Imagine you are writing some text with a word processor coming to a point where you need to enter the result of a calculation. Wouldn´t it be nice if you could enter the calculation instead and let the computer place the result at the cursor position for you?
Imagine you are working in a graphics or desktop publishing application and need to enter a distance in the measurement window which for example should be the square root of 50. Wouldn´t it be nice if you could enter sqrt(50) instead and let the computer place 7.0711 at the right position for you?
If you are a programmer, imagine you are working with your favourite text editor and need to calculate an address from hexadecimals. Wouldn´t it be nice if you could enter for example &$1234 + $5678 at the place of your program where you need the address and let the computer exchange the expression to $68AC for you?
If you are a chemist, imagine you need to know the molecular weight of sulphuric acid. Wouldn´t it be nice if you could type in H*2+S+O*4 and let the computer place 98.07948 at the cursor position for you?
Sometimes nice dreams come true. InstantCalc does all this and more. It calculates mathematical expressions instantaneously. That means, enter the expression you want to calculate at any place where text can be exchanged by the clipboard, select it with the mouse, and press the hot key. InstantCalc copies the selected expression into the clipboard and pastes back the result at the given position.
System Requirements
InstantCalc works on any Apple Macintosh, Power Macintosh and MacOS compatible computer since the Macintosh Plus. System 7 or higher is required. InstantCalc is fully compatible with MacOS 8.
Installation and Removal
InstantCalc is a control panel, therefore, it should reside in the control panel folder inside the System Folder to be operative. For this drag InstantCalc onto the symbol of your System Folder. You should confirm the Finder putting InstantCalc to the control panels and then restart your Macintosh. When first started, InstantCalc creates a file in the folder Preferences inside the System Folder which holds the user setup and the registration data. Beyond this, InstantCalc makes no permanent changes to your system and hard disk data. Therefore InstantCalc can easily be removed just by drawing itself and its preference file into the Trash.
Further Information
For further Information, open the InstantCalc control panel and click the Information… button. Please visit also the website http://home.t-online.de/home/InstantWare. There you will find the latest version of InstantCalc and additional software.
Suggestions, comments and error reports are welcome! Please email to:
mail@InstantWare.com
or mail to:
Dr. Rolf Jansen
Postfach 1123
D-55272 Oppenheim
(Germany).
Legal Terms
Using InstantCalc, you agree to be bound on the legal terms that you easily can find in the Information… window of the InstantCalc control panel. Please use the Topics menu to read these legal terms.
The InstantCalc package is shareware, however, it may be freely distributed by any means, provided it is unchanged and this Read Me file is included. Before distribution you might want to fetch the latest version from http://home.t-online.de/home/InstantWare.