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Source: J. Daniel Kulp, Sundial Systems (jdkulp@ibm.net)
Moderator: Trevor Smith (editor@os2ezine.com)
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Mesa 2 version 2.2 Public PreRelease

This is to let everyone know that Sundial Systems has just released a
public PreRelease (kind of like a beta/gamma release) of version 2.2
of Mesa 2 for OS/2.  Right now, you can only get it from their FTP
server: ftp.sundialsystems.com

It is in the /PreRelease directory as mesa22pr.zip.

The web site will be updated shortly with information about the
prerelease as well as instructions on how to fully enable the
time-limited PreRelease demo.  (The programmers were ahead of the Web
people) Keep an eye on http://www.sundialsystems.com for more
information.


This marks the first MAJOR upgrade to Mesa 2 in quite a while.  In
addition to a new look, new features include: (but are certainly not
limited to)

1) Smartfreeze - title locking
2) Variable zoom settings
3) Customizability:  Many UI elements in Mesa 2 are now customizable
including:
  a) toolbars
  b) menus
  c) keyboard (accelerators)
  d) default graph properties
  e) default page settings for printing
  f) SmartFill/NEXT table
  g) Backup/Work/Template/AutoSave directories
  h) and more....
4) Autosave of files at timed increments
5) Smaller file format
6) Built in file compression to make files even smaller
7) File Template
8) Cell attachments/notes
9) Custom cell formatting
10) Many printing enhancements:
  a) full page print preview
  b) center on page (horizontal and/or vertical)
  c) scale to fit page (horizontal and/or vertical)  
  d) print just a graph
  e) print entire workbook (all layers) 
  f) and more...
11) Global script file
12) Many new formula functions
13) The number of MScript functions has doubled
14) REXX console window for standard REXX I/O
15) Enhanced WPS integration:
  a) Drag drop printing
  b) 4 new WPS Palettes for setting patterns, line widths/styles, and
graph markers
16) Totally new graph engine - results in much better looking graphs
17) Import of Excel 5/95/97 files
18) Export to Delimited Text/RTF/HTML/Bitmap/OS/2 Metafile
19) Rich text formatting in cells
20) Movable and floatable toolbars
21) And MUCH MUCH more.  Take a look at the "What New" section of the
online help for a complete list of new features.

All this, and it STILL can be installed from just 2 floppies!


If you have any questions, comments, problems, bug reports, etc...,
please send them to mesa@sundialsystems.com.  Keep in mind that this
is considered PreRelease in nature so it may still contain bugs or
other problems.  We would very much like to here about them so that
we can get them fixed before the final release.

Thanks for your support and most importantly: thanks for using Mesa
2!



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