Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!a752
From: Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca (Bruce Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Graph Plotting applications for Windows 3.0
Message-ID: <5692@mindlink.bc.ca>
Date: 30 Apr 91 21:00:37 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Lines: 33


     I have recently started using CA-Cricket Graph (from Computer Associates).
I have mixed feelings:

1) The interface is wonderfully intuitive - the program starts any graph by
drawing a "rough" copy, and you refine the various elements of the copy by
clicking on them and redefining them.

2) The graphs generally look very good.

however:

1) The logical move of copying a graph to the clipboard then pasting from the
clipboard into Word for Windows doesn't work.  What you get is an image about
the size of a postage stamp in your document.

2) The graph axis labels don't allow super and subscripting, and don't allow
you to mix symbols and normal fonts in the same label.  This makes the supplied
symbol font useless, as no-one wants an entire title in symbols, but only wants
to use the occasional symbol in conjunction with the ordinary fonts.

3) The program is supposed to be able to print out the values that you are
graphing (entered by you onto a spreadsheet like array).  The program however
crashes on printout.

     The program appears to be have been written for Windows 2.0, and even
comes with a run-time version of Windows 2.0.  The current version of the
program (1.3) looks like a very minor revision of the original Windows 2.0
program to make it behave as a Windows 3.0 application.  I am hoping that
Computer Associates will get their act together and make a version 2.0 of this
program, as it has a lot of promise.
--
Bruce Dunn    Vancouver, Canada   Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca