Busy Indicator; Display Cursors - Texas Instruments TI-84 Plus Manual Book

Busy Indicator

Busy Indicator Busy Indicator Busy Indicator
When the TI-84 Plus is calculating or graphing, a vertical moving line is displayed as a
busy indicator in the top-right corner of the screen. When you pause a graph or a
program, the busy indicator becomes a vertical moving dotted line.

Display Cursors

Display Cursors Display Cursors Display Cursors
In most cases, the appearance of the cursor indicates what will happen when you press
the next key or select the next menu item to be pasted as a character.
Cursor Appearance
Entry Solid rectangle
$
Insert Underline
__
Second Reverse arrow
Þ
Alpha Reverse A
Ø
Full Checkerboard rectangle
#
If you press ƒ during an insertion, the cursor becomes an underlined
press y during an insertion, the underlined cursor becomes an underlined # (#).
Graphs and editors sometimes display additional cursors, which are described in other
chapters.
Chapter 1: Operating the TI-84 Plus Silver Edition
Effect of Next Keystroke
A character is entered at the cursor; any existing
character is overwritten
A character is inserted in front of the cursor
location
A 2nd character (blue on the keyboard) is entered
or a 2nd operation is executed
An alpha character (green on the keyboard) is
entered or SOLVE is executed
No entry; the maximum characters are entered at
a prompt or memory is full
( ). If you
A A
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