define your own slide

[walter]

It would be nice to be able to define a slide by typing in a function for the labels.

[tonyforster]

Maybe I am going over the top here but that would be interesting when combined with hexidecimal, octal and other base arithmetic. You could then make a log16 sliderule with hex notation that would be usable in the same way as a log10 rule wrt underflow/overflow and which a Ln one cannot.
Also poses interesting thought experiments like can you make a binary sliderule?

[walter]

Feedback appreciated.

Not sure how to handle errors. Also not sure how to make it clear what the various input fields are doing.

But it sort of/kind of works :)

[walter]

The latest version:

• imports all of the math libraries
• loads custom slide upon creation
• displays errors when formulae are not properly specified
• should also fix #2311 problem

[walter]

Lots of small fixes and enhancements:

• button for creating custom slide is now gear button
• fixed scaling problem that was causing mix of log and log10
• more Exception catching

[walter]

final version pending any feedback

[walter]

FWIW, I've modified the custom generator so that you can assign strings as labels, e.g.,

hex(int(x)) or bin(int(x))

[walter]

Should there be two customs slides: slide different from stator? Or is that going too far?

[walter]

Closing this ticket... please open a new ticket for any additional enhancements to this feature.