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Re: FMP 12 wonder

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On Sat, 05 Nov 2011 09:36:14 -0700, Lee Steffeck wrote:
>    Has anyone heard about FMP 12 or whatever the next upgrade is?  or
>  when?  or any features?
> 
>    It has been awhile since 11 appeared and the next version seems to
>  have been awhile in the pipeline.  I am suspecting a major revision
>  (similar to the one when we went from 6 to 7).

I feel they did focus on non-PC versions recently. I do not see any
need, success or advantage within that market, but that's just me.

An update is long overdue, although this does not meen that there will
be any. I'm not in any loop to know what will come when.

There's much I hate about FMP11 (instant resort) and lots I miss, but I
abandonned any hope that FMP will move towards the direction where I'd
see its success:

For plain record crunching there's an excellent range of SQL
alternatives. For special interfaces much of this can be done via web
browsers. FMP lacks significant graphing capabilites, where other
solutions do offer better toolkits based on SVG.

But for my personal needs I still want multi-cell copy/paste. It's so
annoying to create a special export subset just to catch the data from a
few cells within a few records and use this within a mail or text
document. It's so cumbersome to repeat the same edit steps instead of
pasting data to multiple records together - typical spreadsheet
operations which can be done in Excel, OpenOffice/LibreOffice and other
real spreadsheet tools, but not within the spreadsheet view of FMP.

There's more I'd want, but that's my major issue.

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FMP 12 wonder Lee Steffeck <finaler@dex.comcast.net> - 2011-11-05 09:36 -0700
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