Re: [Freedos-devel] ideas about FreeDOS resident calculator

2007-04-11 Thread Ladislav Lacina
registers work as stacks so no confusion whether read or not read can't occur. - Original Message - From: Tony G [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 10:37 PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] ideas about FreeDOS resident calculator I still

Re: [Freedos-devel] ideas about FreeDOS resident calculator

2007-04-11 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, well, honestly, I think the most in style way to have an API for FDRC would be to have a way to send strings like 4+sqrt(2) to the calculator and receive a string with the result. Maybe with some extra functions like round(2, 4+sqrt(2)) which would return 5.41 and hex(42) (returns 2a) and

Re: [Freedos-devel] ideas about FreeDOS resident calculator

2007-04-11 Thread tom ehlert
Hi, well, honestly, I think there's absolutely no use for an API for FDRC. make the CalcResultFromString portion of FDRC a separate source, linkable to every program that likes to have a calculator. Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards, Tom Ehlert +49-241-79886

Re: [Freedos-devel] ideas about FreeDOS resident calculator

2007-04-11 Thread Ladislav Lacina
Yes, exactly. We need only few functions: * check whether is driver present * compute matematical expression (*) set precision for floating point numbers (*) some extra function for operations like arithmetical mean - Take

Re: [Freedos-devel] ideas about FreeDOS resident calculator

2007-04-11 Thread Aitor Santamaría
I support this idea too, and for the operators, let me suggest using C-style ones, given the big amount of C-compatible languages, not only C/C++ but also Java, ecma-script and derivatives, etc. I am not saying to support them all: - there's no sense for =, +=, -=, etc, unless you implement some

Re: [Freedos-devel] ideas about FreeDOS resident calculator

2007-04-10 Thread Oleg O. Chukaev
Ladislav Lacina wrote: FDRC is nice and comfortable. But you could go further. Now is the TSR module called by hotkey. What about making a alternate interface through some interrupt? Now FDRC serves to users but if you would make some API let's say on 2Fh DOS multiplex it could serve to

Re: [Freedos-devel] ideas about FreeDOS resident calculator

2007-04-10 Thread Ladislav Lacina
in memory). Which functions should be available via INT 2f except these? Maybe conversions from/to another number representation systems. 255dec = FFh = b - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT

Re: [Freedos-devel] ideas about FreeDOS resident calculator

2007-04-10 Thread Tony G
@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 1:16 PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] ideas about FreeDOS resident calculator Ladislav Lacina wrote: FDRC is nice and comfortable. But you could go further. Now is the TSR module called by hotkey. What about making a alternate interface through some interrupt? Now

[Freedos-devel] ideas about FreeDOS resident calculator

2007-04-07 Thread Ladislav Lacina
FDRC is nice and comfortable. But you could go further. Now is the TSR module called by hotkey. What about making a alternate interface through some interrupt? Now FDRC serves to users but if you would make some API let's say on 2Fh DOS multiplex it could serve to programmers also. I would like

Re: [Freedos-devel] ideas about FreeDOS resident calculator

2007-04-07 Thread Johnson Lam
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 13:38:57 +0200, you wrote: This all is needed because Blo?ek works in VESA graphics mode so the dialog window of FDRC can't be displayed. I wonder nowadays display card still have support of VESA or not. UNIVBE refuse to work long ago, and other free VESA drivers stopped

Re: [Freedos-devel] ideas about FreeDOS resident calculator

2007-04-07 Thread Tony
are part of the FDRC published under the ... license. - Original Message - From: Ladislav Lacina To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 7:38 AM Subject: [Freedos-devel] ideas about FreeDOS resident calculator FDRC is nice and comfortable