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- %C%Major enhancements in PipeDream 4
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- PipeDream 4 is a fundamental revision of PipeDream 3 with changes in
- almost all areas. Whilst the most striking areas of improvement are
- its stunning charts, the new spreadsheet power and the upgraded user
- interface, there are many detailed enhancements which are too numerous
- to mention here. We would like to thank all PipeDream 3 users who
- contributed their ideas in our user surveys and other correspondence.
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- Some of the more important new features are:
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- Seeing is believing! PipeDream 4 introduces Penguin
- Graphics to the Archimedes in addition to the more
- usual Pie, Bar, Line and scatter charts. All charts
- are completely dynamic and very fast. You can
- include overlays with multiple scales. Highly
- flexible chart editing for fine tuning, including
- adding and deleting data from chart. One reaction
- was: "PipeDream 4's graphs blow your socks off."
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- PipeDream 4 is, by a wide margin, the finest
- spreadsheet package on the Archimedes. In addition
- to 162 built-in functions (including full string,
- date, matrix and complex number functions), PipeDream
- 4 provides custom functions for you to program your
- own function libraries, and arrays. Arrays are
- groups of data within a slot enabling you to perform
- powerful operations very easily. (These are not to be
- confused with Schema's "arrays" which are merely
- ranges.) PipeDream 4 continues the PipeDream
- tradition by being the fastest ever RISC OS
- spreadsheet whilst providing an even higher level of
- background recalculation.
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- Other new goodies are names to help define quantities
- like VAT, an optional formula window (which pops up
- only when you ask for it), and function and name
- pasting from the function menu, to reduce the need to
- look in the reference book.
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- Reformat a marked block. Useful when changing fonts
- or margin settings.
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- Repeats the last command. Gives quick keyboard
- operation for any command.
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- You can specify template files to help the creation
- of new documents.
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- Headers and footers can be up to three lines long.
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- Swaps the rows and columns of a marked block across
- the leading diagonal.
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- Prints wide spreadsheets and databases one page width
- at a time.
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- Link the margins of several columns to give greater
- control when word processing.
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- @@N@@ gives the current time in 24 hour clock format,
- @@L@@ gives the leafname of the current document, for
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- Column borders and margins can be dragged using the
- mouse for quick refitting of columns.
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- Tell PipeDream to Auto width for even quicker
- refitting of columns. You'll wonder how you ever got
- by without this one.
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- The document now appears in the window in the line
- height to be used when printing. Very nice.
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- Mouse operations have been simplified and brought
- closer to other RISC OS applications. Always use the
- left button to click in slots and mark blocks.
- Always use the right button to adjust marked blocks.
- New Mark Block Box for instantaneous setting and
- clearing of blocks.
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- Short menus are now configurable so you specify only
- those and all those commands you want. Or you can
- set PipeDream up for someone else to use.
- Particularly useful in a learning environment.
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- The function key layout is much simpler than before
- and F3 and F4 are now set to Save and Search. For
- those whose fingers can't be retrained, a command
- file is provided to configure PipeDream 4 to the
- PipeDream 3 layout. But learn the new one; it's much
- better. Really!
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- These block operations have been reworked and are
- both more powerful and safe. No more column sliding
- and you can safely move blocks left and right. Copy
- and move overwrite the target area if it is blank.
- If not, they insert blank slots over the %H2%whole%H2% row
- and then overwrite. Move and delete clear the block
- and only delete the slots if all slots to the left
- and right are blank, in which case it deletes the
- whole row. Try it; you'll like it.
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- This isn't new but it's amazing how many people don't
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- The position of the caret in the window and the
- position of the window on the screen are remembered
- so you restart exactly where you left off. This
- saves a lot of time.
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- The User Guide is no more. In its place are the
- PipeDream 4 tutorial for new users and the PipeDream
- 4 Reference Guide with its unique cross-referencing
- structure for advanced users. The PipeDream 3
- documentation was highly praised; we believe this
- documentation is seriously better.
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