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Hey, I am still using my Monochrome 12" CRT to Debug windows 
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OriginalGriff wrote: one that almost fills a 22 inch monitor with a 20 button calculator (with memory) and 2cm high result display?
it is a Single-Page Application.
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That's odd. On my 23 inch monitor it takes up only about 1/6th the screen width and a little over half the screen height.
If I maximize it, though, it's grotesque in its appearance. Perhaps yours is opening maximized?
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Why should it even be possible to maximize a calculator window? In the ideal case, it would detect the physical size of the screen (based on the system device parameters), and resize itself so that the buttons were always the same physical size!
(There should probably be some configuration options for vision-impaired people, but that should be it!)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Because running full screen on a 5" phone makes sense, on an 8" tablet it may/may not be reasonable; and putting an arbitrary cannot be maximized on screens larger than size X constraint on would result in an equally huge number of "What The Elephant!!!!!11!11one11!elventyone1!!1"s from the peanut gallery.
Personally, for the number of times I've sworn at an MS dialog for *NOT* being resizable; I'd very strongly prefer they err on the side of making everything resizable even if it'll leave some people scratching their heads.
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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Fair enough. Reasonable people may disagree on this point.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Dan Neely wrote: Personally, for the number of times I've sworn at an MS dialog for *NOT* being resizable
Also titled: 16:9 monitors and tall option windows. Often hiding only the Apply-Ok-Cancel buttons... :grrrr:
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I think the only time I actually ran into that was on a 1024x600 netbook. 
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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Or a 1368x768 with big buttons and characters (my Dad's sight isn't what it used to be).
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy
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Duke Carey wrote: Perhaps yours is opening maximized? |
Way to ruin the rant with logic. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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OriginalGriff wrote: and frankly not a lot more use...
Yep : Calculator[^]
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OriginalGriff wrote: And not making it resizable?
It's resizable on my machine. Are you sure you haven't got it maximized?
"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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Certain - it covered most but not all of my screen.
And it wasn't resizable - I got no size bars when trying the first time - but it is now, which is weird...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: I got no size bars when trying the first time
Well you wouldn't if it was maximised!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Dij the Cat just walked across my keyboard
The irony of that is that just as I clicked on the subject line to read your post, MY cat walked on the keyboard and activated Team Viewer!
Marc
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Some one Actually Likes the Crap, thats how.
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OriginalGriff wrote: For elephant's sake - how does this kind of rubbish get through their QA?
You mean they have a QA department?
Now that they have complete control of peoples machines I guess they figure they can do any damn thing they want. And from the looks of lounge posts this morning that's exactly what they're doing.
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It's missing the date calculation functions too (or at least was the last time I looked at it).
FYI There's a mod somewhere that installs the Windows 7 calculator on Windows 10. That was almost the first thing I did after installing Windows 10, though I can't remember where I got it off the top of my head.
Anna ( @annajayne)
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Interesting as I can re-size my calculator on Win 10 Ver 1511 Build 10586.63
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Maybe yours opened maximized, it's OK when the window is set to normal.
Tell you what, though. From what I've observed over the years it doesn't matter how they'd have done it, y'all would find something to bitch about! Sheesh....
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You think that's bad? Use the calculator often enough and they'll pop up a little overlay that reads something like "Do you like this app? Please rate it in the Windows Store!".
I wish I was joking.
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There are two calculators. One in the new, what used to be called Metro, style. One that's the old one we know and love. Sounds like the key is bound to the former rather than the latter.
(Edit: at least this is true in Windows 8.1.)
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Maybe it's a new feature, but in Windows 10 build 11102 the calculator is resizable. At its smallest size, in Programmer mode, a button is 50 x 39 px. The window itself is 300x500px which doesn't take up very much screen area on my 2560x1600 px monitor. In Standard mode it is even smaller.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Tell me Mr Microsoft Developer: What possible reason is there for replacing the old (working) Win7 Calculator with a new one that almost fills a 22 inch monitor with a 20 button calculator (with memory) and 2cm high result display?
Microsoft (well, Sinofsky really, but now they're stuck with it) wants you to have the same experience whether you're using their OS on a desktop system with a wall-sized projection screen, or one of the smaller cell phones. It is imperative to them that users feel right at home as they switch between different kinds of devices running Windows. So, the problem isn't that the experience isn't the same on a 22" monitor as it is on a 4" touchscreen, its that you didn't connect a 4" touchscreen to your desktop system 
Yeah, they're kind of out of touch with their users these days.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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Put your mouse on the edge of the window then click and drag. Boom, small calculator.
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