According to Microsoft senior program manager in charge of Windows Notepad and Calculator Dave Grochocki revealed the news , Windows Calculator is currently developing two high voices developers of new features:
- Is always displayed on top of other applications, other applications not blocked
- Mini Mode
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In March, Microsoft licensed under the MIT open source Windows Calculator (Windows Calculator), aroused enthusiastic response, after all, this is a Windows application that everyone is familiar with.
Windows Calculator is written in C ++ a modern Windows application that provides a set of translator between the standard and scientific calculator functions and programmers, as well as a variety of units of measure and currency. Calculator source library contains the source code to build the system, unit testing and product roadmap, developers can easily Calculator or UI logic into their own applications.
This time, open the Windows Calculator to bring a lot of energy, which is what Microsoft had hoped, and it wants to build a community, to provide a better user experience. Just a few months, the project on GitHub now has 17k + star, nearly 3k fork, 8 branches, over 100 issue, 49 Wei contributor and 240+ commit, participate in developer activity is quite high.
In this process, the developers made a lot of interesting features, in addition to two previously mentioned, functional look, there are people want Windows calculator themed, support matrix and vector calculations, and the ink input.
Before we begin also reported developers the ability to add graphing calculator for Windows :
Have to say, open source decided to do this project has brought great vitality, quiet for so long a Windows pre-installed tools, suddenly become so lively, open source Dafa is good.