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ACKs, NAKs, and Suggestions
by Jens Schmidt on Monday 27/Sep/2004, @14:26

I fully agree with you that Kcalc needs a replacement or overhaul. Especially the "paper log" is something I often miss.
But about the buttons: I actually use the number buttons from time to time. This is during phone calls, when I have one free hand only, so I don't like shifting back from the mouse to the keyboard. Suggestion: Groups of keys should be enabled separately.
Another suggestion: It should be possible to go back on the paper say 10 rows, update a number there and have everything below recalculated accordingly.
Final nagging: My old TI59 has a display mode "engineering", where the exponent is normalized to multiples of 3. This would be cool; even more so by replacing the exponent with the SI-Unit prefixes (3=k, 6=M, 9=G, ...)

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Re: ACKs, NAKs, and Suggestions
by Roberto Alsina on Monday 27/Sep/2004, @14:46

If you want to do it, here's how:

* Add a way to toggle the modes in the UI.

* Look at window.evaluate

* Format the number anyway you want before you display it.

It should be about 15 lines of code (hint hint wink wink ;-)

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Re: ACKs, NAKs, and Suggestions
by Eric Laffoon on Monday 27/Sep/2004, @17:05

We did a business calculator in Kommander. It does a paper tape type log and allows you to enter basic math formulas which are entered into the log along side the total values and it provides a summary value at the bottom. It's okay as it is but we wanted to add the ability to output printed results too. Anyway because it's Kommander it's small, fast, easy to enhance and only requires that you have kdewebdev 3.3 installed. Enjoy.

BTW as a security measure it will complain if you try to run it from a non local source.

bizcalc2.kmdr
8KB (9176 bytes)

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