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- Short: Spreadsheet, V2.1b,OS 3.0+, 68000 CPU
- Author: tpassow@physik.uni-bremen.de (Thorsten Passow)
- Uploader: tpassow@physik.uni-bremen.de (Thorsten Passow)
- Type: biz/misc
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- | This is the archive which contains the version for |
- | 68000 CPU or higher |
- | (a version for 68020 CPU + 68881 FPU is available) |
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-
- A short manual in english is now in the archive!
-
- StarAm Plan is an easy to use but powerful spreadsheet program.
- It is shareware, not crippled. Some features are:
-
- - several sheets at one time in memory with different windows open
- - commands to edit,e.g.: fill range, create series, change range by +-*/,
- sort range, change row/column, powerfull cut/copy/paste, undo,
- search&replace, drag&rop
- - 121 stastistic, financial, mathem., date, time, boolean, text, format
- and other functions to use in cells.
- - user-defined functions, variables and cell-/rangenames
- - A lot of formatsettings for cells, e.g.: alignment, suffix, prefix,
- cell-type (text,number,date,time,percent,...), date/time-format,
- protection, textstyle, borders, textcolor, decimals, sign, hide zero
- - format-pattern and autoformat
- - A lot of charts with a lot of settings, e.g.: 3d-bar, 3d-line, 3d-area,
- errorbars, regression curves, logarithmic axis, polarcoordinates,
- functionplotter, several charts in one system of coordinates
- - in texts of charts you can now use simple mathematical expressions
- ("Formelsatz"): fraction, sub-/superscript, math. symbols and greek
- letters, textstyles italic and bold
- - Settings for screenmode, font, colors, icon, autosave, ...
- - uses appicon, toolsmenu, appwindow, OS 3.0-look and AGA,
- graphics accelerators, clipboard.device, public-screens,
- xpk-libraries, memory pools, shared pens, amigaguide.library,
- gadgethelp, ...
- - most requesters are asynchron
- - projects and 3D-worksheets
- - localized, german, english and italian available
- - a lot of more
-
- Changes since version 2.1
-
- - Aminet distribution is now identical to disk distribution
- - Installer script completely rewritten:
- - localized
- - checking minimum preconditions
- - cleaning up after error
- - active support of installation on floppy disk (size checking and
- asking for new directory)
- - PRETEND mode works
- - all answers in EXPERT mode are safe
- - some more informations in EXPERT mode
- - Creating directory in EXPERT mode only if desired
- - less questions in AVERAGE mode (more automatic copying)
- - all questions first if possible
- - icon positions are kept on update (this must be activated
- manually by deleting some ; because of compatibility)
- -> perfect installer-script ;-)
- - enforcer hits, etc. fixed: changing position of cell A1 with command
- Edit/Sort confused StarAm Plan
- - Guru fixed: occured when deleting a text series which contains
- an empty text
- - some other enforcer hits and minor bugs fixed and some minor
- improvements (complete list is in the archive)
-
- Changes since version 2.04
-
- - error message if loading a project which contains a worksheet which
- is part of another loaded project. Removing of the worksheet from
- the project which is being loaded. So no more danger of a crash.
- - short help of iconbar now localized
- - bug fixed in links to other worksheets by name in formulas (\Name.):
- If the name contains the special characters operators, brackets and #
- then the name can be set between " (\"Name".). So no error will occur.
- - links to other worksheets by name in formulas can contain a path now.
- The name (incl. path) must then set between " (\"Path/Name".).
- Then the worksheet is searched only in the memory and at the
- specified place.
- - text series (a special form of arithmetic series) implemented.
- The possible text series can be defined by the user.
- - drawing the charts the resolution and aspect ratio are taken into
- account completely: length of lines (ticks and subticks, some symbols
- with previously constant size) thickness of lines (all lines drawn
- with Draw and DrawEllipse), text height, text width (using FontTags
- of DiskFont.library v37/39).
- - the size of elements in the chart now optional depends on the
- horizontal resolution (as until now) or the width of the window
- - thickness of lines in chart now selectable (separate for different
- lines)
- size of symbols in chart now selectable
- - bug fixed: Edit/Change deleted cells (long lives undo!) if the cells
- had contained formulas and only values should been changed
- - bug fixed: Edit/Changed changed formulas wrong in case of * or /
- - in texts of charts you can now use simple mathematical expressions
- ("Formelsatz"): fraction, sub-/superscript, math. symbols and greek
- letters, textstyles italic and bold
- - with %n you can now set the position of the factor of the axis
- lettering in the axis names (in 1000, in Mio, in billion, in 1E+012,
- ...). Factors in scientific notation are printed now superscript
- (10^{12} instead 1E+012, ^{ and } certainly not printed and 12
- superscript). »in« not printed if %n is used.
