Where is the New Version of PowerCadd?

[BILLGORE]

Anyone have an ides of when the new Version of Powercadd will come out. My office has been using it for years on large commercial projects. We are starting to wonder if things are starting to go under for the software company. It's a real tough problem for us. We can't up grade to the new OS, you can't buy a new mac in the office because they all run on the new system and you can't down grade them. The only way to make it run powercadd is to go through and reset all the permissions. That option doesn't work for a large firm that has many seats of the software. It's forcing us to start looking at another cadd software.

How much longer do we have wait?

[patrickm]

Just curious, what version of PC and OS are you running?

For what it is worth, I did buy a new Mac back in September that came with Lion. I wiped the hard drive and installed Snow Leopard and it worked fine. I finally made the move back up to Lion when Lion-compatible Quicken became available.

I've never had permission problems, but assume it is related to your server. Have you spoken to ES?

regards.
patrick

[Olivio]

You guys should put up a section that shows what features you guys are currently working on at the moment and what features are to be worked on.

[Alfred Scott]

I'll bite on that.

Assume you know about Tree, Shrub, Picture Frame and Gradient Fill tools. I'm just done a major rework of the Balloon Text tool to simplify the interface and add a lot of graphic effects plus favorites for the balloon and for the text.

I have worked on an Advanced Text tool in WildTools to provide editing in the drawing. I made good progress and then hit a wall and got burned out on it.

Plan to do an Armored Cable tool and a People tool, with a cover flow interface and lots of choices of people and rendering styles.

Also have a Favorite Lines palette to implement office standards for lines.

But sometimes subtle and important time-saving features arise simply out of running into something that should be simple but which is frustrating. Zoomer and Finger Technology came out of this process, and I have another in the works right now. The problem comes up when you have a tool that has a fixed number of steps (Points Along, Linear Distribute, etc) and when using the tool you want to increase or decrease the number on the fly, perhaps to match something you are tracing, as was the case with me on Friday when I got pizza-off at my own tools!

Thinking about it overnight, in the early morning hours of Saturday, I realized how this could be done. At 8:00 I took my wife to the airport to catch a flight, then went back to my office and by 10:30 had it working in a basic way for one tool, then went home for breakfast!

For now, I'm calling this feature "Scroll-Stepping" and it requires a mouse with a scroll wheel. While drawing with the tool, you can already use the scroll wheel for zooming, but now you can press the Command key, and use this scroll wheel on the mouse to increase or decrease the number. There are sounds with each change and there is an info balloon that shows the number, and the balloon has an up/down arrow shape.

Main deficiency of this is that it requires you to know the short-cut and use a mouse with a scroll wheel, so I want to also look at tapping the up/down arrow keys and/or plus and minus keys.

Welcome to the glamorous world of software development...

Alfred

[Rob C]

Scroll wheel = touch pad

I don't use a mouse. I use a Wacom tablet with a MacBook Pro and external monitor. With the pen in my right hand, I use the touch pad with my left hand mostly for the pan and scroll features. In testing mouse scroll wheel features, make sure they work with track pad scrolling as well.