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Path: digifix!not-for-mail From: jesper@cooper.xanthus.se (Jesper Lundh) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Questor 2.0 beta available on public archive... Date: 12 Oct 1993 16:00:17 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Lines: 132 Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Approved: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <29f2ch$5je@digifix.digifix.com> ****** Beta version of Questor 2.0 spreadsheet application ****** now available on public archive Stockholm, October 12, 1993 - Xanthus International AB today announced that a beta version of its spreadsheet application Questor 2.0 is available on a public archive. The beta is available as fat binaries for both NeXT and Intel hardware, and will run on NEXTSTEP 3.1 and higher. The Questor 2.0 beta can be found on the following archive: sics.se:/pub/next/beta_fat The beta version can be run in demo mode for 10 minutes with full functionality. If you want to participate in the beta programme, please send a mail to Xanthus at questor@xanthus.se to get a valid registration number. Questor 2.0 will be distributed in North America by Alembic Systems International Ltd, email: info@alembic.com Retail price will be $595. Please contact Xanthus for academic and volume discounts. ---------------------------------- Questor 2.0 from Xanthus is the most powerful and user-friendly spreadsheet application for the NEXTSTEP environment. Questor combines the intuitive metaphor of "matrix-based" spreadsheet program with a number of unique features and a true NEXTSTEP user interface. The backbone of Questor 2.0 is a conventional matrix-based spreadsheet that can easily be used by anybody that have once used spreadsheet programs like Microsoft Excel, Lotus 1-2-3 or Wingz. Questor 2.0 is the second release of the Questor spreadsheet application. Questor 1.0 was released in May 1993. **** New in Questor 2.0: - Significantly improved performance regarding worksheet recalculation and file access. - Excel file importing. - Improved database access, including automatic datatype conversion and easy-to-use DBModel queries and powerful SQL queries. Questor uses the Database Kit in NEXTSTEP for transparent database communication. Custom-made database queries can easily be created and shared among several users on the network. - Cell styles for easier worksheet layout. - Cell range dragging for faster worksheet design. **** Standard Questor features: - A state-of-the-art user interface for easy access to all features, including a ToolBox with object palettes and a number of other tools that removes the need of modal panels for filling, searching and sorting data. - Multi-level undo. All commands can be undone and the number of undos are user defined. - A powerful structured scripting language - QScript with an "intelligent" editor, including automatic pretty-printing and programming support. QScript allows you to customize your worksheet to perform very specific tasks. - Input controllers like buttons, text-fields and sliders can be drag-and-dropped anywhere on the worksheet, and connected to QScript code or directly to cells by control-dragging. - Output objects like graphs and gauges can be drag-and-dropped anywhere on the worksheet, and be connected to cell areas by control-dragging for continuous updating. - Many graph types are supported, including bar, stacked bar, line, combination, stock, area, stacked area, scatter (xy-plot) and pie. The components of a graph can be edited separately. - Hot-links to Graphity (like Lotus Improv and Presentation Builder). Graphity is a business graphics application from Xanthus that supports 3D graphs based on Renderman. - Seamless connections to relational databases like Oracle and Sybase using the Database Kit in NEXTSTEP. - Timers that can trigger complex calculations, database queries or any other event at regular intervals. - A powerful double-directed API that allows Questor to easily control and send data to other applications. The API also makes it easy for other applications to control Questor and to feed data into worksheets. - External functions can be written in C or in QScript and be loaded into Questor for easy extensibility. - Full support for user palettes. Users can easily create new palettes with customized graphs, graphics and control objects. - Drawing tools that allows you to draw directly on the worksheet. - Images and sound can be drag-and-dropped anywhere on the worksheet to create stunning documents including graphics and sound effects. - Reads the BIFF2-4, WKS, WK1 and SYLK file-formats, which enables you to import worksheets from Lotus 1-2-3, Lotus Improv, Microsoft Excel and Wingz. - Writes the WK1 file-format, which enables you to export worksheets to Lotus 1-2-3, Lotus Improv, Microsoft Excel and Wingz. - Full support for Lotus 1-2-3 bracket-macros. - Powerful report layout functions that allows total control over the layout of your documents, including direct manipulation and drawing tools. - Full support for object linking. Graphs, cell areas and graphics can be copied and linked into other documents for continuous updating.
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Marcel Waldvogel and Netfuture.ch.