Re: [43S] Display Message #30 Posted by David Hayden on 12 Mar 2013, 1:15 p.m., in response to message #1 by Walter B
This looks great. I prefer the "times ten to the power" method shown rather than "E". If hi res displays were available in 1972, they would have done this from the start.
A few questions:
If you want to display complex numbers using more decimal places, what happens? Does it take two lines? Scroll horizontally? If it scrolls, how does the user know that there is more to see?
The display seems to show decimal numbers grouped by threes with a little extra space between groups. Is that intentional and is that what you mean by "following ISO?" It appears that hex numbers are in two-digit groups.
It looks like there would be room for another line in the display if we sacrificed the blue and yellow soft key labels. Is this an option? This might be handy, especially if pressing a prefix key changed the one remaining line of soft key labels so it showed the function invoked with the prefixed key. Put another way, I'm suggesting an option so that, for example, the LOG menu would show just one line of soft menus - the one at the bottom. If you press the yellow prefix key, the menu would change to the one shown on the yellow line. Pressing the blue key would change it to the one on the blue line. In exchange for this inconvenience, the user would gain an extra line of text in the main part of the screen.
Thanks for all your hard work and willingness to consider input from others.
Dave
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