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2025-02-16: release 3.2.3
* Added a few characters to the character set, in order to allow copying and
pasting text between Free42 and Plus42 without losing information.
* iOS version: Implemented Swipe to Delete in the file selector dialog.
2025-02-13: release 3.2.2
* The CUSTOM menu didn't stick reliably, due to a bug introduced in 3.2. Fixed.
2025-02-07: release 3.2.1
* Fixed crash when trying to load invalid skins.
* Added IDENT function. This returns the app's version number as an integer,
in aabbccdd format, with 3.1.12b formatted as 3011202, for example.
* XROMs are now decoded immediately when pasting.
* iOS version: Removed noise from annunciator area in the Standard-4" and
Standard-X skins.
2025-01-25: release 3.2b (Android and iOS)
* More keyboard fixes.
2025-01-24: release 3.2a (Android only)
* Pop-up keyboard typing fixes.
2025-01-23: release 3.2
* Program locking, to prevent accidental editing of programs. This is done
using the LOCK and UNLOCK functions. See the Free42 web site for details.
* Improved display contrast in the built-in skins.
* Android and iOS versions: Pop-up ALPHA keyboard, for easier text entry.
* Linux version: Dark Mode support.
2025-01-01: release 3.1.12b (Android only)
* Rolling back the beeper fix from the previous release. It was not performing
as intended. Back to the drawing board.
2024-12-28: release 3.1.12a (Android only)
* Made TONE and BEEP play audio asynchronously. This should fix the occasional
crashes caused by those functions hogging the UI too long.
2024-12-22: release 3.1.12
* Fixed pasting of GETMI, PUTMI, GETLI, and PUTLI.
2024-12-13: release 3.1.11
* Added option to show the active keyboard map superimposed on the skin. The
desktop versions have this in the Help menu, and the mobile versions have it
in the About dialog.
* Added functions for direct access to matrix and list elements: GETMI, PUTMI,
GETLI, and PUTLI. See the Free42 web site for details.
* iOS and MacOS versions: Improved Dark Mode support.
2024-11-14: release 3.1.10
* Now pre-populating state name for States -> More -> Rename.
2024-10-27: release 3.1.9
* Implemented GETKEYA. This works like GETKEY, except that it will not wait for
a keystroke if no keystrokes are in the keyboard queue, returning 0 instead
in that case.
* Android version: Fixed crash with relative file imports.
2024-05-28: release 3.1.8b (Android only)
* Fixed crash for certain unrecognized key codes from Bluetooth keyboards.
2024-05-15: release 3.1.8a (Android, iOS, and MacOS)
* PSE could halt program execution if it was used right after TONE or BEEP.
Fixed.
2024-04-24: release 3.1.8
* Fixed ALPHA pasting during command entry.
2024-03-30: release 3.1.7
* Now recognizing comment delimiters '@' and ';' for program pasting.
* More accurate complex ASIN/ASINH.
2024-03-26: release 3.1.6
* Accuracy improvements for C.LN1+X, and complex LN, ATAN, and ATANH.
2024-03-22: release 3.1.5b (iOS, Windows, and MacOS)
* Windows version: Fixed display flicker using buffered painting.
* iOS and MacOS versions: Changed skin loader to use WKWebView.
2024-03-21: release 3.1.5a (Windows only)
* Reduced display blurriness when the main window is resized.
2024-03-07: release 3.1.5
* Direct command mapping now supports alternate mappings for ALPHA mode.
* Windows version: Fixed a couple of display glitches.
2024-03-04: release 3.1.4g (Windows, MacOS, and Linux)
* Windows, MacOS, and Linux versions: Constraining print-out window height to
multiples of 18 pixels, that is, to a whole number of lines.
* Windows version: Fixed skin rendering problem in Windows Vista.
* Linux version: Fixed a few bugs related to main window resizing.
2024-03-01: release 3.1.4f (Linux only)
* Resizable main window.
* Ctrl-D shortcut for Clear Print-Out.
2024-02-28: release 3.1.4e (iOS, Windows, and MacOS)
* iOS version: Fixed crash when sharing on iPad.
* Windows version: Σ+ looked like it was pressed at startup. Fixed.
* MacOS version: Fixed crash when making the main window too small.
2024-02-26: release 3.1.4d (Windows only)
* Resizable main window.
* Ctrl-D shortcut for Clear Print-Out.
2024-02-21: release 3.1.4c (MacOS only)
* Resizable main window.
* Command-D shortcut for Clear Print-Out.
2024-02-14: release 3.1.4b (iOS only)
* iPad support.
2024-02-09: release 3.1.4a (Android only)
* Fixed Alt-key handling.
2024-02-09: release 3.1.4
* Keyboard mapping fixes.
* Android version: Support for external keyboards.
* Linux version: Changed ALSA device from "plughw:0,0" to "default".
2024-01-24: release 3.1.3a (Android only)
* Fixed crash in File Management Menu.
* Fixed crash when importing or exporting to cloud storage.
2024-01-17: release 3.1.3
* Added C.LN1+X and C.E^X-1 functions. These are complex-capable versions of
LN1+X and E^X-1.
* Fixed pasting of strings that start with E.
* Binary version: When converting binary to decimal, only use 17 digits when
actually needed. This prevents 0.1 from turning into 1.0000000000000001e-1,
for example.
* iOS version: Support for external keyboards.
2023-12-18: release 3.1.2b (Android only)
* Fixed file access for Android >= 11.
2023-12-12: release 3.1.2a (iOS and MacOS)
* Fixed crash when loading skin images with local colormaps, caused by a bug in
Xcode 15.
2023-12-01: release 3.1.2
* CSLD? did not handle intervening XEQ/RTN. Fixed.
* FUNC did not detect previous FUNC/LNSTK/L4STK. Fixed.
2023-11-29: release 3.1.1
* In the matrix / list editor (EDIT and EDITN), GOTO would prompt for a column
even when editing a list, and any column number other than 1 would cause an
error. Lists are one-dimensional, so the user should only be asked for a row.
Fixed.
* iOS and MacOS versions: ASSIGN "" didn't work, because the second ENTER
wasn't being handled correctly. This was caused by an optimizer bug in
Apple's latest compiler. Fixed.
2023-11-15: release 3.1
* EDIT, EDITN, and INDEX now support editing lists, nested lists, empty lists,
and matrices within lists. See the Free42 web site for details.
* FUNC now hides the caller's RPN stack, so user-defined functions can use
functions like CLST and R↓ without causing side effects.
* User-defined functions can now be made to support 'stack lift disable'
properly. For functions using FUNC, this happens automatically, and other
functions can use the new CSLD? function (Caller's Stack Lift Disabled?).
* FNRM and UVEC, when called with very large parameters, could get incorrect
results due to overflows in intermediaries. Fixed.
* Fixed parameter bounds check in PIXEL.
* Windows, MacOS, and Linux versions: Keyboard maps now support separate
mappings for unshifted and shifted numeric keypad keys, and unshifted and
shifted Space.
2023-08-11: release 3.0.21
* INPUT would crash if R/S was pressed while the stack was empty, in NSTK mode.
Fixed.
* ANUM would consider a decimal point or comma by itself as zero, instead of
ignoring it. Fixed.
* EDIT, EDITN, and INDEX didn't clear flags 76 and 77 (matrix edge wrap and end
wrap), while they should. Fixed.
* Decimal version: In HMS+ and HMS-, fixed handling of cases where either or
both of the arguments has a number of minutes or seconds >= 60. (The binary
version did not have this bug.)
* Binary version: max digits for SHOW increased to 17. This was necessary
because 16 digits was actually never enough to begin with. For example, 5 1/X
and 5 SQRT X^2 1/X both returned a result that looked like 0.2 in SHOW, even
though they are different, as can be easily verified with X=Y? or by
subtracting them. It takes 17 decimal digits to ensure that different binary
numbers will always be rendered as different decimal numbers.
2023-04-19: release 3.0.20
* Changed Σ+/Σ- so that, in NSTK mode, they will accept a single real argument,
assuming Y=0 in that case.
* Tuned TONE frequencies to A440 scale.
2023-04-10: release 3.0.19a (iOS and MacOS)
* Copy in PRGM mode was dropping line 01, because of an optimizer bug in the
latest compiler. Reduced optimization level from -Os to -O1 to work around
this problem.
2023-04-05: release 3.0.19
* Fixed crash in RTNERR when switching back to NSTK mode after FUNC/L4STK.
* Fixed ASSIGN "" in programs.
* Added PRREG to the PRINT menu.
* NN→S now ignores the display mode and always acts like ALL mode is active.
The idea being that if you care about the display mode, you'll probably be
using N→S, and you only need NN→S if you specifically want to see full
internal precision.
2023-03-17: release 3.0.18
* EDIT, EDITN, and INDEX now support lists, acting like they are 1-column
matrices. (Empty lists are not supported, they must have at least one
element. This limitation will be removed in a future release. Note that you
can create a new 1-element list by simply doing NEWLIST 0 +.)
This includes STOIJ, RCLIJ, STOEL, RCLEL, I+, I-, J+, J-, ←, ↑, ↓, →, INSR,
DELR, and DIM.
* Added PRREG. Because PRV "REGS" is not a good substitute.
* Added NN→S. This works like N→S (convert number to string on the stack), but
without the 12-digit mantissa length limit, so you get full precision in ALL
mode.
* Fixed stack lift handling in DELR and STOFLAG.
* Fixed pasting 1/X, 10^X, and 4STK, when pasted without line number and with
trailing space.
2022-12-14: release 3.0.17
* Fixed a couple of bugs in Paste of scalars in BINM, OCTM, and HEXM modes.
* Fixed pasting of U+22A2 and U+22A6 ('append' characters used by i41CX and
Emu42).
2022-10-29: release 3.0.16
* SOLVE does a better job of reporting Sign Reversal when a function changes
sign around a vertical asymptote, instead of reporting it as a root.
* BASE: complex numbers were being copied in non-decimal bases in some cases.
* Better OCTM handling in SHOW.
* Fixed number entry in PRGM mode when BINM/OCTM/HEXM active.
* No longer setting flag 22 if number entry ends with DROP in NSTK mode.
* Added WIDTH and HEIGHT to CATALOG->MISC; moved A...F from CATALOG->MISC to
CATALOG->BASE.
2022-10-01: release 3.0.15
* Fixed crash in SHOW for certain complex numbers.
* Added A...F function. This allows programs to turn on HEXM mode with the
A...F menu activated.
* iOS version: Added Calculator / Print-Out swipe direction configuration
option to Preferences.
* Android, iOS, and MacOS ARM versions: Fixed incorrect Out of Range error
returned by BASE functions in certain cases, e.g. BRESET 64 WSIZE 1 ENTER
BASE÷.
2022-08-13: release 3.0.14
* Fixed (re,im) complex pasting. This was broken by localized copy & paste.
* Special cases for pure real and pure imaginary in SQRT.
2022-06-18: release 3.0.13a (iOS and MacOS)
* Fixed skin rendering for iOS 16 and MacOS 13.
2022-06-16: release 3.0.13
* Fixed handling of invalid number keys in BINM and OCTM modes.
* Windows and Linux versions: Fixed handling of non-ASCII separator characters.
2022-06-14: release 3.0.12
* Localized Copy & Paste.
* More accurate complex ACOS and ACOSH.
* SOLVE now handles functions that are always positive or always negative a bit
better, reporting Extremum when the iteration appears to be bouncing around
without improving, instead of continuing indefinitely.
* Added XVIEW function. This works like AVIEW, except it takes the string from
the X register instead of ALPHA, so it avoids the 44-character length limit.
* Android version: Now removes itself from the task list if exited using OFF.
2022-05-05: release 3.0.11a (Windows and Linux)
* More efficient display updating, so long-running programs that update the
display a lot don't waste a lot of CPU time repainting the display faster
than the human eye can see, and spend more time actually running the program
instead. Note that this update is for Windows and Linux only, because the
Android, iOS, and MacOS versions already worked this way.
2022-05-01: release 3.0.11
* Implemented LCLV: CLV for local variables only. The regular CLV now works on
global variables only.
* RND in ALL mode now rounds like in SCI 11, instead of doing nothing.
* HEAD, when applied to a string in a numbered register, would corrupt the
string if it was 16 characters long before the call (8 characters in the
binary version). Fixed.
* Y^X accuracy improvements with integer X.
* Fixed DUPN 2 in 4STK mode. It used to duplicate X into T and Y into Z.
DUPN in NSTK mode was not affected by this bug.
* Added WIDTH and HEIGHT functions. These always return 131 and 16,
respectively; this may not seem very useful, but can be used in programs that
are meant to work in both Free42 and Plus42, to allow them to take advantage
of the larger display when running in Plus42.
* L4STK didn't pad the stack to 4 levels when used without FUNC. Fixed.
* Binary version: ROTXY and DATE+ rounded toward negative infinity instead of
rounding toward zero. Fixed.
* Windows version: comes in 64-bit and 32-bit versions now.
* Windows and Linux versions: Now support fractional display scaling.
2022-01-27: release 3.0.10
* Added →LIST, LIST→, SKIP, CPXMAT?, and TYPE? functions, and changed the name
of PRMVAR to PGMVAR. See the Free42 web site for details.
* INPUT caused incorrect printer output in NORM and TRACE modes. Fixed.
* Escape sequences for undefined characters in Copy and Paste and printer
output.
* When the Y register contains a string or list, in RUN mode, the + key now
performs APPEND.
2021-12-29: release 3.0.9a (Windows only)
* Fixed crash when launching without state
2021-12-26: release 3.0.9
* Fixed handling of single-character strings in programs.
This was broken in the previous release.
2021-12-23: release 3.0.8
* Auto-repeat for XSTR, and ALPHA arguments in general.
* Windows, MacOS, and Linux versions: Keyboard mapping for CursorLeft to ←,
Shift-CursorLeft to <← and ↑, CursorRight to →, Shift-CursorRight to →> and
↓, and Delete to DEL, in menus.
* Android version: Fixed blurry print-out on certain devices.
2021-11-07: release 3.0.7
* A2LINE now handles strings that start with characters 127-255 in a more
sensible manner. Also, added A2+LINE function for generating appended
strings, since the old trick of using a string starting with character 127 no
longer works.
* More accurate complex TAN and TANH.
* RND did not handle large numbers correctly, failing to round off as many
digits as necessary in certain cases. Fixed.
* Σ+ and Σ- always wanted two arguments, even in NSTK mode, when X contained a
real matrix. Fixed.
* Copy and Paste now handle list objects.
2021-07-27: release 3.0.6
* Added string and list functions. See the Free42 web site for details.
* Added lowercase letters to the menu font.
2021-07-01: release 3.0.5
* L4STK could crash, due to an incorrect LNSTK fix in 3.0.2. Fixed.
* Fixed a couple of skin macro bugs: Failure to start program execution when
EXIT was pressed during VARMNU1, and UI freeze when starting program
execution in some cases.
2021-06-10: release 3.0.4
* Fixed bug in complex LU decomposition, which could lead to incorrect results
in INVRT, DET, and matrix division with complex matrices.
* FUNC and RTN now save and restore ERRMSG and ERRNO along with flag 25.
* Added RCOMPLX and PCOMPLX functions. These work like COMPLEX, except they
ignore flag 73 (POLAR mode) and instead always assume rectangular or polar
mode, respectively.
Also modified X2LINE so it uses RCOMPLX instead of COMPLEX when generating
program lines for complex numbers, so the generated code is correct
regardless of RECT/POLAR mode.
* MENU and VARMNU1 tweaks: The programmable menu is now cancelled whenever an
operation is performed that clears the RTN stack, such as BST, or GTO in RUN
mode. And in VARMNU1, don't trap EXIT when the menu was activated in RUN
mode, or when an operation was performed that cleared the RTN stack.
* Binary version: Fixed WSIZE to allow word size of 53.
* Paste fixes: In PRGM and ALPHA modes, Paste now clears any messages that may
have been left in the display from previous operations. (In RUN mode, this
was already the case.) Also, Paste now sets flag 22 when pasting real or
complex scalars into X, and sets flag 23 when pasting in ALPHA mode.
2021-04-28: release 3.0.3
* Implemented VARMNU1. This is a variation on VARMENU, with two differences: It
allows selecting a variable without having to press its menu button twice;
and it catches EXIT, performing CLA RUN when it is pressed.
* Implemented X2LINE and A2LINE functions. These non-programmable functions
create program lines containing the current contents of the X or ALPHA
registers, respectively.
* When INDEX or EDITN are performed on a local matrix, while another matrix is
already indexed, the IJ pointers are saved, and restored when the current
function returns.
* RTNERR now accepts a string instead of a numeric argument, so functions can
raise error messages other than the eight standard ones.
* Implemented ERRNO and ERRMSG functions. These return the error number and
error message, respectively, for the last error caught by flag 25.
* Implemented XSTR function, for creating strings directly in the X register.
* Fixed memory leak in the parameterized comparison functions.
2021-03-29: release 3.0.2
* Fixed possible stack corruption or crash due to LNSTK, when big stack mode is
already active.
* Fixed DROPN crash in 4STK mode.
* Fixed matrix editor's GOTO Row/Column when stack empty (big stack mode).
* Fixed bounds check bug in AGRAPH. This could cause nothing to be drawn when
the pattern was one pixel from being entirely off-screen.
* Android version: Fixed filesystem access in Android 10.
2021-03-04: release 3.0.1
* Implemented a work-around for a bug in the decimal floating-point library
that could cause inaccurate results for several complex functions.
* Implemented PRMVAR function. This prints all the variables associated with
the given LBL through MVAR declarations.
* Implemented new comparison functions, for comparing arbitrary arguments to X
or to zero: X=?, X<?, 0=?, etc.
* Added error number 8 to RTNERR, to allow user-defined functions to raise the
Too Few Arguments error condition.
* RTN from the keyboard, and other actions that cause the RTN stack to be
cleared, now restore the stack mode if it had been changed locally using
LNSTK or L4STK.
* Windows version: Fixed a bug that could cause programs with many ALPHA labels
to show up as blank lines in the Export Programs dialog.
2021-02-22: release 3.0
* Added dynamic stack option. See the Free42 web site for details.
* Added the date and time format options to the MODES menu.
* Changed the RTNERR function to take the error number from a parameter, rather
than from the X register. To prevent existing programs using the old
parameter-less RTNERR from breaking, those RTNERRs are converted to the
equivalent new instruction, RTNERR IND ST X.
* Added PGMMENU function. This shows a menu of ALPHA labels with MVAR
instructions, like the top-level menu presented by SOLVER and ∫f(x). It is
meant to be used by programs that aim to implement a similar behavior as
those built-in menus.
* On cold start, now setting the date and time format according to the host
operating system's locale settings.
* The Free42 extensions to the HP-42S instruction set are now shown in separate
sections in CATALOG, rather than at the end of the FCN catalog.
* Added STRACE option to PRINT menu. This is the "Stack trace" option, i.e.
TRACE mode where the entire stack gets printed, not just X. The option itself
is not new, it was implemented in 2.5.21, but the STRACE function, that
allows you to set that mode without having to twiddle flags, is new.
2021-02-02: release 2.5.25
* Fixed pasting of zero. This was broken in 2.5.21.
