Posted 03 September 2003 - 12:53 PM
well, I wanted a simple paint program for those who cant imagine using all of CasPaints features, and wouldn't understand them anyway. but sure, if you could try to make excel that would be great (cause I know almost nothing about it).
@bytefish: I have a ppc with MS word on it and I type with the stylus every day, its not the bad. plus, the real purpose of word would be formatting, I have an idea of how we could actually export "doc" files that could easily be transfered and opend on other calcs. see, the classpad lets you put any types of data into a list, so you could have: "Hi", 6, 4,"FORM" all in one list, so you could have number formatting commands and the strings as the text. unfortunately matrices don work like this, they only hold numbers... howerver I have thought of a way around this:
{1,2,3,4,5}->row1
{1,2,3,4,5}->row2
{1,2,3,4,5}->row3
{1,2,3,4,5}->row4
{1,2,3,4,5}->row5
{"row1","row2","row3","row4","row5"}->Matrix //puts the strings in the "matrix" list
Matrix1->tmp //stores a cell (row1) to a temporary var.
#tmp->row //treats the string inside tmp as a variable and assigns it to row
row1->X //assigns the value of the first item in row to X
as you can see this little program will treat the group of lists as a matrix, except that you can store things other than numbers, it would be an easy thing to make a reverse funtion that does the oppisite and assigns things to the matrix.
I would make these there own programs, something like MatS(X,Y) and MatR(X,Y) and either have some standardised peramerater that they use (like cell) for returning/placing the value or just add an extra perameter to the list (MatS(X,Y,"var")) which will be the name of the variable to assign it to.
