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i'd love to be able to copy results of the conversion between numeral systems

Asked by Mykola Bespaliuk

When in programming mode i'm inputting a value there are instant results of it's conversion to hex, dec and bin. Converted values are not selectable. And i think they should be. Imagine my frustration when i want to find out what's the binary representation of some large number. In other modes that might be useful too.

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Jeet (gour-jitendrasingh) said : 		#1

you can select values from Edit Option of Calculator

Edit -> Copy then paste

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Mykola Bespaliuk (kolkabes) said : 		#2

To copy something it needs to be selected. And those values are NOT selectable.

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Jeet (gour-jitendrasingh) said : 		#3

U can copy all test which is in input area in calculator
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> To copy something it needs to be selected. And those values are NOT
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Mykola Bespaliuk (kolkabes) said : 		#4

I'm not talking about input. I mean the converted values that are displayed below the input (for example in the programming mode). What is the use of them if you can't copy any?

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Jeet (gour-jitendrasingh) said : 		#5

ok understood

i think you are not allowed to select text in label. (some boundaries).

you can try another tool for that.

Keep this question open if someone know some trick.

;)

jeet

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Jeet (gour-jitendrasingh) said : 		#6

you are asking for new feature !!!

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Jeet (gour-jitendrasingh) said : 		#7

you can close this question after exploring many things i came to this result .. that what you asking can not be possible with gcaltool

thanks

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Drew (drew-woz-f) said : 		#8

This is a common and important feature of good application and UI design. If this feature is NOT possible in the current implementation, perhaps gcaltool could be redesigned to do so.

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Mykola Bespaliuk (kolkabes) said : 		#9

As far as I can tell it uses GTK so it's possible. I guess nobody cares. http://www.gtk.org/api/2.6/gtk/GtkLabel.html#gtk-label-set-selectable allows for what I'm asking.

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