Talk:UBASIC

Since this might be new territory for the average camera owner, writing their own little programs to automate their cameras, it would be a good idea to discuss any concerns, hints, tips, and further information you might have on the subject.

Here are some concerns that come to mind:

I wasn't too sure about uBasic syntax and how variables are defined (integer, floating-point, etc.). I found a uBasic package online that included a lengthy doc file in it, but we are working with a very small subset of all available commands for uBasic. Which commands will work? Which will not?

There is also the discrepancy between camera makes and models that CHDK will work on. I have found that some menu items are not identical between the A-series and Sx SI series of cameras. Scripts will have to be modified at times when using special features of each camera. And some type of standard notation in shared-scripts to alert others to which camera(s) the script was written for.

It would be nice if there was an easy place for all of us to share our tweaked or brand-new scripts. I recently wrote one that allows for a greatly extended use of Focus-Bracketing for a Powershot S3 IS camera, but it requires special instructions for use that are too lengthy to include in the script itself. I am also unsure if this script would work on other makes and models of cameras. How would one go about sharing that script and required documentation?

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We could include new scripts in this wiki as new pages. Perhaps we could make a link here like "more scripts" or "user scripts" or something like that. And on that new page, we could place our scripts as subpages.

Harvester