Before I reinvent the wheel. Does anyone know of a calculator that works similar to the function in QuickBooks?
@Christian Schmitz I did just buy the MBS plugins. Nothing in there is there?
Nothing that I’m aware of. It would be an interesting project, though.
any documentation on the QuickBook version… I might be tempted to tackle something like that
FYI… it seems that feature in no longer in Quickbooks (at least not the US version anymore)
I know, right? If I didn’t have 50,000 other things on my plate I’d be willing to play around with it too.
I suspect it’s a popup window with a canvas. Popups work differently on Mac and Windows (or at least the last time I looked in detail).
FYI… it was called QuickMath
https://community.intuit.com/questions/1337413-how-do-i-use-the-quickmath-calculator
bored… tempted. 
thinking TextEdit with a Listbox (or maybe canvas)
I have started to build one of these…
it will be two controls actually…
- a custom TextEdit that will accept only numeric input, pressing “=” will activate the “tape”
- the “tape” control.
The tape control will be placed in your window (anywhere) and set to not visible, there will be a need for only ONE tape control to be shared amongst as many textedit fields as you have.
It will do simple + , - , * and /
ESC will cancel all transactions and leave the original value in the textfield
RETURN/ENTER will commit the transactions to the textfield
“C” will clear the last transaction
so the tape will only accept 0-9, + , - , / , *, RETURN, ENTER, Backspace, Escape and “C” characters
FYI… I have a somewhat working version of this custom control already built… it isn’t “finished” and has a few bugs, but it will be working soon…
I was out all day. Thanks Dave. I will have a look at it when i get back in the morning,