Scripting a working calculator [4-Hour Challenge]

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A 4-Hour journey into scripting a working calculator

I wanted to push boundaries with scripting and decided on building calculator with limited time set for 4 hours. I created a GUI with nice dark/orange. With buttons I set most important things like numbers, basic equations (+, -, * and /), clear and equation. Rest are randomly picked from Windows 10 built-in calculator. All for that I finished it in around half of hour.

GUI

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Final result (4 hour and 13 min in total)

I finally created a calculator and it’s working like charm. Some features are not-fixed in time but overall I’m happy about final result. During time I was continuously rewrite 3 times to get basic and sturdy code’s structure to hold without much issue but at the end I have created a lot “loopholes”.

Here is a video…
Calculator.wmv (927.6 KB)

I also provide a place where can physically look into my calculator.

Codes 
local Calc = script.Parent.Calc
local Output = script.Parent.Out

local CurrentNumber = ""
local PreviousNumber = ""
local Operator = ""

local OperLists = {
	{name = "Add", symbol = "+"},
	{name = "Subtract", symbol = "-"},
	{name = "Multiply", symbol = "Ă—"},
	{name = "Divide", symbol = "Ă·"},
}

function Update(final)
	if PreviousNumber ~= "" then
		local Symbol = ""
		for _, operator in ipairs(OperLists) do
			if operator.name == Operator then
				Symbol = operator.symbol
				break
			end
		end
		Output.Bottom.Showcase.Outputs.Text = PreviousNumber .. (Operator ~= "" and "  " .. Symbol or "")
	else
		Output.Bottom.Showcase.Outputs.Text = ""
	end
	
	Output.Top.Outputs.Text = CurrentNumber
	print(CurrentNumber.."  "..PreviousNumber.."  "..Operator)
end

function ClearEqual(Action)
	if Action == "Clear" then
		PreviousNumber = ""
		CurrentNumber = ""
		Operator = ""
		Update()
	elseif Action == "Equal" then
		if CurrentNumber ~= "" and PreviousNumber ~= "" then
			Operation(Operator)
			Operator = ""
			Update()
		end
	end
end

function Operation(Action)
	if PreviousNumber == "" then
		Operator = Action
	end
	if CurrentNumber ~= "" then
		
		local SpecifActions = {"Add", "Subtract", "Multiply", "Divide"}
		if table.find(SpecifActions, Action) then
			if PreviousNumber ~= "" then
				
				if Action == SpecifActions[1] or Action == SpecifActions[2] then
					if CurrentNumber == "" and Operator ~= "" then
						CurrentNumber = "0"
					end
					if Action == "Add" then
						PreviousNumber = tonumber(PreviousNumber) + tonumber(CurrentNumber)
						CurrentNumber = ""
					else
						PreviousNumber = tonumber(PreviousNumber) - tonumber(CurrentNumber)
						CurrentNumber = ""
					end
				else
					if CurrentNumber == "" and Operator == "" then
						CurrentNumber = "0"
					end
					if Action == "Multiply" then
						if CurrentNumber ~= "" then
							PreviousNumber = tonumber(PreviousNumber) * tonumber(CurrentNumber)
						end
						CurrentNumber = ""
					else
						if CurrentNumber ~= "0" and CurrentNumber ~= ""  then
							PreviousNumber = tonumber(PreviousNumber) / tonumber(CurrentNumber)
						end
						CurrentNumber = ""
					end
				end
				
				CurrentNumber = PreviousNumber
				PreviousNumber = ""
			else
				
				PreviousNumber = CurrentNumber
				CurrentNumber = ""
				
			end
		end
		
		
		if PreviousNumber == "" then
			
			if Action == "Negav" then
				CurrentNumber = tostring(-tonumber(CurrentNumber))
				Operator = ""
			end

			if Action == "Power" then
				CurrentNumber = tonumber(CurrentNumber) * tonumber(CurrentNumber)
				Operator = ""
			end
			
			if Action == "Sqr" then
				CurrentNumber = math.sqrt(CurrentNumber)
				Operator = ""
			end
			
			if Action == "Log" then
				CurrentNumber = math.log(CurrentNumber, 2)
				Operator = ""
			end
			
			if Action == "Factor" then
				local result = 1
				for i = 1, tonumber(CurrentNumber) do
					result = result * i
				end
				CurrentNumber = tostring(result)
				Operator = ""
			end
			
		end
	end
	
	Update()
end

function Numbers(N)
	if N == "Dot" then
		if not string.find(CurrentNumber, "%.") then
			CurrentNumber = CurrentNumber .. "."
		elseif CurrentNumber == "" then
			CurrentNumber = CurrentNumber .. "0."
		end
	elseif N == "Pi" then
		CurrentNumber = math.pi
	elseif N == "Exp" then
		CurrentNumber = math.exp(1)
	else
		if Operator == "" then
			PreviousNumber = ""
		end
		CurrentNumber = CurrentNumber .. N
	end
	Update()
end

function triggers(button)
	if button then
		if button.Name == "Clear" or button.Name == "Equal" then
			ClearEqual(button.Name)
		elseif string.find(button.Name, "Number") or button.Name == "Dot" or button.Name == "Pi" or button.Name == "Exp" then
			Numbers(string.gsub(button.Name, "Number", ""))
		else
			Operation(button.Name)
		end
	end
end

for _, button in ipairs(Calc:GetChildren()) do
	if button:IsA("TextButton") then
		spawn(function()
			button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
				triggers(button)
			end)
			button.MouseEnter:Connect(function()
				button.UIStroke.Transparency = 0
			end)
			button.MouseLeave:Connect(function()
				button.UIStroke.Transparency = 1
			end)
		end)
	end
end

How much is worthy of my calculator? :thinking:

  • Legendary
  • Epic
  • Rare
  • Common
  • Poor

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#2

Looks pretty good, only minor problems that don’t do much such as not using task.spawn

Nice job! :smile:

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