ANNOUNCE: gcalctool - v4.2.99

[Rich Burridge <Rich Burridge Sun COM>]

Application
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gcalctool


Description
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gcalctool is the desktop calculator that has been accepted for GNOME 2.4.
It has Basic, Financial and Scientific modes. Internally it uses multiple
precision arithmetic to produce results to a high degree of accuracy.



Changes since the last version (4.2.86).
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* Fixed bug 116944. Various HIG improvements to the edit constants, edit
  functions, and insert ASCII value dialogs.

* Fixed bug 116727. When the calculator display is showing an error message,
  it is now correctly localized.

* Fixed bug 115950. The "*" key wasn't being recognized as a keyboard
  shortcut for multiplication.

* Fixed bug 114364. When you select "Edit Constants" from the Con menu, the
  values of each constant are shown in Decimal. The label:
  "All constant values are specified in the decimal numeric base"
  has also been added to the "Edit Constant" popup to clarify this.

  The items in the constants menu are now always displayed in the decimal 
  numeric base. This is consistent with the way that calctool in the 
  OpenWindows DeskSet worked.

* Fixed bug 115653. Adjusted the keyboard mnemonic checking code to now
  check to make sure that neither of the Alt keys is pressed when comparing
  against button equivalents.

* Fixed bug 114363. When an error condition occurs:

  - make insensitive all buttons except Clr.
  - make all Scientific mode toggles and checkboxes insensitive.
  - make all menubar items insensitive except:
	Calculator->Quit
	Help->Contents

  When the error condition is cleared, resensitise everything, setting
  the numeric base buttons correctly.

  When the calculator display is showing "Error", the Constant values and 
  the Memory Register values no longer incorrectly show "Error" as well.

* Fix for bug #115212. gcalctool no longer can display multiple About boxes.
  Similar problem for the "Edit Constants" and "Edit Functions" dialog boxes.

* Fix for bug #108209. The appropriate gcalctool button is now animated
  when the user enters that value via the keyboard.


Download
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    http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gcalctool/4.2/

    [Although some of the ftp mirrors may take a little while to sync].


Acknowledgements.
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Thanks to the academy (err, committee) for accepting gcalctool for GNOME 2.4.
Thanks to Dennis Cranston for continuing to make sure that gcalctool is HIG 
compliant, and to Breda McColgan for her continuing work to keep the online 
help up to date.


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