2021-01-17: release 2.5.24a (Android only)
* Fixed screen rotation issue with Android 11.
2021-01-13: release 2.5.24
* Improved user-defined function support. The changes are rather substantial;
please check the Free42 web site for details.
* The previous release introduced a bug when pasting a program without line
numbers, causing numbers to be mangled. Fixed.
2021-01-06: release 2.5.23
* Implemented support for user-defined function semantics: stack preservation,
RTN with skip, RTN with error. See the Free42 web site for details.
* Better handling of number lines: the visual difference between equivalent
representations of a number is now preserved, so 1000 stays 1000 and is not
turned into 1E3, and numbers that are out of range for the current platform
now cause an error message instead of being silently turned into the maximum
representable number or zero.
* Implemented FMA (Fused Multiply-Add). This simply exposes the underlying FMA
function provided by the floating-point hardware or libraries.
* In programs, now handles pasting FIX/SCI/ENG with 1-digit argument, for HP-41
compatibility.
2020-11-24: release 2.5.22a (Android only)
* The previous release was crashing on a lot of devices; apparently the NDK
version I used to build it, r21b, is incompatible with certain older devices.
Going back to r19c for now.
2020-11-23: release 2.5.22
* Minor UI fixes and improvements: 'Close' menu item (Mac), Copy and Paste in
dialogs (Mac), Unicode support in file names (Windows), and pre-populating
file names in file selection dialogs (all versions).
* Implemented LASTO. This is related to LSTO like ASTO is related to STO.
* Implemented No-Operation (NOP) function. This function does nothing, as its
name suggests, and can be useful when using ISG for counting without an upper
bound, for instance. The function is encoded using the 0xF0 opcode, which is
sometimes used on the HP-41 for the same purpose.
* On the real HP-42S, GETKEY halts program execution when R/S, EXIT, or Shift-
EXIT are pressed. In Free42, however, Shift-EXIT did not cause program
execution to halt. Fixed.
* Implemented GETKEY1 function. This works like the regular GETKEY, except it
only halts on R/S, allowing programs to implement custom behaviors for EXIT
and Shift-EXIT.
* STOFLAG didn't update the G and RAD annunciators when flags 42 or 43 were
changed. Fixed.
* Implemented range option for STOFLAG: with the flags in Y and a number bb.ee
in X, only flags bb through ee are restored, while the others are untouched.
If ee is zero, only flag bb is restored. This mode of operation exists in the
HP-41 Extended Functions module and in the HP-41CX, but was missing in the
Free42 implementation.
* Binary version: Changed maximum WSIZE from 52 to 53.
* MacOS version: Building universal binary now, with Intel and ARM (Apple
Silicon) support.
* iOS version: Fixed crash when saving print-out using Share -> Save Image.
2020-10-24: release 2.5.21
* Implemented ANUM, X<>F, RCLFLAG, and STOFLAG functions. See the Free42 web
site for details.
* Implemented "stack trace" mode: when flags 15 and 16 are both set, the
printer prints in a variation of TRACE mode, printing not just X after every
instruction, but the entire stack.
* Pasting long numbers could return incorrect results if many leading zeroes
were present. Fixed.
* Real/complex and complex/complex division could return Not a Number for
certain inputs, e.g. 1e3200 ENTER COMPLEX ENTER /. Fixed. Also applied a
similar fix to complex 1/X.
* Complex matrix division, INVRT, and DET would return incorrect results for
large matrices (20x20 or greater). Fixed.
2020-09-20: release 2.5.20
* Fixed INTEG behavior when integrand returns non-real. It used to treat such
results as zero while it should raise an error instead.
* Fixed DATE+, DDAYS, and DOW when flags 31 and 67 are both set.
This combination of flags is never set by the DMY, MDY, and YMD functions,
but it can happen when you execute YMD followed by SF 31.
* Fixed garbage in SHOW when BIN overflows to HEX.
* During TRACE, print blank line before LBL, like the HP-41.
* When ISG reached zero, the loop control variable would end up having the
wrong sign. For example, -1.00001 ISG ST X => -0.00001, should be 0.00001.
Fixed.
* Added [FIND], [MAX], and [MIN] to the FCN catalog. These are undocumented
functions from the HP-42S that were previously not shown in the catalog, even
though they did work.
* COMB could return Out of Range in certain cases where the correct result was
not, in fact, out of range. For example, 20408 ENTER 10204 COMB.
* ISG and DSE with a named variable would crash if that variable did not exist.
Fixed.
2020-07-05: release 2.5.19
* Fixed stack lift behavior with GETKEY.
2020-04-11: release 2.5.18
* Fixed pasting of 1/X and 10^X without line number.
* Android version: Updated HEADING implementation so it works on phones that no
longer provide the old compass API.
* iOS version: Fixed double-import, when loading Shared files.
2020-02-27: release 2.5.17b (Android only)
* Removing the n-key rollover and swipe-to-switch that were introduced in the
previous release; 2.5.17a suffers from missed keystrokes and erratic swipe
detection, caused by the new logic. Since I appear to be unable to do proper
testing on these features with my own phone, I am scrapping them and have no
plans to re-introduce them. (I am not removing them from the iOS version,
since they appear to be working fine there.)
2020-02-22: release 2.5.17a (Android and iOS)
* Android version: Can now switch between the calculator and print-out by
swiping sideways. This feature is experimental and may not work on all
phones.
* Android version: Implemented n-key rollover.
* iOS version: Fixed initial print-out scroll position. Version 2.5.17
introduced a bug where it would not scroll all the way to the bottom
initially.
2020-02-13: release 2.5.17 (iOS, Windows, MacOS, and Linux)
* Fixed minor memory leak in Paste.
* iOS version: Implemented n-key rollover.
* iOS version: Fixed several minor bugs and inconsistencies in landscape mode.
* iOS and MacOS versions: Print-out now grows from the top down, rather than
from the bottom up, to be consistent with these types of UIs in general, and
specifically with Free42 on other platforms.
2020-02-08: release 2.5.16b (iOS only)
* Can now switch between the calculator and print-out by swiping sideways.
2020-02-02: release 2.5.16a (iOS only)
* Fixed file import from the Files app.
2020-01-25: release 2.5.16
* Fixed GETKEY behavior with skins that use direct command mapping.
* Fixed GETKEY behavior with physical keyboards in ALPHA mode.
2020-01-18: release 2.5.15
* Some fixes to Paste to improve compatibility with Emu42 text.
* Fixed Skin menu behavior: user-loaded skins now take priority over built-in
ones, and built-in skins that are overridden by user-loaded ones are now
shown grayed out in the menu.
* Linux version: Implemented XDG Base Directory Specification compliance:
Moved Free42 directory from $HOME/.free42 to $XDG_DATA_HOME/free42, or
$HOME/.local/share/free42 in case XDG_DATA_HOME is unset or empty.
Also, now looking for skins in free42 and free42/shared under $XDG_DATA_DIRS,
or under /usr/local/share:/usr/share if XDG_DATA_DIRS is unset or empty.
Skins will also still be looked for in the Free42 directory.
2020-01-11: release 2.5.14
* Some fixes to Paste to improve compatibility with HP-41 text.
2020-01-11: release 2.5.13a (Linux only)
* Another thin-dark-line fix, this time for GDK_SCALE > 1 on certain platforms,
including Raspbian 10.
2020-01-09: release 2.5.13
* When REGS was shared, ASTO nn could store the character data into the wrong
copy of the matrix. Fixed.
2020-01-07: release 2.5.12c (Linux only)
* When the print-out area was still growing, i.e. hadn't reached its maximum
height of 30,000 pixels yet, it was not being repainted in a timely manner.
Bug introduced by the switch to GTK 3; did not affect early GTK 3 versions
but became apparent in Ubuntu 18.04 and 19.10. Fixed.
2020-01-03: release 2.5.12b (Linux only)
* Made repaint logic more efficient, also making it work under Wayland.
2019-12-01: release 2.5.12a (Linux only)
* In scaled mode (GDK_SCALE greater than 1), bitmap smoothing causes drawing of
the display bitmap to bleed outside the display rectangle, and this can lead
to thin dark lines being left behind around the display, and that looks ugly.
A similar problem exists in the Android version, and I implemented a similar
fix here, namely, to always repaint the entire display when the core updates
it, and to update a slightly larger rectangle than the display itself.
Because this fix can cause programs to run slower on older systems, I added
an option to Preferences to switch back to using the old logic.
2019-11-28: release 2.5.12 (Windows and Linux)
* Linux version: Switched from GTK 2 to 3, for HiDPI support.
* Windows and Linux versions: Removed the "Single Instance" option. Both now
always run in Single Instance mode; what was removed was the possibility to
turn *off* Single Instance and allow multiple instances to run concurrently.
That never worked well, and in the Windows version, there was never any
reason to allow it. In the Linux version, there was a reason, which was that
Single Instance was hard to implement and did not work well in all
environments; with GTK 3, Single Instance is supported by the platform, and
there is no longer any reason not to use it.
2019-10-25: release 2.5.11
* Windows version: Program export in "raw" format performed LF-to-CRLF
translation on the output file, turning XEQ 10 into XEQ 13 LBL 09, among
other things. Bug introduced in 2.5.
* Decimal version: During number entry, if you backspaced over a negative
number until only the minus sign remained, that minus would not be parsed
correctly, and you could get <Not a Number>. For example, 1 +/- <- ENTER.
2019-10-11: release 2.5.10
* The index range check in R<>R was faulty, allowing a row index equal to the
number of rows plus one to be used, which in turn would cause memory
corruption. Fixed.
* Android version: When renaming the currently active state, the state name was
not updated in the shell settings, with the result that upon exit, the state
would still be saved under the old name, and at the next launch, would also
be loaded under the old name. The net effect of all this was that instead of
ending up with a renamed state, you'd end up with a copy.
2019-10-05: release 2.5.9b (Android and iOS)
* Android version: Could launch with the wrong screen orientation under certain
circumstances. Fixed.
* iOS version: Greater range of key click volume levels.
* iOS version: Added sanity check for raw files imported using Copy to Free42.
2019-09-28: release 2.5.9a (Android only)
* Several changes in file handling. No longer associates itself with all files,
so Free42 won't be offered to open files of any types other than raw and f42.
Unfortunately, this also means that opening f42 files directly from email
attachments no longer works; state files will now need to be downloaded, then
opened using the file selection boxes, using More -> Import in the States
view. Cumbersome, but it's the best I can do given Android's lack of file
extension filtering for email attachments.
* Added a slider for the key click volume; now offers nine levels plus silence.
* Changed the haptic feedback slider to a logarithmic scale, adding a lot more
resolution to the weaker end of the scale, for those with devices that are
capable of it and fingers sensitive enough to feel it.
2019-09-21: release 2.5.9
* Importing programs would insert the programs at the current location, instead
of at the end of memory. Bug introduced in 2.5 or one of the subsequent
revisions. Now fixed.
* iOS version: Added support for Dark Mode in iOS 13.
* Android version: Added file extension filtering for file, http, and https URL
schemes. This should make Free42 not appear in as many file selection
contexts as before, without making it disappear from contexts where it should
be offered as an option. Note: file extension filtering is not supported with
the content scheme, which means Free42 will still show up in all contexts
where attachments are opened, and depending on the file manager used, also
when opening files from file managers.
2019-09-20: release 2.5.8
* When loading a corrupted state file causes a crash, the state file is now
renamed so that it won't be read again, and the app will start with Memory
Clear the next time it is launched, instead of crashing again and again.
* Android and iOS versions: Fixed a couple of import-related crashes.
2019-09-16: release 2.5.7
* SOLVE did not always return the second-best guess in Y. Fixed.
* Android version: Changed haptic feedback preference setting from on/off
switch to a four-level slider, for off/light/medium/heavy feedback.
* Android version: Reduced the GPS update interval for LOCAT from 60 seconds to
5 seconds.
* Android version: Sharing an empty print-out would crash. Fixed; now it pops
up a message instead.
* Android version: Fixed crashes in state file import activity: intents without
data, and SecurityException and UnsupportedOperationException while trying to
get attachment file names.
* iOS version: Changed haptic feedback preference setting from on/off switch to
a four-level slider, for off/light/medium/heavy feedback. Also, changed key
clicks setting from on/off switch to a three-way slider, for off/standard/wav
click sounds, where standard is the old system key click sound, and wav is a
wav file that sounds a bit louder.
* iOS version: Making the single-threaded logic permanent. The complexity of
the multi-threaded event handling logic makes the code too hard to maintain,
while the benefits in terms of performance are marginal. The only noticeable
disadvantage of the single-threaded approach was poor performance in display-
intensive code, and that was mitigated simply by repainting less
aggressively.
* iOS version: Preferences view now expands to fill the width of the screen.
* MacOS version: Making the app single-threaded. This is the same change as in
the iOS version; the aim is to simplify the code, making it more robust,
while sacrificing very little in terms of performance.
2019-09-09: release 2.5.6a (iOS only)
* iOS version: Made the app single-threaded. Interim version, to deal with the
mysterious crashes in [CalcView drawRect:].
2019-09-08: release 2.5.6
* SOLVE would not always return the best function value in Z. Fixed.
* iOS version: There have been crashes occurring in the display update logic,
due to some not yet understood condition that appears to affect faster
iPhones (8, X, XR, XS). I implemented a fix that appears to prevent these,
but at a cost in terms of performance, i.e. the emulation is a bit slower
now. I'm working on a proper fix, which will eliminate these problems and
restore maximum performance.
2019-09-06: release 2.5.5
* Moved the settings "Singular Matrix Error," "Matrix Out Of Range," and "Auto-
Repeat" from the core state (the *.f42 files) to the shell state, so they are
not affected by switching core states.
* Fixed a bug that caused State File Corrupt when reading a state containing a
zero-length string.
* iOS version: Fixed a couple of bugs that were causing memory and state file
corruption and crashes.
* iOS and MacOS versions: Fixed a couple of bugs that were causing crashes in
the States window.
* Android version: The States window would ask for confirmation to revert the
current state back to the last version saved, even when the user was trying
to switch to a different state. Fixed.
2019-09-02: release 2.5.4 (iOS only)
* Fixed a crash when the States window was opened the very first time the app
was run after a new install.
* Fixed a bug that could cause the hostname lookup for the HTTP Server window
to fail.
2019-09-01: release 2.5.3
* Invalid state files (corrupt, or created by an incompatible newer version of
Free42) are now renamed, so they are not lost when a new state is written,
and can be retrieved for post-mortem analysis.
2019-08-31: release 2.5.2
* In the States window, renamed Reload to Revert, and added a confirmation
dialog, since that is a potentially destructive action.
* When programs were imported from raw files, empty programs were sometimes
being created unnecessarily. Harmless but slightly annoying. Fixed.
* Android and iOS versions: Added "share" option for Print-Out view.
* Android and iOS versions: Added "share" option for programs in raw format.
* Android and iOS versions: Now import raw files directly from email
attachments and web links.
2019-08-28: release 2.5.1
* Fixed bug in 2.5 that caused string elements in real matrices (including the
numbered registers) to be written incorrectly in the state file, leading to
memory corruption and crashes when the state file was read back in.
* iOS version: Now makes sure that the current state shows up in the list in
the States view, even if it is opened right after a fresh install or right
after upgrading from a version before 2.5.
2019-08-25: release 2.5
* Added state file manager, for loading, saving, and switching between,
calculator states. The state files are in a platform-neutral format, so they
can be exchanged between Free42 instances running on different devices.
* Fixed crash in RTN when a local variable was hiding the indexed matrix.
2019-07-12: release 2.4.2
* Windows version: The new Ctrl-A, Ctrl-I, and Ctrl-T shortcuts (Paper Advance,
Copy Print-Out as Image, and Copy Print-Out as Text) didn't work, because I
hadn't updated the corresponding accelerator resources. Fixed.
* Windows and Linux versions: All Ctrl-<Key> shortcuts now work even when the
Print-Out window is on top.
* Android, iOS, and MacOS versions: When loading a skin in the skin browser,
they now force an un-cached load, so skin fixes can actually be loaded by
users without delay, and without having to resort to side-loading.
* Android and iOS versions: Changed default landscape skin, from desktop/42ct
to android/SGS-L. The old skin had keys below the display that didn't line up
with the menus; you really have to have Σ+ 1/x √x LOG LN XEQ
below the display for a consistent user interface.
* iOS version: Changed Standard-X skin, from Ehrling42sl.X to Matt42X. The old
skin was rather blurry; the new skin has nice and crisp text for all key
labels.
2019-07-03: release 2.4.1
* Fixed several bugs in BWRAP mode.
2019-07-01: release 2.4
* Implemented configurable word size for BASE functions (up to 64 bits, or 52
in Free42 Binary), unsigned mode, and wrap mode. The new settings are all in
a new row in the MODES menu.
* Android, iOS, and MacOS versions: Added some feedback in the skin loading
window: the "Load" button changes to "..." while a page load is in progress;
"Load" is enabled only when a GIF or layout file is being displayed, i.e.
something that could actually be a skin, and therefore loadable; and finally,
when Load is pressed to load a skin, an alert box is now shown to report
success or failure.
2019-06-25: release 2.3.1a (Android only)
* Adding -mfpu=vfp to compilation flags when building the Intel library for
armv7. Apparently, with NDK r19c, Neon is enabled by default, but Neon is not
supported on all armv7 Android devices, so this setting is causing 2.3.1 to
crash on certain phones. (2.2.1b and earlier were built with r4b, which did
not have this problem.)
2019-06-25: release 2.3.1
* Android version: Implemented the 2.3 features, with the exception of Copy
Print-Out as Image. (Apparently Android doesn't support images on the
clipboard.)
* MacOS version: Copy Print-Out as Image didn't handle wrap-around in the
image buffer correctly. Fixed.
* Windows and Linux version: Implemented Paper Advance, Copy Print-Out as Text,
and Copy Print-Out as Image.
* iOS version: Fixed the top-of-screen menu trigger so that it no longer
sabotages keys that are also in that area, as in the HP_Mega_42 and SGS-L
skins. This is the same fix I made for Android in release 1.5.8d. I didn't
think to fix this for iOS at the time, probably because the iOS version
didn't support landscape mode then.
2019-06-15: release 2.3.0a (iOS only)
* Added the 2.3 features.
This should have been called version 2.3 as well, but a mistake with the
release build forced me to use the next higher version number instead.
2019-06-12: release 2.3 (MacOS only)
* Added Load Skins feature, for downloading and installing skins from the
Internet.
* Added Delete Skins feature.
* Added Paper Advance for Print-Out window.
* Added Copy Print-Out as Text and Copy Print-Out as Image.
2019-05-29: release 2.2.1d (source code only)
* Migrated the Android project from Eclipse with ADT to Android Studio.
Also building the native code for x86 and x86_64 now. Not sure if I should
release that, but it is convenient for testing in the Android Emulator, now
that Google no longer releases ARM system images for the emulator.
The minimum Android API level requirement went from 8 to 14 (2.2 to 4.0), but
that seems like an acceptable price to pay.
2019-05-24: release 2.2.1c (iOS only)
* Fixed crash in Paste when clipboard contained no text.
2019-05-20: release 2.2.1b (Android only)
* Made the app explicitly single-instance (by adding
launchMode="singleInstance" to Free42Activity in the app manifest).
