ok, non-WIP versions of fileOpen.xas, virtualKB.xas, and TextEditor.xas have been posted to the following thread:
Pinned::Actionscripts Collection

of course, if you are a WIP tester, and want to use the scripts, you'll have to modify them. you only have to modify the Input code. it should be fairly easy to modify to use StringInput instead of my keyboard.

if you have problems with the scripts or want to ask questions, please return here.
thanks.

that sounds like an impressive piece of work...

now if I only had access to the wip releases I could test it out..

oh well... I'll check it on the next public release... please upload it to allxboxskins

and my ftp server listed in my signature so I can share it around the #mxmfiles channel...

TIA

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Very cool

Problem:
-Deleting last blank line and saving actually deletes last line of text.

Thoughts:
-In the keyboard, use Left Trigger + left/right to move cursor
-Assign one of the freed buttons to delete
-Help (START) doesn't work
-Move kb a bit higher

-If possible, integrate keyboard into the main screen, so that 'edit line' is no longer required
-You might be able to use the builtin keyboard fo that. Pressing Right Trigger+Y activates/deactives it (supposed to, but doesn't work right now) However, you can still activate it from the script

wow. I'm extremely impressed, finally a working text editor, I find it funny though that a dashboard did it before a standalone app. Just goes to show the power of action scripting. I havent tested it out yet as of its 3 am, but looks and sounds incredible. Mad props to you man.

thanks guys!

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Problem: -Deleting last blank line and saving actually deletes last line of text.

thanks for letting me know that. i thought i had squashed that bug...

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Thoughts: 1. In the keyboard, use Left Trigger + left/right to move cursor 2. Assign one of the freed buttons to delete 3. Help (START) doesn't work 4. Move kb a bit higher

1 & 2
i've been thinking how i can re-work the button-interface to add more features and still keep the same features in a non-WIP version. i had some pretty good ideas on how to add cut, copy, and paste. i think my button rearrangement ended assigning delete to B as well. my notes are scribbled on a piece of paper at home and i can't remember them. i'm visiting a friend this weekend, so won't have time to work on anything. i'll keep your thoughts in mind when i get back home.
3. yeah, i haven't figured out how/ or if its even possible to detect the Start button in the WIP stuff (my keyboard was written in non-WIP and hastily ported over)
4. i remember KF suggesting that when i first made the keyboard. i thought i did, but i'll see about raising it about 10 more pixels...

Amazing work Kthulu.

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Looks like an impressive update. I can mirror the pictures and zip if you'd like.

fucking awesome work man!

thanks, really, but BJ is really the one that did the awesome work of creating MXM and giving us the ability use actionscripts. if my scripts are good, it is only because i stand on the shoulders of giants

Hear my prayer, Oh Great One, and continue to bless us with your most awesome dash
MXM

Suggestion:
Instead of displaying the line being edited at the bottom, show it in the proper place.

i guess 'proper place' is a matter of opinion, but i'll think about it

I meant proper place as in the line itself in the display up there, instead of having a separate textbox down there.

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I meant proper place as in the line itself in the display up there, instead of having a separate textbox down there.

i know, that's why i said i'd think about it

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update:
- added $ % " and \ to last keypad in keyboard
- fixed bug with passing filename arg when calling script
- new character are inserted into the edit line instead of over-writing
- i may have temporarily killed the ability to delete chars from edit line. if i did, it's fixed now.

next:
- add some sort of copy/paste functionality
- add a help menu item

then:
- write fileOpenDialog script to be used for selecting files to open and where to save. this should be pretty quick easy, so if i get frustrated with copy/paste above, may go ahead and do this.

update:
- added copy function to menu
- added paste function to menu
- added help function to menu

NOTE: copy/paste works like this:
1. select a line you want to copy from
2. delete unwanted text from the 'edit-line' on keyboard
3. bring up menu and select 'copy'
4. select line to paste to
5. move cursor to desired paste position
6. select 'paste' from menu

I have now added all the features that I personally want from a texteditor running on the xbox (atm at least). Therefore, no more feature additions are planned except for the file-open dialog. It's time to actually do that now

Damn. That is out of hand... Nice work

Dman Kthulu.... That's off the chain...
HEHE, I mean awsome work...

nice AS... except "I" have a prob ...

i got da texteditor file and put it in my xbox... it gives a stupid error saying something about "error 1, callfile failed" bla bla bla...
i tried other files like reboot.xbe and da same error came...

appreciate if some1 can help me

keep up da good work!

It'd help to know how you're using it in your menu.xml

Infared, Unless you have the WIP version it wont work yet until the next public release, Try to modify thetruethugg's code to your liking in your menu.xml. of course its not for tetris, so change all that stuff to the texteditor file.

crap! my bad, i left that path in from debugging...

supposed to be SET myPath %1%

changed it just now...maybe that's why guy was having problems, but still...you could always select Open from the menu and use the MXM built-in keyboard to specify a file path. if you call the script without a file path, that is what is supposed to happen (now that i fixed it )

EDIT: also, just fixed it so that if you call the script with no filepath arg and enter blank text from built-in keyboard, it will just exit instead of give error messages.

is there gonna be a file-browser? if so, i'm not going to put much effort into scripting one...just enough to get me to the release.

Well, you may want to hang loose, at least until the dialog stuff starts going intot he WIP, because I'll need your help in creating internal scripts as part of the config and file manager stuff.

I really appreciate the great scripts, even though I can't check them out myself right now

It just affirms my decision to concentrate on the ActionScripting when I see cool scripts like these.

Probably because the end is whitespace (CR/LF sequence)... technically, since there is no characters following the CR/LF, there is no line to read, hence only 3 lines of text.

i whipped up a FileOpen dialog today. not pretty but functional enough i think. embarrasingly, i just spent about 4 hours trying to merge it into texteditor.xas so there would be no room for error for setting up the correct callfile path. i gave up!

but it's there. to use it, you will need to comment the StringInput line and uncomment the CallFile c:\mxm\scripts\fileopen.xas line. Again, make sure you change the path to whatever is appropriate.

i tested the texteditor out opening some big xbe's and to my surprise, it didn't bomb. it did take a long time to load them though. i was just looking for a filesize limit there and wondering what would happen if somebody accidentally loaded an xbe into it.

i have added file-extension checking anyway though. txt, xml, ini, nfo, and xas are the ones i added i think. if you want more, it should be pretty easy to edit.

i will be out of town and away from free-time internet for most of the coming week, so hopefully there won't be anything too terribly wrong with the files above.

i need help i have no idea how to run this
don't flame me cuz i am a noob

Hmm, cool. I'll test this out tonight.

Well, it works pretty good. Didn't get to test much, and I feel like an idiot for asking this, but how do you change the line you want to edit? I hit everything, couldn't figure out how to NOT edit only the first line of the file. Maybe it says in this post, too lazy to check, and I need to head to bed now anyway.

Very impressive though, congrats man, really.

No, the WIP builds or for the WIP testers only, they may be unstable and cause something wrong to happen to your xbox (this is unlikely, but it did happen awhile ago, one of the builds caused a corrupt eeprom I believe, when switching the video that is, from NTSC to PAL and vise-versa). But, BJ is expecting to have MXM 0.9o (or 0.9n.7) out soon.

a non-WIP version would be cool

see first post...

have u made a non-wip version?

Did you even look at the first post?

so what do i do with the info on that page.
PS don't flame me cuz i am new to MXM ActionScripting
thanks

You ask if there was a non WIP version. In the first post, the first line is:
ok, non-WIP versions of fileOpen.xas, virtualKB.xas, and TextEditor.xas have been posted to the following thread: