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RPN Calculator V4.1 : User's Guide

Table of Content

• Versions history
• Screen layout
• Number input, Format & Data type
• Basic functions
• Registers functions
• Trigonometric functions
• Finance functions
• Conversions
• Navigation in History, Edit & Replay
• File functions
• Mouse operated
• User functions
• And lastly
• Commented example
• Quick Help
• ... in aphabetical order
• To conclude ...

Versions history :

Screen layout :

1. Header (Status line) :

On the Status line, are shown :

- First character indicate the 'Auto-save on Exit' mode :
(space) : Exit saving only User Functions & Currency (plus Click TimeOut)
. : Save User Fct and Status register
- : Save User Fct, Status and Register's Names on Exit
+ : Save User Fct, Status, Names and Registers on Exit
* : Save User Fct, Status, Names, Registers and Stack on Exit
# : Save User Fct, Status, Names, Registers, Stack and History on Exit
X : Exit without saving anything : simple quit

- User mode : USR | STD : Swap Fn with Ctrl-Fn key functions
- Number Format mode : FIX | Fix | SCI | Sci : Decimal numbers are displayed in FIX or SCI, all the same if FIX | SCI, and in mixed format (this is as when entered) if Fix | Sci.
- Display mode : REG & STK : Register or Stack 'priority'
- Trigonometric mode : RAD | DEG : Radian or Degree
- Finance modes/status :
        BEG | END : payment at Begin or End of period
        - | * : Finance registers are said synchronized (*), if one has been computed based on the others, unsynchronized (-) otherwise.
        YRL | MTL : Monthly or Yearly annuities (payments)

2. The right one (usually, text in green on black) : traces all operations (History) :

- Left column : entered numbers
- Central column : operations performed
- Right column : intermediate results

3. The left one (blue background) : shows all registers :

Result ... of last operation
Input  ... field
Last y : 'Last Y' register (modified after each binary operation on the stack)
Last x : 'Last X' register (modified after each binary or "unary" operation on the stack, other than a memory function)
St n   : Stack register n (0 = X; 1 = Y, 2 = Z, ... in an old HP like calculator). Note that 'Stack 0' (X register) is the one shown as 'Result'
Memory : Direct (or One-key) memory, operated with F2 to F8 keys (referenced as Memory or Mem).
R  n   : Memory register n
Finance registers: when in Finance display mode

Number input, Format & Data type :

Number input

0 - 9  : Digits
=      : '-' : Minus sign (displayed '-'), if entered in correct sequence
. or , : Decimal point (displayed '.')
e      : Exponent sign (displayed 'E')
Insert : Toggle sign (-/+) of mantissa if 'e' not yet keyed, of exponent if 'e' keyed
Example : key stroke '=12,345e=67' will be translated to'-12.345E-67'
Backspace : correct input (work also on memory operations partially keyed : if 'STO +.' already keyed, will successively remove '.' and '+' then will exit memory operation)

Numbers format

F n : Fix (or Floating) mode, with n decimal digits : 1 234.5678
S n : Scientific (or Exponent) mode, with n decimal digits : 1.2346E+03

Data type

Basic functions :

F1 : Quick Help

+,-,*,/,ENTER
~ : ± : Change sign
% : Percentage (the original number keeps in the stack)
! : n! : Factorial X (must be positive integer)
i : 1/X : Invert
d : Delta % : ((X / Y) - 1) (displayed in %)
² or ` : X² : Square [small 2 superscript or grave accent on keyboard, usually on the key at left of '1']
v : V¯ : Square root
q : X³ (X^3) : Cube
^ : Y^X (Y^X) : Y raised to power X
l : ln(X)   : Logarithm Neperian of X
L : log(X) : Logarithm in base 10 of X
p : e^X (e^X) : e to the X^th power
P : 10^X (10^X) : 10 to the X^th power

<,> or LEFT, RIGHT arrows : Swap X and Y
UP, DOWN arrows : Scroll the stack

Backspace : Correct input, and if Input field is empty, clear (delete) current stack element (this is Stack 0, also referred as the 'X' register)
DEL       : Delete input at once, and if input field is empty, will delete X.
ESC       : Quit / Exit (work also on memory operations partially keyed : will exit it directly)
Shift-F1  : Cycle on 'Auto-save on Exit' modes

Registers functions :

Logically however (this is as presented), we have :

