Recent changes to feature-requests

#64 Spelling: stoped vs stopped

Jim Reneau — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 03:34:39 -0000

status: open --> closed

#64 Spelling: stoped vs stopped

Jim Reneau — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 03:34:24 -0000

I have grepd the code and do not see there errors. - Closing

Spelling: stoped vs stopped

Barak A. Pearlmutter — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 08:42:50 -0000

https://sources.debian.org/src/basic256/2.0.99.7-2/debian/patches/0003-spelling.patch/
Or, sources are tracked from SVN in git repo, https://salsa.debian.org/debian/basic256

Spelling: stoped vs stopped

Barak A. Pearlmutter — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 08:42:50 -0000

Ticket 64 has been modified: Spelling: stoped vs stopped
Edited By: Jim Reneau (renejm)
Status updated: 'open' => 'closed'

#18 shorthand for comments/remarks

Jim Reneau — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 18:40:05 -0000

status: open --> closed
Group: --> Next_Release_(example)

#63 define textwindow and additional cursor-commands

Al Voland — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 08:59:26 -0000

ok, first try to do it myself :)
works only with monospace font:

subroutine locate(x,y,textx,texty,a$)
font "courier",5,30
text x+1+textxtextwidth(a$)/length(a$),y+textytextheight,a$
end subroutine

define textwindow and additional cursor-commands

Al Voland — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 17:43:04 -0000

I want to support the suggestion of the "locate" command to position the cursor within the textwindow
And i want to add more possibilities to the text window and cursor managment. The idea is to make the text window more useful and be able to play around with it (like on the C64 in the old days).
- a "locate" command to set the cursor to postition
- commands for cursor up, down, left and right
- a "home" command to bring the cursor back to top left without clearing the window.
- a command to define the window to a certain width and hight. Like the grafics window but with the charakter-count in mind. (e.g. setwindow 40,20 would mean 40 characters wide and 20 row height)
- a "locate" command to set the cursor to postition
- may be a possibility to edit the character-set.
- commands to set the backgroundcolor of then window, etc.

i think there are lots of more possibilitys in this area.

LOCATE command in BASIC256

itsols — Mon, 24 May 2021 04:23:24 -0000

I use BASIC256 for teaching purposes.

I'd like to to know if we can have a LOCATE command to position the cursor (for text).

Eg:
LOCATE 5,10 #Moves the cursor to row 5 column 10.
PRINT "Ant" #The output is at the position of the cursor.

Thanks!

DLL interface

Stefano Antoniazzi — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 21:19:40 -0000

I fully share BASIC-256 goal of helping to learn programming avoiding all complex stuff.
However, some additional feature could open doors towards a more widespread usage.
In particular, I would like to propose some simple interface to foreign code in DLLs.
While writing DLL is not in the capability of typical BASIC-256 users, expert people could easily develop add-ons or customizations independently for dynamic linking.
p.s. I asked the same to Yabasic author and he eventually implemented it.

Add aggregate functions

qomplainerz — Sat, 09 May 2020 19:00:29 -0000

Please add a few basic aggregate functions such as sum, min, max and avg.