bose@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Bhaskar Bose) (03/19/91)
Does anyone have any comments about this software? I am thinking of purchasing it, but have never really played with it.
kumarr@hparc0.HP.COM (Kumar Rangan) (03/23/91)
>/ bose@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Bhaskar Bose) / 2:38 am Mar 19, 1991 / >Does anyone have any comments about this software? I am thinking of purchasing >it, but have never really played with it. ---------- I've been using newwave for close to a year now & have had no *real* problems with it. I could probably go on for a few pages (if not more) on how good newwave is but I'll restrict myself to a few lines : -Advantages over windows 3 are : An excellent object management facility Task automation that is far superior to windows 3 - Newwave *does* require windows 3 to be installed. its sits on top of win 3. - If u want more details on newwave, let me know & I'll send u som info on it. -------- * Kumar Rangan * * HP Wellington Internet: kumarr@hparc0.aus.hp.com * * New Zealand Kumar_Rangan@hp9781.desk.hp.com * * Phone : +64 4 820400 * THESE ARE MY OPINIONS & DO NOT REFLECT HP POLICY IN ANY WAY,SHAPE OR FORM.
kumarr@hparc0.HP.COM (Kumar Rangan) (03/26/91)
>- If u want more details on newwave, let me know & I'll send u som info on it.
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I have received quite a few requests for more details. Give me a couple of
days to write something up & I'll post it. (I do this after hours on my time).
thanks for the requests.
For those of u with compuserve access, theres plenty of stuff there. GO HP.
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HP's integrated business desktop environment NewWave provides a seamless access system with a consistent object oriented user interface to all applications a user might access on a PC. A consistent front end to a number of different tools is already being provided by various window based GUI suppliers. NewWave adds four key features to this type of user environment : Encapsulation: This feature protects your investment in existing MS-DOS & Windows application software, by incorporating these applications into the NewWave environment where they appear as objects. Encapsulation is provided at 3 levels of sophistication. At the highest level, applications can be made to look like purpose-built NewWave applications and their data can be "shared". At the lowest level you still get the application running as an object from your desktop. No longer will you need to remember file names, directories etc. True Integration of different data types: NewWave provides true integration of different data types (like text, database data, spreadsheets, graphics, scanned images) in one document thru its Object Management Facility. This means that a spreadsheet stays as a functioning spreadsheet rather than a character string even when pasted into a page of text, or a piechart is still that, not a series of pixels. If you try to edit one of these components, the appropriate application program would be fired up. Any change made, say in the spreadsheet will result in the recalculation of all other related fields. Information Linking: A data item (like a spreadsheet, a graphic item etc) can either be copied from one object to another or it can be "shared". When it is a shared item, any change made to the object in one location is automatically & immediately updated in all the other locations where all or part of it appears. This enables the user to be confident about the validity & integrity of the data item(s) that he is presented with. Task Automation: This facility (the Agent) allows the user to record a sequence of instructions to be played back at the click of a mouse, or scheduled for a given time. It is especially useful for the automation of functions that are periodically performed using software on the PC/host you may connect to. The sequence of instructions recorded are stored in an "Agent Task" icon which is handed to the Agent to be performed. It is also possible to schedule the task on a repetitive basis (daily, weekly, monthly etc).The instructions recorded can be modified using a powerful Agent Task Language which has an English-like command structure. NewWave is aimed at the "knowledge worker", the non- technical, professional information processor NOT the "DOS Guru". If any of u want *more* info, the fastest way may be to contact the nearest HP dealer/sales office. -------- * Kumar Rangan * * HP Wellington Internet : kumarr@hparc0.aus.hp.com * * New Zealand Compuserve : 76320,532 * * Phone : +64 4 820400 HP Desk : Kumar Rangan/hp9781/01 *
richi@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Richard Jennings) (03/28/91)