- the Stack : starting from 0, and "infinite", with its associated 'Last X' and 'Last Y' registers
- the Memory register
- the 10 Registers : from 0 to 9
- the Currency register
- the Finance registers (see Finance functions for more details) :
        - N : Number of annuities (or payments)
        - R : Rate : yearly interest rate in %
        - P : Present value
        - A : Annuity (or payment)
        - F : Future value

Clear/Display registers :

N :  Clear Register's Names : reset to their default name (but not Currency and User Fct)
R :  Clear Registers , including Memory and Finance, but not 'Last X', 'Last Y' & Currency
K :  Clear Stack, and thus 'Last X' & 'Last Y'
Y :  Clear History
c :  Clear Stack and History
C :  Clear Registers, Stack and History
A :  Clear All : Names, Registers, Stack and History
fc : Clear Finance registers only (see Finance functions)
fd : Display Finance registers : either on top (in place of) some Register or Stack lines, depending on "Display mode"
D :  Toggle Display mode :
            - Stack :  displays up to 20 stack entries, overwriting memory registers if need,
            - Register : always displays memory registers, limiting stack display to 9 entries.
M or Ctrl-Del :  Memory reset (= "Factory settings")

Direct Memory :

F2 : Increment Memory by 1. This direct memory operation does not affect the stack, nor 'Last X' or 'Last Y' register.

F3 : Store
F4 : Recall

F5 : Store +
F6 : Store -
F7 : Store *
F8 : Store /

x : Recall 'Last X'
y : Recall 'Last Y'
m : Recall 'Memory'

Registers / Stack operations :

s[+|-|*|/] <R> : Store (with optional operation) to Register
r <R> : Recall Register
<R>  : [.]<n>|i|x|y|m|n|r|p|a|f|c : specify register as :
    . : stack selector : refers to a stack element if provided (optional)
    <n> : register/stack number n, from 0 to 9; or
    i : indirect operations : register number specified in Memory as : '(Integer part of the absolute value of Memory) modulus 32'; meaning there are actually 32 registers (plus 'Currency' and 'Mouse TimeOut'), of which Finances ones, Last Y, ... (see table below). Indirect operations are valid only on registers, resulting in clearing the stack selector ('.') if previously keyed.
    x :  'Last X'
    y :  'Last Y'
    m :  Memory register
    n|r|p|a|f :  Finance registers

Partial memory operations are displayed in the Input field and can be corrected (ESC / Backspace), this is as long as the target register is not provided.

Register re-naming :

You can change the default name given (displayed) to registers, but it will not change the way you use them (same number / letter). Rename doesn't apply to stack registers, neither to Input and Result fields. This new name will be saved with the File Save function (see later), and on Exit, depending on Auto-save mode.

Trigonometric functions :

r|d : Radian or Degree  mode (status line updated)
p   : Get 'Pi' value (3.141592...)
s|c|t : Sine, Cosine and Tangent
S|C|T : ArcSine, ArcCosine and ArcTangent

Finance functions :

Some theoretical background

This said, the finance functions rely on (are derived or extracted from) this general formula :

F(Rate, Nbr_Annuities, PV, Annuity,FV) =

and, if  Rate = 0 :
 

where :

In annuity functions, cash you pay out, such as a deposit to savings, is represented by a negative number; cash you receive, such as a dividend check, is represented by a positive number. For example, a $1,000 deposit to the bank would be represented by the argument -1000 if you are the depositor and by the argument 1000 if you are the bank.

Rates are yearly interest rate, meaning that with monthly payments (annuity period set to monthly), the monthly interest rate used in annuity function is first computed as :

If from the above F(Rate, Nbr_Annuities, PV, Annuity, FV) function, we can easily get PV = F_PV(Rate, Nbr_Annuities, Annuity, FV),  FV = F_FV(Rate, Nbr_Annuities, PV, Annuity),  Annuity = F_Annuity(Rate, Nbr_Annuities, PV, FV) and Nbr_Annuities = F_{Nbr_Annuities}(Rate, PV, Annuity, FV); we can not get Rate = F_Rate(Nbr_Annuities, PV, Annuity, FV) !
So, the only way is to compute an estimate value, by successive approximations : an iterative process, finding the root of F(Rate, Nbr_Annuities, PV, Annuity, FV), where Nbr_Annuities, PV, Annuity, FV variables are fixed.  I used therefore, the fast converging Newton-Raphson method :
 

where F'(Rate,...) is the derivate by 'Rate' of F(Rate,...) :  dF/dr.

