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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: OpalCalc 1.42

« on: April 22, 2012, 04:51 PM »

Cheers. Been busy beavering away on 1.43!

Oh I use Opera btw - not as fast as it used to be though (last nippy version was Opera 5 AFAIR). Table copy and pasting worked fine with it though.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: OpalCalc 1.42

« on: April 12, 2012, 10:05 AM »

Copy & paste into a text editor, then copy and past that into Excel. Done.

Wow it works - awesome. Yeah I've done this in the past too, but forgot!

@oblivion: Haha, and if that doesn't console him, tell your bank manager he might find a copy of OpalCalc ahem, 'useful' too

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: OpalCalc 1.42

« on: April 11, 2012, 04:05 PM »

Ahem.

Yes, that's because it knows what you REALLY want, deep down

Seriously, thanks for the heads up - no one's ever mentioned that particular bug before funnily enough - I'll look into it for 1.43.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: OpalCalc 1.42

« on: April 11, 2012, 09:29 AM »

You have about 150 colours there, but Wikipedia <a href="http://en.wikipedia..../wiki/List_of_colors">lists about 900</a> (not sure if there's a better source). Now if I can find a HTML table to CSV converter...

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: OpalCalc 1.42

« on: April 10, 2012, 05:42 PM »

Thanks skwire for that. Interesting calc, and yeah, it's got the great 'notepad' style and live answer (though lacks the dual-pane).

Just released v1.42 of OpalCalc with the new rgb2hex() and hex2rgb() functions! (plus lots more that were mistakingly 'hidden' before). Not sure if there's an 'official' RGB to colour name mapping data set out there for that feature...

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: OpalCalc 1.41

« on: April 09, 2012, 11:54 AM »

Interesting. Should I implement that on a sum by sum per basis, or a whole sheet basis? If I do the latter, it would enable the user to restore multiple sums at once.

Alternatively, to make it easier for me, I could add an option to restore just the last working session (sheet). Would this offer most of what you're looking for, or should I allow restoring of previous sheets (or sums) too?

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: OpalCalc 1.41

« on: April 09, 2012, 09:09 AM »

Erm, Hyperionics freeware Free Math Calculator is basically similar - but it's console mode...

Hi, yes a console format isn't the same - my previous favourite calc called "Console Calculator" from ZoeSoft was also like that. As for WJJsoft's freeware calculator, wow what a find, how obscure is that one?! I hunted for ages to look for a Soulver type calc, and you may have found another one. It's a shame the download is gone from their site (and from the web generally) - I may email them about it. Do you have the install exe per chance?

Renegade, hi too! Would you also find colour names (such as coral or crimson) useful in conversion too, or just the hex to dec conversion?

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: OpalCalc 1.41

« on: April 08, 2012, 10:29 AM »

Thanks for the warm welcome and comments all!

OpalCalc is AWESOME!  I registered it a few weeks ago after using the free version for a long time  (years?)

Perhaps you have a time machine since it's only been available from around Autumn last year Haha, thanks for the comments, and as regards the "history/memory", do you mean referring to a particular line, like "line 3"?

EDIT:  I just installed the newest version, and yes, it is faster!  I like the new Volcano skin.  I think that we can all agree it looks awesome with the Jupiter skin I have going

That looks ace - did you make the Jupiter backdrop? I wondered about the buttons at the top - that Actual Window Manager program looks interesting! As for the saturation thing, well, if you drag it to 25% that's essentially greyscale. But the 'extra tint' you're talking about is if you drag it even further than that, where we end with negative saturation (almost like negative colours). Basically, it adds more colour setups than the 5 would suggest!

What a stunning amount of power in such a deceptively simple-looking program. Wow.

Cheers, Ctrl+F1 will make it even simpler (whilst still allowing the function keys to act as shortcuts).

thanks for advertising your software.

its awesome.

donation sent already

Many thankyous

@Twinbee
Suggestion:
easy colours conversion built in, i.e.
HTML: rgb(192,192,192) -> #c0c0c0;
or
HTML: #FF7F50 -> coral

Ah, that's interesting. I could generalize a couple of things to make this work, but it could be a lot of effort. Alternatively, I may specifically code this feature as it is quite often used I guess. I might add rgb2hex() and hex2rgb(). For now you can type:

192
192
192

...and make sure the output is base 16. It's a workaround of sorts!

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / OpalCalc 1.43

« on: April 07, 2012, 04:56 PM »

I am the sole developer of "OpalCalc" for Windows XP/Vista/7 (requires .NET 3.5 or higher), a program with a short but colourful history. It's been featured on LifeHacker, PC World and MakeUseOf, and is currently rated 4.6/5 (20 reviews) at Softpedia.

But since then, it's got quite a lot better Here is the download page:

http://www.skytopia.com/software/opalcalc/

The standard Windows calculator falls short in a number of ways, but most of all it won't allow multiple calculations at once, or allow you to go back and edit previous sums. Before OpalCalc, it turned out nothing on Windows like this existed. The Mac had something called 'Soulver', but a port didn't seem likely soon, so I've slaved away solid for almost a year creating something I hope many of you will appreciate.

The video on the site gives a good overview, but briefly:

Opalcalc uses a special 'notepad' interface where answers are displayed next to the sums, and update live as you type. This makes it ideal for quick sums, or more involved calculations, perhaps such as shopping lists, a work timetable, tax return, math problem, programming debugging, and much more.

You can work with dates and times, money and currency conversion, units (+ conversion), percentages, and use custom variables and functions. OpalCalc supports dozens of in built functions, full colour coding, printing/loading/saving, advanced notation support, excellent documentation and much more.

The pricing is interesting and I think sympathizes with the philosophy of donationcoder.com. Users can use the generous 'demo' (5 lines, but no time limit), and if they upgrade, they can pay a fee of their choice. Even 1 dollar would get them the full version. Furthermore, there are no passwords, keys or DRM of any sort - the license lasts forever, and upgrades are free.

Any comments and reviews would be appreciated. Feel free to dish out any constructive criticism (the amount I've had so far has only allowed me improve OpalCalc, so it's all good!).