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What has the DM41 extra over the HP42s?
11-05-2020, 01:00 PM
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RE: What has the DM41 extra over the HP42s?
I just checked and it turns out that there is a silly bug in GETKEY that causes it to catch Shift-EXIT ("catch" as in "not stop"), which the real HP-42S doesn't. Doh. I'll fix that.

I'm not entirely comfortable changing the behavior of GETKEY, though. I agree that catching EXIT (and Shift-EXIT) is basically safe as long as R/S is not caught, but because the "running" annunciator is off during GETKEY, it is not obvious that R/S is the key to use to get out of, say, a game that uses GETKEY. I'd be inclined to hit EXIT when the calculator is in an unusual mode and I want to get out.

I could add another GETKEY, let's call it GETKEY1 for purposes of discussion, that does catch EXIT and Shift-EXIT. Adding a preferences setting to control the EXIT behavior of the regular GETKEY is just going to cause confusion, I think.

Thoughts?
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RE: What has the DM41 extra over the HP42s? - Thomas Okken - 11-05-2020 01:00 PM



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