Displaying String on Free42 & DM42

[Bill (Smithville NJ)]

(02-06-2018 02:55 AM)Ken S Wrote:  Bill,

Great work! A couple of possibly stupid questions.

Once you have a font matrix on the 42 do you need the 'Fonts' program installed or is it only used to create the matrix?

Does this have to take over the entire screen? Probably not possible but I would love it if you could set the DM42 display to the default X Y or X Menu used by the HP42S and use the upper part of the display for information and status display for the programs you create.

Either way this is an interesting bridge giving more control of the display similar to the HP48.

Ken

Hi Ken,

FONTS is run to create and fill the Matrix with data. Once run, it would not need to be run again, unless you cleared the Matrix variable or did a clear all.

It appears to take over the entire screen. But I haven't really played with it enough to know if there are settings that change that behavior.

Like you, I was looking for a way to more conveniently display multiple results on the screen, instead of doing r/s to see each result or recalling registers to review results.

I'm looking at incorporating the smallchar fonts from the Free42 code. this would allow for subscripts, etc. So it might be possible to say "X2=" where the 2 would subscripted.

Bill
Smithville, NJ