Keyboard display

XCALC contains an editable keyboard that can be operated with the mouse, giving access to all functions. This keyboard will change according to which radix you select XCALC to operate in, and also to different defaults depending on the number of key columns you choose to display.

Most of the keys should be self-explanatory. If not, tooltips are provided, hopefully giving enough help. The tooltips also show the keyboard shortcuts in brackets. Using the keyboard is generally much faster, and is of course recommended… (Note: Ctrl-F1 or Alt-K will give you quick help with the keyboard mapping.)

Here are quick explanations to some of the less “normal” keys:

Decimal/Complex:

Complex:

Note that the text on the keys is drawn using a combination of the standard scaleable Arial and Symbol fonts; the latter includes most of the common symbols like Ö and p, but the combination does not always look exactly right. The keyboard can look especially ugly below an 800 by 600 resolution. It may also happen that the key captions are just a little to big with certain XCALC size settings, so that the letters are chopped. Sorry about that…

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