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HP Prime suggestion to avoid Numeric/Symbolic confusion - Chris Pem10 - 11-18-2013
I'm done ranting and ready to help :)
Let's use the great color screen to our ADVANTAGE:
ANYTHING RELATING TO NUMERIC COMPUTATION IS DISPLAYED IN BLACK.
Grant me a full upper/lower case alphabet for numeric variables... just color them BLACK.
ANYTHING RELATING TO SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION IS DISPLAYED IN BLUE.
Grant me a full upper/lower case alphabet for symbolic variables... just color them BLUE.
If a variable is UNDEFINED, make it ITALICIZED.
If a variable is DEFINED, make it BOLD.
If an input field accepts numeric values... frame in in BLACK.
... BLUE frame for symbolic...
Units in BROWN... so I can have m_m^2 if I so desire (variable "m" meters squared).
Reserved system variables in RED.
Just a suggestion.
Re: HP Prime suggestion to avoid Numeric/Symbolic confusion - Helge Gabert - 11-18-2013
Sounds good, except if one is colorblind . . .
Re: HP Prime suggestion to avoid Numeric/Symbolic confusion - Han - 11-18-2013
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Sounds good, except if one is colorblind . . .
Make the colors user-selectable (from more than a measly few -- theme color selection, I'm pointing at you).
Re: HP Prime suggestion to avoid Numeric/Symbolic confusion - Paul Dale - 11-18-2013
There are colour blind friendly palettes, so the colour choices could be improved.
- Pauli
Re: HP Prime suggestion to avoid Numeric/Symbolic confusion - bluesun08 - 11-19-2013
A very very excellent suggestion. I support that 100%.
But i have another radical suggestion: Scrap the Home-View! After working a few weeks i never used the numerical Home-View! If i need numeric results i press Shift-Enter. So the numerical view is included in the CAS.