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Thursday, August 6, 2009

Build 13C1.00 New Features Review Part 5

I had a user request to provide a "display-tape" facility to CHT's calculator with the opportunity to print the tape output.
I did that and had it working quite some time ago, with the intent to release with Build 13C1.00. In the meantime I was scanning, one day, through some Xara Graphics and spotted a calculator layout that I really liked.

As a result of finding that graphic, I've re-written the "display-tape" calculator - procedure HandyCalcTape() in HNDCALC.INC/.CLW. The outcome is the calculator below. This is a separate procedure entirely from procedure HandyCalc() which you have now.


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Since this calculator is built around a graphic, those of you who provide applications for non-English users, will need to contact me with a list of symbols that you want to replace the English based symbols currently displaying on the interface. I'll whip up a separate graphic based on your non-English symbol list and include it with the toolkit in the /images/ directory. Inserting that graphic is easily enough to do by setting a property in the class or on our template.

To see the calculator in action click this link: CHT HandyCalcTape.

Cheers...

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