PowerCalc

[pulkomandy]

Hi,
PowerCalc is certainly one of the PowerToys I use most. Any hope to get it back in an updated and easy to install version that doesn't need Windows compatibility mode?

[Magissia]

Honestly, it should be integrated to Windows' calculator directly.
https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator

[justinmann]

Please, this would be awesome. I created that calculator a long time ago and would love to work on it again!

[mhenaire]

yes please!

[patstarannie]

Yes please!

[crutkas]

We've synced with the amazing team over in calculator (@grochocki is awesome) and went feature by feature and came up with the list of gaps. We feel this actually is a better item for the actual calculator team. We actually have them all listed and are being investigated

1. Option to remove onscreen keyboard
   1. [Dave] After we have freeform input, we want to explore a collapsible keyboard. This should help reduce the amount of space we need and help with (5) below as well.
2. Able to access most functions through free-form expressions and freely copy expressions and results from history
   1. [Dave] Free-from keyboard input covered by Enable free-form input of math expressions calculator#620 and Develop a parser for arbitrary expressions in the calc engine calculator#526. Together, these unblock “insert-from-history”: Bring back insert-from-history calculator#277.
3. Free-form mode(?) would allow using Programmer features e.g. hex/binary, as well as scientific functions
   1. [Dave] The goal would be to do everything with free form input, but "programmer" mode would likely still be a separate mode from standard/scientific. Good thing is that if you are a keyboard user, you can quickly switch between them with Alt+1, Alt+2, Alt+3...
4. Set / use variables using x=expression, y=expression. (M+, M-, etc are so limiting!)
   1. [Dave] Graphing Calculator (Add Graphing Mode calculator#338) will have this feature for sure (see below comp of variable editing), and there is another interesting idea to implement a “formula solver” (Formula solver for frequency, wavelength, and energy (Photon energy) calculator#670).
5. Compact desktop type experience, with appropriately sized text and buttons for mouse+keyboard users 😊
   1. [Dave] There are certain accessibility guidelines we must adhere to, but in general, we want to make the app great across all screen sizes and input methods. Always-on-top introduced a “mini mode”, but there are limitations with what we can do when we go this small IRT balancing functionality/usability