Numeric keypad dot using selected radix character

[Former user]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 249 ``` What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Radix Character: comma 2. Enter 0.15 using the numeric keypad on your keyboard 3. Error: invalid expression

What is the expected output? What do you see instead? I'd expect to see the decimal-point on my numeric keypad on screen as the currently selected radix character. The decimal point on my keypad usually works that way in other software. So in this case: using the numeric keypad . i'd like to see a , on screen.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? v 0.10.1 Windows XP Pro (Dutch)

Please provide any additional information below.

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Reported by `gerbenwieringa` on 2009-02-06 09:22:56

[Former user]

``` My configuration may not be representative, but both on the keyboard of my notebook

and on my external keyboard I get the expected result by pressing 'Num Lock' first.

This is Kubuntu 8.04 with the 'de' locale. ```

Reported by `[e-mail]` on 2009-02-26 18:45:49

[Former user]

Reported by `helder.pereira.correia` on 2009-05-10 22:20:59 - Status changed: `Rejected`

[Former user]

``` Rejected? Sounds like a helpdesk telling me: "your problem doesn't exist" It's not like i come up with this error myself you know! It's happening all the time and VERY easy to reproduce. I programmed the same logic for other software, it's not rocket science.

This 'little bug' makes the software pretty unusable, since i use my numeric keypad to use a calculator.

Oh well, users, who needs them? :) ```

Reported by `gerbenwieringa` on 2009-05-11 08:44:43

[Former user]

``` @gerbenwieringa: except you're not talking to a profit-oriented full-time company, but rather to nice developers who spend some (a lot, actually) of their non-professional life time developing this tool that you use for free. So any good argument you had in favor, I'm afraid you lost it after your wording. Anyway, the next release will accept comma and dot as input separators. Your report is actually a duplicate of issue 156. Please read the comment by Wolf Lammen in there. This is definitely not a bug. Regarding your last comment, please read http://speedcrunch.blogspot.com/2008/08/essential-motivation-in-free-software.html (in particular the two last paragraphs). Cheers, and please keep sending bug reports and suggestions. They're more than welcome (but with a sightly different attitude attached, please). ```

Reported by `helder.pereira.correia` on 2009-05-11 11:19:44 - Status changed: `Duplicate` - Merged into: #156

[Former user]

``` A lot of misunderstandings could be avoided by motivating your 'rejected'. Just receiving a mail that says your bug has been rejected isn't very friendly.

I agree my last comment was a bit cynical, the :) was supposed to show i wasn't that serious.

For Wolf Lammen's answer: Excel e.g. automatically changes the numeric keypad . to a , when that's the OS decimal seperator. So i still tend to disagree. My own experience is: working on a free project for yourself is usually much higher quality than a commercial piece of software that you have to make in a certain amount of hours. The pieces of software a made for myself and my colleagues are a lot more user friendly than the ones i made for my company. It's just because i like it to be very user friendly and i know it takes 80% of the time to get that last 20% right.

Oh well, sounds like you already found a solution and that's the whole point, isn't it? Keep up the good work! ```

Reported by `gerbenwieringa` on 2009-05-11 12:20:36

[Former user]

``` @gerbenwieringa: "Just receiving a mail that says your bug has been rejected isn't very friendly" - Hence my "any good argument you had in favor" :) Which means I agree with you.

The discussion about dot and comma has been around forever in this issue tracker and the mailing list, and has never lead to nowhere, really. That's why I decided to accept both characters on input starting next release.

I wish the world would be a simpler place. We all can't even agree on such a small detail such as a symbol to separate the integer and fraccional parts of a number. That would avoid the many discussions on that topic here in SpeedCrunch :) I sincerily hope the "solution" pleases the majority of users. Thank you! ```

Reported by `helder.pereira.correia` on 2009-05-11 12:43:01