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- From: twh18@isuvax.iastate.edu (Phoenix)
- Subject: How do you insert between lines in program?
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 00:37:44 GMT
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- Hello everyone. I just got my Hp48SX last wednesday. It
- came with Tetris and Pacman. I skimed through the menu for the
- past week, and yesterday I tried to edit program.
- The Pacman game will say something like "Votre name...."
- (French, I believe) if you made a high score. I got tired of
- it and I was trying to change the string. Well, I found the
- file "HIGH" which contains the part of high scores. The
- Orginal string is separated (2 lines), so when it displays, it
- displasy in 2 lines too. I edited it, and the 2nd line of the
- string was longer than the orginal which it extended to the right
- side of the screen: "Please enter your name, hot shot..".
- Well, When I tried to rerun it, the Screen would display only
- 22 characters of the 2nd line of the string, and the rest
- of them is leaved out.
- Since I used to have a TI-85(which has the nice "Insert
- command" function which enables me to insert anything between
- 2 command liens), I tried to find a way to bring the extra
- long part of the string to the 3rd line. That way, everything
- is displayed. Well, guess what? I spend 3 hours, look through
- every single menu on the HP48, my 2 volume manual, and searched
- every possible word in the Edited Version of HP Manula Index.
- However, I can't find anyway to break a long command line into
- 2 separte lines, nor insert something between 2 command lines.
- I looked through the PRG OBJ in detail, since that's the
- menu which enables you to editing objects. However, I can't
- find anything in there. I even tried to convert the program
- part to a Matrix, and do some cut/replace, of course it didn't
- work.
- I know normally, when you have too long command lines,
- after you saved it back to the variable, HP48 will automatically
- edit it so you can see the whole thing on the screen instead
- scroll to the right. However, this doesn't work for the string
- inside a program. Besides, doesn't HP have a function which
- enables you to insert something between 2 command lines? Just
- incase you omit something.
- I haven't had time to look all the program samples and
- command yet, but I did read about the string in program part
- in my manual, it didn't answer my question. If anyone knows
- the answer, please help. Thanks in advance.
- Ming
-
- (Sorry to make this post too long, but I was just
- try to explain everything in detail, hope I didn't lost you:)
- BTW: HP doesn't have a TRACE function?! And not
- much ZOOM optinos too!:(
-