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[43s] General questions - fhub - 01-31-2013 I have a few general questions about the intended display and menu behaviour: 1) I guess the display will have 4 lines to show all 4 stack levels at the same time, right? 2) Are the 1/2/3 menu lines extra lines (below the stack display), or do they partially overwrite the stack lines when any menu is called? 3) If you call any menu (e.g. TRIG or XMATH), will these menu line(s) stay (i.e. be permanent) until you deactivate it again (e.g. by calling TRIG, XMATH or any other different menu again), or is the menu only displayed until you press any of the menu keys (and then removed automatically again)?
Franz
Re: [43s] General questions - Walter B - 01-31-2013 1) The display is dot matrix. So the output will be what we make it. 2) Display space will be sufficient to see the three menu lines as an extra area. 3) I tend to let them stay. But the latter two weren't discussed internally at depth yet, so that may change without notice. HTH
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Re: [43s] General questions - fhub - 01-31-2013 Quote:That are indeed great news! :-) But with extra and permanent menus I don't understand the discussion about the 6 top menu keys at all!? If these menus are permanent then the user has 3 additional rows of 'extra' keys. Now if (besides user key assignments) you also allow a user menu assignment, then everyone could assign 18 of his preferred functions to these 18 menu entries. And after he has activated this 'user menu' once, there's no need to press any menu prefix key to get the desired function (except of course [f] or [g] for the shifted ones).
Actually this would mean the following: So I don't see any advantage at all in having any labels on those 6 menu keys (other than F1..F6), when everyone wants different functions and everyone can simply define his own 6 (in fact even 18) functions!
PS: Maybe a good place for switching on/off this 'user menu' would be [g][USER] (labelled MENU), because the [USER] key has still no [g]-shifted function. Franz
Edited: 31 Jan 2013, 8:01 a.m.
Re: [43s] General questions - Walter B - 01-31-2013 Sorry, now you fell into an elephant trap ;-)
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Re: [43s] General questions - fhub - 01-31-2013 Ok, forget it! With your resentment against me it seems you can't even discuss about good suggestions just because they come from me. So build your new calculator however you want, this was my last contribution about this topic here.
Franz
Re: [43s] General questions - Walter B - 01-31-2013 117 and counting ...
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Re: [43s] General questions - fhub - 01-31-2013 Will you ever grow up??? Strange, whenever I read your 'useful' answers here, I'm reminded on the German song "Mein Gott, Walter". ;-) http://www.maxilyrics.com/mike-kr%C3%BCger-mein-gott-walter-lyrics-85af.html
Franz
Re: [43s] General questions - Walter B - 01-31-2013 Slowly it's becoming boring with you ... 118 ...
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