EDLINE$ - DIY Toolkit

[Andrew]

The Superbasic Online Manual says "You need a special version of EDLINE$ to work correctly on Minerva and SMS. This version is included with the DIY Toolkit package."
In DIT there are 2 versions of edline: edline_code and edline_minerva_code
Edline_code doesn't work with Minerva or SMSQE
Edline_minerva_code I presume it doesn't work with any other ROMS except Minerva and SMSQ/E

From a compiled program (QLiberator) is there a way to programatically load one or the other?
Would something like this work?

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if ver$='HBA' OR Ver$='JSL1' then
    REMark $$asmb=win1_Edline_Minerva_code,0,TABLE
ELSE
   REMark $$asmb=win1_Edline_code,0,TABLE
End if

I presume that it would not work, as the extensions are linked at compile.
But is there a way to load the proper extension from a compiled program?
Or this can be done only from a BASIC BOOT program?

[mk79]

Edline_code doesn't work with Minerva or SMSQE
Edline_minerva_code I presume it doesn't work with any other ROMS except Minerva and SMSQ/E

I'm pretty sure your presumption is wrong, so the question is moot It's only called this way because it was a rewrite from Lau. It should work on all OSes.

[Andrew]

Edline_code doesn't work with Minerva or SMSQE
Edline_minerva_code I presume it doesn't work with any other ROMS except Minerva and SMSQ/E

I'm pretty sure your presumption is wrong, so the question is moot It's only called this way because it was a rewrite from Lau. It should work on all OSes.

Thank you Marcel. I'll test it on my JS ROM QL

[Andrew]

Edline_minerva_code works with all ROMs as long as I load it with LRESPR
But when I try to include it in the compiled program it crashes when it returns the entered text.
I use Liberator compiler, so I have to add the directive REMark $$asmb$$-Filename, INIT, TABLE
Normally Init is 0 and Table is the offset to the name table (4 bytes before the first proc/fnc name in the binary)
so for Edline this should be:
REMark $$asmb=win1_Edline_minerva_edline_code, 0, 14

I have atteched a zip file with edline and a very short test program.
Can someone please look into it and see if the INIT and TABLE values are ok ?
Thank you

[dilwyn]

Looking at the assembler for Minerva_Edline_asm it looks like the directive values should be 0,10 (not 0,14) - the number of bytes to the dc.w 0,0 from the start of the code.

If nobody's confirmed this when I get back a bit later, I'll look into it in more detail, as I'm not 100% sure.

Also, I don't know without looking at the manual if the asmb directive will allow a long filename like that, and whether or not it can accept spaces in the parameters (need to check when I get back). I hope I'm wrong on that.

[Andrew]

Thank you Dilwyn - it works