updated: Monday, 13th September 2021

Aesthetic outside Stronger inside

Better Calculator

What’s new?

• Added a new icon in README
• Addition of Clear History Feature
• Added 3 buttons to delete history
• Fixed Frames Overlap Scientific Frame

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Getting Started
• Usage
• How to
• Customizations
• Acknowledgement
• Previews
• Contributing
• License

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Introduction

• This is my first Project in github.
• I’m trying to put all my dedication into it.
• It’s a fully feature packed calculator.
• A completely new concept.
• Please contribute to it and show me how to imporve my github skills.
• Find issues and suggest changes.

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Getting Started

Requirements

• python 3.x - Python 3 and above
• PIL for dealing with icons. If not installed

$ pip install pillow

Clone this repository using the following command

• (nearly 20 MB)

$ git clone https://github.com/warmachine028/Better-Calculator

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Usage

1. Download the Latest Stable release from releases.
2. Try the latest BETA release.
3. Clone this Repo to contribute by following these steps.
4. To customize your theme, see: themes.json.
5. View CHANGELOG for detailed updates and issues.
6. Old versions archived in versions folder.

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How to

1. Use AOT feature

AOT: Always On Top feature
Press the icon beside the label Calculator
AOT ACTIVE: colour of the label changes and becomes italic
AOT INACTIVE: colour of label reverts and becomes normal

2. Use Scientific Mode

Press the = button below Entry widget to open scientific menu
To activate inverse Trigonometric Functions press INV
NOTE: To use factorial function press ! first and then enter the input.

3. Use History Feature

Press H button beside AOT button to view history.
If log.txt is Empty the Labels will show: Not enough Data
See the history of calculations in reverse order.

4. Set a Custom theme

Open data/themes.json
Rename Theme 1 / Theme 2 to the required themes

Customizations

• Common attributes

Attribute	Description
_comment	Short description about the theme
Theme name	The name of theme which appears in the application
Background Color	The background color of the application
Foreground Color	The text-color of left buttons
AOT active Text Color	The accent color of the app
	> Text color of right side buttons
	> Text color of label: AOT active
Hover Color	The color when mouse pointer is hovering above buttons
Radio Switch Color	The color of theme changer (circular button)
Radio Text Color	The color of the text of theme changer

• Input Screen

Attribute	Description
Background Color	The background of input screen
Foreground Color	The text-color of input screen
Select Background	The background of selected text
Select Foreground	The text color of selected text
Cursor Color	The color of cursor in the screen

• Scientific Colors

Attribute	Description
Background Color	The background of scientific buttons
Foreground Color	The text-color of scientific buttons
\|INV\| Color	The color of Inverse Button when active
Hover Color	The color when mouse pointer is above scientific buttons
Hover Color \|INV\|	The color when mouse is above “activated” inverse button

Demo

Acknowledgement

• I took up this project as a lockdown hobby but later turned it into a serious project as I had to do something for my University Assignment.

• The pandemic was very boring and monotonic, so I thought of making something which is necessary and fulfils the following criterias :-

  1. Useful
  2. Easy to use
  3. Minimalistic UX design
  4. Uses some GUI framework
• Also, those days I couldn’t find an appropriate calculator application online which suited my choice and designs.
• So I thought why not try to build one for myself and the community :)

Previews

Super Dark	Aurora Light
Midnight City	COMMING SOON

Contributing

How To contribute to this Project ?

• Fork this project
• Clone the repository remotely
• Create a new branch
• Make changes
• Push to your forked repository
• Create PULL-REQUEST here
• see CONTRIBUTING

License

• see LICENSE

Pritam, 2021