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emece67 · (This post was last modified: 03-20-2018 05:39 PM by emece67.)

(03-20-2018 08:53 AM)sa-penguin Wrote: This reminds me of an idea I had years ago:

1. Let the users open the calculator, and rearrange the keys as they see fit,
2. Have the "keypad to function matrix" as a user-modifiable file or table. Similar to how /etc/hosts resolves names to IP addresses.

You want to switch the basic operators to left or right? Change the order? Go for it.
Are you primarily using finance functions? You can customize for that too - replace trig keys with PMT, PV, etc.
You want to replace the alphabet with Greek / Japanese / Korean / Thai / Klingon? Anything that's Unicode could be in the key lookup file.

It's not likely to happen. But hey, I can dream.

After seeing the "exotic" proposal for the keyboard layout on the wp43s, I also thought on this. But, if my memory serves me well, the keys on the Swissmicros DM series are not individual pieces, but all keys share the same frame. I suppose the DM42 (and thus the wp43) follows the same design, so this approach may not be feasible. Perhaps some DM42 owner can confirm this.

Regards.