HP 50g -- too shifty?

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(12-31-2016 03:09 PM)TomC Wrote:  This topic comes up often: ie, 'I'm a 48G user, and would like to use the 50, but find the keyboard layout/menu access foreign to me (relative to he 48G).'

Would it be possible for someone (such as an experienced 50 user) to provide code (and/or user assignments) for the 50G that would transform the keyboard to resemble (as close as possible) a 48g?

We (the 48G users) would then have the best of both worlds'!

TomC

(12-30-2016 05:21 AM)Joe Horn Wrote:  It does have double-precision floats in System RPL (they're called "extended reals" in the documentation, and symbolized as "%%" in the System RPL command names). However, if you want their all their benefits without jumping through any System RPL hoops, then load the LongFloat library, which supports something even better than double-precision floats: lightning-fast floats of whatever length you specify, up to 9999 digits! A truly awesome library for number lovers, and STILL not available on the HP Prime.


But that's exactly what USER mode is for. Arrange all the keys the way YOU want them. And since each key on the 50g allows almost twice as many assignments than the 48 allowed (the 50g allows 11 assignments per key, not just 6), there is no reason to waste any of your finite supply of heartbeats disliking the default key arrangement. Put whatever you want wherever you want it, and leave your 50g in USER mode. I currently have 90 key assignments on my main 50g; constant use makes overlays or stickers unnecessary.

<rant>Why do people pay extra for a model that has USER mode, and then complain about the keyboard & menu arrangement? That's like buying a chainsaw and then complaining that using it without gasoline is exhausting. Uh... here's a suggestion... don't do it that way. Use the tool's features.</rant>

Joe did provide a tip to use keyman+ library with the 50g to have full customisation of the keyboard. Anyone with slight experience with userRPL should be able to do such short program. It is mainly a long typing, not so hard in complexity.

Unfortunately I can not find the post of Joes, where he did give the systemRPL program to do the same as one of the Keyman library commands does and the explanation of the "inner working" of the advanced key assigments.

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