News 2 Jan - 2.5

- Color Support!

- Generic SI unit conversion!

- Important bugfixes!

18 Sep - 2.4.1

- Abandoned GUI!

- Better variable list handling!

- Better conversion documentation!

- Important bugfixes!

25 Oct - 2.4

- Better Input Internationalization!

- Better documentation!

- Bugfixes!

12 Feb - 2.3.1

- Engineering notation flexibility

- Overhauled simple calculator

- wcalc_input envariable

- Bugfixes

21 Jun - 2.3

- Added Wcalc as a Service

- Added tab-completion

- Universal Binary

- Bugfixes

10 Jul - 2.2.2

- Fixed the % operator

- Copying from lists

- Corrected 0.9e-9 bug

- More bugfixes 1 Mar - 2.2.1

- Fixed the crash

28 Feb - 2.2

- Persistent Variables

- \explain and \store

- Bugfixes 1 Dec - 2.1.2

- Funky resizing gone

- Bugfixes 7 Nov - 2.1.1

- Bugfixes 2 Nov - 2.1

- UTF-8 support

- Bugfixes 30 Aug - 2.0

- Arbitrary precision

- Command-line unit conversion

- Lots of little tweaks

- Bugfixes

Wcalc is a very capable calculator. It supports abitrary precision, has standard functions (sin, asin, and sinh for example, in either radians or degrees), many pre-defined constants (pi, e, c, etc.), support for using variables, "active" variables, a command history, hex/octal/binary input and output, unit conversions, embedded comments, and an expandable expression entry field. It evaluates expressions using the standard order of operations. Wcalc uses intuitive expressions and implicit multiplication. For example, Wcalc will evaluate: 5sin 4!-7*2(4%6)^2 to be -221.96631678 . Wcalc will also understand basic UTF-8 entities, and so will evaluate √7 ×2 ÷ π − ε0 × σ+ α+ γ+R∞ ×M τ-Φ0 to be 2.26885 Wcalc also comes in a command-line version that works on most (if not all) forms of Unix (including Linux and BSD). To support arbitrary precision, Wcalc relies on the GMP and MPFR libraries. In the MacOSX release, these are compiled-in, so you shouldn't have to install them yourself. NOTE: GMP prior to 4.2 comes with a broken version of MPFR. You have to install a real (aka. recent) version of MPFR for Wcalc to work. Status 2.5 is out! This release was, admittedly, spurred by a bugfix. And a fairly embarassing one at that (I have no idea why I never tripped over it myself in all this time). As a result, I finally instituted a real testing framework, so that it will be easier to ensure that simple things like that do not sneak through the cracks again. There are other (more difficult to trigger) bugs that got squished, including some that only cropped up because I experimented with CLANG's static analysis feature. But there's more to love about 2.5 than just the bugfixes! It's also got a color interface now! And generic SI unit conversion! Those two are what tipped the scale to 2.5 insetad of 2.4.2. As per usual: enjoy! Let me know if you find anything unpleasant. 2.4.1 is released! This release is, primarily a bugfix release. I've been slowly accumulating bugfixes, both major and minor, over the last couple years. I've held off releasing a new version because I didn't have the time to rework the GUI and make it compatible with the latest and greatest version of the Mac GUI. Finally, I've given up: the Mac GUI is officially unsupported now. I wish it wasn't, but I don't have the time, and the CLI seems to be what most people use anyway. So here it is, the long-awaited 2.4.1! Wcalc is now available only in source form. Again, this is to help speed releases. As per usual: enjoy! Let me know if you find anything unpleasant. I fixed the compiling problem with the MacOS binary CLI, and re-uploaded. If your command-line version of wcalc 2.4 does not correctly treat your history, then all you need to do to fix it is re-download the DMG file from Sourceforge and re-install it. Sorry for the inconvenience! I fixed the (recurrent) library problem with the MacOS binary version, and re-uploaded. If your command-line version of wcalc 2.4 prints out an error that looks like: dyld: Library not loaded: /Users/kyle/Wcalc_Development/universal-libs/lib/libhistory.5.2.dylib Referenced from: /usr/bin/wcalc Reason: image not found Trace/BPT trap Then all you need to do to fix it is re-download the DMG file from Sourceforge and re-install it. Sorry for the inconvenience! Then all you need to do to fix it is re-download the DMG file from Sourceforge and re-install it. Sorry for the inconvenience! 2.4 is released! This release is, primarily a bugfix release, but also now has a big-enough improvement in the processing of international input that I figured it was worth the bigger version bump. You'll also notice that we have a new icon! Huzzah to Susan Wheeler for designing it! The bug fixes are mostly minor things that have been raised with me via email or on the mailing list. You may have noticed that Wcalc is now available only in source or Universal-Binary form. Apple seems to have changed the way that they handle Internationalization settings in 10.4 and on, and unless there's a really good reason to add some sort of OS detection logic, I'm going to have to cut off support for 10.3.9. As per usual: enjoy! Let me know if you find anything unpleasant. Status update archive. If you find bugs, PLEASE let me know!