Operations

c   : Clear Finance registers.
d   : Display Finance registers mode : Finance registers are always shown.
b|e : Begin or End mode : payment are due at the beginning or the end of the period (status line updated)
m|y : Monthly or Yearly mode : payment are due monthly or yearly : affect the actual Rate used in formula, assuming it is stored (status line updated)
r   : Compute an approximation of Rate (iterative process)
n   : Compute Number of Annuities, based on other arguments,
p   : Compute Present Value, based on other arguments,
a   : Compute Annuity (or Payment), based on other arguments,
f   : Compute Future Value, based on other arguments,

The interest rates are input (and displayed) as a percentage value : for example, you key '3.5sr' to store 3.5% as yearly interest rate, which is displayed as 3.5000%. Actually, numbers stored to r register are first divided by 100 (converted in %) if its data type is not already 'Percent', and is then associated with 'Percent' data type.
Other arguments are not converted, so, when working in monthly mode, the Number of Annuities must be expressed (stored) in number of months, and the Annuity amount is the monthly payment.  Thus, if you want to set directly the monthly rate (instead of the yearly), you just have to stay in Yearly mode.

Again, as I'm not a financial, I don't know which options are the more convenient.  When switching from Yearly to Monthly, I could as well automatically multiply the Number of Annuities ('N') register by 12, and vice versa.

Conversions :

Currency conversions :

Currency name is structured in 3 parts :
    - First 3 characters = from currency (default is EUR)
    - Middle character : you should keep it as '>'
    - Last 3 characters = to currency (default is BEF)
Those parts are use as currency conversion labels on 'Mouse Keypad', and as corresponding conversion functions (EUR>BEF or BEF>EUR, hence the importance of middle character).

£ or AltGr-b: convert from EUR to BEF (multiply by rate)
$ or AltGr-e (€) : convert from BEF to EUR (divide by rate). AltGr-e gives Euro symbol on most European keyboard (AZERTY ones).

Sexagesimal conversions :

h : convert from decimal (HH.nnnn) to sexagesimal (HH.MMSSssss), displayed HH:MM:SS.ssss
H : convert from sexagesimal (HH.MMSSssss) to decimal (HH.nnnn).

Metric to Imperial conversions :

... And now the ***MAGIC*** ! ! ! You won't believe it !
I dreamed of it for years, though about it for months and took some evenings to make it real !

Navigation in History, Edit & Replay :

To access History, just click on History (right zone) or press the TAB key.

History colors / Characters codes :

Then when printing to a TEXT file, the color codes are "translated" in Characters codes, and are written at the left of history line. The corresponding characters are stated between square brackets ('[]') hereunder.

Foreground color :

Background color :

And for operators / functions only :
 BLUE : line deleted or input edited without replay : indicates that the result is not correct ! [!]
 BROWN : line (operation) marked to be skipped on replay [*]
 YELLOW : line skipped in user function [*]
 RED : break point : this operation and all following will be skipped (until next break point) [#]
 LIGTH RED : break point in user function [#]
 CYAN : operations after/between break point(s) : indicates that the operation is not performed [|]. This color is only shown after a replay. (Not marked in user functions).

Characters codes (when printing) :

History Navigation :

History Edit :

History Replay :

When "replaying history", ' *** REPLAY *** ' is displayed (in red) in the input field.

If and error occurs during the replay, the error must first be cleared (with ESC or BS). The operation will be skipped and marked so, allowing you to correct and re-run.

Replay considerations :

File functions :

Shift-F1 : Cycle on 'Auto-save on Exit' mode (see upper).
Shift-F2 : Save status, registers (value and name) and history to a binary file, with skip info, ... allowing a "perfect" re-run afterwards (append automatically the .RPN extension)
Shift-F3 : Reload and re-play (open) a previously saved status and history from a binary file (append automatically the .RPN extension). Note that Stack and History will be cleared on file reload. Registers (value and name) will be restored before history replay (to restart from cleared registers, start the operation with a 'Clear Registers', which don't affect names).
Shift-F4 : Print registers and history to a text file (append automatically the .PRT extension)

NB: File names must respect old DOS rules :  maximum 8 characters before the extension (3 characters automatically added), with no spaces, no special characters, ...  Sorry for that !

