Blinking Text

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Forrest (guest) 08 Dec 2013 02:54

tried copying this down into my calculator, and got the invalid dim error. can anyone give a specific example, for example with the word "HELLO"?

Re: Blinking Text

Xeda Elnara 08 Dec 2013 03:45

With the word HELLO, you will need 5 spaces where it says (N SPACES). However, that code is kind of mixing up usefulness making something a little buggy. I would just directly use 16 spaces to handle text up to 16 characters.

Also, make sure to initialise A and B with your text coordinates. In the following example, I just directly use (3,5) instead of A and B:

:"HELLO→Str1
:length(Ans→N:1
:Repeat getKey
:If dim(rand(15
:Output(3,5,sub(Str1+"                ",1+NAns,N
:not(Ans
:End

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Forrest (guest) 10 Dec 2013 01:03

Thanks, but couldn't you also make blinking text using "for"?

Re: Blinking Text

Xeda Elnara 10 Dec 2013 02:44

Yup, and it would probably be the better option (the one I would use, anyways) :P

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