This should eliminate the remaining null-pointer crashes in the native code,
and also prevent State File Corrupt scenarios.
2019-05-19: release 2.2.1a (Android only)
* Added 64-bit native code.
2019-05-11: release 2.2.1
* Added side margins to print-out window.
* PRLCD is now supported in "Print to Text," using Unicode 2x2 block elements.
* Flag 64 is now set or cleared to indicate the Shift state during the most
recent key press. This can be used by MENU handlers to implement different
behaviors for unshifted and shifted menu keys.
* Windows version: Changed sounds from using the Beep() function to playing
wav sounds using the PlaySound() function, matching the way sounds are played
in the Android, iOS, and MacOS versions.
* MacOS Dashboard version: Didn't recognize comma as decimal key. Fixed.
2019-04-07: release 2.2
* Implemented YMD mode for date functions, using YYYY.MMDD as the numeric
format and YYYY-MM-DD as the display format. Programs can check whether this
mode is active by testing flag 67. If flag 67 is clear, the mode is indicated
by flag 31 (clear = MDY, set = DMY), as before.
* Local variables. You create them with the new LSTO function, and they
disappear automatically when the current subroutine ends, by executing RTN or
END. If a local variable is created with a name that matches an already-
existing variable, the older variable is hidden until the local variable goes
away.
* Dynamically growing RTN stack. It is not unlimited; in order to prevent
infinite recursion from eating up all memory, it maxes out at 1024 levels.
The new stack behaves a bit different than the old version (and the real
HP-42S): when an XEQ happens while the stack is full, the old version would
silently discard the oldest RTN, while with the new version, this returns a
"RTN Stack Full" error.
* Added support for direct command mapping in skins. This is specified by
creating Macro: lines where the macro is not a sequence of keystrokes, but a
command name enclosed in double quotes, e.g., Macro: 40 "SST→"
* Windows, MacOS, and Linux versions: In skin layout files, they now look for
keymap entries tagged as "WinKey:", "MacKey:", or "GtkKey:", respectively.
This allows embedding keymaps for multiple platforms in one layout file.
This does mean that old-style keymap entries, with no identifying tags, are
no longer recognized. Out of all the skins in my collection, the only
affected skins are desktop/42ck and desktop/42ct. If you use these skins,
you'll want to download the updated layout files.
2019-03-27: release 2.1.1 (Android only)
* The "Maintain skin aspect ratio" setting didn't stick when the app was exited
and restarted. Fixed.
2019-03-26: release 2.1
* New functions: SST↑ (Step Out) and SST→ (Step Over). Step Out runs the
program until the end of the current subroutine; Step Over executes one step,
but if that step is an XEQ, SOLVE, or INTEG, it runs until the subroutine
returns, or SOLVE or INTEG are done. When Step Out is performed in a function
called by SOLVE or INTEG, the program runs until SOLVE or INTEG are done.
* Added SST↓ (Step Into), which is just an alias for SST. This allows creating
a row in the CUSTOM menu with SST↓, SST→, and SST↑, like in typical high-
level language debuggers.
* Android and iOS versions: Improved "Maintain skin aspect ratio" option: it
now chooses the largest scale where the skin still fits on the screen in its
entirety, and centers the skin within the available space.
* iOS version: The "Maintain skin aspect ratio" and "Print to text" options in
the Preferences were switched. Fixed.
* iOS version: Fixed handling of announcements in the status bar (audio
recording, active call, active GPS).
* iOS version: Turned optimization back on. It looks like the optimizer bug
(see release notes for 2.0.21a) has been fixed.
2019-03-18: release 2.0.24h (Android only)
* The screen update logic in the previous version was incorrect and caused the
app to appear unresponsive on many devices. Fixed.
2019-03-17: release 2.0.24g (Android, iOS, and MacOS)
* Android, iOS, and MacOS versions: Enabled non-integral display scaling.
* Android and iOS versions: Added setting in Preferences to choose whether to
stretch skins to fill the screen, or to stretch them only to fill the
available width, while maintaining their original aspect ratio.
* iOS version: Implemented support for landscape orientation.
* iOS version: Fixed alignment of "Done" buttons.
2019-03-08: release 2.0.24f (iOS only)
* Added Haptic Feedback setting in Preferences.
2019-03-03: release 2.0.24e (Android only)
* Fixed crash when calling ON or OFF from a program.
* Fixed a bug that could leave a corrupted state file under certain
circumstances.
2019-02-28: release 2.0.24d (Android only)
* Fixed crashes while printing.
2019-02-26: release 2.0.24c (Android and iOS)
* Android version: Removed all restrictions on file selection dialogs, and
instead added a "Home" button, so you can always navigate back to
/sdcard/Android/data/com.thomasokken.free42 if you get stuck somewhere.
* iOS version: Fixed the white bar that was showing up above the skin on iPads
running iOS 12.
2019-02-25: release 2.0.24b (Android only)
* Made file selection dialogs full-screen.
* Fixed file selection behavior for Import Programs and Select Skin. It now
starts in the writable storage directory, but does allow navigation out of
it.
2019-02-25: release 2.0.24a (Android and MacOS)
* Android version: Lifted file selector directory restriction for Import
Programs and skin selection, keeping it in place for Export Programs and
selecting print-out files.
* MacOS version: The previous release broke Import Programs. Fixed.
2019-02-24: release 2.0.24
* Made program pasting a bit more lenient: tabs are now treated as spaces, and
the following command names are now recognized: x, RCL*, RCLx, RCL/, STOx,
X#0?, X#Y?, X<>0?, and X<>Y? (in addition to all the alternate spellings that
were recognized previously).
* iOS version: Added Key Clicks setting in Preferences.
* Windows and MacOS versions: Now refuse to export zero programs. (The other
versions already did this.) Also tweaked the file selection dialogs a bit.
* Android version: When running on 4.4 (KitKat) or later, now creates the
storage directory, /sdcard/Android/data/com.thomasokken.free42, as soon as it
has access. The file selection dialogs are now restricted to this directory
and its subdirectories.
2019-02-18: release 2.0.23c (iOS only)
* The previous release calculated the skin scale incorrectly for certain skins,
causing them to be displayed too small. Fixed.
2019-02-17: release 2.0.23b (iOS only)
* Enabled non-integral scaling for skins, so skins can fill the width of the
screen on iPhone X series (X, XR, XS, XS Max) even if they were designed for
older models with 3:4 or 9:16 screen aspect ratios.
2019-02-11: release 2.0.23a (iOS only)
* Replaced iPhone X skin with a more screen-filling one.
2019-02-09: release 2.0.23
* SOLVE now tries harder when secant extrapolation gets stuck due to the secant
being excessively steep.
* 0^0 now returns Invalid Data, not 1, for all combinations of real and complex
arguments. The rationale for returning 1 was mathematically questionable, and
Invalid Data is what the real HP-42S returns.
* iOS version: Added basic iPhone X support.
2019-01-26: release 2.0.22c (Android only)
* New Main Menu. This should be compatible with all Android versions, including
Amazon Fire HD tablets and other devices that sabotaged the old menu after it
started targeting Android 8.
* Added code to request storage and GPS access when needed.
2019-01-13: release 2.0.22b (Android only)
* Another fix for invisible overflow menu items.
2019-01-12: release 2.0.22a (Android only)
* Fixed invisible overflow menu items.
2019-01-12: release 2.0.22
* Made pasting real scalars a bit more lenient: it is now permitted for there
to be trailing non-numeric characters after the number, so pasting a number
with an attached unit, say 50mm, yields the number 50, not the string "50mm".
* INPUT should clear any message from the display before showing the prompt,
but it didn't. Fixed.
* When ALPHA mode is active on top of VARMENU, ASTO and ARCL should show the
regular variable menus, but they showed the VARMENU instead. Fixed.
* During command entry, SST and BST should be disabled, but the code that tried
to do this also prevented some legitimate uses of ▲ and ▼, such as switching
menu rows during FIX IND __.
* While entering a numeric LBL, it should be possible to switch to ALPHA mode,
using Shift-ENTER, to switch from, say, LBL 3_ to LBL "3_ , as an alternative
method of entering ALPHA labels that start with a digit. The HP-42S allows
this, but Free42 didn't. Fixed.
* Android and iOS versions: OFF now turns off "continuous on" mode.
2018-11-24: release 2.0.21b (Windows only)
* Fixed Alt-Tab behavior.
2018-07-03: release 2.0.21a (iOS only)
* Turned off all optimization for release builds; the latest iOS developer
tools appear to have a buggy optimizer, and it is causing number display in
OCT and HEX modes to misbehave -- they show numbers with unwanted leading
zeroes, for a total number of digits that would be appropriate for BIN mode,
so 1=>1, 2=>02, 3=>03, 4=>004, etc.
2018-06-24: release 2.0.21
* Fixed complex SQRT so it returns exact results when Re(x) = 0 and Im(x)/2 is
a perfect square.
* VARMENU would step through rows of multi-line menus in the wrong order.
(You needed a function with 13 or more MVARs to notice this.) Fixed.
* When printing to GIF, changing the filename did not cause the GIF numbering
sequence to restart at 1. Fixed.
* When printing to GIF, the output file is now flushed and closed immediately
if there is no more room for at least another 9 pixels after printing -- in
other words, when no more printing to that file is possible anyway. It used
to wait until the next print request, or app close, before flushing and
closing in this situation.
Also, the minimum height of a GIF output file is now 16 pixels, down from 32.
2018-03-12: release 2.0.20
* MATA, MATB, and MATX should exhibit the same stack lift behavior as EDIT and
EDITN, but didn't. Fixed.
2018-03-10: release 2.0.19
* Another EDIT/EDITN fix: in the real HP-42S, EDIT and EDITN don't actually
disable stack lift; they preserve the stack lift state, which you can observe
if you do ENTER vs. a stack-lift-enabling operation (say, X<>Y) just before
invoking them. This behavior is not really useful, but it needs to be
emulated anyway, since not doing so risks breaking HP-42S programs.
This does not affect GOTO Row/Column.
2018-03-09: release 2.0.18
* EDIT, EDITN, and GOTO Row/Column should disable stack lift, but they didn't.
Fixed.
2018-03-02: release 2.0.17
* Inserting or deleting an END would not always clear cached local GTO or XEQ
targets, potentially causing local GTO or XEQ commands to jump to the wrong
locations. Fixed, and also added code to repair such damage in existing state
files.
2018-02-22: release 2.0.16
* 0 SEED initialized the random seed incorrectly, wasting one digit of
randomness. Fixed.
* When importing raw files, E and -E are now recognized as 1 and -1, for
compatibility with HP-41 raw files with synthetic numbers.
* When importing raw files, synthetic instructions are now handled more like
the real HP-42S handles them. Basically, any argument >= 100 that isn't a
stack register and that isn't a local label is treated as numeric. Arguments
112-116 are always stack registers, even when that makes no sense (flags,
ΣREG, etc.); 102-111 and 123-127 are only considered as A-J and a-e in LBL,
GTO, and XEQ.
Note that nothing very interesting happens as a result of these changes. They
won't make synthetic HP-41C code work in Free42 any more than it does in the
HP-42S; the behavior is just more like the real 42S now.
2018-02-17: release 2.0.15
* POSA would not find the search string if its only occurrence was at the very
end of the alpha register. Fixed.
* Android version: Tweaked handling of low-battery indicator.
2018-02-10: release 2.0.14
* In Export Programs, removed the hard-coded buffer size for the list of
programs, so you should now see all your programs in the list, no matter how
many there are.
* When Pasting complex numbers in a+bi notation, the imaginary unit must now be
either i or j; the alternative spellings I and J are no longer recognized.
2018-02-06: release 2.0.13
* Paste didn't handle numbers with negative exponents correctly. Fixed.
2018-02-02: release 2.0.12d (iOS only)
* Fixed crash in GIF printing.
2018-01-30: release 2.0.12c (Android only)
* Another fix for crash on orientation change while printing.
2018-01-29: release 2.0.12b (Android only)
* Switching between portrait and landscape modes, while printing was in
progress, could cause a crash. Fixed.
2018-01-28: release 2.0.12a (Android only)
* Fixed handling of state files that were corrupted in a way that caused
persistent crashes on the first keystroke.
2018-01-27: release 2.0.12
* Fixed pasting of SIZE lines.
* When pasting numbers, spaces are now allowed as thousands separators.
* MacOS and MacOS Dashboard versions: Are now 64-bit.
* MacOS and Linux versions: Fixed Caps Lock handling, so Caps Lock + Esc no
longer exits.
* Android and iOS versions: Implemented "continuous on" mode (ON function,
flag 44).
2018-01-26: release 2.0.11a (Android only)
* Removed the cleanup of variables in core_quit(); it looks like this was
responsible for the failure mode where the app would crash at the first
keystroke, consistently, forcing uninstall/reinstall.
* Pasting numbers that ended in CRLF, as when copying a single cell from Excel,
didn't work; they were interpreted as strings. Fixed.
2018-01-14: release 2.0.11
* Copy now ignores flag 29 (thousands separators) and always copies numbers
without separators. This fixes certain surprising / undesirable behaviors
when pasting numbers into spreadsheets or programs.
* When entering a program line in NORM or TRACE modes, the line would be
printed, even when printing was disabled. Fixed.
* MATA and MATB, in the SIMQ menu, would crash if the MATA or MATB variables
were missing. Fixed, and also cleaned up type checks in MATX.
* Android version: Printing lots of output quickly, for example, by running a
program in TRACE mode, would cause the user interface to become sluggish or
even unresponsive on some devices. Fixed by posting UI updates less
aggressively.
2018-01-07: release 2.0.10
* Program Paste without line numbers didn't handle certain numbers,
specifically, those that started with a digit and didn't consist of only
digits. Fixed.
2018-01-07: release 2.0.9
* Program Paste no longer requires line numbers.
* The CUSTOM command would toggle the CUSTOM menu, but that was wrong: it
should only activate that menu, never deactivate it. Fixed.
* DIM?, EDIT, and EDITN didn't print X in TRACE mode. Fixed.
* Selecting the already-active menu did not cause the display to be repainted,
even though it should: there might be a message, which should be removed in
that case. Fixed.
* All versions except MacOS Dashboard: made the print annunciator linger for
one second after printing stops. This makes it more noticeable, so printing
is less likely to go unnoticed on fast devices.
* MacOS version: Implemented battery checker.
* Linux version: Added /sys/class/power_supply support in battery checker.
2017-12-26: release 2.0.8
* MENU (activating the programmable menu) while in ALPHA mode didn't turn off
the alpha_mode flag, leading to bad behavior or even crashes if any menu keys
were subsequently pressed.
2017-12-21: release 2.0.7c (Windows only)
* Decimal: SIN and COS of 45 degrees or 50 grads returned an inaccurate result,
correct to only 16 digits. Fixed.
2017-12-18: release 2.0.7b (Android only)
* The "Always Paint Entire Display" setting, introduced in the previous
version, didn't stick after app restart. Fixed.
2017-12-17: release 2.0.7a (Android only)
* Added "Always Paint Entire Display" option. This prevents display glitches
with certain combinations of devices and skins.
2017-11-19: release 2.0.7
* Changed the RAN and SEED functions to match the behavior of the real HP-42S.
The previous implementation used the algorithm from the HP-41C Standard Pac,
which produced numbers with only 6 significant digits.
* The ▼▲ annunciator (multi-row menu) did not get updated correctly when
VARMENU was activated, including in the solver and integrator. Fixed.
* Windows version: Restored the Calculator key mapping option, which I had
removed in 1.5.14. It turns out that keyboards with a dedicated Calculator
key do still exist.
* Android version: The menu icons for Copy, Paste, and Print-Out were displayed
too large, overlapping the menu item labels on some devices. Fixed.
* Windows, Linux, MacOS, and MacOS Dashboard versions: Added keyboard mappings
g => GTO and p => PI. On existing installations, users must delete or rename
the existing keymap and restart for this to take effect.
* iOS version: Painting the display could be glitchy if either or both of
its coordinates were odd. Fixed by forcing them to be even.
2017-08-12: release 2.0.6
* Decimal version: Fixed ISG and DSE for values >= 2^63 (9.2e18).
* Fixed a couple of bugs in how changes to internal SOLVE and INTEG data
structures are handled.
2017-07-30: release 2.0.5
* Fixed INTEG termination condition. It would return inaccurate results in
certain cases.
* Fixed importing numbers with exponent but no mantissa, e.g. E3, -E-5, etc.
This got broken in 1.5.
* Fixed crash when trying to allocate ridiculously large matrices.
* While entering a numeric argument, the ▲ and ▼ keys would perform BST and
SST, which should be blocked. Fixed.
* Testing flag 75 would turn on the programmable menu. Fixed.
* iOS version: Fixed a few display alignment issues with the built-in 4"
skin.
2017-05-29: release 2.0.4
* Implemented special-case code for pure real and pure imaginary numbers in all
the complex logarithmic, trigonometric, and hyperbolic functions.
2017-05-28: release 2.0.3
* Fixed a few edge cases in complex functions.
* The last digit in full-precision representation (SHOW, Copy) could be off by
one in certain circumstances. Fixed.
* On cold start, now clearing flags 21 (printer enable) and 55 (printer
existence), to match the behavior of the real HP-42S.
* Removed "raw text" print option; it has been obsolete since the introduction
of UTF-8 printing in 1.5.11, since Unicode can represent the HP-42S character
set directly.
* iOS version: LOCAT didn't work when its initial invocation happened from a
program. Fixed.
* In the About box, replaced the link to the Free42 discussion group with a
link to the Alternative HP-42S/Free42 Manual.
2017-04-28: release 2.0.2
* In Unicode-to-HP conversion, translate "\LF" and "[LF]" to 10, not 138.
Character 138 only exists to *represent* LF, but isn't available in the ALPHA
menu and therefore cannot appear in non-synthetic programs.
* Unicode-to-HP conversion handles curly quotes now (U+2018, U+2019, U+201C,
U+201D).
2017-04-23: release 2.0.1 (beta)
* Change right-pointing triangle from Unicode U+25B6 (black right-pointing
triangle) to U+25B8 (black right-pointing small triangle); the former gets
rendered as an emoji in iOS, while the latter doesn't, plus, the smaller
triangle looks better in listings anyway.
* MacOS Dashboard version: Fixed multi-line pasting.
2017-04-22: release 2.0 (beta)
* Copy & Paste now handle matrices, ALPHA mode, and PRGM mode.
2017-04-01: release 1.5.15
* Instead of being limited to 12 mantissa digits, full precision (34 digits in
the Decimal version, 16 digits in Binary) is now supported for number entry,
SHOW, Copy, and Paste.
2017-03-11: release 1.5.14
* Changed complex TAN and TANH to use more accurate formulae.
* The Time Module functions used to keep track of MDY/DMY modes using an
invisible flag. For better HP-41 compatibility, they now use flag 31.
* Android version: Made state file writing more robust. If writing the state
file fails, it now keeps the previous one, instead of leaving behind a
partial or corrupt one.
* Linux version, Free42 Binary only: Some (recent?) versions of GTK set the
LC_NUMERIC locale, which Free42 expects to always be "C". This causes number
entry and display to be messed up in locales where the decimal is not ".",
including most of Europe. I added code to force LC_NUMERIC back to "C" after
gtk_init(), fixing this problem.
