Please can you beta-test this unusual Free42 skin

[MickM]

A quick update - I have fixed the bugs dm319 found and also ran with his impression that EXIT right beside ENTER was awkward (which is true) to come up with the previously indicated layout. That layout is just so much more functional! It was also a lot more work than I thought :-(. I could attach everything for your consideration, however there is just one remaining hot-key definition giving me grief (for ⇧Delete) that I've asked Thomas to look at. The phone version is certainly ready to test. I'm going to wait a few hours to see what rabbit Thomas can pull out of his hat before providing new files (rather than releasing stuff in bits and pieces).

(10-27-2023 11:44 PM)BruceH Wrote:  I'm not sure that dedicating 4 keys to scale and unit prefixes is a good use of them (unless I've missed something and they do more).
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In a similar vein, I don't enter pi nearly enough to make it worthwhile being a dedicated key.

I guess that depends on your field. Metric notation suffixes are so ubiquitously used in electrical/electronics engineering that providing those buttons was THE driver (along with the physical constants capability) for me making this skin. Same rationale for having π as it's own button and being as close as possible to the number 2 to make entering 2π as easy as possible. I absolutely acknowledge other fields don't share this usage universe. It was Thomas's first response when I also asked for a companion feature to display engineering notation numbers as ending in the single letter suffix e.g. display 1.23p instead of 1.23E-12. Other calculators (e.g. PCALC) have that capability so I was hoping to bend his arm for a creative way to implement that, say another entry in the DISP menu (similar to FIX/SCI/ENG) called MET (for metric notation) which would take the largest power of 10 for which you wanted a standard metric notation suffix shown IF you were currently using engineering notation. Anyway, his experience saw metric notation as "fringe" (very much counter to my experience) so at my urging he took the idea from off the table to something maybe near the bottom of his priorities - a small victory :-). Anyway, we all live in different worlds...

(10-27-2023 11:44 PM)BruceH Wrote:  But, if this ever became a physical keyboard, where would ON & OFF go and how do you choose up arrow when a menu is displayed?

I never had any thoughts/desires about this being a physical keyboard - this skin only allows screen menus to be selected by tapping on the screen itself, and even if a hardware version existed I'd never buy it IF the same thing was also available on my phone.

And on a separate note - I'm kind of curious in what anybody has thought about the CONST capability (on ⇧π). That is a really useful capability (for my field I guess) and yet all I've heard about it is crickets...