NOTE:
XINFO is designed to work with another PRG that sets things up. For example, a wrapper PRG that sets the SCREEN MODE, background color, and POKE's the desired margins into the CFG (and the desired NFO filename). The XINFOCFG.PRG is an example of that using normal BASIC.
XINFO (bespoke) mark-up text-document viewer
Re: XINFO (bespoke) mark-up text-document viewer
V1.8 updated on first post (with code in the zip and also in the github updated).
Minor word wrap and F1 HELP fixes and adjustments.
When entering the PETSCII modes, X16EDIT on system supports the ALT and CTRL keys to type in the symbols (which are labeled on the "official" X16 keyboards). So that makes it a sort of easy way to type in boxes and such.
Colors and Links are still a hassle to type - no real way around that, just like using notepad to make HTML documents.
Also when using XINFO (or any mouse-based thing) in the X16 emulator, yes the CONTROL+M mouse capture is essential.
Minor word wrap and F1 HELP fixes and adjustments.
When entering the PETSCII modes, X16EDIT on system supports the ALT and CTRL keys to type in the symbols (which are labeled on the "official" X16 keyboards). So that makes it a sort of easy way to type in boxes and such.
Colors and Links are still a hassle to type - no real way around that, just like using notepad to make HTML documents.
Also when using XINFO (or any mouse-based thing) in the X16 emulator, yes the CONTROL+M mouse capture is essential.
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Re: XINFO (bespoke) mark-up text-document viewer
Post up some notes about XINFO
https://voidstar.blog/all-about-xinfo-f ... ander-x16/
Not really more than what is already on the github page. But this reminded me that the "real goal" was a more on-system MAN (manual) command that we could add into BASIC.
The question became on if the content is on the SD card, in ROM, or across the serial/network card. Then other issue remains on the desired format. I think the format I came up with was ok, in terms of "something that might have been interesting in the late 1980s" - many systems (at that time) didn't have a wide variety of text modes, so the need for "self-formatting" content wasn't as apparent.
Another main desired improvement was somehow mixing text and (BMX) images. There isn't a super easy way to do that (that I can think of), and still have the text nicely form around the image. I think one idea was rendering the whole combined content into sprites, and using the VERA to scroll it around? Just I'm not sure if the 6502 can muscle that together in reasonable runtime.
https://voidstar.blog/all-about-xinfo-f ... ander-x16/
Not really more than what is already on the github page. But this reminded me that the "real goal" was a more on-system MAN (manual) command that we could add into BASIC.
The question became on if the content is on the SD card, in ROM, or across the serial/network card. Then other issue remains on the desired format. I think the format I came up with was ok, in terms of "something that might have been interesting in the late 1980s" - many systems (at that time) didn't have a wide variety of text modes, so the need for "self-formatting" content wasn't as apparent.
Another main desired improvement was somehow mixing text and (BMX) images. There isn't a super easy way to do that (that I can think of), and still have the text nicely form around the image. I think one idea was rendering the whole combined content into sprites, and using the VERA to scroll it around? Just I'm not sure if the 6502 can muscle that together in reasonable runtime.