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| ksinger Regular Member  Joined: 06/01/2026 Location: United KingdomPosts: 70 |
Also one thing I was missing: I could not get any gamepad to work. But of course I could use keyboards. As the picomite can recognize two keyboards and two mice this would be an option. But I found no basic command that can distinguish between the two keyboards. The mouse commands does that. My current workaround is to use different keyboard mappings but the kids always argue who gets the cursor keys.... |
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| Volhout Guru  Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 5703 |
Hi ksinger, Use search to find the thread on "miniFM". miniFM is a norton commander like 2 pane file manager. miniFM_RC2 (the last release) can be stored in a picomite flash slot with LOAD "miniFM_RC2.bas" FLASH SAVE 2 'use slot 2 OPTION F9 "flash run 2"+chr$(13) Button F9 now calls the mini filemanager. miniFM is a compact small filemanager with limited capabilities. On the forum there is also a thread on the full filemanager. But I use miniFM mostly. It works on terminal(console) and VGA/HDMI output simultaneous. This should solve all the shortcommings in copying files for you. You can also listen to audio files, and view picture files in it. And it starts basic programs with <ENTER>. Volhout P.S. I am happy with your addition to the sprite command. I have been investigating the best way to guide lemmings over an unknown terrain, and ended up with a lot of PIXEL commands. That is not a big issue, but speed is a problem when there are 100 lemmings. I could adapt the game to 64 max lemmings on screen, and use the new sprite command to make them follow the terrain. Thank you. P.P.S. mouse scroll wheel support exists in MMBasic. Edited 2026-01-22 18:36 by Volhout PicomiteVGA PETSCII ROBOTS |
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| ksinger Regular Member Joined: 06/01/2026 Location: United KingdomPosts: 70 |
thanks great tool Also one addition to the list on the last page: CTRL+C CTRL+V CTRL+X is just so much in the muscle memory Maybe adding this would be really nice. I cannot get used to f4 f5 ... I keep pressing the wrong button ... |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 10965 |
ksinger It is great you are so enthusiastic. FYI: The file copy issue is fixed in my dev environment will be in the next release. PS2 mice support scroll wheel and for many "standard" USB mice it can be enabled. See OPTION MOUSE SENSITIVITY in the manual. Line wrapping is available see OPTION CONTINUATION LINES in the manual However: MMBasic is not DOS and definitely not LINUX so you have to use its commands which are standard throughout the various MMBasic implementations. If you want a searchable help file you can create it as a standard text file and use the editor as you suggest. The editor can open any sort of file. It, of course, only colour codes .bas files. I don't intend to develop the HELP function further. Note: The Pico implementation is running up against size constraints of the image which defines the size of the A: drive. This is already affecting some users who may be unable to update to 6.02.00 as a result. It is already a very comprehensive self-contained environment and with the new facilities in 6.02.00 is pretty much as "complete" as it is likely to get. When new users join, there is often a flurry of requests to change the environment to modify the code to suite their specific use case and prior experience. If all of these were actioned the environment would become inconsistent and clumsy. As always the best advice is to use it as-is. There are almost always ways of achieving an objective within the code as it exists. Remember, this is code running on a 1$ microprocessor with limited capability. If you want something better then the Raspberry Pi is the next step. As to your hope that AI can't write MMbasic.... Sorry that ship has sailed. I now use Claude Opus to write all my test programs which, other than it insisting on putting LOCAL statements inside loops, it now does pretty much perfectly every time. |
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| ksinger Regular Member Joined: 06/01/2026 Location: United KingdomPosts: 70 |
 yes ai is everywhere.then maybe the option to get the command line from the library function even when no "..." are used. command on off instead of the need to type command "on" "off" this would allow to make basic extensions for the command line that feel like it is an internal command. and with that I can make my aliases...  |
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| ksinger Regular Member Joined: 06/01/2026 Location: United KingdomPosts: 70 |