Kumar posts a nice summary, to which I'd like to draw out a few points, both from my own experience of using NewWave and WRT the program manager & DDE... >A consistent front end to a number of different tools is >already being provided by various window based GUI >suppliers. As well as the apps. shipped as standard in the NewWave box, I also use Micrografx Charisma for NewWave, Dexotek's Office Accessories and Excel 3.0. >Encapsulation: >This feature protects your investment in existing MS-DOS & >Windows application software, by incorporating these >applications into the NewWave environment where they appear >as objects. Encapsulation is provided at 3 levels of >sophistication. At the highest level, applications can be >made to look like purpose-built NewWave applications and >their data can be "shared". Object sharing (in the sense that an object can be filed in more than one place) *is* available for object types encapsulated at the simplest level. The more complex levels of encapsulation are required in order to allow the encapsulated objects to be viewed inside another object (e.g. a Excel 3.0 spreadsheet inside an Ami/NewWave document). This typically involves developing a NewWave browser, or modifying the app. to be NewWave-compliant. >True Integration of different data types: >NewWave provides true integration of different data types >(like text, database data, spreadsheets, graphics, scanned >images) in one document thru its Object Management Facility. Note that the underlying app. for the document type does not need to be updated, in order to support a new document type! For example, no changes were necessary to the NewWave Write application to support the inclusion of objects that display full-motion video in a window. >Information Linking: >A data item (like a spreadsheet, a graphic item etc) can >either be copied from one object to another or it can be >"shared". When it is a shared item, any change made to the >object in one location is automatically & immediately updated >in all the other locations where all or part of it appears. The key words here are "automatically" and "immediately": No DDE dialog box asking the user whether it's OK to fire up the application; no concerns that the app. might hang the system or run out of memory while updating the "links" and thus lose the changes. NewWave objects shared in multiple locations are ACTUALLY THE SAME OBJECT. The NewWave Object Manager maintains the links to the ONE object, so the automatic update is instant. >Task Automation: >This facility (the Agent) allows the user to record a >sequence of instructions to be played back at the click of a >mouse, or scheduled for a given time. It is especially useful >for the automation of functions that are periodically >performed using software on the PC/host you may connect to. The task language is orders of magnitude more powerful, flexible and robust than the Windows 3.0 Recorder. With the Windows recorder, you only need to move a window by a few pixels, or rename a completely unrelated file, and your task either doesn't work, or (more worryingly) does the wrong thing (e.g. deletes the wrong file). Regards, richi. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- - Richard Jennings, Software Development Engineer Pinewood Information Systems Division, the home of HP's Advanced ----------------------------------------- Image Management System (HP AIMS), AdvanceLink, OpenMail, and Multi-media communications Hewlett-Packard -------------------------------------- Nine Mile Ride Voice: (+44)/(0) 344 763738 ADMD=GOLD 400 C=GB Wokingham Fax: (+44)/(0) 344 763526 OU1=Pinewood ORG=hp Berkshire RG11 3LL E-mail: richi@hpopd.pwd.hp.com GN=Richard PRMD=hp England or: richi@hpopd.pwd.hp.co.uk SN=Jennings -- >> Of course, I don't speak for Hewlett-Packard <<
Joel_Murray@mindlink.UUCP (Joel Murray) (03/28/91)
One more (perhaps silly) question about HP NewWave:
Does NewWave perceptably slow down one's computer? I have a 25 Mhz 386 DX with
8 megs of memory. Would there be any slowdown on my machine?
I am interested in NewWave but not if it "bogs" things down.
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=============================================================kumarr@hparc0.HP.COM (Kumar Rangan) (04/01/91)
>Does NewWave perceptably slow down one's computer? I have a 25 Mhz 386 DX with >8 megs of memory. Would there be any slowdown on my machine? ============================================================= = Joel Murray / Vancouver, British Columbia / Canada, Eh? = = a23@mindlink.uucp [or] uunet!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!a23 = ============================================================= ---------- I'm using newwave on a 20Mhz 386 with 4MB RAM & 40MB disc using QEMM 5.1 I've had no *real* problems with the performance. I guess it all depends on what u measure against & what u call *good* performance. Sorry I cant be more specific! Theres one way for u to find out..... -------- * Kumar Rangan * * HP Wellington Internet : kumarr@hparc0.aus.hp.com * * New Zealand Compuserve : 76320,532 * * Phone : +64 4 820400 HP Desk : Kumar Rangan/hp9781/01 *