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My pleasure! But actually, I was mistaken when I said that the ASTO fix in 2.5.13 was the most recent change that is relevant to the DM42. In fact, 2.5.16 is relevant as well, not because of the direct-command-mapping GETKEY fix, but because of the physical-keyboards-in-ALPHA-mode GETKEY fix. To see...

Is the latest change (GETKEY processing for Fn keys) final, and do you have anything else on the immediate horizon? The GETKEY change is final, and will be released tomorrow, while bumping the version number to 2.5.16. Nothing else is planned for now. If and when I find the time I'll be working on ...

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Fri Jan 24, 2020 6:58 pm

There is an update in the works for the DM42 (no, I don't have an ETA yet and I can't yet say exactly what's in it)

OK, fair enough, but can you say anything at all? Will it be based on Free42 2.5.recent?

I fixed the second-row GETKEY behavior with the DM42 skin, and fixed another, similar bug in GETKEY as well. The fix is in GitHub now; I'll sit on it for a few days, and assuming nothing else comes up, I'll release it this weekend.

with the default behavior, when no GETKEY code is specified, to be the existing behavior, since it might actually be useful once you understand what it does. On second thought, it would probably be better if the default behavior is to map the function number to the key where it is mapped on the sta...

GETKEY behaves erratically on the first row of keys (not the menu keys). [...] The DM42 skin returns 1-6 for the menu keys and 2192 for S+, 2072 for 1/X etc. Hmmm, yes, when I implemented the "direct command mapping" feature, I didn't give any thought to how that would affect GETKEY. "Direct comman...

Sad and/or amusing facts: adding 10 MB would make Free42 about three times as large as it is now, or about 10 times as large as before the Intel library. Also, the combined sizes of the icons and skins in the current iOS version are larger than Byron Foster's whole 42s app (which is pre-Intel-lib). ...

I did a Bluetooth mobile app project in Qt a few years ago, and must say it was a mixed experience. Yes, it creates native executables (no VM) and you can write in C++, but the QtCore, QtGui ++ libraries makes your app quite chunky, and I found it hard to create a nice consistent GUI experience. Ye...

Right on cue to make me look foolish, Werner discovered another 15-year-old bug, this one having to do with storing strings into shared matrices. See this discussion on the MoHPC forum . I'll release a fix tonight; here's hoping SwissMicros gets the DM41X out the door soon so they can get caught up ...

Oh, I admit I hadn't expected as many bug fixes in a 15 year old product. :shock: Fair enough, but maybe I should point out that not all of those bugs are 15 years old. The SOLVE code has undergone several algorithm changes; the number-input code has had to be modified for the Intel library and the...