* Binary version: Fixed binary round-off problem in ADATE (for example,
10.102010 would be rendered as 10/10/2009).
2017-01-22: release 1.5.13
* When DIM, SIZE, or SIMQ resize the indexed matrix, and when CLV deletes the
indexed matrix, IJ should be set to (1, 1); and when DIM, SIZE, or SIMQ try
to resize the matrix currently being edited by EDITN, and when CLV tries to
delete the matrix currently being edited by EDITN, they should return a
"Restricted Operation" error. Neither happened, creating the potential for
memory corruption if IJ ended up pointing outside the matrix' data array.
Fixed.
* STO and STO* allowed the target to be the matrix under edit by EDITN. They
should not allow this, but return "Restricted Operation" instead. Fixed.
* CLALL didn't always exit all menus. Fixed.
2016-10-03: release 1.5.12
* Android version: Fixed UTF-8 printing, which was broken in 1.5.11.
* All versions: When printing to text, up-arrow now looks like an up-arrow,
instead of a caret.
2016-10-01: release 1.5.11
* EXITALL didn't always exit all menus. Fixed.
* Print-to-text now emits UTF-8 encoded text, instead of ISO-8859-1.
* Print-to-text now emits CRLF line separators on all platforms.
* Android version: Didn't save the "raw text" print setting. Fixed.
* Android version: Added landscape skin; made it the default for landscape mode
in new installs.
2016-09-04: release 1.5.10 (Android, Windows, MacOS, and Linux)
* Fixed AGRAPH bug with complex number in X.
2016-09-04: release 1.5.9 (Android, Windows, MacOS, and Linux)
* Now building the Intel Decimal Floating-Point Math Library from source for
all targets. In terms of the end user, this makes no difference, but it will
make life easier for people who want to port Free42 to platforms that I don't
support myself (FreeBSD, Solaris, etc.); those platforms were left out in the
cold when I started using the Intel library and only provided pre-built
binaries for the supported platforms.
* Implemented range reduction for more accurate TAN in DEG and GRAD modes.
* Android version: Now handles orientation change more efficiently.
2016-04-26: release 1.5.8f (Android only)
* Rolled back 8e, which was a disaster; it didn't fix the remaining black
line issues, but it did cause crashes everywhere.
2016-04-26: release 1.5.8e (Android only)
* The previous fix for the thin-black-line problem didn't do the job on some
devices. Here's another fix that should do a better job.
2016-04-25: release 1.5.8d (Android only)
* Fixed the thin black lines that would sometimes appear around the display.
* In full-screen mode, swiping down from the top would post the menu, because
the initial touch would be in the same area that Free42 watches as the menu
trigger. I changed the code so that the trigger only fires if the user lifts
their finger while still inside that critical area, which will only happen
if the downward swipe is very short.
* Fixed the top-of-screen menu trigger so that it no longer sabotages keys
that are also in that area, as in the HP_Mega_42 skin.
2016-04-24: release 1.5.8c (Android only)
* Implemented true full-screen mode. This hides the navigation bar as well the
status bar, on devices running Android 4.4 (KitKat) or later.
2016-04-23: release 1.5.8b (Android only)
* Print-Out is now scaled to make better use of available screen width.
* Fixed key clicks.
* Implemented Reverse Portrait (upside-down) mode.
2016-04-17: release 1.5.8a (Android only)
* Tapping in the top half of the display now brings up the app's option menu.
2016-04-17: release 1.5.8
* Entering an END into a program using the CUSTOM menu would leave the program
counter at an invalid value, leading to memory corruption, state file
corruption, and crashes. Fixed.
* Android version: Changed haptic feedback code back to using the old API.
* Android version: Changed targetSdkVersion from 3.0 to 2.2. This should make
the menu reliably accessible in all Android versions and with all display
styles.
* Resurrected the MacOS Dashboard version; the display repaint logic now
supports Yosemite (10.10) and later.
2016-03-19: release 1.5.7a (Android only)
* Made the action/title bar optional.
* Added full-screen mode (removes action/title bar and status bar).
* Added installLocation=auto to the manifest, so the app can now be installed
on an SD card.
2016-02-28: release 1.5.7
* INSR should disable stack lift, but didn't. Fixed.
* Android version: Added Action Bar, reluctantly embracing the reality of
devices with no menu button (or hard-to-find menu buttons, like the "press
and hold the task switch button" behavior on some devices).
2014-12-21: release 1.5.6
* iOS version: Implemented Copy and Paste.
* iOS version: Fixed LOCAT for iOS 8.
* All versions, on hard reset, now initializing flag 28 (decimal point/comma)
to match the host's locale.
* Paste didn't clear the message flags. Fixed.
2014-11-12: release 1.5.5
* Decimal version: Entering a number with an empty exponent (e.g. 1E or 1E-)
would yield <Not a Number>. Fixed.
* iOS version: HTTP server: Fixed downloading individual programs from, and
uploading zip files of programs to, the /memory directory. This got broken in
release 1.4.77, while implementing local file download.
* Android version: When the screen orientation was set to "automatic", it would
not honor any system-wide orientation lock. Fixed.
2014-11-08: release 1.5.4a (Android only)
* Fixed crash on startup in Android 5.0 (Lollipop).
* Printing to text would truncate the file whenever it was reopened, opening it
for writing rather than appending. Fixed.
2014-09-23: (no new code release)
* Added nova1_1096 skin, for iPhone 5, to the Free42iPhoneSkins package.
Contributed by Keith Carangelo.
2014-09-06: release 1.5.4a (iOS only)
* Fixed keyboard handling in the Preferences and Select File dialogs.
* Fixed scrolling behavior (in 1.5.4, windows were sized 20 pixels beyond the
bottom of the screen, making the bottommost bit of scroll views drop off the
screen).
* Added 4" skin for iPhone 5, and added code to select the best-fitting built-
in skin on first launch.
2014-07-22: release 1.5.4
* Decimal version: Fixed ACOS. It would return 0 for acos(-1).
This bug was introduced in release 1.5.
2014-06-21: release 1.5.3a (Android only)
* Made GPS optional. When I added the ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION permission in
1.4.78, that had the side effect of making GPS a requirement. In 1.5.3a,
the app manifest explicitly states that the GPS is not required.
2014-05-25: release 1.5.3
* Fixed crash in SIMQ if any of MATA, MATB, or MATX already existed and was a
scalar or string.
2014-05-10: release 1.4.78 (Android only)
* Fixed the LOCAT function, by adding the ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION permission.
2014-03-16: release 1.5.2
* Decimal version: Fixed Y^X for complex Y and negative integral X.
* Decimal version: Made Y^X and 10^X for real Y and integral X more accurate.
* All versions: sin(45°) now equals cos(45°), and sin(50grad) = cos(50grad).
2014-03-15: release 1.5.1
* All versions: Fixed ASIN, ACOS, and ATAN so they return exact results in DEG
and GRAD modes for trivial parameters (asin(1), asin(-1), acos(0), atan(1),
atan(-1), atan(infinity).
* Now displaying signed zero as zero, so you won't see -0 any more.
* Windows version: Removed the "Free42 Directory" setting from the Preferences.
The application now looks for a file or directory named "portable" in the
directory where Free42Decimal.exe or Free42Binary.exe itself is located; if
it exists, the state.bin, print.bin, and keymap.txt files will be stored in
this directory as well, and skins will only be loaded from this directory. If
there is no "portable" item in the executable's directory, it will store
state.bin, print.bin, and keymap.txt in %APPDATA%\Free42, and it will load
skins from that directory, and from the executable's directory.
2014-03-09: release 1.5
* Decimal version: Switched from BCD20 to Intel's Decimal Floating-Point
Library v2.1.
* Binary version: Replaced the old binary-to-decimal and decimal-to-binary
conversions with code that uses the standard C library's equivalent
functionality. This fixes final-digit errors in the Binary version, and also
final-digit errors when switching from the Decimal to the Binary version.
* All versions: Added angle reduction code to make SIN, COS, and →REC more
accurate in DEG and GRAD modes.
* Windows version: Now uses %APPDATA%\Free42 as the default Free42 directory
(for storing state.bin, print.bin, and keymap.txt). This avoids permissions
problems when people install the executable in a directory to which they
don't have write access (like the popular choice C:\Program Files).
2013-12-08: release 1.4.78
* All versions except Android: while parsing macros in skin layout files, tab
characters were not recognized as whitespace and caused parsing to fail.
Fixed.
* Linux version did not repaint the skin when it was switched from one skin to
another with the same width and height. Fixed.
* Windows version: Downgraded my build environment from Visual C++ 2012 to 6.0.
This means the Free42 build for Windows will run on older versions of Windows
again.
2013-12-07: release 1.4.77a (Android only)
* Android version: The "external storage" filesystem is no longer referred to
by the hard-coded path /sdcard, but using the external storage directory name
provided by the Environment. This should help prevent problems like exporting
programs and then not being able to find them from the PC.
* The file selection dialog will now append the file extension if the filename
doesn't include it already.
2013-06-15: (no new code release)
* Three new skins, and many tweaks to existing skins, contributed by KD0GLS.
The Free42Skins.zip, Free42iPhoneSkins.zip, and Free42AndroidSkins.zip
packages were all updated.
* Added two new skins for large Android devices. Contributed by Tyge Loevset.
2013-06-08: (no new code release)
* Galaxy_Nexus skin to Android skins package. Contributed by Andrew Novinc.
2013-03-02: release 1.4.77a (iOS only)
* iOS version: Fixed "Make Directory" in the file selection dialogs.
* iOS version: When the user turns off printing to text or to GIF in the
Preferences, or changes the print-out file name, the existing files are now
promptly flushed and closed.
* iOS version: Fixed "garbage" in print-out window.
* iOS version: Now highlights the currently selected skin in the Select Skin
menu.
2013-02-17: release 1.4.77
* iOS version: The links in the About view now actually work.
* iOS version: Implemented 'New directory' and 'Delete' in the HTTP Server.
* iOS version: Implemented zip file upload and download in the HTTP Server.
* iOS version: Implemented local program import/export.
* iOS version: Implemented print-out window.
2013-01-06: release 1.4.77
* All versions except iOS: the links in the About boxes now actually work.
2013-01-01: release 1.4.76
* MacOS version: Implemented print-out window.
2012-12-17: release 1.4.75b (iOS only)
* iOS version: Fixed three issues with the HTTP Server (displaying the wrong IP
address, binding to the network incorrectly, and a crash when writing to the
on-screen log).
2012-12-04: release 1.4.75a (iOS only)
* iOS version: Clicking Done on the HTTP Server window could cause the app to
freeze under certain circumstances. Fixed.
2012-11-24: release 1.4.75
* Android version: Implemented haptic feedback option (vibrate on keypress).
2012-10-27: release 1.4.75
* iOS version: In the HTTP Server view, tapping on the server URL switches
between the DNS name and the IP address.
* Linux version: Now uses ALSA to play BEEP and TONE sounds (but not when
running on remote displays).
2012-07-29: release 1.4.74b (Android only)
* Android version: Now writes state file when moved to background.
2012-05-06: release 1.4.74a (Android only)
* Android version: Fixed a couple of bugs that could cause crashes while
printing.
2012-05-05: release 1.4.74
* Decimal version: The overflow fix in 1.4.73 was incorrect. This one works.
2012-05-05: release 1.4.73
* iOS version: Now writes state file when moved to background.
* OFF now refuses to shut down Free42 if there have been no keystrokes since
the application was started. It will stop program execution and display
the message "Suspicious OFF" instead.
This prevents code like LBL "OOPS" SF 11 OFF GTO "OOPS" from locking the
user out.
* Decimal version: Overflows would return zero in some cases, i.e.
9E9999 ENTER +. Fixed.
2012-04-15: release 1.4.72
* Android version: Added "skin smoothing" and "display smoothing" check boxes
in the Preferences view.
2012-04-14: release 1.4.71
* HMS+ and HMS- would return results with the wrong sign under certain
circumstances: result < 0 and |result| < 59 seconds, or result < 0 and
|result| > maximum integer. Fixed.
2012-04-09: release 1.4.70b (Android only)
* Android version: Fixed app manifest so the app no longer obtains the
READ_PHONE_STATE permission, which it never needed anyway.
Some background: Apps targeted at Android 1.5 automatically get
READ_PHONE_STATE and WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE when installed in Android 1.6 or
higher, without the user being told, and this tends to look under-handed to
users who aren't aware of what's going on. Free42 now targets 1.6, which
means it doesn't get any permissions silently.
It does now request WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, because it needs it for printing
to files and for exporting programs.
Note that the app still runs on 1.5 and later; the requirements for running
it have not changed.
2012-02-12: release 1.4.70a (Android only)
* Android version: Fixed app manifest to make the app work with screens other
than 320x480. This should fix the problem of skins not filling the whole
screen on some devices.
2011-09-18: release 1.4.70
* Fixed several bugs in complex ASIN, ASINH, ACOS, and ACOSH.
* Android version: Better printer icon in the main menu, by Günter Schink.
* MacOS version: OFF didn't work when invoked from a program. Fixed.
2011-06-11: (no new code release)
* Added two new skins to the Android skins package, designed for the Samsung
Galaxy S 9000, which has an 800x480 screen. Contributed by Günter Schink.
2011-05-22: (no new code release)
* Added Free42AndroidSkins.zip package, for skins designed for Android-based
devices; added HTC4800 skin for HTC Desire HD or other Android devices with
480x800 screens. Skin contributed by Michael Vogel, based on an iPhone skin
by Jerrod Hofferth.
2011-04-22: release 1.4.69 (Android only)
* Added "orientation" option in Preferences, allowing the user to lock the app
in landscape or portrait mode.
* Improved the layout of the file selection and Preferences dialogs.
* The file selection dialog no longer disables files that don't match the
filter; it now hides them.
2011-04-20: release 1.4.68
* INVRT did not perform any type checks, leading to badness when it was applied
to anything that wasn't a matrix. Fixed.
2011-04-10: (no new code release)
* Added six new skins to the iPhone skins package. Contributed by Javier
Goizueta.
2011-03-13: release 1.4.67
* ASIN returned incorrect results for large complex arguments. Fixed.
* iOS version: Added support for 640x920 skins.
* Added Silver And Blue skin to Free42PocketPCSkins.zip package. Contributed by
David Geiger.
* The SST and BST key labels were switched in these skins:
ppcskins/Andy480x800.gif ppcskins/Ramos240x400.gif ppcskins/Ramos480x640.gif
ppcskins/SilverAndBlue.gif ppcskins/StandardPPC.gif
ppcskins/StandardPPCsm.gif skins/Andy480x800.gif
Fixed.
2010-04-08: release 1.4.66
* Removed the "Not Yet Implemented" Time functions; I decided not to implement
them. They're also gone from the FCN catalog.
The ADATE, ATIME, ATIME24, CLK12, CLK24, DATE, DATE+, DDAYS, DMY, DOW, MDY,
and TIME functions remain; those are the time/date-related functions from the
HP-41 Time Module that are actually useful in Free42.
The functions that I decided not to implement after all are the following:
Live clock display: CLKT CLKTD CLOCK
Stopwatch: RCLSW RUNSW SETSW STOPSW SW
Alarms: ALMCAT ALMNOW XYZALM
Clock control: CORRECT RCLAF SETAF SETDATE SETIME T+X
* In DMY mode, DATE would display dates as DD:MM:YYYY, but that should be
DD.MM.YYYY. Fixed.
2010-04-03: release 1.4.65
* Implemented some more Time Module functions: ADATE, ATIME, ATIME24, CORRECT,
RCLAF, SETAF, SETDATE, SETIME, T+X.
2010-03-30: release 1.4.64
* Implemented some more Time Module functions: DATE+, DDAYS, and DOW.
2010-03-28: release 1.4.63
* iOS version: Implemented ACCEL, LOCAT, and HEADING functions, for querying
the device's accelerometer, location services (GPS on the 3G and 3GS; WiFi-
based on all other models), and compass (3GS only).
* All versions except MacOS Dashboard: for skins, increased the maximum macro
length from 31 to 63. The old limit was too small to allow macros that step
forward all the way to the end of the FCN catalog, and supporting such macros
is necessary now that the length of the FCN catalog is no longer fixed at 42
rows.
* Also, changed several macros in the HP-41 and HP42CY skins where the FCN
catalog was being traversed backwards, replacing N repetitions of ▲ with 42-N
repetitions of ▼, so they will work correctly in the presence of an extended
FCN catalog. (None of the other skins currently in the Free42 repository
traverse the FCN catalog backwards, so they don't need updating.)
* PalmOS version: Turning off printing did not flush the GIF file, so you'd end
up with a truncated image. Fixed.
* When COMPLEX is executed with a complex number or complex matrix in X, and
POLAR mode is active, it is possible for range errors to occur. Free42 would
simply substitute POS_HUGE_VAL in such cases, but that was incorrect; it
should report Out of Range or substitute POS_HUGE_VAL depending on the
setting of flag 24. Fixed.
* R/S can now be pressed using the PC keyboard even when ALPHA mode is active.
2010-03-07: release 1.4.62
* Windows version: Now has an option in the Preferences screen to map the
Calculator key, found on many newer keyboards, to launch Free42.
* iOS version: The hostname lookup for the HTTP Server window is now done in a
background thread, so that a slow or malfunctioning DNS server no longer
causes the app to freeze on startup.
* When EDITN was active, you could overwrite the edited matrix with a scalar
using STO, or delete it using CLV -- and then you would be stuck in the
Matrix Editor, and even CLALL couldn't get you out. Fixed; you will now get
the Restricted Operation message when you try to change or delete the active
matrix behind EDITN's back.
2009-12-29: (no new code release)
* Added HP-41 skin to the Free42Skins.zip package. This skin mimics the HP-41
layout, and includes many macros to map additional functions to the keyboard.
Contributed by Guenny.
2009-11-25: release 1.4.61
* Decimal version: →OCT (decimal-to-octal conversion) was broken; it actually
converted octal to decimal. Fixed.
2009-11-11: (no new code release)
* Added HP42CY skin to the Free42Skins.zip package. This skin includes many
macros to map additional functions to the keyboard. Contributed by Guenny.
* Added kacskin and kacskin_yellow skins to the Free42Skins.zip package.
These are slightly modified versions of Michaels HP, and may be easier to
read on some screens. Contributed by Keith Carangelo.
2009-11-08: release 1.4.60
* Decimal version: SQRT could be off by 1 in the final digit. It now computes
one additional digit and rounds it into the mantissa, which should make it
accurate in all cases.
* Decimal version: The BCDFloat add and subtract functions could return
denormalized results when one of the arguments was zero. Free42 would not
display these denormalized numbers correctly, leading to strange results like
1.0001 LOG returning something that looked like zero but wasn't. Fixed.
2009-10-31: release 1.4.59
* MacOS Dashboard version: Changed the background from green to gray, and
changed the transparency to fully opaque.
* PalmOS Decimal version builds & works again; fixed the SQRT crash and the
divide bug (caused by 16-bit integer overflow, oops).
