folta@tove.cs.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) (10/22/90)
System 7.0 will being application-cooperation nirvana, or so we are told. But there are program combinations that cooperate nicely right here and now. I'd like to nominate my favorite pair, and see what pairs others might suggest. DeltaGraph 1.5, in addition to being the best graphing program around, provides a warm-link-like capability through its scripting language. If you put a DeltaGraph script in the Clipboard and launch DG, it will read the script, execute it, paste the graph back into the Clipboard, then quit. Nisus has an ultra-powerful macro capability, among whose commands is a launch command. Putting the two together, I can select a table of text, and with one keystroke I get a graph placed above the table. There is a lot of window flashing going on, but the whole process is automated, and the results are great. So I nominate DG and Nisus for my favorite warm-link-before-System-7 award. -- Wayne Folta (folta@cs.umd.edu 128.8.128.8)
JAHAYES@MIAMIU.BITNET (Josh Hayes) (10/23/90)
I have to add a comment or two wrt DeltaGraph. We purchased it as a graphing solution for our research lab. It has proven to be a serious dog, in my view. While it claims to run in one meg, it doesn't. Period. With all inits shut off. Still says "out of memory". It tends not to run on my plus w/2.5 Meg, unexpectedly quitting with some frequency. Graphs/data tables changed, then saved, often turn out to revert to the original unchanged form. Printing to our networked IINT is touchy: it works sometimes, and sometimes it doesn't. Tech support has been very poor. Whenever we call, they say it must be some other part of our system that causes the problem, this despite the fact that the same problems occur on my plus, the secretary's IIcx, and my wife's at-home, non-networked, init- free IIcx (this was an experiment; I took it back off the hard disk afterwards). It's slow. The output CAN be very nice. It seems like what we've gotten is early beta software; perhaps v2.0 will be the real thing. I cannot recommend this product; it may work well with other software, but it doesn't work well alone. ----------- Josh Hayes, Zoology Department, Miami University, Oxford OH 45056 voice: 513-529-1679 fax: 513-529-6900 jahayes@miamiu.bitnet, or jahayes@miamiu.acs.muohio.edu "Rest assured, my boy, the more narrowly you define what you know, the more certainly your knowledge will be in demand."
BRL102@psuvm.psu.edu (Ben Liblit) (10/24/90)
Not quite the same sort of cooperation, but....
With the proper arrangement of folders, all Claris software can share:
- the same main dictionary
- the same user dictionary
- the same help system driver
- the same font bitmap depository
Not bad at all.
Ben Liblit
BRL102 @ psuvm.bitnet -- BRL102 @ psuvm.psu.edu
"Fais que tes reves soient plus longs que la nuit."