Calculator runner

[Aleix Pol]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Matteo Agostinelli <agostinelli at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> as suggested by Aaron in a previous discussion, I am having a look at the
> calculator runner with the purpose of extending the capabilities of the
> runner
> by using libqalculate when it is available, otherwise falling back to the
> currently used 'qscript' method. So here are my questions (sorry if some of
> them are stupid ones...):
> * how should I detect the presence of qalculate on the system? Should I let
> CMake find the library and then use the preprocessor (#ifdef, ....) thus
> making
> it a compile-time optional dependency?
> * it was mentioned that thread safety is important in this case. How can I
> find
> out if libqalculate is thread safe?
> * I think it would be nice if the runner respects the same settings of the
> plasmoid (if it's being used). Is there a way to do this, apart from
> reading
> the plasma-desktop-appletsrc file?
>
> BTW, while looking at the code I found a bug in the runner. The expression
> 'e+' is interpreted as '^' instead of '*10^'. So if you type 2e+2 you
> currently get the wrong result (4 instead of 200). The same applies to
> 'e-'.
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You can use KAlgebra code which is inside kdeedu.

If you're interested, tell me and i'll give you some pointers.

Aleix
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