* Decimal version: Re-fixed the subtract bug which had originally been fixed in
1.4.53, but reappeared in the great BCDFloat/BCDFloat2 refactoring.
* Decimal version: 1e-10000 LOG and 1e-10000 LN returned <Not a Number>. Fixed.
* CLV and PRV didn't work from the CUSTOM menu, potentially even causing a
crash. Fixed.
2009-10-24: release 1.4.58
* Removed Byron's BIGSTACK and BIGLCD hacks; these will be maintained in a
separate fork from now on. This protects the other Free42 versions from bugs
in the 42S/iOS code, and right now, it fixes some display glitches in the
other versions.
2009-10-19: release 1.4.57
* New LOG code (again), for exact results when the argument is a power of 10.
The bug from version 1.4.55 is fixed.
* Subtract would lose one digit of precision for edge cases like
1 - 0.9999999999999999999999999; fixed.
2009-10-12: release 1.4.56
* The new LOG implementation introduced in Decimal version 1.4.55 was broken;
rolling back to 1.4.54 version. (Note that this means that powers of 10 do
not yield exact results, but at least everything *else* is OK again now.)
2009-10-10: release 1.4.55
* Some improvements in the new BCDFloat code:
. LOG (common log) is now precise for powers of 10.
. MOD function now works for large arguments.
. rounding fix in multiply now gets 1/3*3-1 and 10/3*3-10 the same answer,
10/7*7-10 is not the same, but this is correct (it depends on where you cut
off the number).
. optimisations to subtract routine.
* MacOS version: Now uses $HOME/Library/Application Support/Free42 instead of
$HOME/.free42 for persistent state, keymap, and skins. If this directory
does not exist, but $HOME/.free42 does, the latter is renamed to the former.
* Switching from a version using the old BCDFloat code (1.4.51 or earlier) to a
version using the new code (1.4.52 or later) wasn't handled properly; it
should handle the change in how Infinities and NaNs are represented, but it
didn't. This is related to the problem fixed in 1.4.54.
Starting with this version, all state files created by versions 1.4.51 and
older are assumed to contain old-style BCDFloat, and state files created by
versions 1.4.52 and newer are assumed to contain new-style BCDFloat.
This means that BCDFloat numbers created by all previous versions of Free42
Decimal will now be interpreted correctly, however, any state file that has
become damaged by upgrading from <= 1.4.51 Decimal to 1.4.52-54 will still
be damaged, and the only way to make sure no such damage remains is to do
CLALL and reload all programs and data.
to| <=51| <=51|52-53|52-53| 54 | 54 | >=55| >=55
from | dec | bin | dec | bin | dec | bin | dec | bin
---------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----
<=51 dec| + | + | - | + | - | - | + | +
<=51 bin| + | + | - | + | + | + | + | +
52-54 dec| c | c | + | - | + | + | + | +
52-54 bin| c | c | - | + | + | + | + | +
>=55 dec| c | c | c | c | c | c | + | +
>=55 bin| c | c | c | c | c | c | + | +
LEGEND: This chart shows compatibility between Free42 state file versions. To
check if version A will correctly handle state files produced by version B,
check the cell at column A, row B. The numbers 51..55 in the chart refer to
Free42 releases 1.4.51 through 1.4.55.
A 'c' means you will get a "State File Corrupt" message; "+" means the state
file will be read correctly, and "-" means the state file will be read, but
some numbers will be converted incorrectly.
Note that once the Free42 state has become damaged by an upgrade marked with
"-" in this chart, it will stay damaged; so, for example, upgrading from
1.4.51 Decimal to 1.4.52 Decimal, and then to 1.4.55 Decimal, may result in a
damaged state, while upgrading from 1.4.51 Decimal to 1.4.55 Decimal directly
will not.
2009-08-28: release 1.4.54
* The new BCDFloat code, introduced in version 1.4.52, uses a different
convention for representing NaN and infinities: instead of using special
values in the exponent, it now uses dedicated flags, and has a narrower
exponent field. The code that converts between decimal and binary, when
switching between Free42 Decimal and Free42 Binary while keeping the same
state file, did not deal with this new convention, and, as a result,
switching between those versions could cause numbers to become NaN or
Infinity when they shouldn't.
This release fixes this. It is only relevant to those who switch between
Free42 Decimal and Free42 Binary.
2009-08-17: release 1.4.53
* Decimal version: Fixed a bug in the subtract routine that could cause
incorrect, malformed results in some cases, e.g. 4 ENTER 3 / 1 - 3 * 1 -
returned -:.E-25.
2009-08-08: release 1.4.52
* New: MacOS version. This is a native application, not a Dashboard widget;
it is functionally identical to the PC versions (Windows, GTK, and Motif).
The print-out window doesn't work yet, though printing to files does;
everything else is working. The print-out window will be finished in a two
or three weeks, barring the unforeseen. I'm releasing the app in this
incomplete state because I feel it is stable and usable, and should be a
big improvement for those currently using the Dashboard widget.
This is a Universal application, so it should run on PowerPC and Intel-
based Macs. It requires OS X 10.5 or later.
* Decimal version: Merged Hugh Steers' latest BCD code. This provides more
accurate transcendentals and some bug fixes.
* Also, Hugh improved the error estimate for the Romberg integration code;
it now converges more quickly in many cases.
* MacOS Dashboard version: Now recognizes '*' and '+' on the numeric keypad.
2009-07-10: release 1.4.51
* Changed the homepage URL to http://thomasokken.com/free42/.
2009-06-29: release 1.4.50
* Adding or subtracting two complex matrices, and adding or subtracting a
complex matrix in X to or from a complex scalar in Y, would cause memory
corruption, resulting in a crash soon after. Fixed.
2009-06-13: (no new code release)
* Added "Realistic42s240x400" skin for 240x400 Pocket PC devices
(Free42PocketPCSkins.zip package). Contributed by Denis Cesar.
2009-06-07: release 1.4.49
* BASE/ tried to catch division by zero by looking at Y instead of X. Oops! The
result was that 0/1 would return "Divide by 0" and 1/0 would cause Free42 to
crash. Fixed.
* PalmOS version: Tall skins can now be selected on all devices, regardless of
whether they have tall screens or not. On most devices, this isn't useful,
but the tallness check had the effect of suppressing the 320x450 Ehrling42sm
skin on the Tapwave Zodiac, which has a 480x320 screen; the result was that
you couldn't use that skin even if you switched to portrait mode.
2009-05-05: (no new code release)
* Added "Ramos240x400" skin for 240x400 Pocket PC devices
(Free42PocketPCSkins.zip package). Contributed by Miguel Toro; based on
Ramos480x640 by Noe Ramos.
2009-04-04: release 1.4.48
* Fixed PSE; it no longer freezes the UI for one second, but uses a proper
timeout, so event processing can continue, and keystrokes during PSE have
the proper effect (of stopping program execution and then being handled
normally).
2009-03-04: release 1.4.47
* Another UVEC bug: it should return Invalid Data when the magnitude of its
argument (|z| for complex scalars, FNRM for real matrices) is zero. It
returned its argument unchanged instead. Fixed.
2009-02-22: release 1.4.46
* UVEC returned Invalid Type for complex scalar arguments. Fixed; it now returns
z/|z| (same as the SIGN function for such arguments), like the real HP-42S.
* When functions with arguments, e.g. STO, FIX, etc., were entered into a
program from the CUSTOM menu, they would get inserted before the current
program line instead of after. Fixed.
2009-01-28: release 1.4.45
* ASTO IND ST X was broken; instead of storing the first 6 characters of the
ALPHA register into the register or variable pointed to by X, it stored them
into the variable pointed to by the first six characters of ALPHA itself.
Fixed.
2009-01-14: (no new code release)
* Added "Lienhard480x800" skin for 480x800 Pocket PC devices
(Free42PocketPCSkins.zip package). Contributed by Thomas Lienhard.
* Added "Sven320x240mini" skin for 320x240 Pocket PC devices
(Free42PocketPCSkins.zip package). This skin only shows the keys for basic
arithmetic and stack manipulation, making the keys large enough to use easily
without a stylus. Contributed by Sven from Vienna.
* Added "Ramos480x640" skin for 480x640 Pocket PC devices
(Free42PocketPCSkins.zip package). It has a distinctive, sparse look.
Contributed by Noe Ramos.
2008-08-16: release 1.4.44
* Made auto-repeat for number entry and ALPHA modes optional. The auto-repeat
feature, introduced in release 1.4.11, is not found on the real HP-42S, and
can cause problems if you don't expect this kind of behavior in a calculator.
It can now be turned off in the Preferences dialog, though the default is
still for it to be on.
Note that this is unrelated to the auto-repeat for the ▲ and ▼ keys, which is
authentic HP-42S behavior, and cannot be turned off.
2008-04-12: release 1.4.43
* MacOS Dashboard version: Fixed event handling so that program execution now
works. There's still plenty of room for improvement: key timeouts (so
pressing and holding a key behaves like it does on the real HP-42S and on
the other Free42 versions) and auto-repeat come to mind... But at least
programs, the solver, the integrator, and interruptible matrix functions
should all be usable now.
2008-03-10: release 1.4.42
* Pocket PC version: I added a HI_RES_AWARE resource so that Free42 will now be
able to take advantage of high-resolution displays without the help of
Tweaks2k2 or similar utilities.
2008-01-11: (no new code release)
* Added "Khor" skin for Windows and Unix versions (Free42Skins.zip package).
Contributed by Michael Khor.
2008-01-01: release 1.4.41
* PalmOS version: When opening the print-out database fails with a 0x0209 error
(database corrupt), it now deletes the database, creates a new one, and tries
again.
2007-12-15: release 1.4.40
* The 'Paste' command now handles binary, octal, and hexadecimal values when
the calculator is in the respective base modes. Note that 'Copy' has
supported non-decimal bases since times immemorial, so this simply makes
clipboard handling consistent at last.
2007-12-15: release 1.4.39
* Windows version: The single-instance option did not work when the previous
instance was minimized. Fixed.
2007-12-14: release 1.4.38
* Windows, GTK and Motif versions: Implemented single-instance option. This is
on by default in the Windows version, but off by default in the GTK and Motif
versions, since many X11 window managers won't let clients raise themselves.
(PalmOS is single-tasking, and Pocket PC enforces single-instance behavior
for all applications, so this option does not apply to those environments.)
2007-12-08: release 1.4.37
* Changed the homepage URL to http://free42.sourceforge.net/.
2007-08-15: (no new code release)
* The Motif version did not compile under Ubuntu 64-bit; its version of g++
considers the loss of precision that occurs when casting a void* to an int to
be a fatal error, and motif/shell_main.cc used such casts in two places
(those casts were legit -- not a bug!). I fixed shell_main.cc so that it
first casts to a long, then to an int: the loss of precision when casting
between integer types is not frowned upon, so this should compile anywhere
with no errors or warnings.
I'm only updating the free42.tgz package, and not releasing any new
executables, since this code change does not actually affect any of the
existing builds.
2007-07-28: (no new code release)
* Added "Ehrling42ss240sq" and "SemiReal240sq" skins for 240x240 Pocket PC
devices (Free42PocketPCSkins.zip package).
* Added information about keyboard mapping to the README files for Pocket PC,
Windows, Motif, and GTK.
2007-05-12: release 1.4.36
* PalmOS 68k version: Under PalmOS < 3.2, importing and exporting programs
would cause a crash, because I was using a Progress Manager API that did not
yet exist in those versions. Fixed now; as it turns out, I never needed that
newer API in the first place; the PalmOS 3.0 version does the job just fine.
2007-05-06: release 1.4.35
* Binary version: AIP would mangle some numbers; the underlying function to
extract the digit in a number's units position was broken. Fixed.
* Decimal version: Modified BCDFloat::_usub() so that it performs the
subtraction using an extended (8-digit) mantissa. This fixes the behavior of
borderline cases like 0.9999999999999999999999999 - 1 (used to yield 0, now
-1e-25) and 1 - 1e-25 (used to yield 1, now 0.9999999999999999999999999).
2007-04-04: (no new code release)
* The "Standard" skin for the PalmOS version (Free42PalmOSSkins.zip package)
had the labels for SST and BST switched. Fixed.
2007-04-01: release 1.4.34
* SOLVER: when the Ridders algorithm made no further progress, because the
interpolated value coincided with one of the interval's endpoints, it would
use the interpolated value as the final estimate of the root, without
checking if it was in fact the best estimate; the best estimate can
sometimes be the opposite endpoint. Added a check to make sure the best
estimate is returned.
* GTK and Motif versions: Now set the WM_WINDOW_ROLE property on all top-level
windows, to allow window managers to use different policies on the various
windows depending on their role. This property is set to "Free42 Calculator"
for the main window, "Free42 Print-Out" for the print-out window, and to
"Free42 Dialog" for all dialogs.
2007-03-23: release 1.4.33
* PalmOS ARM version: Would not run on some Palm Tungsten T models, because
they report an incorrect ROM version number. Made the version number check a
bit more lenient so that it will accept "Development" versions as well as
"Release" versions.
2007-03-20: (no new code release)
* Added "StandardPPCsm" skin for 240x240 Pocket PC devices
(Free42PocketPCSkins.zip package).
2007-02-27: release 1.4.32
* When the BASE application was active, the arithmetic keys and +/- would be
reassigned the BASE+, BASE-, BASE*, BASE/, and BASE+/- functions -- which is
good, but these assignments would stay in effect even if a non-application
menu was active on top of BASE, and that was wrong. Fixed now.
2007-02-18: release 1.4.31
* Decimal version: Floating-point addition would return an incorrectly rounded
result under certain circumstances. Fixed.
2007-02-14: release 1.4.30
* INTEG reported the difference between the final iteration and the one before
in the Y register (the error estimate), but without taking the absolute
value first. As a result, the reported accuracy could be negative. Fixed.
2007-01-27: release 1.4.29
* Decimal version: Did not handle numbers without mantissa correctly while
importing programs (i.e. lines like "E4"; see the notes for release 1.3.5).
The binary version has handled this kind of thing correctly since release
1.3.5, but the decimal version did not. Fixed.
2007-01-06: release 1.4.28
* INTEG used to treat ACC as an absolute error bound, but that is not
consistent with the behavior of the real HP-42S. Fixed; it is now treated as
a relative error.
2006-11-11: (no new code release)
* Added "Realism" skin for high-density (320x320 and higher) PalmOS devices
(Free42PalmOSSkins.zip package). Contributed by Curtis Cameron.
2006-08-21: release 1.4.27
* The int2string() function did not handle numbers with more than 9 digits
correctly. This caused MEM to display gibberish on machines with more than
999,999,999 bytes of available physical memory.
Fixed; also, the code now interprets free memory as an unsigned number,
rather than signed, so that free memory up to 4,294,967,295 bytes should now
be reported correctly.
2006-07-11: release 1.4.26
* PalmOS ARM version: Paste didn't work; it caused a Fatal Exception instead.
Fixed.
2006-06-21: release 1.4.25
* Motif version: Now gets the selected items from the Export Program dialog
using the XmListGetSelectedPos() function, rather than using the
selectedPositionCount and selectedPositions resources; those resources are
a Motif 2.0 feature, and are not supported by the Lesstif library. With this
change, Export Program now works with Lesstif as well as with OpenMotif.
2006-06-19: release 1.4.24
* Under certain conditions, SOLVE would return not the final value in X, but
the previous one (which is also returned in Y). Fixed.
* Pocket PC version: Now building the CAB files using the Cabwiz.exe from the
PPC 2002 SDK, instead of the PPC 2003 SDK. Hopefully this will fix the
problem of Free42 not installing properly on some PPC 2002 devices.
2006-06-09: release 1.4.23
* PalmOS version: Fixed a bug that would cause reading the state file to fail
if there were no variables.
* GTK version: The position of the print-out window would not be remembered if
it was closed when the application exited. It appears that the
gtk_window_get_position() function returns the original position (from the
window's geometry hints) if it is called while the window is not mapped.
I'm now working around this by making sure I get the window position while
the print-out window is actually mapped.
* Windows version: Show Print-Out did not work when the Print-Out window was
minimized. Fixed.
* Decimal version: Changed the definition of POS_HUGE_PHLOAT and
NEG_HUGE_PHLOAT to have a mantissa with 25 nines, rather than 28. (These are
the numbers that are returned when a range error occurs while flag 24 is
set.)
* CLALL did not clear the CUSTOM menu and the programmable menu. Fixed.
* STO+, STO-, and STO/, where the destination was the indexed matrix, would
reset I and J, but that was wrong (only STO and STO* should do that, since
only they can actually cause the destination's dimensions to change).
This caused the MLR program from the HP-42S Programming Examples and
Techniques book to return incorrect results. Fixed.
* In HEXM and OCTM modes, SHOW should display X in decimal, but it showed it in
the selected base instead. On the real HP-42S, SHOW only shows the number in
base in BINM mode, and in decimal in all other modes. Fixed.
2006-05-22: release 1.4.22
* Decimal version: Numbers are always rounded to 25 decimal digits now. The 7-
digit base-10000 representation, which Free42 uses internally, is equivalent
to 25 to 28 decimal digits, but the extra digits tend to introduce noise
which can interfere with the convergence tests of certain iterative numerical
algorithms. Rounding to 25 decimal digits makes Free42 behave like a regular
decimal calculator, preventing such problems.
* GTK version: Explicitly realizes the print widget now, which prevents GTK
warnings being written to the console when print instructions are performed
before the print-out window is first opened.
2006-05-20: release 1.4.21
* Decimal version: For values < 1e-8, SQRT returned results that were a factor
10000 too large. This was due to a bug in the underlying BCDFloat::sqrt()
method, which probably affected other functions as well. Fixed.
2006-05-19: (no new code release)
* Added "HP-42C" voyager-style skins for Windows and Unix (Free42Skins.zip
package). Contributed by Egan Ford.
2006-05-11: release 1.4.20
* GTK version: Added periodic battery check (once per minute). The other
versions already had this. Note that the GTK and Motif versions use /proc/apm
to inspect battery status; on systems without /proc/apm, this check does not
work, and the battery is assumed to always be OK. /proc/acpi support is not
implemented yet.
* All versions except PalmOS: the keyboard handling changes in release 1.4.17
broke auto-repeat from the PC keyboard. Fixed.
2006-05-08: (no new code release)
* HP-41 to HP-42S character code conversion in the rom2raw program did not
work; alpha LBL, GTO, XEQ, and string program lines were not converted.
Fixed, and updated the free42.tgz and rom2raw.zip packages.
2006-05-07: release 1.4.19
* GTK version: Auto-start (flag 11) did not work. Fixed.
* Auto-start did not work if the program counter was at line 00. Fixed.
* When auto-start causes program execution to begin while PRGM mode is active,
any pending command should be cancelled and PRGM mode should be exited before
program execution starts. This wasn't handled properly; fixed now.
2006-05-01: release 1.4.18
* Decimal version: Fixed a bug in exp() that caused it to return wrong results
for very large negative parameters. This affects E^X, SINH, COSH, and TANH.
* Decimal version: Fixed a bug in TANH that caused it to return NaN or other
nonsense for very large parameters.
* Decimal version: Fixed a bug in the BCD20 library that caused -Infinity not
to be recognized as a negative number.
