Review: gCalc! 检讨： gcalc ！
Rating: 评价： 5.6/10
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This the fourth installment of the这是第四次分期付款的 calculator roundup计算器综述 . 。 It was intended to be written and published in one single week, but that was a lot less viable than I had imagined.它的用意是要笔试和出版的一单周，但，这是一个少很多可行的，比我想象的。 I hope I can publish the last part tomorrow.我希望我可以发布的最后部分的明天。 Fingers crossed.手指交叉。 Meanwhile, let’s see what gCalc! has to offer.同时，让我们看看什么gcalc ！已提供。

Not much, if you’re in a hurry.不大，如果您在匆匆。 Personally, I was as disappointed at this calculator as I was at我个人来说，我是作为失望，在这个计算器正如我在 BKGcalc bkgcalc , perhaps even more. ，甚至更多。 While gCalc! can plot a chart and the other calculators I have reviewed can’t, that is not a useful feature to me and the other features were not really exciting.而gcalc ！可以地积了一份图表，和其他计算机，我已审查了不能，这不是一个有用的功能，我和其他功能不能真正令人振奋的。 Let’s see all the details then you can agree with me or not.让我们看看所有细节，那么你可以同意我的或不是。

The name of the application is gCalc! Like Yahoo! or Wham!应用程序的名称是gcalc ！一样， 雅虎或wham ！ The first nag I had with this app was the installation.第一，拿我与这个应用程序是安装。 As you正如你 can see here可以看到，在这里 , what you donwload and install is rather a “suite” called gWhiz and comprised of two quite unrelated apps in my opinion: gCalc! and gFlash+ . ，你donwload和安装是相当“组曲” 和所谓的gwhiz组成的两个相当无关的应用服务，我认为： gcalc ！和gflash + 。 Incidentally, you might also find it amusing that all the text顺便提一句，您也可能会觉得有趣，所有的文字 in that page在这页 is actually composed of images, not text.其实组成的图像，而不是文字。 Not one single word is text!没有一个单一的字是文字！ Go figure…转到数字… But I digress.但我偏离。 The problem is you get the two applications even if you just want one.问题是，您获得两项申请，甚至如果你只是想要一个。 And no, you can’t uninstall one and leave the other.没有，你无法卸载一离开对方。 You’re stuck with either both or none.您坚持，不论双方或无。 I think that is a little rude, but I admit I am a bit finicky.我认为这是一个小粗鲁，但我承认我感到有点复杂。 This review is about calculators, so I won’t mention gFlash+ in this article anymore.这项检讨是有关计算机，所以我不会提及gflash +在这篇文章了。 We might review it on another occasion.我们不妨检讨它在另外一个场合。 For now, I’ll just say it’s pretty interesting and definitely worth a look.现在，我将只说这是相当有趣的和绝对值得看一看。

The second nag is launching the calculator.第二次尿NAG是发射计算器。 Calculators should be available and operative fast .计算器应可和执行快速 。 Like drawing a gun in a duel: just whip it and there you go.更像是在画枪在决斗：刚才党党鞭，并在那里，您去。 But gWhiz LLC, in their infinite wisdom, decided it would be a good idea to hot-iron their brand on our brains with a flashy startup screen.但gwhiz LLC公司，在其无限的智慧，决定这将是一个好主意，热铁其品牌对我们的大脑与华而不实的启动画面。

Surely I’m going to take at least 0.5 point from my final rating because of that.当然，我要去至少需时0.5点，从我的最后评价，因为这一点。 That screen is shown for 2 seconds only, but I still find it unacceptable.这是屏幕上显示的只有2秒钟，但我仍然觉得这是不可接受的。

When the startup screen goes away, we get this:当启动屏幕上消失了，我们得到这个：

There is the gCalc!是有gcalc ！ calculator’s most prominent feature in all its glory.计算器的最突出的特点在其所有的荣耀。 The feature that no other calculator for the Blackberry platform has.功能没有其他计算器黑莓平台。 A big plotting chart.一个大阴谋图。 A blessing and a curse.祝福和诅咒。 This is probably when you decide whether you like this calculator or not: when you discover that the big chart will be always there no matter what.这可能是当你决定你是否喜欢这个计算器或不：当您发现大图将永远存在，不管什么。 There is no option to hide it or turn it off.有没有选项隐藏或关闭它。