... And for those "mouse minded" ... But I must admit I use it !
Thanks to Bill who did nothing but requesting it !

Mouse operated :

Enable mouse keypad :

Mouse operations :

However, for convenience, some toggle keys (Save on Exit mode (Shift-F1) and Skip mode in History (F10)) have been split into direct functions/buttons.

On the other hand, all status indicators in the first line act as toggles :

- First character (' ', '.', '-', '+', '*', '#' or 'X') toggles on 'Save on Exit' mode
- STD | USR : User mode
- FIX | Fix | SCI | Sci : Number format :
F | S : Toggles between FIX and SCI mode
Last 2 characters (IX|CI) : toggles between Mixed and Same Format
- REG | STK : Display mode
- RAD | DEG : Trigonometric Degree / Radian mode
- BEG | END : Finance Begin / End of period mode
- YRL | MTL : Finance Yearly / Monthly mode
- *|- (between the two above) : Display finance registers
- HELP : Help in/out
- Upper right arrow : Mouse keypad enablement toggle

When in help, left click will move down.

Recall value

Vertical scroll bar

You can click on up/down arrow to move line by line, or on scroll bar above/below the block to move by page. No block slide (drag), sorry.

Hidden tips

... and more functions, User defined :

Definition

When defined (this is when Label is inserted), the corresponding key on 'mouse pad' is changed from gray to blue, as visual reminder.

On Replay, the Return instruction is automatically added at then end (of History), if a Label is still opened.
A Goto a not defined label, or to its own label, will give an error and operator will be marked "skipped". But the Goto will then still act as Return function (thus not actually skipped !). If the label is defined later on, just clear the skip mark (by pressing F10 2 times on it).

Keystroke & Mouse buttons

Alt-F1  ... Alt-F8  : Label 1 to 8
Ctrl-F1 ... Ctrl-F8 : Execute function 1 to 8
Alt-F9  ... Alt-F12 : Go to Label 1 to 4
Ctrl-F9 ... Ctrl-F12: Go to Label 5 to 8
Ctrl-End : Return instruction.
U : Toggles between User and Standard mode

With the mouse, click on Function number '1..8' (blue on white background) to insert a Label, on '>' (white on light gray) for Goto and on displayed name 'Usr F1..8' (blue on light gray) to Execute.

Naming & Display

Instruction	Prefix Character	Example with function (re-)named 'My Fct'
Label	{	{My Fct
Goto	>	>My Fct
Execute	[	[My Fct
Return	}	}Return

To keep the History zone "clean", User functions at top of it are not shown. The first "dummy" visible operator is then '^^^^^^^', which is automatically added/inserted (and deleted in some cases) on Replay. You can still delete it manually if automation fails, but it will be inserted back on next Replay (or on restart).

User functions are not deleted with History. To remove them, delete their label first or do a "Full memory reset". In the same way, function names are not deleted (reset) with Clear Names function as long as the corresponding label exists.

User mode

The best is still to try & play with !

Lastly ...

• The stack is "infinite" and "circular".
• Commands are now case sensitive.
• I make no warranties on the result of any mathematical, trigonometric, financial operations, neither on any other functions, and will thus not be liable for any damage the use of this program could cause, to your system (file destruction, data lost), to your business (wrong operation result) or what so ever ...

But be reassured,
• first it is not my intention ;-)  (I coded the plus function with the '+' operator of my compiler, and so on ...)
• and second, I use it daily, for business purpose as well, and never got any problem.
But you also know that Error Free Program doesn't exist, and God or Evil himself (I mean Microsoft) will surely not contradict me ;-)   (I know, it is not an example to follow ...)

Commented example

Lets look back at the example (quelque peu farfelu, je vous l'accorde !) as in the figure or the PRINT file listed below.  You can play with it by yourself reloading it, here is the corresponding saved file CALC41EX.RPN.
I illustrated here two independent calculations : trigonometric operations and finance rates search.

Trigonometric operations

Finance simulations

NB : To replay excatly the sequence, after the reload, you should :
  - Reload the CALC41EX.RPN file, which will re-run, without Finance registers initialization;
  - Clear registers : R
  - Switch to History, and skip the Clr Reg operation
  - Remove the break points at begin and end of initialization,
  - Re-play it once
  - Reset the break points.
Now, you can re-play it up to 10 times and get the Rate estimates stored in Register 0 to 9.