2006-05-01: release 1.4.17
* Pocket PC version: Fixed a couple of cosmetic bugs in menu key highlighting.
* Added support for CShift mappings. These are keyboard mappings that take
effect if the Calculator's Shift annunciator is on. This makes it possible
for [CShift] [Key] to activate a different keystroke or macro than the
unshifted [Key], so you can, for example, make CShift SQRT be something other
than X^2.
* Display repainting is temporarily disabled during macro playback, to prevent
distracting "flashing" for complex macros.
2006-04-23: (no new code release)
* Added 160x160 version of the Standard skin to the Free42PalmOSSkins.zip
package.
2006-04-22: release 1.4.16
* Complex matrices took up twice as much memory as they actually needed, due to
an erroneous extra multiplication by 2 while allocating the memory chunk for
the matrix elements. Fixed.
* Shared matrices now remain shared even after application exit and restart.
* PalmOS version: Removed the 64 kilobyte matrix size limit. Matrix size is now
limited only by available application heap space. (On PalmOS < 3.5, the 64k
limit still exists.)
2006-04-13: release 1.4.15
* Windows and Pocket PC versions: When print commands were executed before the
print-out window was created, the scroll-back buffer would not grow properly.
Fixed.
2006-04-11: release 1.4.14
* PalmOS version: Tweaked the layout of the Preferences dialog a bit. The
version for PalmOS < 3.5 was particularly bad.
* PalmOS ARM version: Export Program would only export the first program in
memory, and write garbage (or even freeze) for any others that were selected.
Fixed.
2006-04-10: release 1.4.13
* New: ARM-native PalmOS version. It's not for everyone -- it's big, it starts
up much slower than the 68k version, and of course you need a Palm with an
ARM CPU -- but once it gets going, it's pretty fast!
Note that the ARM state file is not compatible with the 68K version, so
whenever you switch from the 68K version to the ARM version or back, you will
get the "State File Corrupt" message. Be sure to export all important
programs before switching!
* Implemented instance caching for scalars and strings. This eliminates the
memory management overhead from most simple instructions and speeds up
program execution.
2006-04-04: release 1.4.12
* Pocket PC version: Implemented proper beeper.
2006-04-04: release 1.4.11
* Implemented auto-repeat for number entry and ALPHA modes.
* In the previous release, I broke the annunciators in the Standard skin for
the Pocket PC. Fixed.
2006-04-03: release 1.4.10
* Pocket PC version: Made orange (shifted) legends in the Standard skin a bit
larger. The original 5x4 characters were way too small; hopefully the new 7x5
characters will be more to people's liking.
* Tweaked the PalmOS version of the Ehrling42sm skin a little: I increased the
vertical key spacing by 4 pixels. It has a more balanced appearance now;
should be nicer to use, too.
* PalmOS version: Changed the display background color in the Ehrling42sm,
SemiReal42, SemiReal42HD, and SemiAuto42HD skins, from LCD greenish to gray.
The reason is that the standard PalmOS 8-bit palette does not contain the
right shade of green, so in the skin bitmaps, the color ended up becoming
gray anyway; displaying the actual LCD contents on top of it (which happens
in true color on devices that support it) then gives an ugly appearance.
I modified skin2prc so that it can now also generate true-color (16-bit) skin
bitmaps, but those tend to get pretty big, so I'm not using that
functionality yet while building the Free42PalmOSSkins.zip package; maybe
later, I'll create separate true-color versions of Ehrling42sm etc. to keep
the fans of green happy...
2006-04-02: release 1.4.9
* PalmOS version: Optimized display updating code. For high-density skins,
display updates are now about 3 times faster than before; this should make
HD skins much more usable (more responsive).
* PalmOS version: Added support for tall (320x450) skins.
* Added new "realistic" 320x450 skin to Free42PalmOSSkins.zip package. It's
not great; just a quick-and-dirty, proof-of-concept adaptation of Ehrling42sm
from the Windows/Unix skin collection.
2006-04-01: release 1.4.8
* Changed implementations of X<=Y? and X>=Y? so they now actually return x<=y
and x>=y, respectively; formerly, they returned !(x>y) and !(x<y), which is
fine in most cases, except when NaNs are involved.
* Decimal versions: Rewrote BCDFloat comparison functions so they now handle
NaNs properly; also, inequalities now return correct results for numbers
whose difference is too small to represent (e.g. 1.1e-10000 1e-10000 X<Y?
used to return 'false', because it would subtract the two numbers and then
compare the result to 0 -- with no check for underflow).
2006-04-01: release 1.4.7
* Decimal versions: In BCDFloat::mul(), multiplications by zero could return
values with zero mantissas (good) but nonzero exponents (bad). After several
such multiplications, the exponents could get into the "special" ranges (i.e.
Infinities and NaNs). Result: 0 * 0 => NaN, etc. Fixed.
* Fixed BCDFloat::sub() so that it will not return -0. It used to do that when
computing 0 - 0. I think this was harmless, but I fixed it anyway.
* Added new Pocket PC skin with single-click activation of shifted functions to
Free42PocketPCSkins.zip package. Contributed by Jeff O.
2006-03-26: release 1.4.6
* New: Pocket PC version.
* Added a new voyager-style skin to the Free42Skins.zip package (Windows and
Unix), and created a new package, Free42PocketPCSkins.zip, with skins
specifically designed for the Pocket PC.
* →POL now detects the case that the real and/or imaginary parts are zero, and
returns exact results for those cases.
* Cancelling a partially-entered DEL, LIST, or PRP command in PRGM mode could
cause the instruction pointer to be set to an invalid location. Fixed.
2006-03-19: release 1.4.5
* Decimal version: 1 ACOS returned <Not a Number> instead of 0. Fixed.
2006-03-13: release 1.4.4
* GTK version: When initially presented, the print-out window was not
automatically scrolled to the bottom sometimes. Fixed.
* GTK version: When the print-out window's scroll-back buffer was full, and the
window was not scrolled to the bottom, and print-out took place, the window
would get updated wrong. Fixed.
* In TRACE mode, while running a program, clearing flag 21 should not suppress
auto-print, but it did. Fixed.
* The "Paste" command no longer uses sscanf() to parse real or complex numbers;
instead, it now uses the same string-to-number conversion code that is used
when the user enters a number on the keyboard. This means that numbers like
0.1 can now be pasted in the Decimal version with no binary round-off error.
2006-03-12: release 1.4.3
* GTK version: Refused to close the print-out window. Fixed.
2006-03-11: release 1.4.2
* New: GTK+ version. For Unix users who think Motif is not cool enough. ;-)
* Fixed handling of large complex arguments in ABS and SIGN.
* Decimal version: Fixed a bug in BCDFloat addition and subtraction that could
cause the result to be rounded wrong under certain circumstances.
* Some minor maintenance stuff: changed the type of BASE (in bcdfloat.h) from
'long' back to 'int' in order to make the PalmOS code slightly more
efficient; removed the -O2 option from the MinGW makefile, because the
optimizer was breaking the solver.
* Fixed a bug that could cause the PalmOS version to fail while converting
programs from decimal to binary.
2006-03-03: release 1.4.1
* Decimal version: Fixed a bug in BCDFloat addition and subtraction that could
cause the result to have the wrong sign under certain circumstances.
This seems to have fixed the poor SOLVE performance; apparently that was
*not* caused by transcendentals not being evaluated to the full 28 digits.
* PalmOS version: When entering text using Graffiti, case switching is now
performed even on Graffiti 2.
2006-02-27: release 1.4
* Added decimal floating point, implemented using BCDFloat code by Hugh Steers.
The decimal code is a compile-time option; I can (and will!) still build
Free42 with binary floating point as well.
* Removed "IP Hack" option. It never really did the job anyway, and with the
introduction of the Decimal version, it is now obsolete.
* VIEW, AVIEW, and ADV now talk to the printer when invoked from the keyboard,
even if flag 21 is clear.
* In TRACE mode, when the X register is printed automatically (not because of
an explicit PRX), and it contains a matrix, print only the matrix descriptor,
not its whole contents.
* Fixed handling of large complex arguments in LOG and LN.
* Windows version: The default location for the Free42 directory is once again
the executable's directory. This change only affects new installations; the
Free42 directory location is still stored in the Registry, and any already
existing setting will be honored.
* On hard reset, the printer is enabled now (flags 21 and 55 are set instead of
cleared). This is not what the real HP-42S does, but, then again, the real
HP-42S does not have a built-in printer, while Free42 does; this new behavior
should be more intuitive.
(Note: flags 21 and 55, and the PRON and PROFF commands, still work as
before; the only change is their initial setting.)
* Fixed a crash that could occur when ridiculously large numbers were used for
indirect addressing (meaning numbers >= 2147483648 absolute).
2006-02-10: release 1.3.17
* Clicking in the display now only activates softkeys if a menu is active. This
means that programs that "fake" menus by painting in the display and calling
GETKEY are no longer supported -- but then again, you can still use the top
six keys of the keyboard in that case, and for all I know there is only one
program on the whole planet that actually does a fake menu (hi Erik :-) ).
* Code import now converts "" (empty string, a synthetic HP-41 construct) to
|-"", instead of dropping it on the floor. This is consistent with the
behavior of "" on the 41: it is a NOP, sometimes used after DSE or ISG, in
cases where the 'skipping' behavior of those functions is not wanted.
* In lowercase print mode (flag 13 set), functions with hidden characters,
e.g. COMPLEX/CPLX, were printed wrong ("cOMplEx" instead of "complex").
Fixed.
* Added rom2raw.c to the source tree. This is a program that extracts user code
from *.ROM format HP-41 module images; it converts XROM calls to user code
within the same module to XEQ, and warns about all other XROMs (except the
ones that correspond to HP-42S instructions). At some point it would be nice
to integrate module support into Free42 itself; meanwhile here's hoping this
will also be useful. I'll put it on my web page as a separate download,
complete with a ready-to-run Windows executable, once I iron out the
wrinkles.
* Added KR and Widgi42 skins (for the Motif & Windows versions).
Contributed by Klaus Reckermann.
2006-02-07: release 1.3.16
* A few obscure printing fixes (PRX now prints complex scalars left-justified
if they do not fit on one line; the same now happens for command printing in
NORM and TRACE modes).
* Modified most skins so all the sensitive rectangles are now as large as
possible, making keys easier to hit with the mouse. (The sensitive rectangle
for a key is the area on the screen where a mouse click will cause the key to
be pressed; in several skins this area was the size of the keys themselves,
but after this modification, the area extends several pixels beyond the keys,
meaning you can be a bit sloppier now, which is good because it reduces
strain on the arm muscles and tendons.)
I did not change the Semi-Auto skins yet, because my automatic rectangle-
stretching program currently only handles 37-key layouts. Fortunately, the
Semi-Auto skins already have large sensitive rectangles, which cannot be
enlarged much further anyway. (I know, lame excuse!)
* In skins/SemiReal42.gif and palmskins/SemiReal42HD.gif, moved the R↓ key one
pixel to the left. It's been annoying me forever -- can't think why I didn't
fix this earlier. :-)
2006-02-06: release 1.3.15
* The PRX command no longer prints three asterisks when printing a complex
number or a matrix. Also, when printing a matrix, in addition to printing
the descriptor line (as shown in the display), it now prints the matrix
contents as well. These changes bring the Free42 PRX command in line with
the HP-42S.
* Windows & Motif versions: Fixed handling of PC keyboard key rollover (i.e.
pressing a key before the previous key is released). This should fix the
problem of keystrokes being missed when typing rapidly.
* Windows & Motif versions: When the A..F menu in the BASE application is
active, the A through F keys are now mapped to the corresponding menu keys,
regardless of the keyboard map -- so you can now enter a number like FCE2
without having to use the mouse or the F1-F6 keys.
* Added MacOS Dashboard version to the source distribution. No binary
distribution, alas, because I don't have a MacOS X build environment.
MacOS Dashboard code written by D. Jeff Dionne.
2006-02-01: release 1.3.14
* Windows version: Added always-on-top feature.
* Windows version: In the previous release, when I fixed the code that saves
the window positions when exiting using the OFF command, I broke the code
that saves the window positions when exiting using the close box and the Quit
command. Fixed, so now window positions should be remembered correctly
regardless of how Free42 is exited.
2006-01-29: release 1.3.13
* Fixed behavior of Y^X for certain special cases (namely, 0^(0,0); (0,0)^0;
(0,0)^(0,0); 0^(1,0); (0,0)^(1,0). Note that the first three of those now
return (1,0); this is not consistent with the real HP-42S, which returns
"Invalid Data", but it is consistent with the way Free42 already treated
0^0).
* SIN, COS, P→R, and COMPLEX, when used in DEG and GRAD modes, now return exact
results for multiples of 90 degrees (100 grads). Also, the TAN function now
returns exact results for multiples of 45 degrees (50 grads).
* Added range checks to the complex versions of SIN and COS.
* In PRGM mode, the A..F command in the BASE menu now says "Restricted
Operation".
* Windows version: When exiting the emulator using the OFF command (shift-EXIT
or XEQ "OFF"), the positions of the main and print-out windows would not get
updated in the state file.
2005-06-20: release 1.3.12
* Motif version: Closing the print-out window did not work in the Cygwin build.
The problem appears to be in the Cygwin Lesstif library: the XmUNMAP setting
for the deleteResponse resource in TopLevelShell does not work.
I now work around this by using the XmDO_NOTHING setting instead, and calling
XWithdrawWindow() explicitly in the WM_DELETE_WINDOW protocol handler.
2005-06-19: release 1.3.11
* DOT did not drop the stack; it placed the result in X but left Y intact.
Fixed.
2005-06-14: release 1.3.10
* PalmOS version: In the file selection dialog, sorting was broken. It sorted
the volume list, which it shouldn't, and when sorting directory listings, it
sorted the names but not the types, and it did not force directories to the
top of the list. Oops! So many bugs in such a trivial enhancement... Well,
it's fixed now, and I'm taking a vacation from this project. :-)
2005-06-14: release 1.3.9
* PalmOS version: In the file selection dialog, file names are now sorted
alphabetically.
2005-06-09: release 1.3.8
* PalmOS version: Added Copy and Paste icons to the command bar for the
calculator form.
* PalmOS version: The Edit and Skin menus were switched in the print-out form.
Fixed.
2005-05-12: release 1.3.7
* PalmOS version: Hardware Up and Down keys now scroll the print-out window.
2005-05-12: release 1.3.6
* Windows version: Fixed computation of scroll bar width, so Windows 2000 users
who use "Large Fonts" (or otherwise wider-than-normal scroll bars) don't lose
pixels at the right edge of the print-out window.
* PalmOS version: Pressing and holding the 5-way navigator's center button now
exits to the Application Launcher (this is an automatic PalmOS behavior,
which I had unintentionally sabotaged before by mis-handling auto-repeat
events).
2005-05-11: release 1.3.5
* Improved import of HP-41 programs: numbers with exponent but no mantissa are
now handled correctly (e.g. 'e4' becomes '1e4', rather than '0'); XROM
instructions that do not correspond to HP-42S built-in functions are now
imported as XROM instructions, rather than being skipped.
Note that XROM instructions always return the "Nonexistent" error message, so
HP-41 programs that rely on non-HP-42S extensions still won't actually work
in Free42, but at least now you will be able to see more easily *why* such
programs fail.
* PalmOS version: PalmOS 5.0 (and 5.1?) has a bug in FileControl(): the
fileOpGetOpenDbRef command returns a bogus value; when using this value in
subsequent Data Manager calls, a crash results. This was noticed on a Palm
Tungsten T and on PalmOS Simulator 5.
This bug caused Free42 to crash on exit on some devices (it would crash while
trying to set the "backup" bit on the Free42State file). I changed my code so
that it obtains the necessary information another way.
* Motif version: Fixed a bug that could cause a crash whenever a file selection
dialog was created. I never noticed it causing a problem in Linux, but it
did crash the Cygwin build, and it was incorrect code anyway. Fixed now.
2005-04-21: release 1.3.4
* PalmOS version: Yet another 'program import' bug, this time due to a
difference of opinion between gcc and g++ about sign extension. Fixed.
2005-04-21: release 1.3.3
* PalmOS version: Program import and HP-41 synonym lookup were broken, again
apparently because the PalmOS version of g++ does not handle const globals
properly. I removed the 'const' qualifier from a few lookup tables and that
seems to have solved the problem.
2005-04-21: release 1.3.2
* PalmOS version: Added key click sound, to give the user audible feedback when
Free42 receives a key press (pen tap) on the emulated keyboard.
* Added skins with single-click activation for shifted keys (Windows/Motif and
high-density PalmOS versions). Contributed by Jeff O.
* Added compact version of Erik Ehrling's realistic skin (Windows/Motif only).
Contributed by Michael Vogel.
2005-04-06: release 1.3.1
* In the previous release, I broke the FCN catalog in the PalmOS version.
Those pesky 'const' globals again! Oops...
2005-04-06: release 1.3
* Converted the project to C++ in preparation for implementing BCD support.
2005-03-23: release 1.2.10
* The code in →HMS, HMS+, and HMS-, that was supposed to prevent results such
as →HMS(61/60) = 1.006 (by adding 0.4 to fix the minutes, or 0.004 to fix the
seconds, to get 1.01 in this example) was incorrect; it would apply the
correction in cases where the intermediate result was rounded down due to
binary round-off; this would cause →HMS(119/60) to return 1.594 instead of
1.59. Fixed by making the test for when to perform the adjustment more
accurate.
2005-03-21: release 1.2.9
* PalmOS version: Fixed a couple of problems with the hardware Up and Down
keys: auto-repeat events are now ignored (Free42 handles that on its own),
and SST in RUN mode now shows the instruction to be executed, and goes to
NULL, if held down for 1/4 second and 2 seconds, respectively.
2005-03-21: release 1.2.8
* Motif version: File selection dialogs now use option menus for file type
selection. The only remaining difference between these, and the Windows and
PalmOS versions, is that the Motif version uses case-sensitive matching, so
the "*.raw" filter won't match "foo.RAW". You'd think this would be a
simple matter of using a custom file search procedure, but there turn out to
be weird side effects (with Open Motif 2.2.2, though not with Lesstif,
interestingly enough). That'll require some more research.
* Motif & Windows versions: Did not repaint the skins after skin switching in
certain circumstances. I added code to force a full repaint.
* Windows version: The message and title on several message boxes were
switched. I guess nobody ever saw those messages anyway. :-)
* Did some serious spring cleaning in my TODO list. There were a lot of goals
there, which, to my mind, were just too much effort for too little gain.
At this moment, BCD and Pocket PC support are my only *serious* remaining
objectives, apart from continuing to fix bugs of course.
Maybe I will reconsider some of the deleted objectives eventually, but that's
unlikely to happen before the gloomy days and long nights of winter return
(oh, how conducive they are to the coding mind-set!). I'll keep them off the
TODO list, so as to avoid giving the impression that stuff like a larger
display or algebraic equations are actually planned and likely to arrive
sometime soon, and also to give myself the satisfied feeling of "not much
left to do". :-)
2005-03-20: release 1.2.7
* Windows version: Could not write the registry value to store the Free42
directory location (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Thomas Okken Software\Free42
\HomeDir) unless the parent key existed already -- which, unless you have the
Free42 Conduit for the PalmOS version installed, it won't! Oops! Fixed now.
