Bigger font display

[Raymond Del Tondo]

Hello all,

here's a small teaser for the last days of this year;-)

Eyes are aging, so I rather prefer larger font sizes if possible.

The HP-32S is a compact and very light option if you simply want to easily see the digits.
The DM32 may be an alternative, but it's still in development,
and the DM42 doesn't offer a really big font unfortunately.

But there's another option: The Prime with a customized RPN stack environment.
       

The stack environment on the pics uses the core functionality of Jacob Wall's "RPN Prime SurveyCalc", with all surveying, language, and units stuff removed.
All display routines are new and made my me, and offer 7 different stack font sizes.
And you can choose either the internal font, or the HP48 style font, where the latter allows for really big digits:-)

The method for scaling the HP48 style font doesn't use the BLIT_P projecting feature,
since that method is slower than using pre-scaled font data, and BLIT_P just for copying 1:1.
I can explain the implementation details at a later time.

The RPN stack environment has not been published yet,
since I wait for a feedback from Jacob.

[DG7RBN]

Interesting. Looks like the Prime is finally getting a more flexible and versatile RPN interface (as the "old" HP calcs). As Jacob stated, Moravia and the official developers no longer seem to put much effort into it.
Good luck and looking forward to the results.
Andreas

[deSitter]

(12-27-2023 10:58 AM)Raymond Del Tondo Wrote:  Hello all,

here's a small teaser for the last days of this year;-)

Eyes are aging, so I rather prefer larger font sizes if possible.

The HP-32S is a compact and very light option if you simply want to easily see the digits.
The DM32 may be an alternative, but it's still in development,
and the DM42 doesn't offer a really big font unfortunately.

But there's another option: The Prime with a customized RPN stack environment.


The stack environment on the pics uses the core functionality of Jacob Wall's "RPN Prime SurveyCalc", with all surveying, language, and units stuff removed.
All display routines are new and made my me, and offer 7 different stack font sizes.
And you can choose either the internal font, or the HP48 style font, where the latter allows for really big digits:-)

The method for scaling the HP48 style font doesn't use the BLIT_P projecting feature,
since that method is slower than using pre-scaled font data, and BLIT_P just for copying 1:1.
I can explain the implementation details at a later time.

The RPN stack environment has not been published yet,
since I wait for a feedback from Jacob.

Yeah baby! Let's get this stack in order!!!

-drl