Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!munnari.oz.au!csc!pfr654
From: pfr654@csc.anu.oz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: WingZ problems and whinge.
Message-ID: <1025.2567c58a@csc.anu.oz>
Date: 20 Nov 89 09:36:10 GMT
Organization: Computer Services, Australian National University
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Hi there.
Can someone explain why Excel 1.00 is better at memory management than Wingz?

I was trying to mimic the lotteries and produce large sets of random numbers,
using "int(rand()*100)" to get a number from 0 to 99. Wingz could only do about
3000 numbers, whereas Excel (version 1.00!!) was easily able to do 10000!!

It seems that the smart memory management of Wingz is up shit creek.

Other problems with the program:
* when printing a graph (with the "sheet" hidden) the program tries to print
out the equivalent of blank pages for 32,767 cells!
* when pasting special-values, more than once, strange mix-ups of what you are
pasting from and what you are pasting to
* shit defaults for graphs (who on earth wants the default line graph to be a
1mm thick grey line?), lack of intelligence in axes defaults
* overkill of the hierarchical menus (I know that they can be changed, but to
do so takes lots of time, furthermore, you may still want access to the other
features, just not all of the time. The problem is when you are continually
going two levels down in the menus, and in long menus too!).

My wife is quite pissed off with me for getting this program, rather than
upgrading to Excel 1.5 or 2.2, since it just is not nice or easy to use.

Lastly, like hypercard, it does not come with complete documentation on its
scripting language, and I read on the net that such documentation will cost!

Anyway, unless version 1.1 corrects at least some of these problems there will
be another copy of Wingz for sale.

Phil Ryan
ANU Department of Physics and Theoretical Physics
Canberra, Australia