There is one detail that needs to be discussed, the absence of a stand-alone program that could be called SimpleTerm. Maybe if we asked jazzed very nicely, he could make the resident terminal program that is within SimpleIDE also available as a stand-alone program. The reasoning behind this is, the terminal program has some built in commands for cursor control, and I think most of the terminal programs that are available will not respond to the SimpleIDE terminal commands.
Ray I did some work on something like this last year. I'll look at where it stands and see how much is left to do.
BTW, the SimpleTerminal command sequences are supposed to be compatible with Propeller Serial Terminal.
BTW, the SimpleTerminal command sequences are supposed to be compatible with Propeller Serial Terminal.
Thanks jazzed for the consideration. Yes, I forgot to mention that Propeller Serial Terminal has the same command sequences, or the other way around. Now, it would be very interesting if a color feature could be added to the terminal program, if you could accomplish that, then why would you need TV or VGA?
For those of you that have run test3, you have probably noticed that it needs a method for controlling the keyboard input. At the moment, when at the command prompt, you do not see any of the characters being typed until you hit a CR. It seems like that would probably be a little to much for a new user to accomplish. Now, I am thinking that maybe a specific new object should be created for working with the terminal mode or with the SimpleTerminal program, something along the lines of 'printf' command or stdio or something similar? If the new SimpleSpin is going to have a 'Run with Terminal' option, than probably something like what I mentioned would be beneficial. Just a few thoughts for today.
I just had a thought today about running my test3.prj through spin2cpp to see if I get the same interactive session in C and CPP mode. The more interesting part would be to see how well FDS, ExtendedFDS, and my tools objects work out. But first I have to enhance to command prompt interaction. Has anybody tried any of these programs, especially the new users?
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Ray I did some work on something like this last year. I'll look at where it stands and see how much is left to do.
BTW, the SimpleTerminal command sequences are supposed to be compatible with Propeller Serial Terminal.
For those of you that have run test3, you have probably noticed that it needs a method for controlling the keyboard input. At the moment, when at the command prompt, you do not see any of the characters being typed until you hit a CR. It seems like that would probably be a little to much for a new user to accomplish. Now, I am thinking that maybe a specific new object should be created for working with the terminal mode or with the SimpleTerminal program, something along the lines of 'printf' command or stdio or something similar? If the new SimpleSpin is going to have a 'Run with Terminal' option, than probably something like what I mentioned would be beneficial. Just a few thoughts for today.
Ray
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