TELE and TICKER commands

[kas29]

What is TELE? This is of instructions.. - ..TELE and TICKER commands...

[lamptonworm]

Hi,

I know it's an old post, but is there an answer? TELE is mentioned in the 4.6 manual as a way to type messages to the screen in the style of a typewriter when using EFFECTS, but is there some more detail/parameters?

Cheers!
LW.

[alessandro]

TELE is not mentioned in the Events commands/functions list and if you try to put it in your events the program won't recognize it. Maybe Jonathan had in mind to implement it but in the definitive version of AGD 4.x dropped it, and forgot to amend that description in the manual.

TICKER works as explained; I employed it in the menu of Cousin Horace chapter 5. I found you must use it with messages no more than 31 characters long or it won't work properly.

[lamptonworm]

Got it, thanks!

[Jonathan Cauldwell]

Sept 15, 2015 19:44:14 GMT alessandro said:

TELE is not mentioned in the Events commands/functions list and if you try to put it in your events the program won't recognize it. Maybe Jonathan had in mind to implement it but in the definitive version of AGD 4.x dropped it, and forgot to amend that description in the manual.

TICKER works as explained; I employed it in the menu of Cousin Horace chapter 5. I found you must use it with messages no more than 31 characters long or it won't work properly.

I'd completely forgotten about the TELE command. Just had a look at the source and the teletype code is all commented out. I can't remember why off the top of my head, it probably didn't fit into the space that was left for effects routines.

I thought that the scrolling message routine converts newline characters to spaces, is there a problem with that?

When the PC version is released there'll be a way to simulate a typewriter with the new CHR command and an example coding template which does this. TICKER has also been included in the new version.

[kas29]

And in the version for the ZX plan to implement (CHR) this command?