I wanted to use keep using the 'drawSprite' routine, and call it 20 times. I am sure i can learn something from yoir code though

Oh Sorry, I thought you were looking for a faster way

In your version , you can replace "ld d,h / ld e,l" with ex de,hl


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How can i read (but not write) the data located in an archive program, without copying it to ram? I know i can do this in axe on the Ti84+.
I only know the program's name.

Archived things store the VAT entry at the start of the archived data. It's a simple matter to get around it though with a small bit of code. If HL points to the name of your program (including the object type at the start of the name, ie, 'db progobj,"TEST",0', then you can use the following code to ensure that 1) The variable is placed in the archive, and 2) that it exists, otherwise it returns the data pointer as 0. This routine will make hl->start of program data. Hope this helps!


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So, to make sure, after this code is ran hl will point to data that is the same as in prgm test, regardless if prgm test is in ram or archive?

Yeah, it will archive program test to just make sures

EDIT: Changed the above code so that HL points to either the data in ram or the data in the archive.

I have this piece of code:

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If i *dont* comment out "call _CreateProtProg", the Y= vars will be corrupted.
I have confirmed that (inputLength) is a normal value and is not at fault. Even if i do 'ld hl,5' right before the call, the Y= vars still get corrupted.

Are you in an edit buffer context? If so, you need to switch out of it.

Yes i am. I am trying to switch contexts with:

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However it gives me "ERROR: VALIDATION".
Geekboy said to use some other context, but as i said it wasn't in the include file. A very similar named context *was* in the include file, but it was set EQU to kExtApps

I am trying to set up a parser hook.
This is my basic test program:

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This is prgmINSTLAPI, which sets up the hook.

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And lastly this is the hook itself:

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@mateo: The reason i replaced 0C2C2h with $00BBC2 is becouse the include file lists t2ByteTok as $BB and tSin as C2.

So since this will mainly be for testing, it is generally easier to just use pixelshadow2 for this. There's no real point in trying to make it into an appvar unless that appvar is in ROM, where it can't be moved around as easily. Anywho, I don't see any reference to the hook appvar itself, so I have no way to use that code. But based on WikiTI, you are running a class 1 token. Here's some working example code that may be of some use to you, just to get an idea


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I have trouble getting the amount of arguments passed to the parser hook. For a function like "Sin()", the amount of arguments i give it is correctly expressed by HL. However for a function like "Line()" (And [some(?)/all(?)] other drawing) commands, HL holds the value 032DBC and (numArguments)=1.
(This seems to be true for all drawing commands)
My hook code:
http://pastebin.com/4zdM5jTf

Did you read about the different classes of functions? http://wikiti.brandonw.net/index.php?title=83Plus:Hooks:9BAC

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"Line()" isnt class 2 becouse arguments *are* passed. It can't be class one because HL does not contain the # of args. According to wikiti, for class 3 functions, " the number of arguments is stored at 9661[numArguments]". However, the address $0D02320 (numArguments as defined in the latest CE include file) always holds the number one, instead of the correct amount of args.