I downloaded 4.0 express and turned on the 30 day full version trial. (Because it will probably take IT a month to upgrade our license server).
The good:
- It's released.
- When I print or pdf, collapsible areas don't seem to shift to the left anymore. I still lose the left edge of the box, but that's still a vast improvement.
- Occasionally I couldn't label a constant a constant to get it's font to change to accordingly. It still just showed as a variable. That seems to be resolved.
- When i switch between tabs it seems to remember where it's at. Before it would always jump back up to the top.
- Protected areas. Probably my favorite upgrade.
- OLE. useful but not really crucial.
- Line breaking. But see my exception below.
- Occassionally 3.1 would freeze and I'd have to click a separate window for it to regain it's brain. So far I haven't seen that. (But I'll keep looking as it's intermittent)
The bad:
The following bugs have not been resolved:
- I can't drag items across a page break (in page view)
- min is not displayed as a function (if you have a separate font for functions). It works, it just isn't displayed like other functions are (e.g. max)
- If a mouse select box is going across a page it doesn't work right (In page view the box no longer aligns with the cursor. In draft view it seems to work ok.)
- Items in a solve block "sometimes" can only be moved 2 spaces instead of one. It's as if I don't have the grid set to fine. This has flipped on and off and I've never figured out why.
- Division lines are sometimes extremely thin and light, making them hard to see
- As I click around the screen, the screen will occasionally randomly recenter itself. I think it has something to do with wanting to display a full plot or picture that is nearby. But it's annoying and shouldn't do it.
- Symbolic solve still replaces a variable with a built-in constant (i.e. a defined variable gamma is replaced with Euler's constant)
The ugly:
- Line breaking is nice, but I can't seem to break solve block FIND lines. So I've still go no way to shorten them. If you can't figure out how to do it, at least give me fonts smaller than 4 so I can shrink it to fit on a page.
- I'm not sure it's any faster. At least it doesn't seem so. I suppose in fairness I need to work with it more. But my sheets that took 10 seconds to solve still takes 10 seconds to solve.
- Two years for this?