Re: WP 34s emulator - "Official" Version Message #25 Posted by Marcus von Cube, Germany on 13 Mar 2013, 4:30 a.m., in response to message #1 by Paul Townsend (UK)
To make things clear: There just isn't an official version of the WP 34S emulator. There are just different (and independent) implementations:
wp34sgui.exe (and its associated DLL) was the first implementation. It is a derivative of HP's SDK of the 20b. I had to change it to match the WP 34S but essentially its still the SDK GUI, based on Microsoft MFC technology. I pack it together with the firmware files and the manual for convenience and historical reasons. I use it mainly to debug the core functions of WP 34S because that's much more convenient than debugging on the hardware.
The separate emulator packages are the work of Pascal and are based on a cross platform GUI toolkit: Qt. This makes it possible to make the emulators available on multiple platforms such as on Linux or on the Mac. For an end user I'd recommend these, not the original emulator mentioned above. But on Windows you have the choice...
BTW, the old emulator executes the green function of a key if you right click on it.
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