Re: HP-42S emulator for Pocket PC? Message #8 Posted by Jeff O. on 9 Aug 2004, 11:09 p.m., in response to message #7 by Don Davis
Don,
My guess is that the effect you describe (screen width not matching keyboard width) stems from the way the 42S 16x131 pixel (if I recall correctly) display gets mapped to the display of the emulating device. The 240W x 268H pixel display of the PDA is not wide enough to use a 2x2 array for each 42S pixel. Therefore the 42S display must be mapped one for one, so it is not as wide as the total PDA screen. The keyboard is just a graphic image that you can make look any way you want. It is not restricted by a physical aspect of the real 42S, so you can use the whole width of the PDA screen to make it look as good as possible. (The preceding is my analysis based on my understanding of the way emu48 works.)
However, this should not be a problem with the soft menus. With the KML scripting, you can make it possible to actually just click on the menu label when it appears, i.e. you can map that key function to that area of the screen, so you won't need to press the “key” associated with that menu function.
I hope the above is clear, if not ask and I'll try to provide more info.
Edited: 10 Aug 2004, 7:35 a.m.
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