http://www.dragthing.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php PCalc Announcements DragThing Forums - UBB.threads(tm) http://www.dragthing.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=7720#Post7720 Posted by James Thomson:
In PCalc, tap the (i) for settings, then "Help" - it will say in the menu that appears.]]> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:17:41 GMT http://www.dragthing.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=7438#Post7438 Posted by James Thomson:
"Weighted Calculation Cube" PCalc 3.7 is out now! You should see an update available via the App Store if you bought it there, or you can download the update here if you bought it from Kagi. See the Buy Now page if you'd like a copy otherwise! This has a lot of features taken from PCalc 2.4 for iOS, including: Quick fraction entry, so you can type 2..3 for two thirds. An option for a fixed four register RPN stack. An option to set the lower value where scientific notation display starts. A new "Lighting" section in the conversions, as well as inch/mm of mercury and water in the pressure section. Much faster number entry from the keyboard. A great new app icon from PyrusMalus! The full list of changes is here. I hope you like it, let me know what you think of the update. Leave reviews on the App Store if you can, it's a great way of getting the word out. And ]]> Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:58:49 GMT http://www.dragthing.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=7437#Post7437 Posted by James Thomson:
Well, this has been a very interesting day so far. However, PCalc 2.4 is out now - you can get it here. This release add quick fraction entry, new unit conversions including a lighting section, and a variety of improvements all across the app. I hope you enjoy it! I'm somewhat busy today, so I apologise for the lack of in-depth release notes!]]> Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:56:14 GMT http://www.dragthing.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=7281#Post7281 Posted by James Thomson:
PCalc 2.3.3 has been released - you can find it here. This is just a small update to fix a bug which may have caused exponents to stop working in a future iOS release. Better safe than sorry!]]> Fri, 28 Jan 2011 23:32:08 GMT http://www.dragthing.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=7248#Post7248 Posted by James Thomson:
If you had a problem yesterday with the non-Mac App Store version of PCalc 3.6.1 not quitting on 10.4.11, delete your old copy and download it again - there was a tiny problem with the build that was up there which I've fixed. This doesn't affect the Mac App Store version, or people with 10.5 or later, so you don't need to redownload unless you saw the problem.]]> Fri, 07 Jan 2011 16:07:23 GMT http://www.dragthing.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=7181#Post7181 Posted by James Thomson:
PCalc 2.3.2 is out now - get it here in both flavours. Mainly bug fixes, but there's a new option for a fixed four line stack for the RPN mode, with X, Y, Z, T registers. It should be familiar to some I hope! One thing I should say, I had to remove the coupon that gives a discount on the Mac version. Mainly because I've submitted PCalc to the new Mac App Store, which is launching soon, and Apple doesn't let us use coupon codes there. I have some ideas though, so watch this space. ]]> Sat, 27 Nov 2010 01:10:07 GMT http://www.dragthing.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=7136#Post7136 Posted by James Thomson:
Shipped a quick PCalc Lite 2.3.1 update to fix a problem with the thousands separator and multiple memory options not appearing after the appropriate in-app purchase. No bug in the full version, so no need for an update there. You can get it here. ]]> Sat, 23 Oct 2010 10:50:34 GMT http://www.dragthing.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=7039#Post7039 Posted by James Thomson:
PCalc 2.2.1 is out, in both flavours. You can get them here. This is just a small bug fix update, mainly to fix a problem in 2.2 with the key click sounds pausing background music, and also to fix an occasional crash in the conversions and constants.]]> Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:12:48 GMT http://www.dragthing.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=7014#Post7014 Posted by drow:
i'll buy you a pint! :D]]> Tue, 03 Aug 2010 03:38:46 GMT http://www.dragthing.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6973#Post6973 Posted by James Thomson:
PCalc and PCalc Lite 2.1 have been released, you can get them both here. Retina Scan The main changes are support for iOS 4 including fast app switching, and also support for the high resolution Retina display on the iPhone 4. You can see the difference, just in the icons above. And here is a screenshot showing how the "Flux" theme looks on a Retina display versus a regular display. I think you can see there's quite a difference! I'm currently investigating some reports of the PCalc splashscreen appearing occasionally when using fast app switching - I think I know what's happening, and I'm working on a fix. Basically, if you switch apps really fast (like in and out of an app in a few seconds), the OS doesn't have time to save a snapshot of the application's appearance on quit, and so it displays the default image while switching the app in again. In PCalc's case, that's the splashscreen image, which isn't ideal. It's just cosm]]> Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:21:27 GMT http://www.dragthing.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6800#Post6800 Posted by James Thomson:
