[Bugs] #1332 UNSP: Provide alternate number base display support in Calculate

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#1332: Provide alternate number base display support in Calculate
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    Reporter:  FGrose                     |          Owner:  rwh        
        Type:  defect                     |         Status:  reopened   
    Priority:  Unspecified by Maintainer  |      Milestone:  0.90       
   Component:  Calculate                  |        Version:  Unspecified
    Severity:  Unspecified                |     Resolution:             
    Keywords:                             |   Status_field:  New        
Distribution:  Unspecified                |      Seeta_dev:             
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Comment(by garycmartin):

 Replying to [comment:5 FGrose]:
 > With the new toolbar button that changes the number base the display of
 the current calculation should be updated when the number base is changed.
 >
 > Currently the toolbar number state and display get out of sync, and it's
 not easy to explore a number in different base displays.

 All such tool mode changes affect the next calculation being entered (eg
 decimal point rounding, sci/eng). We don't have any buttons that make live
 updates of previously entered results. My feeling is that we either need a
 simple mode in Calculate, or more likely a new activity, perhaps called
 Sums, that provides _NO_ user input ability other than a basic set of
 calculator buttons and immediate updates (just like an old fashioned
 calculator device).

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Ticket URL: <http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1332#comment:6>
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