I recommend you to run it once in step-by-step mode and see what happens, how Status indicators changes (DEG to RAD, UNSYNCH to *SYNC* and others if modes were different before reloading ...).

Print file

ID-PHY ================== RPN Calculator V4.1 ================== (c)P. HARDY


 Result:               0.0785
 Input : 
 Last y:              10.0000
 Last x:              16.0000

Status indicators / Modes :
 Auto-save on Exit mode : [#] Save all : Status, Names, Registers, Stack and History
 Function key           : Standard mode : F1 = Help , F2 to F8 = Direct Memory functions
 Screen mode            : Normal : Register and History only (25 lines)
 Number format          : FIX (Floating), with 4 decimals
 Trigonometric mode     : RADIAN
 Finance mode           : YEARLY payments at END of period
 Finance registers are  : SYNCHRONIZED (one being computed based on others).

Internal registers :
 Click TimeOut                            35.0000
 Currency            EUR>BEF              40.3399

Finance registers :
 Present Value       P Val :           2 000.0000
 Annuity (payment)   Annuit:            -180.0000
 Future  Value       F Val :            -200.0000
 Interest Rate       Rate/Y:             7.8478 %
 Number of Annuities N Ann :              26.0000

Memory registers :
 Index :               9.0000
  R  0 :               0.0000
  R  1 :               0.0246
  R  2 :               0.0412
  R  3 :               0.0528
  R  4 :               0.0612
  R  5 :               0.0674
  R  6 :               0.0721
  R  7 :               0.0757
  R  8 :               0.0785
  R  9 :               0.0000

Stack registers :
 St  0 :               0.0785
 St  1 :              26.0000
 St  2 :               0.0000
 St  3 :               0.0000

  =================== History ===================

               180.0000 Enter              180.0000
 !>              8.0000 /                   45.0000
                        Sin                  0.7071
                        Radian               0.7071
                        Pi                   3.1416
                        In-004               4.0000
                        /                    0.7854
                        Sin                  0.7071
 *                      Swap                 0.7071
                        -                    0.0000
 #           2 000.0000 STO  P           2 000.0000
 |            -200.0000 STO  F            -200.0000
 |            -180.0000 STO  A            -180.0000
 #              10.0000 STO  N              10.0000
                        Re-001              10.0000
                        RCL  M               8.0000
                 2.0000 *                   16.0000
                        +                   26.0000
                        STO  N              26.0000
                        Rate                 0.0785
                        STO  i               0.0785
                        Mem+1                0.0785

Quick Help

Here below, a reformatted extract of Help file, as displayed in Help function (without colors but with bold, ...) :

+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
                                                                       
       RPN Calculator
                                                  
                                                                       

   An RPN calculator, working as old HP calculators
   with infinite stack, trigonometric and finance functions,
   conversions, editable & replayable history of operations,
   user defined functions, ...


   Author  : Pierre Hardy    
   Version : 4.1, July 2007  


   More info at : http://users.swing.be/id-phy/CALC/CALC.html   
                                                            
 Copyright Pierre Hardy, 2004 - 2007. All rights reserved. 
 The program may be freely used and distributed.
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
 Base Operations
 
Number Input :
 0 - 9, e,  . or , : Digits, Exponent sign, Decimal point
 = : '-' sign (only if entered before digit)
 INS : Change sign, anywhere in number input (+/- toggle)
 <- / DEL : Correct / Delete, if empty input : delete x
Basic functions :                       
 +, -, *, /, %, Enter : basic operators                     
 ~ : Change sign operator (end entry)   i : 1/x : Invert
 ! : n!  : Factorial(x)                 d : Delta % : (x/y)-1                   
 ` (back quote) or small 2 : Square     v : v   : Square root                   
 q : x^3 : Cube                         ^ : y^x : y raised to power x          
 l : LN  : Logarithm Neperian           L : Log : Logarithm base 10
 p : e^x : e to the Xth power           P : 10^x: 10 to the Xth power
Stack movements :  
 <,> or LEFT, RIGHT arrows  : Swap x and y
 UP, DOWN arrow : Scroll stack           

ESC : Exit
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
 Extended Functions
 