I'm afraid there isn't a manual as such, but I'll be happy to answer any questions. Where did you download it? That domain doesn't seem to exist anymore!]]> Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:49:29 GMT http://www.dragthing.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6639#Post6639 Posted by James Thomson:
A number of small updates today - there's a 3.5.2 update to the Mac version, and an equivalent 1.9.1 update to the iPhone version. Get it here. I think PCalc Lite is likely to follow along in a couple of days - it seems to take slightly longer now to get approval from Apple due to the in-app purchase feature. Both fix some small bugs in the core code, and add a couple of minor features including the ability to avoid clearing the tape when you hit "AC", and full support for the standard system "shake to undo" gesture. Oh, and needless to say, if there's an Apple tablet announced tomorrow, I'll make sure there's a version of PCalc available for it soon!]]> Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:06:28 GMT http://www.dragthing.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6510#Post6510 Posted by James Thomson:
PCalc 1.9 is up on the App Store now! You can download it here. 141.622272 km/h Well, kind of. Apple's servers are having some problems today and some people are getting 1.8.1 again when they download the update, and some people who manage to get 1.9 are being told to download it again repeatedly. I'm hoping the problems sort themselves out over the next 24 hours, but apologies if it's not working for you at the moment. Right now, all I can do is report the problems to Apple unfortunately. Also, PCalc Lite 1.9 has been held up too, I suspect because I've added a big new feature to it (which will be unveiled soon). Apple approved the full app in record time, but I think it will be a week or two more for the lite one to show. Hopefully just in time for Christmas! Anyway, when you do get it, what can you expect? The main changes are: I've added a new calculator theme "Flux" which you can see above. You can now customize the ]]> Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:52:09 GMT http://www.dragthing.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6359#Post6359 Posted by James Thomson:
I've released a new [url=http://www.pcalc.com/english/download.html]PCalc 3.5.1 for Mac OS X[/url] and a new [url=http://www.pcalc.com/itunes_store_link/tlasystems]PCalc / PCalc Lite 1.8.1 for iPhone[/url] today. Generally just fixes for some small annoying bugs, but worth getting all the same!]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:08:23 GMT http://www.dragthing.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6315#Post6315 Posted by James Thomson:
PCalc and PCalc Lite 1.8 are up on the App Store now. You can download them both here. The full version includes a discount coupon code to save $9 on the price of PCalc for Mac OS X. The Mac version is normally $19, but with the code you can get it for a mere $10. So, if you were thinking of buying both, it's like getting the iPhone one for just 99c! It also improves on the multi-line support - you can set the number of lines displayed independantly for the horizontal and vertical modes, and can swipe vertically on the LCD screen to add or remove lines. I've also added a mod function to some of the layouts, and undo/redo now persists across closing and opening PCalc. PCalc Lite just gets some minor improvements and bug fixes. The full list of changes is here. I hope you like them!]]> Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:58:01 GMT http://www.dragthing.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6237#Post6237 Posted by James Thomson:
It's just that "10 enter 5 enter multiply" will give you 50, not 25, as a result - it changes the way RPN Enter works slightly. There isn't a multiline display yet, but I hope to do that in a future release.]]> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:39:24 GMT http://www.dragthing.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6166#Post6166 Posted by CompDoc:
Totally impressed with this new version. Thanks so much!]]> Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:09:36 GMT http://www.dragthing.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6089#Post6089 Posted by Chippy:
The vertical programming layout is great! Thanks. ]]> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:15:19 GMT http://www.dragthing.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6087#Post6087 Posted by James Thomson:
I submitted the new 1.6 release for OS 3.0 to Apple last week and it came out a few days earlier than I expected - sorry about that!]]> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:40:49 GMT http://www.dragthing.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=5893#Post5893 Posted by James Thomson:
New Model, Original Parts Two new releases to celebrate today. Firstly, PCalc and PCalc Lite 1.5 for the iPhone are both now available on the App Store. You can download them here. PCalc gets a new optional engineering layout, as shown above, with hyperbolic trig functions, hypotenuse and leg, gamma, delta percent and more. You can also see a classic theme taken from PCalc on Mac OS X. What you can't hear are the six new key click sounds you can choose from too. PCalc Lite gets two of the click sounds, and some other small improvements. PCalc Lite is completely free. If you want to get a feel for how the full PCalc works, just try it. Full details of all the changes here. Secondly, a new version of PCalc for Mac OS X can also be found here. ]]> Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:46:00 GMT http://www.dragthing.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=5892#Post5892 Posted by James Thomson:
