TI Basic Coding on the PC, Made Easier
You can use TI's GraphLink software to edit TI Basic code on the PC, but you can't use GraphLink to transfer the code to the calculator through a USB connection, because GraphLink doesn't support the USB cable. Here's a workaround.
Open GraphLink, edit your code and save it. Open a Windows file explorer window where you saved the code file. Right-click on the filename and choose 'Send to TI Device ...', then send the file as usual. You can leave both the explorer window and GraphLink open, continue to edit your code & send it to the calculator. This method assumes that you have TI Connect installed, so the 'Send to TI Device ...' option is available.
Ideally TI will eventually update TI Connect to include a program editor. The old GraphLink program made it very easy to develop code, because you could download the code directly from the editor.
Also related to TI Connect and USB, I often have difficulty getting a connection between PC and calculator. I believe this is caused by a flakey USB driver or motherboard implementation, rather than a fault in TI Connect, but I seem to have better luck when I plug the calculator in first, then the USB cable at the PC.
Open GraphLink, edit your code and save it. Open a Windows file explorer window where you saved the code file. Right-click on the filename and choose 'Send to TI Device ...', then send the file as usual. You can leave both the explorer window and GraphLink open, continue to edit your code & send it to the calculator. This method assumes that you have TI Connect installed, so the 'Send to TI Device ...' option is available.
Ideally TI will eventually update TI Connect to include a program editor. The old GraphLink program made it very easy to develop code, because you could download the code directly from the editor.
Also related to TI Connect and USB, I often have difficulty getting a connection between PC and calculator. I believe this is caused by a flakey USB driver or motherboard implementation, rather than a fault in TI Connect, but I seem to have better luck when I plug the calculator in first, then the USB cable at the PC.
posted by db at 3:02 PM
1 Comments:
I've been downloading like this for a while; just got around to documenting it. One purpose of this blog is to record perhaps-trivial potential tip-list material, so a lot of stuff is going to be, well, trivial.
As far as USB, yeah, it doesn't seem to work all that great, except when it does work, then in much-increased speed is a nice benefit. Like I said, I really think the problem is in my motherboard USB hardware, or the drivers. But, it could be TI, too.
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