Hide soft menus?

[JDW]

(12-06-2016 02:28 PM)Software49g Wrote:  SystemFlag 4 toggles the battery indicator and the currently free memory available shown in status line one.

SystemFlag 127 (warmstart required after setting or clearing it) allows HP 48SX / 48GX error style in the status line of the display through the reserved variable STARTERR. Note: this will overwrite or delete an existing STARTERR.

I just installed the Library. Oh my! This library is intriguing! I must say I am shocked and dismayed by the apparent lack of interest though. There are no posts from people other than myself, David and Andreas. Have all the 50g users left earth? :-) Seriously, folks, these two Libraries are fabulous software for the 50g.

Since no detailed instructions were given for beginners, I shall provide such as follows...

INSTALLATION (Make sure you Uninstall David's Library first):
1. Copy "MessagesEnglish.hp" to your SD card.
2. Put the SD in the 50g and press LeftShift (WHT) and APPS to bring up the File Manager.
3. Select "3: SD" with your silver arrow keys and press the OK softkey.
4. Select "MESSAG~1.HP" (the LIB, not the STRNG) and press the COPY softkey.
5.Copy it to Port 0.
6. Press ON and F3 for a Warmstart. You should briefly see some text your normally don't see, confirming the Library has been installed.
7. Verify operation by pressing and holding the TOOL key. The menubar should vanish. Repeat and it should come back.


Most of you know FLAGS are accessible via the MODE button, but if you go there you will not see 04 or 127 that Andreas mentions. Although there are faster ways of doing it, here is one way to SET & CLEAR the FLAGS Andreas mentions...

CHANGE FLAGS:
1. LeftShift (WHT) & EVAL to bring up the PRG menu.
2. Press the NXT button.
3. Press the F4 to select MODES.
4. Press F3 to select FLAG.
5. Type 4 and ENTER.
6. Now to make it a SYSTEM flag, you need to press the "+/-" key to make it Negative.
7. Press the softkey associated with "SF" to set it. Notice the battery indicator appears in the upper right corner of the screen, along with free memory.
8. To toggle OFF the battery indicator, repeat above steps 1 thru 6, then press the softkey associated with "CF" to clear the flag. Note the battery indicator then vanishes.
9. To change USER FLAGS, repeat steps 1 thru 5 and skip Step 6 because USER FLAGS must be Positive. Only SYSTEM FLAGS are Negative.


For good measure I repeated a test that David had given me for use when testing his Library. There is a slow-down when using David's library that occurs when you have many things on the stack (way more than 50, in my experience). I repeated the test with Andreas' Library installed and the menu bar toggled OFF. No speed slowdown that I can see. Here is the test:

1) Enter 12345 on the stack
2) Enter 800 on the stack
3) Enter NDUPN (this loads the stack)
4) Press any function key a couple of times ('+' or '*' is fine).
5 ) Now start typing in some more numbers.

Again, I did not notice any performance hit when using Andreas' Library, but you should still do the test for yourselves.


Now for my Bug Report:

When I first pressed RightShift (ORG) and SYMB to bring up CAT, I got an insufficient memory error. But that was after I had run the above test (duplicating things on the stack 800 times), so I pressed ON and F3 to Warmstart and tried again. But that next time I tried I got an Hourglass forever -- the 50g locked up. I had to do another Warm start to break out of it. The Memory indicator in the upper right says 13004. But no matter how many times I try, pressing RightShift (ORG) and SYMB (CAT) produces the Hourglass lockup. This is a showstopper bug.

Best wishes,

James Wages