Calcapp now supports three new text-processing functions, enabling
you to determine if text matches a certain pattern and to extract and
replace text, also using patterns. The three functions use so-called
regular expressions.
The new CHOOSE function can be used as a compact, fast alternative to
IF in some situations. Use it together with the Index property of
drop-down fields to quickly return data matching a value selected by
your user.
The new Index property of drop-down fields returns the numeric
position of the selected value and the Size property returns the
number of values. Index is designed to work well with the new CHOOSE
formula function.
Troy reported getting error messsages from Calcapp Creator when
editing a large app. While his issue appears to have disappeared,
Calcapp sometimes does have issues with very large apps. Our
co-founder David discusses our future plans for solving this issue in
his reply.
Can Calcapp be considered a programming language today? How will it
evolve in the future? Will it stay true to its spreadsheet roots or
will it look more like traditional programming? Bob posed these
questions and received a technical reply from David, our co-founder.
Create apps in one of our 79 supported languages, with correct
formatting of numbers, dates and times. Make apps bigger or smaller
with the new zoom level feature. Use eight new language-savvy
functions to format values from formulas. Finally, you can now use
formulas to determine labels of fields and buttons.
Calcapp now supports 79 languages and 147 language variants, enabling
numbers, dates and times to be formatted correctly. We have
translations for app text provided by Calcapp in 30 languages. Five
languages have been translated by human translators and the rest
using machine-translation.
Use the new zoom level feature to make apps appear larger or smaller.
Associate a formula with the zoom level property to give your users
control over the size with, say, a slider or a switch field. Be sure
to make these fields persistent so the zoom level is remembered.
Our new sample app is a calculator for shared household expenses. It
enables users to define recurring expenses in one panel and fields
for those expenses are then created in another panel. This app
demonstrates formula-driven labels.
New properties enable you to set validation messages, field units and
labels of groups, fields, buttons and list panel options through
formulas. This feature enables your apps to more closely adapt to
values entered by your users.