  Accessed by pressing 'f' or 't' first

f : Finance functions :              t : Trigonometric functions :
 d   : Display/Hide Finance Reg.      d,r   : Degree, Radian mode
 b,e : Begin/End of period            p     : Pi (3.141592...)
 m,y : Monthly/Yearly Annuity         s,c,t : Sine, Cosine, Tangent
 c   : Clear Finance registers and    S,C,T : ArcSin,ArcCos,ArcTangent
       restore setting to End & Yearly     
  Computes (assuming all 4 other values are provided) :
 n : Number of annuities
 r : Rate (yearly rate in %)
 p : Present value
 a : Annuity (payment)
 f : Future value
  
 Negative value = Cash out 

  After execution of finance function, Finance registers changes form
  Magenta to Green, and indicator in status bar switch form '-' to '*'
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
 Memory Operations
 

Direct Memory functions (on Mem register) :
 F2 : Increment memory (+1)        F3 : Store       F4|m : Recall
 F5 : Store +     F6 : Store -     F7 : Store *     F8   : Store /

Stack and Registers operations :
 x, y, m : Recall Last x, Last y or Direct Memory (Mem register)
 s[+|-|*|/]  : Store to  (with optional operation [+|-|*|/]),
 r  : Recall ,
    is : 0 - 9     : for Register number
            .0 - .9   : for Stack number
            x, y, m   : for Last x, y or Memory
            n,r,p,a,f : Finance registers (see Finance functions)
                        Numbers stored to 'r' are converted to %
            c         : Currency rate
            i for Indirect : Register number specified as 'Mem mod 32'
 Examples: s1  s*.2  s+y  ri  r.4  m  sf  x

 Stack is infinite & circular.
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
 Rename, Clear, Save and Reload
 
Register rename :  
 n |[Usr Fn] : Set register  or "User Function" Name (Press Fn)
File functions :
 Shift-F1 : Cycle on Save modes   Shift-F2 : Print to File
 Shift-F3 : SAVE  all to file     Shift-F4 : RELOAD from file & Replay
Clear operations and 'Save on exit' options :
              |    CLEAR      | SAVE  
KEY/SAVE Flag |N R K Y c C A M| .-+*#X  ' ' Clear all but :
 User Fn & Cur|              x|xxxxxx-      - User Functions & names
 Status Flags |              x| xxxxx-      - Currency rate & "name"
 Names        |x           x x|  xxxx-      - Mouse TimeOut (Ctrl-t)
 Registers    |  x       x x x|   xxx-
 StacK        |    x   x x x x|    xx-  'X' Exit without saving
 HistorY      |      x x x x x|     x-      => will restart as prev.
Ctrl-DEL or M : "Factory reset" or "Memory Lost" (~= .INI file delete) 
Clear History also reset Trig. & Fin. modes to initial (saved) state.
Currency rate & User Functions & names are only cleared with Ctrl-Del
To clear User Function, delete its label then clear History (& Names)
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
 Conversions 

Sexagesimal conversions :
  h : HR->HH:MM:SS : conversion to sexagesimal
  H : HH:MM:SS->HR : conversion to Decimal

Currency conversions :
 Currency rate is stored in 'c' register : BEF/EUR in default example.
 Corresponding name "EUR>BEF" used (needs a Replay after rename) :
   - to re-label mouse keys as [EUR] [BEF] (at left of HMS)
   - as Function name in history "EUR>BEF" or "BEF>EUR"
 Pound symbol or AltGr-b    : multiply by rate (to "BEF" or Local )
 $ or AltGr-e (Euro symbol) : divide   by rate (to "EUR", USD, ...)

Metric to Imperial conversions :

 Only available through "Mouse pad".

+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
More functions ... User defined !
User Functions keys :
 Up to 8 User Functions can be defined
 Alt-F1...F8 : Creates a User Function (insert a Label in History)
 Ctrl-F1..F8 : Executes corresponding User Function (if defined)
 Alt-F9..F12, Ctrl-F9..F12 : Go to label 1-4, 5-8
 Ctrl-End : Return (end function)
 U : User mode toggle : Swap F1..F8 with Ctrl-F1..Ctrl-F8 functions 
 A function is terminated by either Return or Goto function.
 Visually, functions are between { }, and grayed in History.
Mouse operations :
  Click on : Key Number to insert a Label (define function)
             '>' sign for "Go to"
             Function Label (default is "Usr Fn") to Execute
 When defined, function key color (on mouse pad) will change to blue
 Function label (renamed) will be used in History (Replay to refresh)
 User functions are stored in History, but not cleared with History.
 Functions at top of History are "hidden" above screen, ending with
 [^^^^^^^] : automatically added after last "hidden" function,
 making it the first visible "operation" (can be deleted).
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
 ... and now the MAGIC !
 

