On Tuesday 17 March 2015 12:14:31 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 17 March 2015 15:55:46 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 17 March 2015 09:54:36 Mike Bird wrote: > > > On Tue March 17 2015 03:38:00 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > I have been asked to crosscheck some address decoding on a > > > > proposed PDB design, and I have been useing the binary display > > > > of kcalc to do that sort of thing for a decade or more. > > > > > > > > Unfortunately, TDE has excised that display capability from > > > > kcalc. > > > > > > Hi Gene, > > > > > > Just click on Settings / Logic Buttons to enable that feature. > > > > > > --Mike > > > > That is not the display I need Mike, its been on all along. > > > > What I am refering to are the groups of small squares, arranged in > > groups of 8, under the normal result window, each of which turns > > black when that bit on an 8 bit byte is set. They can also be > > clicked on, setting or unsetting the bit, with the result display > > above following suit. So you can construct a binary pattern, and > > instantly see the hexidecimal representation it represents. > > > > This is part of the KDE kcalc, but is missing from the TDE kcalc. > > I've found it handier than sliced bread, bottled beer and instant > > sex combined at times. > > > > Plus, the TDE version appears no place in the launch menu's where > > KDE makes it easily useable from the menu's, where now I must tie up > > a terminal session to run it. > > > > Would it be possible to re-install the KDE version without a > > dependency hell tearing down the rest of the system? > > I did a Google search and came up with this: > > https://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/kcalc/ > > It doesn't seem to have the window you mention. It is a click on box option in the settings menu of kcalc Lisi, "show bit edit". Completely missing from the TDE version. But I got it all sussed, see my reply to Mike Bird. > Are you sure that you are thinking of the right application? Are you > thinking of Gcalc as in Ubuntu? I can't in a hurry find a screenshot > of that. But see this: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Calculator I have looked at that in previous incarnations and found it lacking. > > Again, not as you described. > > I'll do some more searching later. Whistle in the St Bernards and sample the stuff you sent them out with. The lost has been found. :) [...] Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>