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Report ID 598 Title Direct charset access counters
Product Rejected Requests Status Rejected (Severity 1 - Low)
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Report ID #598: Direct charset access counters

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Posted 20 December 2013 - 07:54 PM

Counters like "bchX,Y" and "bcoX,Y" were recently added to make accessing board data through counters easier. The charset data could use the same: a "chrC,B" counter that modifies byte B of character C.

Instead of:
set "CHAR" to "a"
set "BYTE" to "b"
set "CHAR_BYTE" to "c"

set "CHAR" to "d"
set "BYTE" to "e"
set "f" to "CHAR_BYTE"

It'd be nicer if one could write:
set "CHR&a&,&b&" to "c"
set "f" to "CHR&d&,&e&"



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Posted 19 January 2014 - 10:59 AM

Updating status to: Approved
Updating severity to: 1 - Low
Updating version to: 2.85

Sure, why not. Likely, the counter would just be char_byte&c&,&b& for simplicity.
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Posted 19 January 2014 - 11:02 AM

Updating status to: Flagged For Future Version

More appropriately this, actually.
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Posted 16 May 2017 - 04:10 PM

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I don't think this feature is necessary.

  • It is currently trivial to store a temporary character set in a string and char edit it into the char set. This doesn't cost much and gives you more powerful access to the character set than counters could.
  • When parts of this feature get implemented, this technique will cost even less, as it won't require repeated char edits.


I think strings as (full or partial) character sets is a much stronger alternative that's already present in MZX and will likely continue to be improved. These counters would push more work onto the interpreter and not add any new functionality.
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Posted 27 May 2017 - 07:41 PM

Updating status to: Rejected

Yeah, now that loading char sets from strings exists, this is pretty much pointless.
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Posted 29 June 2017 - 06:56 AM

Moving to: Rejected Requests


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