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Thanks for the discussion. The issue came up for me as I have a downloaded program, I forget which, that has a variable called TIME. Of course, the DM42 now has a function called TIME which I find very useful and was taken aback by the erratic results when it was assigned to a menu. It is useful to ...

Yes, it was that kind of thing, although not that exact brand.

If I have a variable with the same name as a function and assign the fuction to a custom menu, the menu will recall the variable, rather than execute the function. For example 3 STO SIN ASSIGN FCN SIN CUSTOM SIN will display 3 rather than sin(3). Is this normal hp42 behavior? The manual (p68-69) doe...

I see that this update allows to load a keyboard map. How hard is it to edit this? Where would I find the default keymap file? I would love to map the unused 3rd function key to show the custom menu (SF27) with a single keystroke. And then perhaps use shift 2 for something else.

Is there any plan for the idle 3rd soft menu key? If there is no current plan, I would suggest that it become universally user definable- so that the user can assign an unshifted assignment to anything that could normally be assigned to the custom menu. Of course, I would make it open the existing c...

OK. Thanks for the clarification. I had never even tried to STO or RCL a global variable with a menu open. I would just put in menu items for all the constants I might need, and then RCL and STO will work fine. Although STO is not needed to store into a menued variable. You are not limited to 6 vari...

Again, I'm not sure exactly what the problem is, but keep in mind that even if there is an MVAR statement in your program, the variable does not actually exist until something is stored in it. When writing programs, it is best to store a number- usually I put zero- into each variable before starting...

On the issue of screen glare. By chance I came across a matte screen protector for a kindle ereader. Cut to size it makes a good improvement to the readability of the screen.

How hard would it be to make the unused F3 key a single press shortcut to the custom menu? Or is there a plan for it in the pipeline? Even better but harder to implement would be to make it universally assignable to any function, program or variable I like.

It crosses my mind that it would be nice to be able to call a catalogue menu, e.g. programs, from within a program. It would help, with say DPLOT, to save having to type the function name. Inbuilt programs like solver and integration are able to do this already for programs and I can think of other ...