SpeedCrunch for the Mac
Thanks to Matt of A Qt Blog SpeedCrunch now comes as a Mac OS X bundle. It has been tested on a PPC Mac, but is supposed to be universal. The size of the download is pretty large (12 MB) but that includes Qt 4 and support for both x86 and PPC. Oh - one more thing - it does not support translations yet - but the numbers are the same everywhere so as long as you can live with English you will be ok.
posted by Johan Thelin @ 20:25
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Well, actually, numbers are not quite the same, or rather, the delimiters aren't. The version of speedcrunch that I got with some Kubuntu (iirc) didn't follow my settings for , and . -- making it quite hard to use.
SpeedCrunch works with the 123.456 format, as opposed to 123,456 that is used in many contries. SpeedCrunch has been implemented so that pressing comma yeilds a dot in the editor widget. This means that you can always use the numeric keypad - regardless if the delimiter key is a comma or a dot. Afaik Kubuntu ships with 0.6 - try getting Qt 4 and version 0.7 to experience this.
Er... My laptop doesn't have a numeric keypad (if you don't count the option to make half of the alphanumeric keypad numeric, which doesn't work for other reasons). In general, especially when speedcrunch replaces kcalc in a distro, it's better to conform to LOCALE settings. At least, that's what would work for me :-)
Boudewjn
I agree that it would be nice in some situations - but not in others.
I live and work in Sweden where comma is used as the delimiter. This means that, for example, Excel expects commas when importing csv files. However, if you run an English version, the same file will not work.
Also, in all programming languages I've used the decision has been to use the dot everywhere.
As I view SpeedCrunch as some sort of programming language (it parses, compiles and runs expressions) the decision to use dot instead of comma feels natural.
Also, since commas typed in are transformed into dots (at least in version 0.7) it is a non-issue there. All that happens is that you might get confused from typing commas and getting dots - but the calculator thing works and since SpeedCrunch is a calculator - that is what counts :-)
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