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[Bob Vila]

i saw a program for the ti-83 (asm) which could make it so the calc to display lower case letters, and i was wondering if there was a basic program for the cfx so that i can do this.

[XYZ]

You can do it but you need to write the program on your PC. Casios do support ascii text (notice the lower-case letters in tokens like sin, And etc) but you can't type them from the calc that's all. If you have an AFX (with the useful copy and paste) you can make a file containing lowercase letters and send it to your calc, then copy and paste what you need....

[Andy.Davies]

there is another way of copying and pasting, but for the FX9750G and above CFX98xxG etc.)

it can only copy the entire program thou .

press: OPTN' /> F6' /> F6' /> F3' /> then:

F1' /> to store (followed by [F1-6] to select a mem slot to save to
or
F2' /> to recall (followed by [F1-6] to select a mem slot to recal from

hope this might be of help

[Bob Vila]

You can do it but you need to write the program on your PC. Casios do support ascii text (notice the lower-case letters in tokens like sin, And etc) but you can't type them from the calc that's all. If you have an AFX (with the useful copy and paste) you can make a file containing lowercase letters and send it to your calc, then copy and paste what you need....

so i need a cable?

[XYZ]

For AFX, yes...Or someone else who has a program containing the characters you want on their AFX. Hey here's a thought - why doesn't someone make a little program for the AFX that runs at startup and lets you do an alpha-shift?

[huhn_m]

great idea! I'll do it. This will also include making an startup file in basic files that contains all
files to run when pressing the startup icon in the main menu.

[CrimsonCasio]

A very simple, but great idea... why not use CTRL' />Alpha' /> to make it easy to remember.

[XYZ]

Sweet I'll look forward to seeing it, don't forget to give me credit for the idea There are still those poor souls without a cable though

[huhn_m]

I thought carefully about the problem and came to the result that it is NOT at all possible to modify the os so it show lower case letters. In 16h (keyboard int) doesn't deal with the meaning of the key (i.e. X or Log)
but only with the keycode (so B & log have the same keycodes). So it would not be possible to modify it using
this interrupt since the System "remembers" that you pressed SHIFT and then simply interprets the B key in another way. It is not possible (for me. someone more used to assembley might be able to. roeoender? martin?) to modify the calcs os. I'm really sorry :-(

[CrimsonCasio]

so you couldnt just write a program that runs at start up which waits for CTRL' /> and then a button, then prints the lowercase version of the letter to the screen?

[huhn_m]

I could but the letter would only be shown on the screen but not send to the application and so
it would be shown but wouldn't be really stored in the basic file. It wouldn't even be noticed by the system.

[AlephMobius]

If you totally loathed the uppercase could you find the section of ROM that stores what pixels to turn on for the characters? Just change the picture of the letter so it looks lowercase.

[CrimsonCasio]

but then you couldnt do uppercase and it would only work on your calc, and not on someone elses that didn't have this program.

[genesis]

If you could change the pixels to turn of for the characters, I think you could get a lot better things than letters! You would basically never have to use graph mode again!!! (I think I've mentioned this before). If you could change a program from outside it, that would be really cool, again, you can do many more things than letters (high-level programming, game-makers etc.)

What I do to type lower-case letters in my programs is store a few letters in each of the function memory slots (leaving some blank), and then recalling them, deleting the ones I don't need (this takes a while to learn though) .

Does anyone know how to delete the List Ans from memory without a PC and/or resetting your calc?

The CFX calcs have a couple of lower-case letters as actual tokens (a-e, k,m etc.) but they look bad on a PC. Or you can just go crazy like the guy who made Indy 1000 and use a whole bunch of mixed up symbols that remotely represent letters!!!

[CrimsonCasio]

there is no List Ans, its just a single colum Matrix and stored as Mat Ans

[genesis]

That's strange... type in 'Dim Mat #' (making sure it exists) in the RUN menu. It will come up with a single column matrix, but when I go to the MAT menu, there is no Mat Ans. And the exact memory of the Matrix displayed appears in the List section of the memory and can't be deleted!!!

How do you scan a matrix for all the cells connected to a specific cell (not diagonally) that have the same value? Or even how to scan the row and column of that specific cell? (it's used in connect 5)

=== EDIT ===
There is a List Ans. Just use the normal commands and type in List Ans and it will bring you to it. If it doesn't, read the top of this post. At least on my calculator it does (it's been over-hacked remember?)