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scientific calculator
Posted by sgcfreitas on November 7th, 2006


Does anyone know how to launch the scientific calculator view directly from a
shortcut command line?

Thanks
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sergio

Posted by John John on November 8th, 2006


Hmmm.... well, the calculator always opens in the same view as which it
was when closed, sort of. The view in which it will open is determined
by a setting in the Win.ini file, the setting is written (or changed or
toggled) when you switch views while using calc.exe. The Win.ini file
contains the following lines:

[SciCalc]
layout=0

Where the value at layout= is as follows:

0 - The calculator will open in Scientific view and
1 - The calculator will open in Standard view


So, as you see it isn't exactly simple to accomplish what you want, you
would first have to issue a find and replace command on the win.ini file
to make sure the proper value is recorded at the layout= line, then
you would have to launch calc.exe. You could also accomplish the same
thing with a script or batch file.

All and all I think it's easier to simply click on the view menu and
select the view you want when you open calc.

John

sgcfreitas wrote:

Posted by sgcfreitas on November 8th, 2006


Thank you very much, John.

Rgds,

Sergio


"John John" wrote:

Posted by John John on November 8th, 2006


You're welcome.

John

sgcfreitas wrote:


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