Opened 14 years ago
Last modified 12 years ago
#2307 closed defect
Calculate: Help text should not be copied as an answer for the next calculation — at Version 1
| Reported by: | greenfeld | Owned by: | rwh |
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| Priority: | Unspecified by Maintainer | Milestone: | Unspecified |
| Component: | Calculate | Version: | 0.84.x |
| Severity: | Unspecified | Keywords: | easy-hack |
| Cc: | Distribution/OS: | OLPC | |
| Bug Status: | Unconfirmed |
Description (last modified by greenfeld)
Seen on: OLPC 10.1.2 build 852/Sugar 0.84.16, as well as Fedora 12/Sugar 0.86.3
If a user does an action which implies to the calculator that it should use the previous result as the first value (such as the "-" sign for a negative number), help text should not be copied as a "result" for this purpose.
Reproduction:
- Start the Calculate activity.
- Type "help(y)" and press Enter. You should see that "No help about 'y' {is} available" for a "result".
- Press any operand key (+, *, -, etc.)
Expected Action: The GUI should be smart enough to know that "No help about 'y' {is} available" is not a number or other valid calculation result, so it should not try to run a calculation with that unless we are going to support string operations on such strings.
Actual Action: The help text is copied to the entry line and then the operand is appended, which makes no sense for calculation purposes.
