BasicNote: An Advanced Note-Taking Program, in pure BASIC.

Michael2_3B · Official Cemetech Fruit Manager (Posts: 1363)

var I is in the code earlier. it is the same as 6C+A/4-F, but already simplified to a note number between 1 and ~infinity (technically, 594, since 6 notes can be displayed on the home screen at once, and I'm limiting the pages of notes to 99, so 6*99=594. I doubt anyone would ever create that many notes on this program though).

there are more bugs to be fixed that i need to discover or re-discover still, you can see them in the Bug Fixes Post (also in my signature, btw)

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Screenshot 7/26/15. progress!

as you can see there is a bug with scrolling up through the pages. I'll fix that. str9 is now perfect, however I believe the clipboard and copying/pasting is a bit funky though, I need to look into it. it may have been fixed because i fixed var D but i'm not sure. Also, when you go to edit a note, the note is stored back into str7 by itself, but I don't have it so that it displays it yet.

And as you can see, there is a SEARCH option, but you can't move your cursor to it yet. I haven't begun to work on it yet, but I will soon. I may or may not leave it out for the first release though.

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fixed the scrolling through notes on menu. now it (should be) perfect with no bugs. (edit: errored out on note fourteen when clicking to edit it because xE was not at the end of the note. idk why, but sounds like an easy fix. maybe. or it could be another annoying stupid bug that will take a while to track down like var D Razz

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oh, and just a small mention - the higher the note number is, the longer it takes to initialize creating a new note, because the upper bound of one of the For( loops is larger, thus extending the time. not sure if there is a way to make it faster...

PT_ · Site Admin (Posts: 2088)

can be

PT_ · Site Admin (Posts: 2088)

Nik · Power User (Posts: 483)

Unfortunately it doesn't store X into the first list element... Well if anyone sees the problem please help. I could fix it by simply adding an if statement but im sure it can be fixed better!

EDIT: Thank you, mr womp womp Smile

mr womp womp · Official Cemetech Cat Manager (Posts: 1794)

This has nothing to do with the topic but you can use the little "Code" button when posting something, like this:
[code ]"put your code here..."[ /code]
But remove the spaces in the tags to make your code show up in a nice little color-coded form in an orderly box Razz

mr womp womp · Official Cemetech Cat Manager (Posts: 1794)

Writing simple readmes is an art Razz

As you can see from the ones I've made, I'm no pro, but I try to keep it as simple and direct as possible, only giving the most useful information and the stuff that might not be obvious, for example, in my simple refraction program, you must use the F1-F5 keys to get around, but I didn't include that in the readme because I feel like it is fairly obvious since the options are layed out at the bottom of the screen over their respective keys. Personally I like adding in some ascii art just cause why not Razz

I don't know if this is your fault or not, but it seems like the enters didn't show up in your readme, so the ascii art is actually all on one line as well as all of the text, but I took the time to add in all the enters to be able to read it correctly and read through the whole thing and I'll admit you did ramble on a little... Kinda like I'm doing right now Razz

anyway, I think if you wanted to remove a little stuff to make it more uhm friendly, you could really remove the whole things about the note's title and maybe even the options (By the way, I love the little check boxes you made, very classy :3), since they are pretty straightforward, maybe also remove the Changelog part since well there's nothing in it xD you also don't really need to specify that the user needs to press alpha and 2nd to change modes, and that going to delete will delete the notes haha. however, whatever you remove, you should really keep the part about copy-pasting since that part is the really odd and different part that people won't know how to deal with. Completely unrelated to the readme but one thing I'd like to suggest, maybe this isn't feasible I don't know but for the main menu, you could have a cursor like in DoorsCS, I know there are some routines out there, although this would require some considerable modifications to the whole program, would definitely look spiffy Razz

Michael2_3B · Official Cemetech Fruit Manager (Posts: 1363)

Yep, that's how I open it. It looks perfectly fine in Chrome.

Edit: should I put a small note in the beginning about this?

Nik · Power User (Posts: 483)