Shoutbox

A calculator... in the dialog chat..
we can share the actions that we do in the caculator and it has a tab here-

Making a calculator isn't hard at all, since JScript already has very powerfull math functions. Buth adding a tab there, and make the tab work will be lots harder.

A way to do it, is to use child windows: one for the extra tab (like the timer in the Timezone script, but placed somewhere else) and one for an editing panel with a toolbar and a message box. It can be done that way, but I only wonder how the math formules will be displayed in the message box.

I liked the [calc] tag deAd had in a testing script he made... and never released.

I still use it.

I don't know if this helps, but i found this on a website, maybe someone can convert it into plus scripting?

code:

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<script language="JavaScript">
var m;
m = 0;
var i;
var mm;
function num ( i ) //delete the spaces here
{
var u = new String();
u = text3.value;
if (u == "=")
{
text1.value = text2.value = "";
text1.value = text1.value + i ;
text3.value = "";
return;
}
var s;
var l;
s = text1.value;
l = s.length;
if (l<10)
{
text1.value = text1.value  + i;
}
}
function point()
{
var i;
var s = new String();
s = text1.value;
i = s.indexOf(".");
var u = new String();
u = text3.value;
if (u == "=")
{
text1.value = text2.value = "";
text1.value = text1.value + "." ;
text3.value = "";
return;
}
if (i > -1)
{
return;
}
else
{
if (s.length<9)
{
s = s + ".";
text1.value = s;
}
}
}
var cho;
function act(cho)
{
var u = new String();
u = text3.value;
if (u == "")
{
text2.value = text1.value;
text1.value = "";
}
else
{
switch
{
case "+" :
text2.value = (text2.value*1) + (text1.value*1);
text1.value = "";
break;
case "-" :
text2.value = (text2.value*1) - (text1.value*1);
text1.value = "";
break;
case "*" :
text2.value = (text2.value*1) * (text1.value*1);
text1.value = "";
break;
case "/" :
text2.value = (text2.value*1)/(text1.value*1);
text1.value = "";
break;
case "=" :
text2.value = text1.value;
text1.value = "";
break;
}
}
switch (cho)
{
case 1 :
text3.value = "+";
break;
case 2 :
text3.value = "-";
break;
case 3 :
text3.value = "*";
break;
case 4 :
text3.value = "/";
break;
}
}
function eq()
{
switch (text3.value)
{
case "+":
text2.value = (text2.value*1) + (text1.value*1);
text1.value = text2.value;
text2.value = "";
break;
case "-":
text2.value = (text2.value*1) - (text1.value*1);
text1.value = text2.value;
text2.value = "";
break;
case "*":
text2.value = (text2.value*1) * (text1.value*1);
text1.value = text2.value;
text2.value = "";
break;
case "/":
text2.value = (text2.value*1) / (text1.value*1);
text1.value = text2.value;
text2.value = "";
break;
}
text3.value = "=";
}
function clss()
{
text1.value = text2.value = text3.value = "";
m =0;
clear1.blur();
}
function initia()
{
text1.blur();
text2.blur();
}
function clearall()
{
text1.value = "";
}
function madd()
{
m = m + ((text1.value)*1);
text1.value = "";
text3.value = "";
}
function msub()
{
m = m - ((text1.value)*1);
text1.value = "";
text3.value = "";
}
function mrem()
{
if (m != 0)
{
text1.value = m;
text3.value = "";
}
}
function free()
{
if (mm != 1)
{
alert ('JavaScript disables this action!!');
}
}
function frees()
{
mm = 1;
}
function freed()
{
mm = 0;
}
</script>

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I could help with the tab...

And we could also make the calc on top of the textedit area...
Just like a real tab

(Only, I have the tabs on the right side of the convo ??)

-edit- @Mattike, what do you mean formulas? I think, he just means like the windows calc, that doesn't show any formulas either...

so do you think it's posible? if it is I think that it will be very useful
for an example..
a lot of time friends wants me to help them in math and explane how I did it..
another idea is to add to the handwriting tab shapes like a circle or something
and if someone will succed to do a calc' maybe there is an option to upgrade it and add fractions (?) ..
anyway..  I think it's useful for everyone

is it possilbe, but the question is, if anyone can be bothered to do it? LOL

quote:

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Originally posted by Shondoit
@Mattike, what do you mean formulas? I think, he just means like the windows calc, that doesn't show any formulas either...

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Well, I think it would be nice to have exponents to be placed as superscript. But for simple math functions (+, -, *, /,...) a simple message box is indeed enough.
And a nice addition would be to place a custom toolbar above the original toolbar, since the real toolbar wouldn't work anyway.

The problems I think about:

• How can the script see where the tab/box should be placed? Placing it vertically is easy with a bottom margin, but the user can hide the display pictures, making it harder to set the correct right margin.
  
• What about resizing the text area? How would the box react on that?
  
• How can you make it act as a real tab, like making the other tabs unselected? So it doesn't look like you don't have 2 tabs activated.

If there is a practical solution to fix these, I actually see this script become reality.

hehe, sorry if this sounds n00bish.

but id do some memory editing...

open up a memory editor or w/e (i used artmoney to play with this)
do a full scan to grab all data
switch the tab
and filter it based on 'CHANGED'
then just play with the values it finds, see if you can set the current tab to 0 or something...

just an idea

What about a command like "/math 2 + 3" which would send "2 + 3 = 5"