Re: WingZ

Path: emory!europa.asd.contel.com!uunet!mcsun!corton!irisa!claire!decouty From: decouty@claire.irisa.fr (Bertrand Decouty, AB112, [99 84] 73 46, Atelier) Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix Message-ID: <1992Feb10.101127.26926@irisa.fr> Date: 10 Feb 92 10:11:27 GMT References: <MTan.5@uci.edu> Sender: news@irisa.fr Reply-To: decouty@claire.irisa.fr Organization: IRISA-INRIA, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, FRANCE In article 5@uci.edu, MTan@uci.edu (Mary Tan) writes: > > WingZ is a spreadsheet program from Informix. Moreover, it also >includes its own script language that can be used to build in-house >application. > > Has anyone use WingZ? What do you think about this package? Yes, we use it here, for doing daily management. It is a powerful package. My negative comments are relative to : - Only brand Adobe fonts are recognised (=> only 4...) - still not OpenLook compliant app (no drag and drop, no push pin...) - 1.1b has corrected bugs and improved import into framemaker (save selection as EPSI) but i have notice that EPSI file is drawn at scale 1, whereas EPS (which should be EPSI without bitmap) is drawn at scale 4 then rescale to 1, which gives you a MUCH better drawing. Draw a pie and compares... The EPSI pie looks like it has been printed on a dot-matrix printer... not on a Laserprinter. (yes, it is a flame!) - still uses rpc.lockd mechanismes, which are not very reliable (on Sun at least). HyperScript makes it a good choice. BD --- | Bertrand DECOUTY | EMAIL : Bertrand.Decouty@IRISA.fr | | IRISA - INRIA (Atelier) | {uunet,mcsun,inria}!irisa!decouty | | Campus de Beaulieu | PHONE : +33 99 84 73 46 | | F-35042 Rennes Cedex - FRANCE| FAX : +33 99 38 38 32 | TELEX: 950473 UNIRISA |