HP 49g Graphing Calculator - Manual (Page 118)

Chapter 13
Customization
Creating menus
The HP 49G enables you to create a custom menu. The menu can contain
labels for operations, commands, and other objects that you create or
group together for your convenience.
A custom menu is identified by the reserved variable GST. Therefore, you
create a custom menu by naming a list of menu items GST. You can also
use the
MENU
command to store a list in GST.
A custom menu is a type of function key menu; that is, the items on the
menu appear across the bottom of your screen and can be selected by
pressing the corresponding function key.
You can create a custom menu—that is, a GST variable—in each directory.
This enables you to have a different custom menu in each directory.
To create a custom menu
1. Enter a list of label-object pairs, one pair for each menu item.
The syntax for each label-object pair is {“label”, object j. Also, to
prevent an object being evaluated, you should enclose the object in
tick marks ("). Each pair is a sub-list within the main list.
Objects can be of many types, such as variable names, programs,
strings, and imit objects. For example:
H"m^3", 'Ijn^s'l, {"VOL", VOLUME), {"TIME", 'TIME()'l!
In this example, the menu items will be labelled m*3, VOL, and TIME
respectively. The first inserts the cubic metre imit expression, the
second inserts the string “VOLUME”, and the third returns the current
time.
2. Press ® to move the cursor outside the main list.
3. Press (ST®.
4. Enter GST.
5. Press®
In RPN mode: follow steps 1, 4, and 3.
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