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Seeking DIY4X update Message #1 Posted by David Griffith on 11 Nov 2012, 3:12 p.m. I'm hungry for an update on the DIY4X project. Any news on case material and manufacture? What's the status of the code? Any sort of deadlines or such?

Re: Seeking DIY4X update Message #2 Posted by Eric Smith on 11 Nov 2012, 4:15 p.m., in response to message #1 by David Griffith All further work is on DIY5. At the HHC conference there was an overwhelming lack of interest in a 41C-compatible calculator; all of the interest was in calculators more like the 42S and WP-34S. Case material is ABS plastic. If there was any news I'd have posted it here already.

Re: Seeking DIY4X update Message #3 Posted by Ángel Martin on 12 Nov 2012, 8:50 a.m., in response to message #2 by Eric Smith Hi Eric, I recently watched the HHC video with your talk. I could not see the raise of hands when you asked "41 vs. 42 ALPHA style", but I hope the "soft ALPHA" didn't win.... or it did? Looking forward to DIY5!

Re: Seeking DIY4X update Message #4 Posted by Walter B on 12 Nov 2012, 9:41 a.m., in response to message #3 by Ángel Martin AFAIK, alpha letters are requested to be printed on the keyplate like on the WP 34S.

Re: Seeking DIY4X update Message #5 Posted by Matt Agajanian on 12 Nov 2012, 8:21 p.m., in response to message #4 by Walter B How would the extended symbols/punctuation characters be entered? For example, might '&' be entered like this: [ALPHA] [g SHIFT] [9] ?

Re: Seeking DIY4X update Message #6 Posted by Walter B on 13 Nov 2012, 4:59 a.m., in response to message #5 by Matt Agajanian Not decided yet. Please see pp.62 and 129 of the WP 34S manual for a viable approach on a platform not allowing for menus. Keyboard space is still limited - so some mental links are necessary to avoid clutter - while menu space is abundant on a DIY5 allowing for softkeys. Edited: 13 Nov 2012, 5:05 a.m.

Re: Seeking DIY4X update Message #7 Posted by Eric Smith on 13 Nov 2012, 5:50 p.m., in response to message #6 by Walter B I think it would be perfectly fine to have a character menu in addition to the character-per-key ALPHA mode. Didn't the 48 have that?

Re: Seeking DIY4X update Message #8 Posted by Eric Smith on 12 Nov 2012, 7:12 p.m., in response to message #3 by Ángel Martin My recollection is that no one wanted to the 42S-style alpha soft menu.

Re: Seeking DIY4X update Message #9 Posted by Ángel Martin on 13 Nov 2012, 4:50 a.m., in response to message #8 by Eric Smith Quote: no one wanted to the 42S-style alpha soft menu. Thank goodness for that :-)

Re: Seeking DIY4X update Message #10 Posted by David Griffith on 14 Nov 2012, 10:05 p.m., in response to message #8 by Eric Smith I kind of like the way the HP42s does menus

Re: Seeking DIY4X update Message #11 Posted by Eric Smith on 15 Nov 2012, 12:41 a.m., in response to message #10 by David Griffith Surely you don't like using the menu for ALPHA mode? Everyone else seems to prefer the character-per-key approach, like the 41 and 48.

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