Welcome to Gammasoft Office. Gammasoft Office is the simpler way to office. It's the beginning of a four-dimensional, Microsoft Office-compatable, simple multi-function program. Of course, since it's in its development stages, there is no color, MSOffice compatability, or four-dimensionality involved.
Gammasoft Office contains seven different programs, each with it's own functions:
• Gamma Central: simple to-do list and write-only text-only word processor
• GSWrite: simple word-processor with only global style settings
• GS Spreads: simple spreadsheet with 7 columns and 22 rows
• Pre Sents: basic presentation program
• GSBase: little database with only 12 fields per record
• Pict-Sure: tiny little black-and-white MacPaint-based painting program
• R++: our own little version of BASIC.
There is a launch pad and an online help system included.
To install this version of Gammasoft Office, double-click the Install program. If you just want to test it and you aren't sure if you want it taking up hard disk space, double-click on the Run From Disk icon.
You will need HyperCard 2.1 for this. If you don't have it, just copy the "hc" and "Home" files from the HyperCard folder to your hard disk. HyperCard only takes up about 754K of hard disk space.
Gammasoft Office will only need 429K of hard disk space. With both Gammasoft Office and HyperCard installed, it will only take up 1183K, which is just over a megabyte.
After installation, to open Gammasoft Office, just double-click on the Gammasoft Office icon and, when the program is done loading, click the name of the program you want to use. NEVER open a Gammasoft Office program by double-clicking the program's own, private icon. The same goes for documents. The program must be launched from the launch pad, and the documents must be opened from the program they were created in. The private icons you see for the individual programs and documents are just uncompiled code run by the Gammasoft Office program.
For more information, see the online help file.
Version History
Changes made in v1.1:
• New Print button in GSWrite
• Fixed bug in Autocalc
• Replaced Gammascript with the much more reliable R++
• Fixed Field Name bug in GSBase
• New switch in GSBase for switching between editing field names / field content
• Improved Pict-Sure
• Fixed problem with screens smaller than 14" in Pict-Sure
Changes made in 1.0b2:
• New Autocalc feature
• Fixed file open bug in GS Spreads
• Lists Autocalc and functions in Help
HTML Exporter
Also included is an HTML Exporter. This is a tiny HyperCard stack that translates GSWrite and GS Spreads documents into HTML, including formatting. It also lets you translate text files to HTML. When you translate a text file, you also get to add any markup at the beginning or end of the document.
The reason for not handling < and > in GSWrite is so you can add HTML to your GSWrite files, with the links and the local styling and the <A> <B> <DT> <IMG> <HTML> tags. When you do this, through, don't use the <HTML>, </HTML>, <TITLE>, </TITLE>, or <FONT> tags, because the translator puts those in automatically. Also, you do not need to put <BR> tags everywhere, because the translator already translates carriage returns to <BR> tags.