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"Mine's log-size!"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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This one will take some beatings! 
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Benjamin Franklin
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You can also get to the additional functions with the ↑ key.
But it's still not the best design. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I thought that was to get to the emoji page.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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OriginalGriff wrote: So the functions you can perform depend on the width of your screen?
There's a show called "Fool Us" where magicians perform in front of Penn and Teller, and P&T try to work out how the trick is done and if they can't the magician has fooled them. Anyway, someone did a trick that replied on this very thing, that certain features of the calculator on Apple devices were only visible when the screen was orientated a certain way. When the magician used the phone he did it landscape to access certain functions and when he handed it to others to use it was given in portrait.
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Yup. It only needs to be 3.5x as wide as the minimum, and even with the history/memory stack sidebar with buttons about 2x as wide as in its minimum layout.
And more perversely still it needs to be about 8% wider than its mininum to disable the "shift" in favor of all buttons in 4 rows above the numbers by stretching it vertically.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Reminds me of the ATI graphics driver installers. If you don't have any drivers, you're typically stuck in 640x480. In ATI's infinite wisdom stupidity, the installer is fixed size and 480 pixels tall. So you have about 4 pixels of button to click to advance the installer; or you have to hide the taskbar...
Winning!
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I was wondering if I just missed it.
I stretched mine out and took a snapshot. Do you see it? Am I missing it?
ln button? calculator image[^]
This is really odd. It's probably a security issue, right?
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You need to make it wider:
Calculator.png (12.2 KB)[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Oh my gosh!!! I maximized it and now I see it!!!!
This is the worst thing ______EVER_____!!!!!! 
Microsoft, you giant failure.
I'm laughing so hard....
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Alternatively, click the ↑ button (third from the top, left column) to reveal the additional options.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Oh my gosh!!!
That is what that stupid UP Arrow is for. Never would've guessed that.
I think I've figured out Microsoft's design choices...
It's actually punishment for using their app. Microsoft has begun to punish users for using their stuff. It makes sense now.
That's what Metro means. It's code for "PUNISH THE USER"!!
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It's not called "Metro" any more. It's called "UWP".
Which stands for "the User is Wrong and must be Punished". 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: Which stands for "the User is Wrong and must be Punished".
That's good. We all know it's all based upon punishment.
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This is additionally funny because over the weekend while developing my UWP I learned that Universal doesn't mean the app will run on Win8.x and Win10 --- not everywhere and I made this graphic in honor of the terrible UWP experience.
Universal - Not what you think it means[^]
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raddevus wrote: Never would've guessed that.
That's how TI scientific calculators work. They have a 2nd button to get to the second functions. Not saying it's a good design for an app but if you are familiar with physical calculators then it's pretty easy to see that all those buttons had the up arrow on them.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: They have a 2nd button to get to the second functions
That is a good explanation of that. I agree.
However, the UI designers definitely needed to think outside that box a bit, I think.
It's almost like an airplane engineer thinking, "well, I have to make this thing just like a car, because that is what people know. Now, where do I put the turn signals? Right here by the steering wheel of course."
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TI is smart enough to use the available space to show what the shifted button is, instead of just drawing an arrow to indicate that there's a shifted mode. 
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Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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raddevus wrote: That is what that stupid UP Arrow is for. Never would've guessed that.
It would help id the fruggin' buttons looked like buttons!
[edit] And if 'f's looked less like 'd's, too [/edit]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
modified 14-Nov-16 10:06am.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: It would help id the fruggin' buttons looked like buttons!
Nailed it!!
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It is not vey much different that many hardware calculators that have a SHIFT button...
Philippe Mori
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Yes, but they do that because of limited space. The damned OS calculator takes up half the screen before you extend it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Except all those calculators that have a shift button also have the names of the shift-functions above the button to which they are assigned. That simple bit of design would have given all the context in the world to the up arrow, which, by itself, means nothing on a calculator.
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And here I was... trying to change the behavior of that button by actually clicking on the arrow key and the shift key on my keyboard and expecting them to actually have an effect. I didn't see that array tile on the UI until you specifically told me where it is... 
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Brilliant! An "up" arrow scrolls it UP or DOWN. Sure didn't see that one coming.
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