the pasting code so that maybe you guys can give me some input on making it faster? anyways, here's for the actual pasting (no graphical updates)
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Well, I made my own version for the CSE (not for the CE, since it uses DCS libs). Here's what I come up with:

The GIF is not very well, the "+" at the beginning is pure orange, and the cursor is red. I'm trying to fix some bugs. Take a look:

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And I've no idea about the title, something like ColorPad, CSENote or who knows a good one?

Very nice PT_, it's looking great so far

I got everything for the graphical updates done. Since the graphical update code would be pretty much exactly the same for both pasting and deleting, I combined the two. However, it errors out (invalid dim) sometimes at the edge of the screen, for whatever reason i don't know... on further inspection, 23G-20-2(F>5) is always 1 greater than the length(Str7) if it errors out.
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oh, and uh.. interesting story, i had to write this code twice, because i lost it the first time when i tried to copy it... but luckily I was able to remember most of it.
I'm definitely glad I pasted my entire code a few posts ago...
I'll be keeping offline backups from now on

Wow, PT_, that looks amazing! I was planning to fix up my version under the name ColorNote, but it's never going to be able to compete with yours (and it's going to take too much effort to fix it) so feel free to use the name.

Thanks Wright! I fixed a bug, with copying, it copies only text from the first line, now at the line you have selected.

Things to fix:
- (Done) Copy text from the highlighted line
- (Unneccesary) Leaving black pixels if dehighlight to left.
- (Done) Probably, instead of highlighting, only another textcolor.
- (Done) Change title of my program, now definitely ColorNote, since Wright give me permission to use that.
- (Done) Make a nice icon.
- (Done) The possibility to highlight more lines

Things to add:
- (Done) If you have more then 10 notes, add multiple pages.
- (Done) If the note is longer then uhm 10*29=290 characters, also add multiple pages.
- (Done) If press enter, go to the next line, so that you don't need to fill the whole line.
- (Done) Optimization
- (Done) Show a text, when copying the highlighted stuff.

How are you creating an ENTER function? I'm wanting to add one to mine, but it will seriously screw up A LOT of stuff I have already. I mean, I was thinking about a delimiter, but the problem with that is now the note is shorter than it actually is (the ability to move the text cursor in my prog is based off the length of the note).

I was also thinking that you could just add a bunch of spaces, but I'm not sure... Is that a bad idea, or would that actually be fine?

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oh, and any input on this?

I think the spaces would be fine, it's only 23 bytes per line. It would keep your code simple, and it would work well.

The disadvantages of spaces is, that they are existing. If you would remove the Enter, you must also remove all the spaces. I've yet no idea how to make it, I would think about it.

EDIT: you said 23G-20-2(F>5) > length(Str7)
23G-2(F>5) > 20+length(Str7)
Lets assume F=1, so

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If G=3 and F=1 and length(Str7)=47, then the sub( command would become:

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which will result in an error.

Yes I believe you are right, but now how to fix it?

I errored out (invalid dim) on the 3rd line when testing, and like you said on sax, it would happen if "23n+1=length(Str7)" (n being any number). In this case, 23(3)+1=70=length(Str7) is when i errored out.

Also, I discovered a graphical bug where 2 extra characters got displayed on the right edge of the screen (when my paste got over to that side), even though they are non-existent. They are characters that come from my paste, but they are not actually part of the end of the note...

Okay, here's another thing I've been working on. If you press the down arrow to move your cursor, but the length(Str7) does not reach to where your cursor is, then the cursor value get's updated to wherever the last character is... currently, if you press down and on the next line you are past the length(str7), it gets updated properly. however, if you press down and there is text below you, the cursor should just move straight down, but for some reason it gets updated and moves to the last character of str7... here's my code:
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for some reason, the 'k=34 and 23int.....' part get's activated when it shouldn't, like i said above.

I did some further inspection afterwards. say a=8, b=40, and length(str7)=37. then, the statement would be
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so, 35 is not greater than 37, right? then why does it get activated??? I'm probably just making a stupid mistake but I seriously can't find the problem here.

If A=8, B=40 and length(Str7)=37, then you get from this code:

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Then A is 14.

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What happens if you try

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???

PT++, thanks. I can't believe I didn't notice how I was accidentally updating A before hand as well... your solution did not work, but it was very close. instead, it would be
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that way, you offset for the previous update. but maybe I could just prevent the previous update as well?

EDIT: actually, that wouldn't work... though it does solve my previous problem, that now disables the ability to actually do anything I originally intended the function to do (if user presses down, and text is not below them, cursor gets updated to the placement of the end of str7).

Hmm, what if you do:

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Then you can only press down when your cursor is NOT at the same line as the end of the string. If A=8 and length(Str7)=23, then you get
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which results, that A = 8. However, if length(Str7)=24, then you get
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so A=14, which is true.

You can remove the whole second if-statement, by using this code instead:
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(You don't have to update A again, since we already did that). Another possibility is
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If length(Str7)=35 and A=14, then B would being updated if B>48

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So that is correct. If B>48, then min(B,48\) returns 48, which is correct.
Lol, can't use 8\)

EDIT: here's the full code:

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I really appreciate all your effort PT_, but that didn't solve anything. Normal cursor movement works, but when you press down and the area below you is greater than the length(str7), the cursor moves down anyways, but obviously can't move farther (and, logically, each time you go backwards until you hit where the length(str7) is, you can't move forward again).

I think I'll have to look at this another time and see if I can adjust it. I'm currently preparing for my sisters wedding shower (she's leaving me! ). I should be able to figure it out when I take a closer look at the code.

Now that I had some more time to sit down and look at it, I fixed it. Now it moves backwards if the cursors placement is greater than length(str7) when you press down, and moves straight down if there is text below it or is at the end of the string. and obviously, it doesn't move down if there no text on the next line
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Like always, optimizations appreciated

I believe I am going to change title input again btw. And/or start on multiple page support in notes. Also, I think I might save the undo/redo function (if i do it at all) for another version, after I release the first version of BasicNote.

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Why are you checking if A<54, since you can't update A if A>=54?
You can get rid of the A<54, and probably use the Ans:

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Instead of trying to fix every problem along the way, I'm just going to move along and fix them later. Currently the problem is straight up and down highlighting, but I think I'm going to move on for now. I'll make a Fix List and an updated To Do List in a bit.

Next up: multi-page note support. I think the easiest way to keep track of how many pages there are in a note is not actually keeping track at all, but just using the length of the note and converting it to a page count. also it has to be able to add a page and remove a page.

The main thing that has been irking me for a while now though is the text display. Since not every char is 3 pixels wide, I have to display text char by char. Which means that when you load up a note, or go to the next/previous page, it will take much longer than you would want before you could actually edit it. I can't rely on the ti-os, since it has perfect kerning, and my prog does not. So... yeah.

Adding multi-page notes list on the menu doesn't seem like it should be too hard, so I may get that done in just a little bit.

[UPDATE]
trying to get a lot done lately. going to camp this week, so won't be able to work on it for a bit.

first release should be within the month, but it definitely won't be bug free. i'll try to fix that later.

all of the important features are done, but there are still way more that I could add. text editor is basically done, but still got a bunch of misc bugs I need to fix. the only main feature I'm missing from it as of now is multi-page notes. However, I did get the multi-page notes list kind of working, though it doesn't quite work correctly (was in a bit of a rush trying to do this before camp). here's the attempt:


hope you guys like it so far. I'll be back in a few days as I said, I should have 1 or more releases this month