maybe it could be in an error handler so you parse the complete command line in basic. As it would be nice to use it in the lab for some control. Maybe even just for the library functions... We have a pretty sofisticated PIO statemachine that implements basically a Pulse-Generator with 2.5 ns resolution and possibility for loops and wait commands. And it would be an idea to actually write in the commond line things like laser1 on but currently one needs to write laser1 "on" most of cases we actually pc control the experiments. But for debugging and some small side setups it would be a actually a welcome application of the picomite. Edited 2026-01-22 19:44 by ksinger |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 10965 |
You can do that now. Make "on" a variable |
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| ksinger Regular Member Joined: 06/01/2026 Location: United KingdomPosts: 70 |
on is reserved... |
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| ksinger Regular Member Joined: 06/01/2026 Location: United KingdomPosts: 70 |
What I want to say is that the library functions are nearly a perfect way of extending the basic commands. With the one exception that you cannot do things like option sdcard ... it would need to be option "sdcard",... With that addition I could even get my ls and dir commands that do not need "" |
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| ksinger Regular Member Joined: 06/01/2026 Location: United KingdomPosts: 70 |
the implementation could be as broad as making an: on syntax error fn(s$) command that calls any function on syntax error. There one could do all the handling. But it needs to run in the library code also during command line functionality. A reasonable addition would be then to call print syntaxerror$ where syntaxerror$ is the error message that would have been printed |
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| ksinger Regular Member Joined: 06/01/2026 Location: United KingdomPosts: 70 |
it also would allow to make custom made syntax error report improvement for example if you have a school class and you try to explain bracketing of math equations. Then for that session you could install the error handler and it would teach the students how to do a better job. |
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| ksinger Regular Member Joined: 06/01/2026 Location: United KingdomPosts: 70 |
And now comes the best part: it would even allow for augmenting existing commands as long as the additional functionality would throw an error such as line curly 1,1,100,100 |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 10965 |
Functionality for 6.02.00 is closed. Sorry, but you will have to live with what is there. MMbasic is what it is. When students come to have to use Eclipse rather than VSCode they will have to realise that dev environments differ massively. |
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| ksinger Regular Member Joined: 06/01/2026 Location: United KingdomPosts: 70 |
Just one additional thing that might get you onto it: the eval() function is a nice thing for example to make a function plotter. But the thing missing is an on error handler as the program would break with a syntax error. so if you want to write a function plotter you need to replicate all the parsing. |
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| ksinger Regular Member Joined: 06/01/2026 Location: United KingdomPosts: 70 |
And you cannot be blamed for adding a non qbasic functionality: https://qbasic.net/en/qb-manual/Statement/ON%20ERROR.htm you already have some of the on error functionality ON ERROR ABORT ON ERROR IGNORE ON ERROR SKIP [nn] ON ERROR CLEAR ON ERROR RESTART Edited 2026-01-22 20:07 by ksinger |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 10965 |
NO MORE CHANGES!!! |
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| ksinger Regular Member Joined: 06/01/2026 Location: United KingdomPosts: 70 |
stay cool, I just want to inspire not annoy. You just lost a member in the forum. Bye |
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| bfwolf Senior Member  Joined: 03/01/2025 Location: GermanyPosts: 166 |
Hi ksinger, A little tip from me: You can edit your posts multiple times – that way you don't have to create a new post every time you think of something shortly after your last one. I think you can edit it three times or so. It often happens to me too, that I think of something shortly after posting, or that I see a mistake I want to correct, or that I want to make a link I've inserted clickable. And please understand Peter's reluctance to make any major changes! He's put a tremendous amount of work into the new version! The release phase is currently underway – this is the thread for release candidates. Many users are waiting for the stable release 6.02.00. And if you want to customize something to your needs: Once release 6.02.00 is released, the source code will certainly be available on GitHub. You can then make modifications there. Cheers. |
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| lizby Guru Joined: 17/05/2016 Location: United StatesPosts: 3616 |
"putting LOCAL statements inside loops" -- Gemini and ChatGPT do that too, no matter how many times I tell them not to. It is my chief annoyance with AI-produced MMBasic code. PicoMite, Armmite F4, SensorKits, MMBasic Hardware, Games, etc. on fruitoftheshed |
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