2005-03-20: release 1.2.6
* Windows version: With the ALPHA menu active, some PC keys that generate
printable ASCII codes (e.g., shift-equals for '+'; also backslash, period,
comma) were not handled properly and went through the regular non-ALPHA
mapping, meaning the corresponding characters could not be typed directly.
Fixed.
* PalmOS version: The hardware "Up" and "Down" keys are now mapped to the
emulated ▲ and ▼ keys.
* 'Paste' didn't enable stack lift. It does now.
* 'Paste' now accepts numbers in the same format that 'Copy' produces, which is
the format used on the calculator's display -- so flag 28 controls whether
'.' or ',' is the decimal. Thousands separators are ignored regardless of the
setting of flag 29.
* 61 ENTER 60 / →HMS now returns 1.01 instead of 1.006. I added a check to see
if round-off after the final computation step caused the seconds or minutes
to reach 60. I also added this same check to HMS+ and HMS-.
* Clicking in the bottom half of the display now activates "soft" (menu) keys.
This actually means you now simply have another way of clicking the six keys
in the top row of the keyboard, but the visual feedback is different, and
some may find it more intuitive than clicking the keyboard keys when working
with menus.
* Windows version: Now allows 'Alt' to be used in keyboard mappings. I'm a bit
uneasy about my keyboard message handling code; it took some trial and error
before I got to the point where Free42's mappings were coexisting with the
standard Windows Ctrl/Alt behavior in the menu bar, and I don't fully
understand *why* my code works. Maybe that's just what programming Windows is
supposed to be like <g>. Anyway, if it turns out that this code breaks on
more recent versions of Windows (I use 98SE myself), I'm sure I'll hear about
it, and if so, I'll just rip it out. The code that deals only with Ctrl and
Shift seems to have been fine, so I can always fall back on that if need be.
* Windows version: Now allows the user to choose the location of the Free42
directory (meaning, the directory where the state, print-out, keymap, and
skin files are stored). Also, skin files are now looked for in the Free42
directory *and* in the directory containing the executable, so a shared
installation of Free42 can also have a shared set of skins.
2005-03-18: release 1.2.5
* Skins now handle multiple keys with the same key code properly: the key that
is clicked is the one that is highlighted, instead of the last matching one
in the layout description; and when a PC keyboard key is pressed that is
mapped to a calculator key for which multiple keys exist in the skin
description, the first one is highlighted, instead of the last one.
* Macro keys: in the *.layout files, it is now possible to define keys with
keycodes in the range 38..255; these keys are mapped using "Macro:"
definitions in the same *.layout file. The macro is a sequence of zero or
more standard key codes (1..37).
* Windows & Motif versions: Key mappings can now be defined in the skin *.layout
file. The syntax is identical to that used in the keymap.txt/keymap file.
When the skin maps a key that is also mapped in the default keymap file, the
skin's mapping takes precedence.
Note that such customized *.layout files are OS-dependent, since the way PC
keyboard keys are specified is different between Windows and Motif: Windows
uses numeric key codes, while Motif uses X11 KeySyms.
2005-03-18: release 1.2.4
* PalmOS version: The Delete Skin feature would crash when there were no
external skins installed. Fixed.
2005-03-16: release 1.2.3
* DELR, with 'I' pointing to the bottom row, would leave 'I' pointing past the
bottom of the matrix, and, when used in EDIT or EDITN mode, display a bogus
value in X. When writing a new value to the matrix after this happens, memory
corruption could result. Fixed now.
2005-03-15: release 1.2.2
* PalmOS version: Added a feature to let the user remove external skins (i.e.
skins that aren't built into Free42, but that were installed as separate
PRC files). So, now you don't need to use Filez any more to accomplish this
task, never mind having to uninstall everything and start all over.
* PalmOS version: On devices with Graffiti 1, upper- and lower-case characters
are now switched, so that uppercase characters are easier to enter. This was
done because uppercase is much more common than lowercase in Free42. On
devices with Graffiti 2, case switching is not performed, since there
uppercase requires no extra gestures, but can be entered simply by jotting in
the center of the input area.
* Added two new skins to the Free42PalmOSSkins.zip package, and another to the
Free42Skins.zip package. Thanks to Jeff O. for contributing these!
2005-03-15: release 1.2.1
* Windows version: In 1.2, I broke the Skin menu so switching skins didn't work
any more. Fixed now.
2005-03-14: release 1.2
* Implemented simple Copy and Paste: 'Copy' puts a text representation of the
X register on the clipboard (identical to what you see in the display, except
the exponent 'E' in numbers is changed to a plain lowercase 'e'); 'Paste'
tries to parse the clipboard contents as a complex number (formatted as
"a ib", "a + bi", or "(a, b)", or if that fails, as a real number; if it
can't parse the clipboard, it just pastes it as a string.
2005-03-13: release 1.1.19
* Using the keyboard to enter the first character of a LBL name or number
caused a crash (all versions). Fixed.
* Windows and Motif versions: The 0-9 keys on the PC keyboard now act like the
number keys on the virtual keyboard *even* at the beginning of a LBL. This
allows the keyboard to be used to enter numeric labels.
2005-03-13: release 1.1.18
* PalmOS version: Improved support for PalmOS < 3.5: now has a sound volume
control in the Preferences dialog (ugly but functional); and now allows skin
switching (using a dialog instead of a dynamic menu).
* Motif and Windows versions: Implemented keyboard mapping. When Free42 is run,
it looks for $HOME/.free42/keymap (Motif) or "My Documents"\Free42\keymap.txt
(Windows), and if it doesn't exist, it creates a new one, which provides
mappings for all calculator keys and also contains comments explaining the
keymap file format.
* PalmOS version: Now accepts Graffiti input when the ALPHA menu is active.
Printable ASCII characters (codes in the range 32..126), and Backspace and
Enter, can be entered this way.
* Motif and Windows versions: Now accept keyboard input when the ALPHA menu is
active. Keystrokes that do not correspond to printable ASCII characters
(codes in the range 32..126) are handled according to the keyboard mapping
(see above).
2005-03-08: release 1.1.17
* PalmOS version: Relaxed system requirements to PalmOS 3.0 or later (it used
to require 3.5 or later). Note that the oldest PalmOS version this has
actually been tested with is 3.3 (so far). Also note that pre-3.5, there are
a couple of restrictions: the volume control in the Preferences dialog is
missing, because pre-3.5 does not support sliders; the Skin menu only shows
one item named "Default", because pre-3.5 does not support dynamic menus (and
I have been too lazy to work around that using a dialog box; since pre-3.5
does not have color, I figure there's not that much need for changing skins
anyway), and there may be other miscellaneous bits of flakiness (e.g. pen
events on menus getting reported to the underlying form as well -- this can
lead to surprising behavior). So, bottom line, you can now use Free42 on your
trusty old Palm V etc., but I still *recommend* PalmOS 3.5 or later.
2005-03-07: release 1.1.16
* PalmOS version: Implemented pluggable skin support. Skins are PRC files that
are generated from the same type of *.layout and *.gif files that the Windows
and Motif versions use directly.
2005-03-02: release 1.1.15
* SOLVE: When the secant extrapolation makes no more progress (the extrapolated
value coincides with one of the previous two 'x' values), we assume we've
found a root -- but the code would not necessarily return the right 'x' to
the X register. This means that when the iteration was started with one
starting value being a root, and the other starting value being way off, the
way-off value could be returned in X. Oops! Fixed now.
* SOLVE: when the search for a sign change reaches infinity, it would report
the final value of X to be POS_HUGE_DOUBLE or NEG_HUGE_DOUBLE. That wasn't
really correct, since it would return that value without actually having
evaluated the function at that point. I changed it so that it returns the
last 'x' that was actually used.
* Windows version: The Free42State.bin and Free42Print.bin files are now called
state.bin and print.bin, respectively, and they're no longer stored in the
directory containing Free42.exe, but rather in "My Documents"\Free42 (this
directory is automagically created if necessary). Storing the state under
My Documents means multiple users sharing one PC no longer share one Free42
state.
* Windows version: Implemented pluggable skin support. Each skin consists of a
pair of files, named <skinname>.layout and <skinname>.gif. Skins are loaded
from the "My Documents"\Free42 directory; this is also the directory where
Free42 stores its persistent state, starting with this release.
* In the "Standard" skin (Standard.gif), 10^X and E^X were swapped. Fixed now.
* Motif version: Three XtVaSetValues() calls were missing the final NULL
parameter, which could cause segmentation faults. Miraculously, this never
seems to have done any harm in my Linux/x86 builds, but it did cause a crash
under MacOS X, and it's wrong anyway. Fixed now.
2005-02-27: release 1.1.14
* Removed "f42" program file format support. The f42 format wasn't portable: it
was just a dump of Free42's in-memory representation of programs, and the way
noninteger number literals are stored (as native 'double') was a potential
source of trouble, because of endianness and because of format differences
(in case anyone is running Free42 on a non-IEEE-754 platform).
At present, the format isn't needed anyway, because the Free42 instruction
set is identical to that of the HP-42S, so all Free42 programs can be
unambiguously encoded using the "raw" format; by the time I start extending
the instruction set, I'll have to design a new format (without f42's
portability problems!) or just define extensions to "raw", using the same
mechanisms that were used to add the HP-42S instructions to the HP-41C
instruction set (XROM and special strings).
* Because programs are now only stored in HP-42S-compatible "raw" files, there
is no longer any point in showing program sizes in Free42 units, so the
"HP-42S byte counts" option has been removed from the Preferences dialog, and
program sizes are now always shown in HP-42S units.
* Pluggable skin support (Motif version only at the moment; this will be added
to the PalmOS and Windows versions in the next week or so).
2005-02-11: release 1.1.13
* It wasn't possible to enter FIX/SCI/ENG IND nn when nn > 11; in that case, nn
would be changed to 11 -- which is the right thing to do for FIX/SCI/ENG nn,
but not for the IND case. Fixed.
* In the previous release, I was a bit too zealous about deleting the code that
handles ARGTYPE_COMMAND for FCN catalog assignments: I mistakenly removed the
code that displays and executes this type of assignment in a program. Oops!
It's restored now. Note: it has not been possible to *create* such program
lines since release 1.1.5 (see the first item in the release 1.1.5 notes,
below), but this code is needed for compatibility with programs created with
Free42 release 1.1.4 and earlier.
2005-02-11: release 1.1.12
* SOLVE: if the search for two points with function values with opposite signs
reaches infinity suspiciously quickly (in less than 10 steps), and only one
initial guess was given, retry with initial guesses of 0 and 1.
This can help in some cases where the left-over value in the variable, and
the previous starting value, are identical (and misleading), and no new
starting value was given before invoking SOLVE.
* When entering a LBL command, it wasn't possible to specify the label name by
selecting it from a catalog -- the top-level catalog could be brought up, but
pressing any of its keys would take you back to the ALPHA menu.
* It wasn't possible to enter commands with IND "string" arguments by selecting
the argument from the FCN catalog; the IND would disappear in that case.
* Fixed a couple of extremely obscure Free42/HP-42S incompatibilities:
1) When a program line like LBL "ENTER" is created by selecting ENTER from
the FCN catalog, the label now contains the command name with "meta"
characters for the letters that are suppressed in the FCN catalog (e.g., the
second E in ENTER) -- so the string ENTER in this example is encoded as 0x45,
0x4E, 0x54, 0xC5, 0x52. This means that, with a label as above, GTO "ENTER",
with the word ENTER typed using the ALPHA menu, now results in "Label Not
Found", since in that case, the string ENTER is encoded as 0x45, 0x4E, 0x54,
0x45, 0x52, which does not match the label.
Note that this does not just apply to LBL and GTO, but in *all* situations
where the FCN catalog is used to create a string argument.
2) In ASSIGN, when the command to be assigned is selected from the FCN
catalog, it is now assigned by name, and no longer by command ID. This means
that such assignments can now change meaning if a label or variable with a
matching name is created (as was already the case when the command name was
entered by any means *other* than the FCN catalog).
2005-02-10: release 1.1.11
* SOLVE: if the search for two points with function values with opposite signs
reaches infinity suspiciously quickly (in less than 10 steps), assume that
the larger of the initial guesses is bad, and retry with just the smaller.
This can help in some cases where a left-over value in the variable to be
solved for can send SOLVE in the wrong direction.
2005-02-02: release 1.1.10
* Another DET problem: the fix in 1.1.9 was itself broken; it would set 'det'
to 1 each time the real-valued LU decomposition worker procedure was entered,
instead of only doing that the first time; this would not cause a problem if
the matrix in question was small enough to be decomposed in only 1 invocation
of the worker (12x12 or less), but result in bogus determinants otherwise.
Fixed.
* Yet another couple of DET bugs: singular matrices weren't handled properly:
in "Singular Matrix" mode, they would return the "Singular Matrix" error,
instead of 0, and when "Singular Matrix" mode was off, they would return a
small value that resulted from the HP-42S-compatible zero-pivot fudging that
takes place in that mode (it shouldn't do that fudging when computing only
the determinant, regardless of whether "Singular Matrix" mode is on or off).
Both of those bugs applied to both the real and complex cases; they're all
fixed now.
* The "left arrow", "right arrow", "up arrow", and "down arrow" commands for
matrix editing (EDIT/EDITN/INDEX) did not work correctly when editing a 1x1
matrix. Fixed.
2005-02-02: release 1.1.9
* DET returned bogus results for real nonsingular matrices -- nasty bug that I
introduced when I made the LU decomposition code interruptible in release
1.0.17 (the 'det' field in the LU decomposition state was not initialized to
1 at the start of the decomposition). The complex case did work correctly;
the real case does so too, again, now.
2005-01-31: release 1.1.8
* It was possible to enter and leave PRGM mode while in the middle of command
entry. Fixed.
* It wasn't possible to enter the number -2147483648 as a program line. Fixed.
* Flag 47 was set when VARMENU was active, *and* when the variable menus in the
SOLVE and INTEG applications were active. It should *only* be set when the
regular VARMENU is active. Fixed.
* Flags 76 and 77 (matrix edge wrap, and matrix end wrap, respectively) were
set wrong by the I+, I-, "up-arrow", and "down-arrow" commands: when the
top/bottom edge was crossed, flag 77 would be set (should have been 76), and
when it jumped from the top-left corner to the bottom-right (or vice versa),
flag 76 would be set (should have been 77). Fixed. Note: J+, J-,
"left-arrow", and "right-arrow" did the right thing already.
* GETKEY no longer causes the display to be refreshed.
* GETKEY now turns off the 'running' annunciator while it is waiting.
* If Free42 is exited while GETKEY is waiting (or if the power was cycled
(PalmOS only)), it returns code 70 (OFF) and stops program execution, just as
if OFF had been pressed twice on a real 42S: once to get out of GETKEY and
stop the program, and again to actually switch the calculator off.
* PalmOS version: If the system requests permission to perform auto-poweroff,
and Free42 refuses while a GETKEY is pending, GETKEY returns 70, program
execution continues (if applicable), and the power stays on. (This is how it
works on the real HP-42S, too; presumably, the idea is to allow GETKEY-using
programs to implement battery-friendly behavior.)
2005-01-29: release 1.1.7
* When XEQ was performed in a program, while the return stack was already full,
the previous top-of-stack would be lost (really silly off-by-one error in the
code that shifts the stack for this case). I noticed this while playing Erik
Ehrling's Okie Dokie: it would start to act weird if you played 8 fields in
a row. Oops!
2005-01-29: release 1.1.6
* In store_var(), added a check to see if the target variable is the indexed
matrix; if it is, I and J need to be reset to 1 (top-left corner). Without
this, the code was not HP-42S compatible, and what's worse, it could leave
I and J pointing outside the new array, so that a subsequent STOEL would
cause memory corruption.
2005-01-27: release 1.1.5
* When storing ASSIGN in a program, and the function to be assigned was
selected from the FCN catalog, the function's opcode would be stored with the
instruction, rather than its string representation. As far as Free42 itself
is concerned, this is fine, but it is not how the HP-42S works, and what's
worse, the "raw" mode export code and the HP-42S-compatible byte counter both
couldn't handle it, and generated bogus code and nonsense byte counts.
I decided to kill all birds with one stone by forcing the FCN-to-string
conversion in store_command(); for backward compatibility, export_hp42s() and
hp42s_size() now handle the FCN version correctly as well.
* It wasn't possible to enter DIM IND, EDITN IND, INDEX IND, INTEG IND ST, and
SOLVE IND ST. Fixed.
* Thanks to Vini Matangrano for stress testing Free42's command entry and thus
finding these bugs & bringing them to my attention!
2005-01-26: release 1.1.4
* PalmOS version: When printing to GIF, and the GIF file name field in the
preferences dialog was blank, the resulting files would be named .0000.gif
etc., which is OK, but the path that was stored in the file's data records
would be //.0000.gif -- and that extra slash would make the file impossible
to delete. This is now fixed, but if you have a Free42 filesystem with such
undeletable files, you will have to download the entire filesystem to a PC,
then erase it, and then upload it back to the Palm. This will get rid of all
bad pathnames. Simply resetting the Palm while Free42 is running will *not*
fix this problem; resetting the Palm with Free42 active causes the directory
to be rebuilt using information from the data record headers, but in this
case, the problem isn't the directory at all, it's the data record headers,
and fixing *them* requires the download-erase-upload method.
* PalmOS version: No longer allows open files to be deleted from the Free42
filesystem.
* Motif version: The .free42rc and .free42print files are now called
.free42/state and .free42/print, respectively; creating the .free42 directory
was necessary anyway in preparation for pluggable-skin support (gotta put
those skins somewhere!), and so I moved the state and print-out files there,
too, in order to clean up the home directory a little.
* CLP would not update the current_prgm index. This meant that if the current
program was after the deleted program, the pc could end up pointing at an
invalid location, and if the current program was the last program, the
current_prgm index would end up pointing beyond the end of the prgms array;
this could lead to memory corruption or a crash. Now fixed.
2005-01-21: release 1.1.3
* Multi-row VARMENUs could cause a crash when switching rows. Fixed.
* When a command is completed by making a selection from the PGM catalog, the
selected label or END is now echoed on the screen, even if the key isn't held
down for 1/4 a second. This is necessary for commands that take a long time
to execute: when printing a program, you should not be seeing PRP "_ while
the program is being printed; the display should show the full PRP "name",
which it now does.
* PalmOS version: MEM now reports the number of free bytes in the dynamic
(application) heap, rather than the total number of free bytes in the system.
This is better because the dynamic heap is where Free42 actually stores
programs and variables, and it can get full even though the system as a whole
still has lots of free space.
2005-01-19: release 1.1.2
* PRP & LIST: in strings and in string arguments, translate character code 10
(LF) to 138, so that it shows up properly in text-mode program listings,
rather than becoming an actual line break. In "raw text" listings, this means
it becomes Ctrl-Meta-J, but that's the best I can do, I guess. In "normal"
mode listings, it is now rendered as "\LF". Graphics-mode listings (GIF and
on-screen) already did the right thing.
