Calq
Calq is an easy to use, on demand calculator. The idea behind Calq is to have a calculator handy when you need to do some basic calculations quickly. It’s there when you need it, and it’s not in the way when you don’t need it.
It is available for both Mac OS X Tiger / Leopard and Windows XP / Vista.
Download for Mac | Download for Windows
Calq is freeware, but donations to support my software development are welcome. So if you like Calq, please consider making a donation through paypal. To do so, click on the paypal button below which will take you to the secure donation site.
How it works
The intended way to use Calq is by adding it as a startup item in your account preferences. But off course you can also start Calq by double-clicking the icon. The first time you start Calq you will be presented with a little welcome message, and after that the preference window is shown, so you can set it up to your liking. After confirming the preferences by clicking OK, you notice is that nothing seems to happening, because no icon appears in the dock. But don’t worry, Calq is now sitting in the background waiting to be activated when you need it.
After Calq is started, you can activate it by using a hotkey combination. When Calq is activated it will present a small window that allows you to do calculations through the keyboard. The window will stay up as long is keyboard activity is sensed. If you don’t type anything for a few seconds Calq will hide itself again until you activate it again. Calq will also hide itself immediately if you activate another application.
What it looks like
The following screenshots gives you an idea of what this looks like.
Info on the different versions
| Mac OS X | Windows | |
| Current version | 1.4.6 | 1.3.1 |
| Release date | January 25, 2009 | October 23, 2005 |
| Languages | English, Nederlands, Hungarian | English |
| System requirements | Mac OS X 10.4 or higher | Windows 2000 or Windows XP .NET framework 1.1 |
| Known problems | None | F12 hotkey doesn’t work |
| License | Freeware | Freeware |
| Download | Click to download Calq for OS X | Click to download Calq for Windows |
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Is there a special version for Windows 7? Thanks!
Hello,
thank you for this fantastic program. I’m using it for two years.
Today I reinstalled my Mac OS and downloaded Calq again. Unfortunately, I didn’t find where I can change the language to English. Is there any way to do this?
Thank you in advance.
I solved the problem. You can delete my message.
Thank you.
Two questions (apologies if there’s some documentation I’ve not found that addresses these):
1) I see how to stash things in memory and how to pull things back out again, but is there a way to clear memory? It’s not really important, but that there’s a little M shown when something’s in there seems to imply there ought to be a way to get back to a memory-less state.
2) What does Lock do? I thought maybe it made Calq not go away when I clicked somewhere else, but that’s not the case.
There’s a command clear memory that you can assign to a key.
Lock is supposed to do something like you’re describing. Normally the screen is hidden automatically after some time (depending on how you specify it in the settings), pressing the Lock key (standard this is the L-key) will prevent it from hiding automatically until you hit escape. Calq will still hide if you activate another app or the Finder.
Just to corroborate what a previous poster has noted: there appears to be a newly emergent bug under Mountain Lion, that when changing spaces Calq is always briefly displayed.
I don’t have Mountain Lion yet, so I can’t test it. I’ll do that once I upgrade.
I can confirm that this is the case. It appears for a half second. Not really an issue but it’d be nicer if it didn’t happen. It never happened on Lion for me – just Mountain Lion as per Don.
In Mountain Lion there is little problem when you switch between different desktops (via slide or ctrl + →). Calq is automatically shown.
Then I have one older problem with calq – when I don’t use English keyboard layout (but e. g. Czech) then I’m not able to do multiplication, because there isn’t any key for a * (star) on the Czech keyboard and we write * as keytroke of alt+8, but this is not recognized by calq. So because of multiplication in calq I have to change the keybord layout to english and then back to czech
For a workaround to the ML problem, it seems that if you dismiss Calq with the Escape key, then it doesn’t appear when sliding between different desktops.
But if you dismiss it by clicking away with the mouse, then it does exhibit this annoying behavior.
Author, any chance you could look into this and release a fix, please?
I was having the same issues in Mountain Lion, quite annoying, but was trying to put up with it because this app is something I use everyday.
Thanks to your tip, I changed my settings to get rid of auto-hide and instead click esc to exit. Sure enough it no longer shows up. Would like to see the bug fixed, but for now I’ll get used to manually hiding the program.
Very good, y use only this… I change today LeopardSnow-final > Lion-final : Thame thing, work very good (sorry for my poor english expression)- Thank you for this soft.
how can i use 3digits marks ?
ex) 10,000,000
This is controlled by the system wide localization settings (regional settings).
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