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Dan B · 07-20-2015, 09:38 PM

And an iOS Prime app please!

Maro · 07-21-2015, 05:45 AM

(07-20-2015 06:34 PM)lenborje Wrote: Please, please, please, give us a native Connectivity Kit for the Mac.

+1

Sukiari · 07-21-2015, 06:17 AM

(07-21-2015 05:45 AM)Maro Wrote:
(07-20-2015 06:34 PM)lenborje Wrote: Please, please, please, give us a native Connectivity Kit for the Mac.
+1

HP seems married to Windows but the software works fine in VirtualBox.

Anyway given the poor quality of the HP printer software for OS X I'm more comfortable running HP's software in a virtual machine.

It is tough to gain a reputation for quality but so, so easy to lose it.

debrouxl · (This post was last modified: 07-21-2015 06:44 AM by debrouxl.)

By using Qt, HP already chose the right technology to make the computer software related to the Prime portable. Now it "only" needs to be made portable for real, like libhpcalcs was from pretty much day 1 (thanks to using a portable library), nearly 21 months ago.
Many bonus points for making the communication layer interoperable, open source, under a permissive license.

However, allocating extra developer time and hardware resources is a business / management decision...
Targeting minority platforms (MacOS X, even more Linux / FreeBSD / other computer OS) or popular platforms which have represented a minority of new sales in many countries for a while and whose stewardship imposes various annoying impediments and artificial restrictions to developers (iOS) may arguably not be a priority for business.
The existing developers clearly already have much work fixing bugs and expanding features for the existing platforms, as well as helping end users (something neither Casio staff, nor TI staff does) on this message board (mostly), don't they ?

Maro · 07-21-2015, 11:46 AM

(07-21-2015 06:40 AM)debrouxl Wrote: ...
Targeting minority platforms (MacOS X, even more Linux / ...

this seems unfortunately a common problem with many business activities ... targeting high quantity platforms instead of targeting high quality platforms ...

Dan B · 07-22-2015, 12:22 AM

(07-21-2015 11:46 AM)Maro Wrote:
(07-21-2015 06:40 AM)debrouxl Wrote: ...
Targeting minority platforms (MacOS X, even more Linux / ...

this seems unfortunately a common problem with many business activities ... targeting high quantity platforms instead of targeting high quality platforms ...

Very true. And high quantity does not necessarily equal high profits either. For example, while Samsung has achieved a huge smartphone market share with Android phones, Apple vastly dominates smartphone profitability.

lenborje · 07-22-2015, 08:28 AM

(07-21-2015 06:40 AM)debrouxl Wrote: Many bonus points for making the communication layer interoperable, open source, under a permissive license.

Has HP released the communication specs? Where? I can't find it.

debrouxl · 07-22-2015, 08:49 AM

Oh, I meant that many bonus points would be awarded if HP made their reference computer-side implementation of the communication layer open source, under a permissive license.
For instance, maintained in a Github repository that people can contribute to, like libti* and libhpcalcs are.

The communication specs are no secret. At the time of this writing, the most advanced and reliable third-party implementation (and therefore documentation) of these protocols remains libhpcalcs.

KlaasKuperus · 07-23-2015, 07:16 AM

(07-20-2015 09:38 PM)Dan B Wrote: And an iOS Prime app please!

End of the year! Smile

Dan B · 07-23-2015, 11:40 PM

(07-23-2015 07:16 AM)KlaasKuperus Wrote:
(07-20-2015 09:38 PM)Dan B Wrote: And an iOS Prime app please!

End of the year!

Yahoo! Thanks!

smp · 07-24-2015, 08:43 PM

Hello all,

I am a brand new (as of today) HP Prime user (G8X92AA 2015 Version).

How does one get the Prime to display what version of code is currently installed in it?

Thanks very much in advance.

smp

smp · 07-24-2015, 09:30 PM

(07-24-2015 08:43 PM)smp Wrote: Hello all,

I am a brand new (as of today) HP Prime user (G8X92AA 2015 Version).

How does one get the Prime to display what version of code is currently installed in it?

Thanks very much in advance.

smp

Hello again,

I've successfully installed the HP Prime Connectivity Kit on my MacBook Pro in Windows XP running on Parallels.

I can get the current application version through the Connectivity Kit: 20141203 v6975 but the software version comes up as blank. Is this normal?

Thanks again for your patience and assistance.

smp

Michael de Estrada · 07-24-2015, 10:30 PM

(07-24-2015 08:43 PM)smp Wrote: How does one get the Prime to display what version of code is currently installed in it?

Help -> Tree -> About HP Prime

smp · 07-24-2015, 11:16 PM

(07-24-2015 10:30 PM)Michael de Estrada Wrote:
(07-24-2015 08:43 PM)smp Wrote: How does one get the Prime to display what version of code is currently installed in it?

Help -> Tree -> About HP Prime

Super! I keep forgetting to check out the soft keys...

Thanks very much for the answer, Michael.

smp

Joe Horn · 07-25-2015, 02:44 AM

(07-24-2015 10:30 PM)Michael de Estrada Wrote:
(07-24-2015 08:43 PM)smp Wrote: How does one get the Prime to display what version of code is currently installed in it?

Help -> Tree -> About HP Prime

Also try the VERSION command, which was added in a firmware upgrade a while ago.

smp · 07-25-2015, 09:00 PM

(07-25-2015 02:44 AM)Joe Horn Wrote: Also try the VERSION command, which was added in a firmware upgrade a while ago.

Ha! Thanks very much, Joe. That worked for me.

From the HOME screen, I got a long single line of text that contained all the lines that I saw using the Help -> Tree -> About HP Prime command.

smp

Joe Horn · (This post was last modified: 07-26-2015 05:16 AM by Joe Horn.)

(07-25-2015 09:00 PM)smp Wrote: From the HOME screen, I got [from the VERSION command] a long single line of text that contained all the lines that I saw using the Help -> Tree -> About HP Prime command.

Although it SEEMS to be a single line, it actually contains carriage returns between the lines... but carriage returns are not displayed in the history. You can see the *real* contents of VERSION by executing:

PRINT(VERSION)

The result will look very familiar.

smp · 07-26-2015, 10:35 AM

(07-26-2015 05:16 AM)Joe Horn Wrote: Although it SEEMS to be a single line, it actually contains carriage returns between the lines... but carriage returns are not displayed in the history. You can see the *real* contents of VERSION by executing:

PRINT(VERSION)

The result will look very familiar.

Excellent! Thanks very much for your patience and assistance.

smp

Cristian Arezzini · 08-01-2015, 09:52 PM

Hello,
I only run Linux on my computers, and I have a virtual Windows XP where I run my connectivity kit. Since the new CK doesn't work on XP anymore, does this mean that I can't update my Prime any more? Upgrading Windows is not an option. Can I just download the firmware and install it using the older CK, and if so, how?

Thanks,
Cristian

eried · (This post was last modified: 08-01-2015 10:13 PM by eried.)

(08-01-2015 09:52 PM)Cristian Arezzini Wrote: Hello,
I only run Linux on my computers, and I have a virtual Windows XP where I run my connectivity kit. Since the new CK doesn't work on XP anymore, does this mean that I can't update my Prime any more? Upgrading Windows is not an option. Can I just download the firmware and install it using the older CK, and if so, how?

Thanks,
Cristian

You can download an updated vm without having to manually upgrade your old ones here:
http://dev.modern.ie/tools/vms/windows/

And set a snapshot with the CK running and done.