Bug 498573

Summary:	Cannot enter numbers in scientific notation
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Arthur Magill <arthur.magill>
Component:	gcalctool	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	10	CC:	beland, rstrode
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Description Arthur Magill 2009-05-01 08:14:14 UTC

Description of problem:

Cannot enter numbers in scientific notation (i.e. 1e3 for 1000).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 5.24.3


How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start gcalctool
2. enter "1", "exp", "3", "="
3. 
  
Actual results:

error message: "Malformed expression"

Expected results:

1000

Additional info:

Calculator must be in scientific mode to make the "exp" button visible. Curiously, enter "1", "exp", "+", "3", "=" works as expected. Looks like a parser bug.

Comment 1 Christopher Beland 2009-07-19 13:07:23 UTC

I was unable to reproduce this problem with gcalctool-5.26.2-1.fc11.i586 by clicking on these buttons with the mouse in the indicated sequence.

I'm not sure if a backport is needed, or if this is a user-specific problem. It would be interesting to see if anyone else running Fedora 10 can reproduce this.

If you move ~/.gconf/apps/gcalctool/%gconf.xml aside and then start
gcalctool, does that help?

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Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2009-12-18 09:23:21 UTC

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