I'm hungry for an update on the DIY4X project. Any news on case material and manufacture? What's the status of the code? Any sort of deadlines or such?
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Post: #3
11-11-2012, 04:15 PM
 All further work is on DIY5. At the HHC conference there was an overwhelming lack of interest in a 41C-compatible calculator; all of the interest was in calculators more like the 42S and WP-34S. Case material is ABS plastic. If there was any news I'd have posted it here already. ▼
Post: #4
11-12-2012, 08:50 AM
Hi Eric, I recently watched the HHC video with your talk. I could not see the raise of hands when you asked "41 vs. 42 ALPHA style", but I hope the "soft ALPHA" didn't win.... or it did? Looking forward to DIY5! ▼
Post: #5
11-12-2012, 09:41 AM
AFAIK, alpha letters are requested to be printed on the keyplate like on the WP 34S. ▼
Post: #6
11-12-2012, 08:21 PM
How would the extended symbols/punctuation characters be entered? For example, might '&' be entered like this: [ALPHA] [g SHIFT] [9] ? ▼
Post: #7
11-13-2012, 04:59 AM
Not decided yet. Please see pp.62 and 129 of the WP 34S manual for a viable approach on a platform not allowing for menus. Keyboard space is still limited - so some mental links are necessary to avoid clutter - while menu space is abundant on a DIY5 allowing for softkeys. Edited: 13 Nov 2012, 5:05 a.m. ▼
Post: #8
11-13-2012, 05:50 PM
I think it would be perfectly fine to have a character menu in addition to the character-per-key ALPHA mode. Didn't the 48 have that?
Post: #9
11-12-2012, 07:12 PM
My recollection is that no one wanted to the 42S-style alpha soft menu. ▼
Post: #10
11-13-2012, 04:50 AM
Quote: Thank goodness for that :-) ▼
Post: #12
11-15-2012, 12:41 AM
Surely you don't like using the menu for ALPHA mode? Everyone else seems to prefer the character-per-key approach, like the 41 and 48. |