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Windows Calculator: A simple yet powerful calculator that ships with Windows
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History in Programmer mode #1443

Open m-7761 opened 4 years ago

m-7761 commented 4 years ago

326 and many other tickets say that History is disabled in Programmer mode. That's just unacceptable, and not to mention confusing.

MicrosoftIssueBot commented 4 years ago

This is your friendly Microsoft Issue Bot. I've seen this issue come in and have gone to tell a human about it.

grochocki commented 4 years ago

I think adding history support would be great! The only issue I can see blocking adding history support to programmer mode would be figure out how to treat the radix in history items.

Any thoughts on these? Unless I am missing something else, if we can resolve those open questions, then this feels like a great addition to this mode to be consistent with the others.

m-7761 commented 4 years ago

@grochocki IMO you're over thinking it. The history should just show the text as entered. Store the real numeric values converted to binary, show the written text in ASCII. Did this never work in past calculators? It seems lazy to not implement it, but it's genuinely confusing and so a bad user experience.