Hanj
July 16th, 2005, 09:54 PM
One thing that has always been bugging me is the calculator apps that come with Gnome, KDE, Windows, etc. These are all quite simple and only capable of doing one operation at a time. I wanted something more like a Ti-83, capable of evaluating entire expressions, graph drawing, etc, while still being small and easy to use. So, I decided to write my own application.
I'm actually quite happy with the result so far, and I would really like to know what people think about it. Is the project worth continuing to work on? A jar file (requires Sun's JRE1.5 to run) can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/sacic. This version is far from finished and is likely to be full of bugs, but it still has features such as arbitrary-precision evaluation of mathematical expressions, graph drawing, numerical derivation, variable handling and conversion between bases. It also supports a simple scripting "language" - more info about this in the readme.
So if you're interested, please try it out and tell me what you think. (Screenshot here (http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=143907) by the way. Maybe the GUI needs to be a little more appealing ;)).
I'm actually quite happy with the result so far, and I would really like to know what people think about it. Is the project worth continuing to work on? A jar file (requires Sun's JRE1.5 to run) can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/sacic. This version is far from finished and is likely to be full of bugs, but it still has features such as arbitrary-precision evaluation of mathematical expressions, graph drawing, numerical derivation, variable handling and conversion between bases. It also supports a simple scripting "language" - more info about this in the readme.
So if you're interested, please try it out and tell me what you think. (Screenshot here (http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=143907) by the way. Maybe the GUI needs to be a little more appealing ;)).