- - work around for inability of the printer.device to print a hardcopy
- from a CyberGraphX screen, so that you now can print out a chart from
- a CyberGraphX screen
- - routine to save a chart as graphics (IFF-ILBM) cybergraphx compatible
- (but only 8 bit!) rewrited, so that you now can save a chart as
- graphics (IFF-ILBM) from a CyberGraphX screen (true also for copying
- into clipboard).
- - many other bug fixes and improvements (complete list is in the archive)
-
- Changes since version from 5-Jan-97:
-
- - some bugs fixed (list is in the archive)
-
- Changes since version 2.03b
-
- - bug in V2.03 fixed: Iconify works again (enforcer-hits/guru/
- "hanging" fixed)
- - xy-charts: x-axis labels have same type (number, date, time, month,
- weekday) as cells with x-values (e.g. monthnames instead of numbers
- at x-axis). Format of cells with type date or time is partly used.
- - setting for view: zero-values are not shown (ignored by celltype
- text, date and time). Also cellformat to set this for each cell
- (ignored only by celltype text).
- - Worksheet/Open, Chart/Load (Chart-Manager) and gadget Load
- (Worksheet-Manager): Multiselection (and loading) of files in
- filerequester.
- - curvechart (and 3d-areachart): empty cells (celltype=text; value=0
- AND value of cell is hidden in actual view) and/or cells of value zero
- can be ignored: gadgets emty and zeros in Chart-Attributes
- - support of GadgetHelp (Intuition.library V39): there is a shorthelp
- for the gadgets of the gadgetbar shown, if the mousepointer is over
- one of the gadgets. Pressing help opens the (context sensitive and
- asynchrone) online-help (with a longer helptext).
- - some other things and bugs fixed (complete list is in the archive)
-
- Changes since version 2.03:
-
- - serious bug fixed: Extras/Export/Range has overwrited the original
- File, if xpk wasn't used :-(
- - bug in v2.03 fixed: If SimpleRefresh the worksheet wasn't printed at start
- automatically. The command Define Worksheet (and reverse) didn't refresh the
- worksheet.
- - bug in v2.03 fixed: Extras/Export/Text didn't work because of the new printing
- features :-(
- - FPU exceptions are now disabled (because of runtimeerrors if FPU exists -not
- 68040!- and I couldn't find them lacking a real FPU)
- - bug fixed: If complete row/column at bottom/right worksheet border removed,
- undo didn't work.
- - some minor bugs fixed
- - some enforcer hits fixed
-
- Changes since version 2.0b:
-
- - needs AmigaOS 3.0, uses memory pools, shared pens, ...
- - rows/cols may be fixed at border
- - undo now with several steps
- - rows/cols may be alone absolute: A!1! instead of A1!
- - better print out
- - using locale.library, english catalog file
- - better graphics accelorator support
- - asynchrone and context sensitive online help with amigaguide.library
- - and a lot of more, a detailed list is in the archive
-
- Changes since version 2.0:
-
- - runtime-error while creating a circle-chart with senseless values
- (sum=0, negative values) catched. Occured only with FPU
- (not 68040 CPU).
- - Tooltype SMARTREFRESH in program-icon to enable SmartRefresh for
- Worksheet-Windows. Speed up the Refresh but needs more memory.
- - Tooltype PALETTEWINDOW in program-icon to change gadgetbar to
- palette-window.
- - Possibility to delete format-pattern which are needed for
- autoformat removed.
-
- Changes since version 1.9d:
-
- - many commands work now more logical
- - most requesters are asynchron
- - better way to select a range, multiselect ranges
- - new look for worksheet-window
- - more mouse-commands in worksheet, e.g. drag&drop
- - more commands for comfort
- - rangenames linked with cells
- - a lot new settings
- - better »projects«, 3D-worksheets
- - format-pattern and autoformat-command
- - search and replace
- - SDF-Import/Export
- - uses XPK for packing/encryption
- - uses clipboard.device, public-screens
- - bug fixes and a lot of more
-
- A more detailed list is in the archiv. It is too long to list here.
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