On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Axel Dörfler <axeld@pinc-softwar
e.de>
wrote:
John Scipione <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have attached a new patch to ticket #5203 at
http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/5203
This patch will ensure that deskcalc will (almost) always fit the
result in the display window. An easy way to test the code is to
make the window short and wide and type pi or sin(0.5) and watch
the
digits fill the screen. Then make the window tall and narrow and
watch the result come back puny and inaccurately.
I know I'm a bit late with this objection, but I find it pretty
strange to limit the computation accuracy to the window size. Can't
we just make sure that the interesting part of the result is alway
shown (and you'd have to scroll to get more accuracy)?
Or does it internally still use the more accurate number for
further
computations?
DeskCalc could be made to use some arbitrary accuracy independent of
the window size, in fact, that is how it worked before I began (32
digits). But then the result may or may not fit in the text view
which
is ugly, the cursor gets put at the rightmost end of the result
(correctly) but that is ugly because you can't see the beginning
of the
result without resizing or scrolling. Scrolling is of course an
option
but doesn't really solve the underlying problem.
I could see imposing a maximum precision (lets say 32 digits) and
not
calculating beyond that no matter what your window size is but I
don't
see a reason why I should. Most users won't notice or care, for
the few
who want more accuracy they'll be able to get it. Either way the
result
will fit in the text view and look nice.
