Files on HP Prime Question

[debrouxl]

I hear you, and I agree with you. But while computer- (client-) side software is good for advanced users like you and me, it is unusable for many of the users targeted by such an online tool, believe me

Times have changed, and not in the good direction. Nowadays, installing and using fat client software, let alone read basic documentation, is way too hard for many teenagers. We do have the resources to provide support for an online tool which works well nowadays (otherwise we'd hear many more complaints, given how widely used it is), but we don't have the resources to provide adequate support to match what essentially amounts to PEBKAC in installing and using the software in execution environments we don't control

Other projects made by people who are also TI-Planet admins, not necessarily under the TI-Planet umbrella, for the community of users and programmers, include fat client software.
Speaking for myself: I'm working mostly on libti*/gfm/tilp, outside of the TI-Planet umbrella. Those are the components of the only maintained fat client portable third-party Connectivity Kit, in HP parlance ("linking software", in TI parlance), for the three series of TI graphing calculators, dating back to 1999. libti* is the inspiration for libhpcalcs, the only reasonably working and only portable third-party library for communicating with Prime calculators (but it's not very usable because it has no GUI).


EDIT: of course, leveraging the new document format capabilities for mViewer GX Creator requires that they be fully scriptable from a pure Linux environment.