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[Octavian Damiean <odamiean@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 11:14 PM, Bruno Girin <brunogirin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The fact that you can scroll back to see previous results is not easily
> discoverable as the animation that pushes the previous result up is
> rather fast. Some visual hint that you can scroll back through previous
> results would be good.
>

Agreed. There should be some kind of visual indicator once there is some
content to which you can scroll. Maybe some nicely styled circumflexes

^   ^   ^

Something like this.


> Similarly, the fact that you can scroll the keyboard to get to more
> functions is not easily discoverable.


This is kind of move is the default system wide way to get more options, I
think it won't be all too problematic.


> Finally, I would render the C and backspace keys in different colours to
> highlight that they do something special compared to the others. And
> possibly move them to the right as this is where they tend to be on
> physical calculators (i.e. swap them with the parentheses).
>

Agreed.

On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Andrew Flegg <andrew@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> No, I think the right fix (although I'm not on the Calculator team) is
> to keep it evaluating as you type, but *if* the expression results in
> a syntax error *don't* show that (instead, a blank or the last result)
> *unless* another key has been pressed.
>
> i.e.
>
>     Typed                      | Display
>   -----------------------------+-----------
>     4                          | 4
>     4 +                        | 4
>     4 + 2                      | 6
>     4 + 20                     | 24
>     4 + 20 -                   | 24
>     4 + 20 - /                 | syntax error
>     4 + 20 - / bksp            | 24
>     4 + 20 - / bksp 6          | 18
>
> Hopefully that makes sense.


That makes sense! I like this idea a lot.

Cheers,
Octavian