Finance in Prime: odd period...

[salvomic]

(05-23-2015 10:21 AM)DrD Wrote:  Hi Salvo,

You sure have been burning the midnight candles on the finance programs! Your latest work has compiled without error and seems to run ok. I wanted to look through your coding to try to understand your approaches, so I took the liberty of adjusting the layout, in order for me to read through it better.

I was wondering if you would find it useful to control the number of digits in the user interface, (HDigits variable)?

When the result screens have been presented to the user, a helpful hint to let users know what to do next, might be useful. For example, "Press the Esc Key to continue..." or something.

It looks like you've figured out how to use INPUT() to your advantage. That function is not very well described in the help texts, as you might agree. It takes a little trial and error to get it working just the way a person might like!

Once a program accomplishes the basic goals, one can always tweak it for an enhanced user presentation / interface. Minimally, you've included textout_p() coding, which could also include color, and text size to help focus the user experience, for visual enhancement. The use of rectangular colored boxes for titles, and other interactions can aid visual interest. You might enjoy a little time off from the grind of getting the basic functions working, and have fun with the graphical user interface!

I hope these suggestions are useful.

-Dale-

Here's your program with formatting that makes it a bit easier for my eyes:...

I Dale, thank you.
You are right about the imperfect formatting and ...about midnight candles :-)
The principal reason of ugly formatting is because yesterday I worked mostly directly in the Prime, so the aim was to go new line (this is better in the calc)...
Now I'm inserting your better formatting and including it also in the new two functions I'm developing (to calc APR).
I'm going to improve TEXTOUT_P and helping, sure!

I've a question, however: what's the difference between TEXTOUT_P and TEXTOUT? the help seems to be ...the same

Then I'll look at also for more graphic.

Salvo