DB48X: HP48-like RPL implementation for DM42

[mahi]

I'm not Christophe, but I think I can answer your questions.

(08-06-2024 12:51 PM)spiff72 Wrote:  Can you clarify the installation process with the new .tgz files? I see that there are several folders in there (state, config, and help). Should those be copied over to the calc when copying the qspi and pgm files? My assumption is "YES" for the help files, and state files are optional. I typically keep my units.csv file because i have customized it, so just overwrite the remaining .csv files?

That's right. Normal procedure would be copying the entire contents of the appropriate *.tgz file to the FAT drive of the calculator, overwriting existing files. However, if you made changes to the csv files (like you did), you should skip those files. Also the state files can be omitted safely.

Quote:In the interest of keeping space available on the FAT drive, can the db50x.md file be omitted on a DB48x?

Yes, you can. In fact, I think it's a bug the file is there (it has been like that since 0.4.4 which was around the time DB48X was split into a DM42 and DM32 version).

It doesn't harm, but the db50x.md file is not used by DB48X and similarly the db48x.md file is not used by DB50X. Both help files are nearly identical. Most differences deal with the different keyboards between the DM42 and DM32.

Quote:Can the shifts.bmp file in the first level of the help folder be omitted?

It has no effect on normal operation of the calculator, but it is used in chapter "Keyboard interaction" of the built-in help. If you omit it, you'll get the "Path not found" error when you scroll through that chapter. I'd advise against omitting help images (if you use the help), as it may cause strange behavior of the help viewer (see #1081).

@c3d: I notice that there are a lot of dot-underscore-files in the archive of exactly 163 bytes which appear to be something from MacOS (eg ._db48x.md). I think these should be stripped from the release archives.