Bug 498573 - Cannot enter numbers in scientific notation
Summary: Cannot enter numbers in scientific notation
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gcalctool
Version: 10
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-05-01 08:14 UTC by Arthur Magill
Modified: 2009-12-18 09:23 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-12-18 09:23:21 UTC
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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?

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2009-11-18 11:53:19 UTC
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Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2009-12-18 09:23:21 UTC
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