Quite a few - see [url=http://www.pcalc.com/iphone/history.html]here[/url]. And thanks for reminding me to post something here!]]> Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:43:42 GMT http://www.dragthing.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=5594#Post5594 Posted by James Thomson:
Yeah, I might be able to squeeze another colour in there!]]> Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:52:16 GMT http://www.dragthing.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=5518#Post5518 Posted by James Thomson:
Thanks!]]> Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:32:00 GMT http://www.dragthing.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=5499#Post5499 Posted by ymatto:
Dead sexy!]]> Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:59:25 GMT http://www.dragthing.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=5444#Post5444 Posted by James Thomson:
Will see what I can do about the requests - the "Retro" horizontal modes do most of them - i didn't want to rename all the existing buttons in other layouts though, as some people are more used to them.]]> Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:31:26 GMT http://www.dragthing.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=5415#Post5415 Posted by James Thomson:
Thanks! Very glad you like it! I hope the "High Power" name wasn't too obvious :)]]> Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:31:02 GMT http://www.dragthing.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=5318#Post5318 Posted by James Thomson:
The Best Of Both Worlds PCalc 3.3 has been released! Yes, it's been almost exactly two years since the last big PCalc release (on the desktop anyway), but it's time for another one. I've taken many of the improvements made to the code for the iPhone and brought them back to the Mac, given everything a fresh lick of paint, and here's the result. A full list of the changes is here. This is a free upgrade for all registered users of the Mac OS X version, as a thank you for waiting so long! Any comments or suggestion to the address below, post them on the forums, or on the Facebook page. I hope you like it!]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:57:16 GMT http://www.dragthing.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=5296#Post5296 Posted by James Thomson:
Thanks!]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:14:04 GMT http://www.dragthing.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=5249#Post5249 Posted by James Thomson:
PCalc 1.0.2 has now been submitted to the App Store - it will probably take around a week to show up, assuming everything goes smoothly with Apple's vetting. Marty McFly The main changes are: Added multiple undo and redo. Flick the LCD to the right on to undo, flick to the left to redo. You can now change the colors of the LCD display and digits. Made the operator buttons more readable. Reversed the order of the operator buttons to match other calculators. More improvements to the RPN mode. Fixed a problem displaying large hex numbers on the tape. The undo support is pretty cool, you just flick the LCD in the direction you want to go and it animates in the old value. Very "iPhone" even if I say so myself! I'll let you know when it's available for download.]]> Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:21:10 GMT http://www.dragthing.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=5232#Post5232 Posted by James Thomson:
I'm currently putting the finishing touches to PCalc 1.0.2 - it's got a number of cool new features, most notably the multiple undo and redo support. I won't spoil exactly how it works yet, but I think it came together really well. I expect the new version will get submitted early next week when my beta testers are happy with it, and hopefully it will turn up on the store soon. I'll let you know. In the meantime, if you really like PCalc, why not become a fan? I've set up a fan page on Facebook which you can get to here. Click the "Become a Fan" link at the top right of the page to help spread the word. Thanks!]]> Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:35:06 GMT http://www.dragthing.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=5184#Post5184 Posted by James Thomson:
That's PCalc 1.0.1 finally made it up onto the app store now. List of changes is [url=http://www.pcalc.com/iphone/history.html]here[/url]. Enjoy!]]> Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:35:42 GMT http://www.dragthing.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=5124#Post5124 Posted by Sanook:
[quote=James Thomson]The keys do actually click on an iPhone, but there isn't a way for third-party apps to use the "clicker" on the iPod. I've requested this as a feature, so hopefully it will appear in a future OS upgrade for the phone and I can add it to PCalc then. I am considering an optional colour setting, watch this space.[/quote] Interesting about the click (and too bad it doesn't work on the touch). Yet another reason for me to get an iPhone, I guess :p]]> Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:02:28 GMT