HP42S commands with symbols renaming advice

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(02-13-2018 11:32 AM)salvomic Wrote:  Wonderful, Andy, thank you!

Another way to love DM42/Free42/HP42s!

Salvo

Thanks Salvo. I agree - in fact I'm specifically targeting the HP42S/Free42/DM42 because it is the HP design that I love the most. I am so happy that Free42 will always be there and that the DM42 was recently created.

Python does open up possibilities for the DM42 e.g. I ported some graphic primitive routines originally written for the Raspberry Pi in C into Python:

Code:


draw_line(x0, y0, x1, y1)
draw_rect(x0, y0, w, h)
fill_rect(x0, y0, w, h)
draw_circle(x0, y0, r)
fill_circle(x0, y0, r)

which I then converted to HP42S RPN using my converter. This then allowed me to create images like this:



and targeting the larger screen size of the DM42 - this image:



Creating these drawing primitives directly in RPN would have been a big project for someone, I think. It only took me a few hours using Python, and I could draw upon existing algorithms I found on the internet.