Re:Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency support
by bee_rider on Monday September 18, 2023 @02:40PM
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Wait, what is the difference between “programmer mode” and “can do floating point numbers” mode? The former implies the latter, right?
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Re:Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency support
by MenhirMike on Monday September 18, 2023 @02:44PM
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Programmer mode is useful if you need to convert Decimal/Hex/Binary, but if you try to enter e.g, 17.95 as a decimal number, you can't. (In fact, it'll display 17 NAND 95 - so the dot seems to be a shortcut for a bitwise operation) - it's Integers Only.
(I guess one could argue that programmer mode should include IEEE-754 floats, but I'm fine with that mode being limited to integers, it's plenty useful already. But it does require switching to another mode if you need a calculator to calculate floating point numbers)
Re:Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency support
by godd2 on Monday September 18, 2023 @02:57PM
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You cannot enter fractional values in programmer mode.
This is reasonable, but what is incredibly annoying is that when you type in a number while in Programmer mode, if you then change to Scientific mode, it blows away the number you typed in.