Check this out. Do I qualify for the BASIC Elite? 
Not only do I not get grayscale on my calc (just "pulsing" columns of alternating on/off status until the end when it switches to just having columns of alternating lines), it isn't a TI-Basic program and therefore wouldn't qualify you for the BASIC Elite even if it worked, anyway 
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Try making the screen darker. The grayscale columns should be lighter than the regular ones. Adjusting the contrast to make things lighter may be visible also. I know I'm not crazy because I tested it on an 84+SE and it worked just as well.
Darkening the screen did nothing and I am also on an 84+SE. This is why you should always get a confirmation from a third party before celebrating that you've made the greatest discovery ever 
haveacalc wrote:
The grayscale is supposed to be after the program runs. Are you sure you can't see it?
Oh, I see what you are talking about now - although it isn't gray scale at all, but just a side affect of how the screen works. Check it, go to the homescreen and fill it up completely with "+" signs. Darken the screen slightly and you should see lines of gray running vertically between them. That is all you are doing - and as far as I know its not controllable.
I haven't had time to type this in, but I am guessing the results are similar to when you load rows and rows of x's on the graph screen.
EDIT: Gah! Klr beat me to it! Won't this only work on the 84+se because of a faulty driver or something?
EDIT: Gah! Klr beat me to it! Won't this only work on the 84+se because of a faulty driver or something?
Any fool can use a computer. Many do.
Harq wrote:
I haven't had time to type this in, but I am guessing the results are similar to when you load rows and rows of x's on the graph screen.
Exactly - or in my example '+' signs on the homescreen
Harq wrote:
Won't this only work on the 84+se because of a faulty driver or something?
It worked on my 83+.
Kllrnohj wrote:
haveacalc wrote:
The grayscale is supposed to be after the program runs. Are you sure you can't see it?
Oh, I see what you are talking about now - although it isn't gray scale at all, but just a side affect of how the screen works. Check it, go to the homescreen and fill it up completely with "+" signs. Darken the screen slightly and you should see lines of gray running vertically between them. That is all you are doing - and as far as I know its not controllable.
Wow! What a waist of my time typing in all that code. Its as they are saying its just a side effect of the LCD screen and did nothing.
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<Michael_V> or create a Borg collective and call it The 83+
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HAHAHAHA Sweet! It actually worked on my calculator! (TI-84+SE) I know what they mean by the wierd screen effect when u fill it up and it is definitely not that. It actually pretty much looks like grayscale. Wierd...
Yeah, I've seen this before. When I was trying to fill a screen with text sprites. No libs, either! Try this:
Code:
The & symbols are the X-hat thing--[VARS]>[5]>[2].
After it's done, look at the bottom row of pixels, and tell me that's not like what you did.
Code:
:ZStandard
:Shade(-10,10
:"[&X&[
:For(A,0,80,8
:For(B,0,54,6
:For(Z,0,5
:Text(B,A+X,sub(Ans,Z+1,z
:End
:End
:EndAfter it's done, look at the bottom row of pixels, and tell me that's not like what you did.
Pics please, we want proof!
"Always code as if the person who will maintain your code is a maniac serial killer that knows where you live" -Unknown
"If you've done something right no one will know that you've done anything at all" -Futurama
"Have a nice day, or not, the choice is yours." Tom Steiner
<Michael_V> or create a Borg collective and call it The 83+
<Michael_V> Lower your slide cases and prepare to be silent linked. Memory clears are futile.
haveacalc wrote:
No! I know what you're talking about, but that's REALLY not what I mean. This is definitely very controllable. Can anyone else get it to work?
No, this is just a different take on what me and Harq said. That is why you have to have the screen dark - the darkened screen is the "gray", with the lighter white being a side affect of the every-other pixel being black. That is why you can store it to a picture and recall it just fine (and pic variables, need I remind you, only store whether the pixel is on or off - and therefore can't do shades of gray at all). And yes, I did get it to "work".
@Harq: Its not due to a faulty driver, and it works on the 83's as well.
This. Is. Not. Grayscale.
This is merely what happens when you turn the contrast up. It's not controllable at all, and it's certainly not "real" grayscale - there's no such thing as "real" grayscale on calcs. Real grayscale would be an LCD that supports controllable grayscale instead of anything that darkens contrast or rapidly switches between white and black.
This is merely what happens when you turn the contrast up. It's not controllable at all, and it's certainly not "real" grayscale - there's no such thing as "real" grayscale on calcs. Real grayscale would be an LCD that supports controllable grayscale instead of anything that darkens contrast or rapidly switches between white and black.
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