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[karlitos]

hey there... its my first time here...

i could really use some help...

i will have an exam tomorrow and i need to know if it is possible to do 1 thing...

i have been writing text to programs just like we do on word... bue when i try to see them on the calculator (casio CFX 9850GB+) e always have to choose edit to read the text, and scrool down line by line wich is really boring...

what i wanted to know is if there is some way i could write te text so that instead of editing the program i could just run it, and it would show the text like page by page (sort like, pressing some button so that it would scroll down to another page)...

is it possible? i would apreciate a quick answer since my exam is tomorrow... and if so please tell me how...

best regards.

[karlitos]

no one to help me?!! pleaseeeeee!!!

[Scratty]

I think you don't have much choice here. There's no page down/page up functionality in any of the CFX 9x50 series as I can think of. However, the search function and the top/bottom functions are things that might make your life easier (there might be some additional functionality in GB+ compared to G that I'm not aware of).

You can indeed do amazing things with graphing calculators, but remember that it still is just a calculator and as such has its limitations.

[karlitos]

thanks a lot for the reply...


what i wanted to see is what i have seen on some games and programs here...

the text gets printed on the scrren by running the program, and not by editing it... but anyway... gess i would have to pass line by line...

[Scratty]

Hmm... I think I understand what you mean. However, AFAIK there is no way of parsing the contents of a program file in the calculator via another program. Thus making it impossible to make a program that takes the contents of a file and displays it on the screen using the Text command or whatever.

[alias4399]

Sorry if this reply is too late ...

There are a couple of ways to display text to the screen.
=) Text Window:
- " " Commands
- Locate Command

Typing this: "HELLO" Would print HELLO on the screen (it scrolls slowly)
Typing this: Locate 5,5,"HELLO" would print HELLO on the screen at 5,5 coordinates (much faster, note values possible are Locate (1-21),(1-7),"(Text)"

Locate is much faster, but longer to code. For your case, you could use " " but it is quite slow. I would recommend edit-searching (fastest method)

Other techniques of displaying text to screen:

=) Graph Screen
-Text Command, eg. Text 50,50,"HELLO" (long to code also)

Hope that helps! Please ask if anything isnt clear.

[karlitos]

thanks a lot...

i still have a problem...

i write like this:
" my text gose here... bla bla bla" but it gets to a point i cant write any longer (im writing it on casio FA-123)
and so i hit return... and start again like this
"my text continues... bla bla".

iafter i transfer it to the calculator it runs well until the first closure of " after that it gives me and error and stopes showing the rest... what can i do?

[Andy.Davies]

Shift' /> then ▲ or ▼ work as a page up / page down i believe

[Scratty]

Aha! That seems to be a GB+ feature then.

[karlitos]

thanks a lot all of you...

17 out of 20 on the exam... ehhe... nice grade...

thank you once again.