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 13-April-07



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Joseph Diederichs

  

      
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If you have previously purchased either version (Palm OS or Windows) of BoardCalc, you can get an activation key for the other version for free by emailing your name (so prior purchase can be verified) and your HotSync name or Reg Code from the About page to support@boardcalc.com. I will send back an email with your activation key. If you have any questions, contact me. Don't be bashful, I'd like to hear from you.

  • BoardCalc 2.2a released April 9th, 2007. New features:
    • Percent key to multiply, add, subtract or divide by a percentage
    • Units of yards have been added
    • User's List can be imported from the Palm OS device to the User's List in the PC version.
    • More information is put into User's List from Log Weight/Yield page
    • Added a space between feet, inches and fractions when the <sp> button is pressed
    • Status bar/icon colors on Tungsten T and others fixed
    • Radial/Tangent bug on shrinkage calculator fixed
  • BoardCalc 2.1 for Palm released July 18th, 2005
  • BoardCalc 2.1c for Windows released July 13th, 2005
  • BoardCalc 2.1b for Windows released July 11th, 2005
Anyone who has purchased an earlier version of BoardCalc will (of course) get 2.2 for free. If you are upgrading from version 1.0, a different activation key will be required, which you can obtain  by emailing support@boardcalc.com. Include your name (so prior purchase can be verified) and your HotSync name. This can be found in the upper right of the HotSync screen on the Palm device. I will send back an email with your activation key.


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Wish list:  (features for the next major revision of BoardCalc)
  1. Buttons for common fractions like 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16. to speed entry


Known Issues in BoardCalc version 2.2a (Palm)
  1. On the About screen, just under the version, it says "TEST VERSION". Not so, this really is the release version.


Known Issues in BoardCalc version 2.1 (Palm OS):
  1. Status bar icons, keyboard and virtual graffiti area drawn with wrong colors on a Tungsten T3 (and probably others) - thanks to archalphabet for turning this in
  2. The Shrinkage calculator can become confused between radial and tangential shrinkage. If radial shrinkage is chosen, and then the page is changed to the general calculator or the log calculator, returning to the shrinkage calculator will show the numbers for radial shrinkage but will display Tangent in the selector window.

Known Issues in BoardCalc version 2.1b (WIndows)
    1. Chain calculations put an extra, unnecessary line in the recent calculations. For example, press 1 + 2 + 3 =. Recent calcs will show the lines:  1 + 2 = 3     1 + 2 = 3 +    3 + 3 = 6       The middle line is of no value.
    2. The Calculator and List screens can not all be seen if BoardCalc is run on a high resolution screen (1400 x 1050) under Windows XP. The same problem may cause BoardCalc to never appear on the PC screen - it is being located far far off the right end of the display. Window sizing does not work correctly in this situation either.
Known Issues in BoardCalc version 2.0 (Palm OS):
  1. If the list add button (->L) is pressed in the Log Weight/Yield calculator when the list is empty, the calculator beeps as if something went wrong, even though the weight and yield are added to the list correctly.
  2. In the general calculator, if a dimension in feet is entered, something is entered after it, and then backspace is pressed, the units of feet are also lost. For example, enter 1' + 123, press backspace. Result should be 1' + 12 but instead it is 1 + 12.
  3. In the general calculator, if the first of two dimensions to add or subtract is entered in feet, metric math refuses to work even though it should. For example, 1' + 5cm = beeps and does not complete.
  4. Pressing MR in the Log Weight Estimator puts a mangled string into the recent calculations page.
  5. In the Shrinkage Calculator, backspace removes the last remaining digit in any display, but the display does not change. For example, in any field enter 123 and press <BS> three times. The '1' remains, but pressing another number will enter that number and the '1' will disappear.
  6. On the sort page, if both one of the 'show' boxes is changed and a different type of sort is selected, the 'show' change will be honored but the sort will not. Sorting again with the same settings will do the sort correctly.