WP-32S in 2016?

[rprosperi]

(01-07-2016 02:54 PM)walter b Wrote:  Since those Jedis seem to be rather scattered or in a universe far, far away right now, my team of underpaid but willing designers attacked the job and returned with this:



Like each and every piece of (fairly) good design, it's almost self-explanatory. And you've got a further advantage: you know some RPN calcs already. As usual, comments, remarks, proposals for improvement, etc. are most welcome.

d:-)

(Due to 'almost' above: the dot matrix LCD may toggle between both kinds of displays as shown here - as long as a menu is displayed, the respective four softkeys are shown instead of the second display line, else the other display layout applies.)

Nice start Walter, thanks for taking the time to create and submit a layout.

It will take some time of sitting with the proposed layout, DM-15L and WP-34S in front of me to understand it even half-well.

Some early questions and comments:

1. What functionality beyond the current WP-34S is included?

2. Do soft menus work like on the 42S? Is Alpha included? Seems not needed, since Alpha keyboard is present.

3. I agree with comment above that the Greek labels should be omitted to favor a cleaner/less cluttered layout. I suspect that most users use none or only a couple of these (depending on their application area - stats, physics, etc.) and so could remember those he/she uses.

Perhaps 2 sets of overlays could be considered?

4. Is the top left key a toggle for Alpha-ON / Alpha-Greek / Alpha-OFF or is it Alpha-ON / Alpha-OFF and Blue-[key] while Alpha is on enters the Greek letter for that key?

Looking forward to watch this evolve.