History Navigation :
  ESC   : Quit history mode         TAB : Switch to/from history
  ENTER : Recall value (and exit)   F9  : Cycle on edited values
  Arrows, Home, End, Page Up and Page Down : Navigate in history 

History Edit :
 Overwrite on input or result field, correct with Backspace
 Quit with Escape and Validate with any other key.
 Value set in CYAN and Operator set on BLUE until next Replay
 DEL : Mark line to be DELETED     INS : Fix / Release result value
 F10 : Operation skip mode :
   Skip (BROWN): skip one line
   Break (RED) : skip until next break or until end

History Replay :
 F11 : Replay step by step then ...       
 F12 : Replay all : Re-RUN / Refresh 
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
 ... MOUSE & Display ...
Mouse operation :
  \ or Click on [Arrow] (upper right corner) : 'Mouse keypad' toggle.
   Mouse Keypad should be self explanatory, most map to key strokes.
 Double click on any value to recall it ! 

Status bar 'mouse toggles/keys' :
  First characater : cycle on "Save on exit" mode
  STD|USR  FIX|Fix|SCI|Sci  REG|STK  RAD|DEG  BEG|END  YRL|MTL HELP [^]
  -|* (between BEG and YRL) : Finance display      (c) : Quick exit
  F|S toggle between SCI|FIX, last two between Mixed & Same Format
Display format :
 F n : FIX mode (n Decimals)     S n : SCI mode (n Decimals)
 #   : Toggle between Mixed (Fix|Sci) and Same (FIX|SCI) Format
 D   : Display mode toggle : Stack/Register precedence (over Reg/Stk)
 MixFmt : Mixed Format, numbers displayed as when entered : Fix or Sci
 SmFmt  : Same Format, all displayed as current setting : FIX or SCI.
 Number of decimals applies to all.  Refresh (F12) to update History.

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... in alphabetical order

 a :                            A : clear All: names, reg, stk & hist.
 b :             
 c : clear stack and history    C : clear registers, stack and history
 d : delta %                    D : toggle display mode Stack | Register
 e : E character in numbers
 f : finance functions          F : Fix (Floating) display format
 g : 
 h : convert to sexagesimal     H : convert to decimal
 i : invert : 1/x
 j : 
 k :                            K : clear stacK
 l : LN : logarithm neperian    L : LOG : logarithm base 10
 m : recall memory              M : Memory reset
 n : register re-Name           N : clear register names
 o : 
 p : e^x                        P : 10^x
 q : cube : x^3
 r : recall                     R : clear registers
 s : store                      S : Scientific (Exp) display format
 t : trigonometric functions
 u :                            U : User | Std mode toggle
 v : square root
 w : 
 x : Last x
 y : Last y                     Y : clear historY
 z : 
 0 - 9 : digits                 ,. : decimal separator
 + : plus                       - : minus
 * : multiply                   / : divide
 % : percentage                 ! : factorial
 ~ : change sign                = : minus sign
 ^ : power                      ` , [small 2] : square
 $ : From Currency conversion   Pound symbol : To Currency conversion
 AltGr-e (Euro sympbol): idem   AltGr-b      : idem -^ 
 \ : Mouse pad toggle           # : Mixed | Same Format mode toggle
 ESC : quit / exit              TAB : to/from History
 F1 : Quick Help                Shift F1 : Cycle on Save mode
 F2 : Mem + 1                   Shift F2 : Print
 F3 : Store to Mem              Shift F3 : Save
 F4 : Recall Mem                Shift F4 : Reload
 F5 : Store + Mem
 F6 : Store - Mem
 F7 : Store * Mem
 F8 : Store / Mem
 F9 : Go to previous edited
 F10 : Toggle skip | break | normal mode
 F11 : Step by step run
 F12 : Replay : run all
 Alt-F1..F8  : Label 1 .. 8     Ctrl-F1..F8  : Execute Fct 1 .. 8
 Alt-F9..F12 : Go to 1 .. 4     Ctrl-F9..F12 : Go to 5 .. 8
 

To conclude ...

Pierre HARDY.
e-mail : pierre.hardy@swing.be

Copyright © Pierre Hardy, 2004 - 2007. All rights reserved. The program and this document may be freely used and distributed.