* It was possible to do SST and BST while in the middle of command entry; this
made it possible to go to line 00 and have an instruction inserted in the
program at pc = -1, which caused memory corruption because it would write a
byte before the start of the program block. (Line 01 corresponds with pc = 0,
in other words, the pc is a byte offset from the beginning of the program;
pc = -1 is a special value used to indicate line 00, which isn't a physical
program line at all.) I plugged the SST/BST hole and for good measure, I also
added a check to store_command() to make sure that it never inserts anything
at pc = -1.
* PalmOS version: When a file was deleted from the Free42 filesystem, and the
directory entry immediately preceding it was a directory, that directory
would be resized just as if the deleted file had been in it, resulting in a
bogus directory length and a corrupted directory structure (which can be
repaired by resetting the Palm while Free42 is running; when this happens,
Free42 will rebuild the directory the next time it starts up). Fixed now.
* Windows & Motif versions: GIF file names looked like foobar0000.gif, should be
foobar.0000.gif, like in the PalmOS version. Fixed.
* Motif version: When the print window scrolls because of a print command, while
it is partially obscured, the region that is scrolled out from under the
obscuring window did not get painted. I added a GraphicsExpose event handler
that schedules a full repaint whenever that happens. Not pretty, but unless I
can find a way to handle those events synchronously (as they are caused by
the scroll operation), it's the best I can do.
2005-01-17: release 1.1.1
* Free42 Conduit: fixed a bug that would cause it to write past the end of a
memory block, causing it to crash (and take down HotSync Manager with it).
* PalmOS version: Fixed a bug in the file selection dialog, that would cause
the file list to be initially empty under certain circumstances.
* The auto-repeat feature on the ▲ and ▼ keys would leave the 'repeating' mode
flag set, even after the key was released. This would cause the next key
pressed to act like ▲ or ▼, even if it was a different key -- provided it was
held down long enough for the auto-repeat timeout to expire.
* SOLVE: in the situation where f(x1) and f(x2) have the same sign but
different values, x3 is computed by the secant method; if f(x3) is worse than
f(x1) and f(x2), the interval is bisected -- but this code had a bug: if
f((x1+x2)/2) was *also* worse than f(x1) and f(x2), it would repeat the
bisection step without changing x1 and x2 first, and so the algorithm could
get stuck. I fixed this by *always* assigning x3 to the worse of x1 and x2
after bisection, thus making sure that there is always change (if not
necessarily progress, but that's another story).
2005-01-15: release 1.1
* Implemented program import and export, both in original HP-42S format (which
is also the format used by Emu42), and in Free42's own internal format.
* PalmOS version: Implemented a simple filesystem (using a PalmOS database
underneath) which makes it possible to support program import and export, and
printing to text and GIF files, on PalmOS devices that lack VFS support.
A HotSync Conduit is provided to mirror this filesystem on a PC (Windows
only, for now; maybe I'll do a Java version later).
* Added an option to display the byte count on line 00 assuming HP-42S format.
Note: program lines containing numbers are stored in binary in Free42; this
means that 1e3 and 1000 end up being the same -- unlike on the HP-42S, where
those lines are different, and have different numbers of bytes.
When computing the HP-42S byte count, Free42 always assumes the most compact
form of a number -- but this means that if you import a program containing
numbers that are *not* maximally compact, the byte count given by Free42
will be lower than that on the HP-42S.
* Changed many of the special character substitutions that are made when
sending printer output to text files or PalmOS memos, hopefully making them
more readable; also added an option to suppress those substitutions
altogether ("Raw text" in the Preferences dialog).
* PalmOS version: Can now activate the menu bar by tapping in the top part of
the screen.
* The BCD conversion table (37 kilobytes) is no longer stored in the state
file. The Windows and Motif versions now rebuild it each time they start up
(PCs are fast enough to do this) and the PalmOS version now stores it in a
database. Windows and Motif users will probably not notice any difference
(apart from a smaller state file); PalmOS users may notice that they now have
more application heap space to play with, startup and shutdown are faster,
and HotSyncing the state file is faster.
* PalmOS version: Added a sound volume control to the Preferences dialog.
* PalmOS version: Fixed a bug that would cause the state file to become
corrupted when writing large matrices (real matrices with >= 4096 elements,
complex matrices with >= 2048 elements).
* Windows version: When the print-out window is partially obscured, no longer
scrolls the obscuring window into the print-out.
2004-12-20: release 1.0.17
* NORM and TRACE print modes: numbers entered by the user are now printed as
entered, not formatted according to the active display mode -- except for one
detail: if the display mode is FIX n, and the entered number does not contain
an exponent, and the fractional part has fewer than n digits, it is padded
with zeroes to n digits, so that decimal points will line up. (I got this
from the HP-97 manual; here's hoping that the HP-42S/HP-82240A are similar.)
* All O(n^3) matrix functions (INVRT, DET, SIMQ (MATX), matrix-matrix division,
and matrix-matrix multiplication) are now interruptible (by EXIT).
* LIST, PRP, PRUSR, and PRV are now interruptible (by EXIT and R/S).
* Changed the Makefile for the Motif version slightly, so that the mask bitmap
that it generates is called Mask1.pbm (and Mask1.xbm); this way the name does
not clash with the unscaled mask.pbm on case-insensitive filesystems.
* Windows version: The print-out window scrolling code now actually scrolls the
window, instead of invalidating and repainting everything all the time. This
makes programs that print a lot of output run faster.
(If LIST, PRP, PRUSR, and PRV seem *slower* than in the previous release,
that's because they're interruptible now: after each line, Free42 returns to
the message loop, and during an interruptible print operation, each time
there will be a WM_PAINT message to paint the most recent line -- so each
line is actually painted on the screen *as it is generated*; the previous
release didn't render anything on the screen until the whole printout was
finished, and that was obviously faster, but not very pretty.)
2004-12-17: release 1.0.16
* NORM and TRACE print modes implemented, including the different formats used
by PRP and LIST (right-justified and compact, respectively).
I'm sure many differences remain between Free42 printer emulation and the
real HP-42S + HP-82240A, but hopefully this NORM and TRACE implementation is
close enough to be useful.
(If you spot a discrepancy between Free42 and the original, please feel free
to report it to the author so he can fix it. It will be appreciated!)
* Motif version: The print-out window scroll bar now has its increment (i.e.,
the amount by which it scrolls when the arrows are clicked) set to 18 pixels.
This corresponds to one text-mode output line. (The Windows version already
behaved like this; the PalmOS version will, too, as soon as I figure out how
to control this aspect of scroll bar behavior on that platform.)
* PRP now prints a highlight ("goose" character) in front of LBLs.
* PRP now allows the argument to be an END from the PGM catalog when in program
mode (it already did the right thing when in normal mode).
* Flag 21 now controls PRA, PRLCD, PRX, PRΣ, PRSTK, PRUSR, and PRV during
program execution. It is still ignored when these commands are executed
interactively, and it still affects VIEW, AVIEW, ADV, and PROMPT regardless
of whether a program is running or not (note that PROMPT prints only in NORM
and TRACE modes).
* GTO . now allows the argument to be an END from the PGM catalog.
* Power cycles (exit/restart, and also power off/on on PalmOS) now cause
program execution to stop if flag 11 is clear.
* CROSS with two matrix arguments did not drop the stack; it placed the result
in X but left Y intact. Fixed.
* SST and BST now work properly even if invoked in unusual ways (XEQ, ASSIGN,
the FCN catalog).
2004-12-14: release 1.0.15
* FIX and ALL mode now round to at most 12 digits before deciding how to
display. This fixes two bugs: (1) in ALL mode, 0.00009999999999999999 is now
displayed as 0.0001 instead of 1.e-4, because it now understands that the
former does not hide any information; (2) in FIX 01 mode, 123456123456.9 is
now displayed as 123456123457 instead of 123456123456.
* PRA now prints an empty line if the alpha register is empty; the previous
release printed nothing in this case.
* PRΣ could print numbers instead of strings and vice versa (it checked the
wrong location of the REGS matrix' is_string array). Fixed.
* Windows version: Takes display resolution ("Small/Large Fonts" desktop
setting) into account when calculating scroll bar width, instead of assuming
96 dpi.
* Motif version: Now remembers window positions between sessions.
2004-12-13: release 1.0.14
* Windows version: When using saved window geometry information, don't trust
the saved width and height for the main window, and don't trust the saved
width of the print-out window: the decor dimensions and menu bar height may
have changed, and since we don't allow the user to resize the window in those
directions, the result is a bit embarrassing. Also, instead of assuming that
scroll bars are 16 pixels wide, get the value from the desktop settings in
the registry.
* PalmOS version: Limit size of generated memos to 4096 bytes; the previous
release had a 32767 byte limit, which turns out to cause problems with old
versions of Memo Pad and with PACE, and to make things worse, the check for
that limit wasn't even implemented properly (I used a 16-bit signed int.
Oops.).
* IP hack: in addition to IP, FP, and AIP, this now applies to all functions
that treat arguments as integers by truncating them: AROT, DIM, NEWMAT, POSA,
R<>R, STOIJ, XTOA; BASE functions (AND, BASE+, BASE-, BASE*, BASE/, BASE+/-,
BIT?, NOT, OR, ROTXY, XOR); and indirect addressing when the target is a
numbered register.
AGRAPH and PIXEL are not affected: they don't truncate their arguments, but
round them to the nearest integer.
* Indirect address resolution: IND nn, where Rnn contains a string, did not
work. Oops! Fixed now.
2004-12-10: release 1.0.13
* Printer emulation -- on-screen, and also prints to plain text and GIF files,
and on PalmOS, also prints to memos. Still needs to be verified against some
more actual HP-82240 output; also, NORM and TRACE modes not implemented yet.
* The user can now control whether or not singular matrices during matrix
division/inversion, and range errors during matrix multiplication/division/
inversion, generate error messages or not.
* Added "IP hack" option; this causes IP, FP, and AIP to use the value in X
rounded to 8 decimal digits. This enables some programs that rely on BCD
behavior to work correctly on Free42. (For example, code that stores two
2-digit numbers in one number as AA.BB: to extract AA, it does IP, and to
extract BB it does FP 100 x IP. In binary math, this is not reliable, since
the representation of the BB part of AA.BB is not exact; by rounding off a
few digits internally before doing IP/FP/AIP, the binary round-off error can
be compensated for in many cases.)
* PalmOS version: Set "backup" flag on Free42State file, so that it is backed
up during HotSync operations.
* PalmOS version: Fixed annoying bug that caused a beep after executing any
menu command (the pull-down menus, not the emulated HP-42S menus!).
* Windows version: Now remembers window positions between sessions.
* Fixed menu behavior of MVAR, SOLVE, and INTEG in the case where no real
variables exist.
* Fixed PRA in the case where it should print multiple lines (because of LF
characters or because it doesn't fit on a line). Also affects AVIEW.
* DOT didn't accept the case where X and Y are complex scalars. Fixed.
2004-11-23: release 1.0.12
* Windows version: Added better definitions of asinh(), acosh(), atanh(),
log1p(), and expm1(), all taken from the GNU C library, version 2.2.5.
2004-11-20: release 1.0.11
* Printer support skeleton. Doesn't actually print yet, except for the Motif
version which can send plain text to standard output -- but now all printer-
related functions at least behave like they would on a real HP-42S with no
printer. This means: no more "Not Yet Implemented" error messages; PRP, LIST,
and PRV accept the appropriate argument types, and VIEW/AVIEW stop program
execution if flag 21 is set while flag 55 is clear.
2004-11-18: release 1.0.10
* Error handling while SOLVE and/or INTEG are active: INTEG no longer affects
error handling (previously INTEG was treated like SOLVE, but that was wrong);
SOLVE now traps Stat Math Error (in addition to Out of Range, Divide by 0,
and Invalid Data, which were already being trapped), and the same set of
errors is now trapped while RUNning as while SSTing (previously *all* errors
were trapped while RUNning, but that was wrong).
2004-11-18: release 1.0.9
* When performing a hard reset, initialize the random number generator using
shell_random_seed() instead of setting it to 0.
* While in command entry mode, entering a numeric argument, and the argument
length is still 0 (e.g. just press STO or XEQ), shift-ENTER should activate
alpha argument entry (like ENTER without shift) and not beep. Fixed.
* When used in INDEX mode, INSR would store X at IJ before inserting the new
row, and replace X with the new contents of IJ after having inserted the new
row (always 0). In other words, it behaved like you would expect in EDIT or
EDITN mode. DELR had a similar bug although it was less noticeable (it would
leave the wrong value in X but at least it did not store an incorrect value
in the matrix). Both fixed.
* Fixed a couple of bugs that would cause INSR and DELR to update a matrix
incorrectly if its data was shared.
2004-11-13: release 1.0.8
* CLALL would crash if invoked using XEQ or ASSIGN while spelling out the name
(selecting it from the FCN catalog did work).
* Variable catalogs would show the ▼▲ (multi-row menu) annunciator, even if
they contained just one row of items.
2004-11-10: release 1.0.7
* Changed the LU decomposition code so that it will keep going when it finds
a zero pivot, or even a whole zero column. Also added range checking to the
back-substitution code; it replaces infinities and NaNs with
(POS|NEG)_HUGE_DOUBLE. (NaNs should never be caused by divisions by 0, since
I think I'm checking for that wherever it could occur, but they can also
result from adding two infinities of opposite sign.) There is no check for
flag 24, because the 42S ignores it in this situation, too; I also removed
the flag-24 checks from matrix-matrix multiplication for compatibility.
* AVIEW, when displaying one line, now clears flag 51, instead of leaving it
unchanged.
* A couple of "goose" fixes: clear row 0 before painting the goose after a PSE,
and restart the goose at its last position when re-enabling it after a PSE or
CLD.
* After selecting a program in the INTEG application and entering the variable
menu, pressing a menu key immediately no longer performs a STO operation, but
instead selects the corresponding variable as the integration variable (and
moves on to the integration parameter menu (LLIM/ULIM/ACC/INTEG)).
Previously, you needed two keystrokes to achieve the same effect, which was
consistent with the other variable menus (VARMENU and SOLVER), but not with
the real HP-42S.
2004-11-09: release 1.0.6
* Matrix-matrix division computed Y * inv(X); the HP-42S does inv(X) * Y.
Most embarrassing Free42 bug to date! And it also means that I never
needed the _trn_ versions of the LU decomposition and back-substitution
functions to begin with -- so they're gone again now.
* With the INTEG Parameter menu (LLIM/ULIM/ACC/INTEG) active, STO and RCL,
followed by one of the right 3 menu keys, caused a beep (good), but also
caused the commands to be completed, with a bogus argument (bad).
2004-11-08: release 1.0.5
* Yet another AVIEW bug: the new line breaking logic introduced in release
1.0.1 still does not handle LF in position 23 properly. If an LF occurs when
the current line is full (i.e., at position 23, but that can change when I
start supporting bigger display sizes), the result should be just one line
break, not two.
* [MIN] and [MAX] should search column J from row I on down. My original
implementation searched the entire column. Fixed.
2004-11-08: release 1.0.4
* SOLVE performance improvement: for the case when f(x1) and f(x2) have
opposite signs, compute the next guess using Ridders' method instead of the
secant method. (The secant method is still used if f(x1) and f(x2) have the
same sign.) For well-behaved functions, this improves performance to about as
good as the HP-42S.
* SOLVE now displays the two most recent guesses, and the signs of their
results (or a question mark if an error was trapped while evaluating the
function). This display is updated at most 4 times per second -- display
operations are MUCH more expensive in the emulator than in the original, so
you have to be careful not to throw away most of your CPU cycles on animating
a progress indicator (especially if said progress indicator is likely to turn
into an unreadable blur on faster machines). (This is similar to the "goose"
situation.)
* SOLVE bug fixes: now returns not just the root in X, but also: the previous
guess in Y, f(x) in Z, and the result code (0=root, 1=sign reversal,
2=extremum, 3=bad guesses, 4=constant) in T. Finally, "Bad Guess(es)" is not
an error, just a message.
* INTEG performance improvement: switched from using Simpson's Rule to the
Romberg method. Still not quite as good as the HP-42S, but getting pretty
close. It converges much faster than Simpson's Rule and seems quite stable.
* INTEG bug fix: now returns not just the integral in X, but also the error
estimate in Y.
* Thank You to Hugh Steers for the Romberg implementation, and for reminding
of the Numerical Recipes book, where I got the Ridders code.
2004-11-06: release 1.0.3
* CLALL caused memory corruption because clear_all_prgms() didn't clean up the
'prgms' and 'labels' arrays properly. How on Earth did this manage to not
crash when I tested it three weeks ago?!?
* When the calculator is switched off in the middle of command entry, with
flag 11 set, command entry should be cancelled on the next power-up.
* While entering a LBL command, if the argument length is still 0, and one of
the alpha submenus is active, interpret the number keys as alphanumeric
rather than numeric. This allows labels like LBL "123" to be created easily.
2004-11-06: release 1.0.2
* In number entry mode, the MODES menu does not come up (the code does not
recognize the difference between +/- and SHIFT +/- in this case). Fixed.
2004-11-06: release 1.0.1
* Reduce arguments to SIN, COS, TAN, →REC, and COMPLEX (in POLAR mode) by
applying fmod(x, 360) (in DEG mode) or fmod(x, 400) (in GRAD mode).
In RAD mode, the behavior is unchanged. See angle_to_rad().
* Fixed a bug in keydown_command_entry() that made it impossible to create
alpha LBLs where the first character was a shifted alpha menu key (e.g.
LBL a, LBL "foo").
* Fixed bugs in keydown_normal_mode() that caused program instructions
generated by several menus to be inserted before the current line, instead of
after. The affected menus were CATALOG (except FCN), VARMENU (including
variable menus displayed by the SOLVE and INTEG applications), INTEG
parameter (LLIM/ULIM/ACC/INTEG), and CUSTOM (LCLBL mode only).
* Fixed the behavior of the XEQ (and GTO) key when the CUSTOM menu is active in
LCLBL mode while in program entry mode. It now starts the command by calling
do_interactive() instead of start_incomplete_command(), and the former takes
care of the additional bookkeeping necessary in program mode, which fixes
problems that would occur on line 00, or when cancelling the command
(returning to the wrong line).
* Flags 47 (variable menu), 53 (input), 65 (matrix editor), and 75
(programmable menu) did not work, because they were missing from the
virtual_flags list in core_commands2.c. Fixed.
* A linefeed character at position 23 in the alpha register would be displayed
as 'LF' by AVIEW. The check for LF should not be skipped immediately after a
line wrap. Fixed, and also made the code a bit more general (not so tied to
exactly two display lines).
* The BINM, OCTM, DECM, and HEXM commands, when executed from a program, should
activate the BASE application, and they didn't. Fixed, and also fixed a menu
highlighting bug which I noticed while stepping through the test case for the
BASE bug (highlights would disappear while SST was held down).
* When entering number entry mode while in normal mode AND a menu is active,
redraw the display to force the menu to be repainted; it could be invisible
due to a recent two-line AVIEW.
* Added [MIN], [MAX], and [FIND] functions. See README for more information
about these.
* PalmOS version: Reduced the beep volume from full volume to half. It really
was a bit loud on some devices. (Of course now other people will complain
that it's too quiet! There should be a sound volume control, but that will
have to wait until release 1.1.)
2004-11-04: release 1.0
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