Hi everybody.
I'm 75 years old and I've been growing a pretty fair pair of cataracts for about 15 years. Because of other issues I'm not a candidate for surgery. I've been able to program pretty well with a 24 inch monitor, Windoze 7 video set to high contrast (green text on a black background), and any one of the several Visual Studio program editors all of which respect the Windoze video preference settings.
The PICAXE manuals are only offered as pdf files and thus can't be viewed in reverse video. Reading the light black text on the white background is almost impossible for me. Is it possible for me to obtain the manuals as either text files or doc files? I would then be able to view them in Word or a programming editor which will respect the Windoze video preference settings.
Before I go through the learning curve for a new editor I would like to ask if the REVED PICAXE editor will respect Windoze video preference settings, or if you can somehow set it to display program text in green on a black background?
If this is not possible then will it be possible for me to write my code using one of the Visual Studio editors which I have, save it as a text file with a bas extension, then load it into the PICAXE editor for syntax checking and simulation?
Paul Lepkowski
East Fishkill, NY
I'm 75 years old and I've been growing a pretty fair pair of cataracts for about 15 years. Because of other issues I'm not a candidate for surgery. I've been able to program pretty well with a 24 inch monitor, Windoze 7 video set to high contrast (green text on a black background), and any one of the several Visual Studio program editors all of which respect the Windoze video preference settings.
The PICAXE manuals are only offered as pdf files and thus can't be viewed in reverse video. Reading the light black text on the white background is almost impossible for me. Is it possible for me to obtain the manuals as either text files or doc files? I would then be able to view them in Word or a programming editor which will respect the Windoze video preference settings.
Before I go through the learning curve for a new editor I would like to ask if the REVED PICAXE editor will respect Windoze video preference settings, or if you can somehow set it to display program text in green on a black background?
If this is not possible then will it be possible for me to write my code using one of the Visual Studio editors which I have, save it as a text file with a bas extension, then load it into the PICAXE editor for syntax checking and simulation?
Paul Lepkowski
East Fishkill, NY