newRPL: Alpha demo 0.9 released [UPDATED 2017-10-25]

[Claudio L.]

(09-02-2017 09:36 PM)The Shadow Wrote:  I do still have one request regarding menus - that the 'help' slot accept a variable as well as a string. It would just display the contents of the variable, just as if you'd long-pressed on the Vars button.

That seems easily doable.

(09-02-2017 09:36 PM)The Shadow Wrote:  Is such a command in the offing?

EDIT: In the old OT49 library on the 50g, there was a function LMN that would retrieve the items in any menu on the calculator, in order. RCLMENU LMN would return a list. Handy!

RCLMENU/RCLMENUOTHR/RCLMENULST have the first visible element of the menu encoded in the lower bits, so it's already available. The MENUCODE tells you library/menu number/first visible item, all encoded in various bits.
You can use them in menu key handlers to know what menu key the user pressed.

(09-02-2017 09:36 PM)The Shadow Wrote:  Speaking of libraries, you've already mentioned some possibilities, but will it be feasible for a newRPL user to create them on the calculator?

Of course. New commands will behave just like builtin.

Now I'll be off line for a few days. Hurricane nuisance.