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(01-27-2020 02:15 PM)Ángel Martin Wrote:  I loaded the LadyBug "0A" with just a little tweaking to the MOD file settings. It seems to work just fine in manual more but in program mode the semi-merged lines show as starburst, not quite as expected... or maybe is it?

For example, RRC 03 shows as a single line, but it's followed by another program line with just the starburst.

The two lines are expected, it is the "semi" part. The first instruction should show the merged step, but then it is followed by a Text line (starburst, or something else) that is the actual postfix. This is because trying to hide the text-postfix instruction would mess up line numbers and be inefficient (step/backstep to figure out when to potentially hide it). I opted for making it somewhat more explicit to the user what is actually happening (displaying both steps), while displaying the first step decorated to make it easier to read.

What happens in a multiline program display, does the RRC display like that (only RRC) or does it have the postfix operand, i.e. RRC IND Z?

Quote:Another issue is that *somehow* the function MASKL is mapped to the "SETUP" function (SHIFT-USER), which creates an interesting situation: once the LadyBug is installed it CANNOT be removed via firmware, and one must use the hardware reset (the "paperclip" of death...)

I suspect this is a consequence of the keyboard layout differences with the original 41C... a very touchy subject...

I may be missing something though, as you know I'm not very familiar with the module since my setups always use the Library#4 - which is fully supported on the DM-41X, as well as all my other modules (SandMath, 16C Emulator, etc...)

You can probably press SHIFT-0 (or XEQ "FLOAT", same thing) to leave integer mode and then SHIFT-USER will probably work as SETUP.

Given the way I am doing now with custom keyboard, things such as SHIFT-USER and SHIFT-ALPHA are possible to use from MCODE keyboard layouts.

With my coming OS4 module these features are going to be a lot easier to use, which probably will result in more of this. Keys are going to be better utilized, semi-merging (extra decoration followed by a string literal) is going to be more common, at least in my small MCODE universe.