What is Calculator Construction Set?

The Dubl-Click Calculator Construction Set makes it easy to design custom calculators that install as desk accessories an your Mac disks. Using MacPaint-like tools, predesigned keys are dragged onto a calculator shell and positioned. The shell can be stretched with a "rubber band” tool and can be much larger than it initially appears. 

A parts box window contains all the shapes and special items that can be placed on a calculator. There are four basic types of keys—alphanumeric, function, programmable and macro—in a variety of shapes. Keys are dragged onto the shell, then "wired” (assigned a function) by clicking on the key with the electrical plug icon. Macro keys are assigned a permanent sequence of specific operations as the calculator is being built. Programmable keys can be assigned new functions at any time.

The calculatar shell can hold up to 100 items (which may inciude icons to print to the ImageWriter or a text file), a small calendar, or various timer functions, as well as standard mathematical, financial and scientific operations. All of a calculator's keys can be wired so that entries can be made directly from the keyboard.

Calculatars are saved as desk accessory files that are loaded with Font/DA Mover, or they can be made to self-install automatically on the startup disk. Finished calculators take at least 7K of memory. A scientific calculator with special features may take 20K or more. The program checks available memory before installing a new calculator.

The manual is small but excellent, and The Dubl-Click Calculator Construction Set is easy to use.

Wesley, Michael D. (April 1986). The Dubl-Click Calculator Construction Kit. MacUser. (pg. 33).

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Architecture

Motorola 68K

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Mini vMac