Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!apple!agate!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!pollack.mmwb.ucsf.edu!mday From: mday@pollack.mmwb.ucsf.edu (Mark Day) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Scientific Spreadsheet? WingZ is crap! Message-ID: Date: 15 Nov 90 18:31:12 GMT References: <1990Nov15.100655.3353@csc.anu.oz.au> <1990Nov15.142402.9037@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> Sender: daemon@cgl.ucsf.edu Lines: 30 mike@pyrite.SOM.CWRU.Edu (Michael Kerner) writes: >Sorry, dude, but I like WingZ. The way that I look at it, at least I could >rewrite the entire program using the scripting functions. I dunno. I >hate Excel and can't do enough with WingZ. You're right that in some cases >WingZ is a pain, but I think that it's a minority of the time. ^^^^^^^^ Not for me. I notice the clumsiness of the WingZ interface *every* time I use it. I put up with it because it runs on our SPARCS (if Campus Technology would ever ship our order) as well as Macs. (BTW, I think that this type of cross platform compatiblilty will become much more prevalent in the future) The crux of the matter for me is that simple actions that I repeat all of the time can take way too much effort on WingZ. To wit: 1. After RTFM, I haven't found a way to set the default font. Everytime I start up, there's Geneva staring me in the face. Not real useful to anyone using a LaserWriter. 2. Changing style attributes involves *way* too many hierarchical menus. Separate ones for font, style, size, justification, etc. They desperately need a dialog box that allows you to set all these attributes at once. Decent product, lousy interface. Just my 2 cents... Mark Day Dept. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry mday@zeno.mmwb.ucsf.edu University of California, San Francisco ..ucbvax!ucsfcgl!mday Voice: (415) 476-5326 FAX: (415) 476-0688