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Stoic Joker:
New computer, new OS, and a new IDE (Visual Studio 2013) ... And no idea what to do with'em. So I thought I'd toss together a small idiot project while I was getting used to the new trinity (eek!).

And while looking for ideas it occurred that the new calculator that comes with Windows 10 is just about the fugliest piece of software I've ever seen. The Metro flat UI is just flat-out cringe worthy, to the point that I don't even care what sort of fun/handy stuff it can do ... I just can't stand to look at ghastly the thing.

So I put together a very basic -(and probably equally hideous when I sober up)- calculator using C#/NET4, and every silly assed UI option I could find in VS13.


Download should be below...assuming I got it attached properly.

Ath:
You might want to add a hex/dec/oct conversion option to attract the tech-savvy crowd here, but it looks refreshingly different in the awfully white Win10 world :Thmbsup:

TaoPhoenix:
New computer, new OS, and a new IDE (Visual Studio 2013) ... And no idea what to do with'em. So I thought I'd toss together a small idiot project while I was getting used to the new trinity (eek!).

And while looking for ideas it occurred that the new calculator that comes with Windows 10 is just about the fugliest piece of software I've ever seen. The Metro flat UI is just flat-out cringe worthy, to the point that I don't even care what sort of fun/handy stuff it can do ... I just can't stand to look at ghastly the thing.

So I put together a very basic -(and probably equally hideous when I sober up)- calculator using C#/NET4, and every silly assed UI option I could find in VS13.
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-Stoic Joker (September 05, 2015, 11:27 PM)
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Since I have no frame of reference, being on a creaking XP box, I dunno the original source of pain, but it wouldn't surprise me that they're starting to get lazy on the little things!

I'd say do a few more things and then it's ... New Content ... for DC 2.0!
- Add a bit of a UI wrapper around the edges, maybe a quarter inch, with rounded corners, so that it doesn't quite feel like it "drops off a cliff" at the edges.
- Add theming, give users a choice of some five colors for the middle instead of Maroon-something you have now.
- It doesn't seem to be number pad aware yet. That's huge - Except my phone the only time I'd use a calc prog is with the number pad.

And then off it goes! Stoic Joker Approved! Implicit MS Bashing!

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Stoic Joker:
You might want to add a hex/dec/oct conversion option to attract the tech-savvy crowd here, but it looks refreshingly different in the awfully white Win10 world :Thmbsup:-Ath (September 06, 2015, 04:38 AM)
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Thanks, I was going for something style wise that was just a tad Steampunk. The problem with conversions, is that if I add one that may be handy it opens the door to more and more and more. And I really just wanted to keep this as simple as possible. This is why there isn't a square root button...because I've never in my life found a need for getting the square root of anything...so it was dropped in favor of other things I have found need for (frequently) in the past.

It is however an adventure in creating something finger friendly, which is why it's spread out farther than any of the other programs I've done in the past.


- Add a bit of a UI wrapper around the edges, maybe a quarter inch, with rounded corners, so that it doesn't quite feel like it "drops off a cliff" at the edges.-TaoPhoenix (September 06, 2015, 06:18 AM)
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I see what you're driving at, but I have no idea how to do that. I can try...but no promises.

- Add theming, give users a choice of some five colors for the middle instead of Maroon-something you have now.-TaoPhoenix (September 06, 2015, 06:18 AM)
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Maroon?? Zoiks! ...It's supposed to be a brownish wood tone. I wonder what the rest of the world sees it as..


- It doesn't seem to be number pad aware yet. That's huge - Except my phone the only time I'd use a calc prog is with the number pad.-TaoPhoenix (September 06, 2015, 06:18 AM)
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Same here, and the number pad should work (it does here). Is there no response from anything, or is it just certain keys that don't seem to behave?

Deozaan:
Since I have no frame of reference, being on a creaking XP box, I dunno the original source of pain, but it wouldn't surprise me that they're starting to get lazy on the little things!
-TaoPhoenix (September 06, 2015, 06:18 AM)
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Here is an image of two modes of the Windows 10 calculator:

Basic Calculator

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