There was a time when I took engineering in college and had to study a lot of calculus and integrals and limits and the HP 48G, brand new, was all the rage among students because we had to plot charts all the time.曾经有一段时间了，当我在工程学院，并已研究了很多的微积分和积分，并限制和惠普四八克，全新的，是所有学生的愤怒，因为我们的地积图表的所有时间。 And I am sure a few professionals out there will find the chart very useful at times.我深信少数专业人士指出，有会发现图表非常有用的时候。 But I think that is a pretty narrow audience, and even that audience would probably love to get rid of the chart most of the time if they could.但我认为这是相当狭隘的观众，甚至认为，观众很可能会爱摆脱图表大部分的时间，如果他们可以。 It is too small and too big at the same time.这是太小和太大，在同一时间内。 Being too small is not its fault, a mobile phone screen is small, even if the Blackberry Curve’s screen is one of the best out there.正在太小，是不是它的故障，一部手提电话屏幕小，即使黑莓曲线的屏幕是其中一个最好的存在。 But couldn’t that chart take the whole screen, look bigger, then be dismissed in favor of other uses of precious screen space?但不能说，图以整个屏幕，看大，然后被解雇，有利于其他用途的宝贵的屏幕空间？ Instead, it just sits there forever and takes a huge portion of the screen.相反，它只是坐在有永远，并采取了巨大的萤幕部分。 It’s big enough to make everything else look pitifully crammed under a huge block of concrete.它的大足以使一切pitifully塞进看看下一个巨大的混凝土块。 My point is: this UI has remarkably poor design.我的意思是：这已显着的UI设计欠佳。 This calculator simply loses a great chance to score high in the data display section of my rating.本计算器简单失去一个伟大的机会，评分高，在数据显示部分我的评价。 Even if it has a chart, the chart is not quite welcome the way it is.即使它有一个图表，图表是不太欢迎的方式，这是。

The interface and documentation both indicate that you can send these plotted charts by e-mail, but that feature is not available to the Blackberry OS that I use.界面和文件都显示，您可以发送这些策划图表通过电子邮件，但特点是，并不适用于黑莓操作系统，我使用。

Also note that gCalc! has no financial functions, so don’t you get excited about plotting financial trends and forecasts in that chart.还注意到， gcalc ！没有财务职能，所以你不兴奋策划金融趋势及预测在这方面的图表。 It’s for purely mathematical functions only.它的纯粹的数学函数只。

Speaking of functions, gCalc! is pretty shy in that department.在谈到职能， gcalc ！是相当害羞，在该部。 OK, it has quite a handful of functions, but all the other apps of this确定，但有相当少数的功能，但是所有其他的应用程序，这 calculator roundup计算器综述 have a lot more, including common financial calculations and measurement conversions.有很多人，包括共同财务计算和测量的转换。 Just like就像 BizMathica bizmathica and和 BKGcalc bkgcalc , gCalc! has a pretty good ， gcalc ！已相当不错 reference page参考网页 where you can check all the supported functions.这里，您可以检查所有支持的职能。

Typing those functions is not hard at all.打字这些职能并不难，在所有。 You can pick them in a menu or just type them away if you’re good at memorizing that kind of stuff.您可以挑选他们在一个菜单或只需键入他们远离如果您善于记忆，这样的东西。 Symbols are typed immediately as long as they are available in the keyboard, you won’t have to be pressing the Alt key all the time, something that only BKGcalc forces you to do.符号输入立即只要他们都可以在键盘上，您将不会有需要迫切ALT键，所有的时间，这不仅bkgcalc力量，你这样做。 If any given symbol is not available in the keyboard, however, forget it.如果任何特定的象征，是不具备的键盘，然而，忘记它。 The Blackberry’s own Symbol key in gCalc! will give you nothing but “equals” and “power”.黑莓自己的象征，关键在gcalc ！会给你无关，而是“平等”和“权力” 。

I was also underwhelmed, to say the least, by the number of constants and/or variables available: only two constants and no variables.我也underwhelmed ，至少可以说，由若干常量和/或变量：只有两个常数和没有变数。 You can’t edit (replace, so to speak) the existing constants or add new ones.您不能编辑（取代，所以发言）现有的常数或添加新的供稿。 You’re stuck with pi and Euler .您坚持与PI和欧拉 。

The application also offers four shortcuts.该应用程序还提供4捷径。 Better than nothing, but also pretty scant.聊胜于无，但也相当微弱。

What I really can’t get over about gCalc! is the chart and the whole interface, actually.什么我真的不能获得超过约gcalc ！是图表和整个界面，其实。 Having a “ticker tape” history of my previous expressions is an important feature to me, and that is lacking in gCalc! The chart is like a big unwanted obstacle stealing precious space most of the time.有一个“代号磁带”的历史，我以前的表现是一个重要的功能，对我来说，这是缺乏在gcalc ！图表更像是一个大型的不想要的障碍窃取宝贵的空间，大部分的时间。 You can scroll up those shy crammed four lines of history and copy a previous expression very easily to the expression field, but that is not very useful.您可以滚动起来的那些害羞的挤迫四行的历史和复制以往的表达很容易，以表达领域，但事实并非十分有用。 Ability to copy several lines of history to be pasted into another application (note or e-mail) would be a lot more useful.有能力复制几行的历史可以粘贴到另一个应用程序（注或电子邮箱）将有很多更加有用。 And what is the deal with that blue background?什么是对付这种蓝色的背景？ Doesn’t that pattern reek of those big “3D” buttons that plagued Web pages all over circa 1996?没有这种格局reek这些大“三维”按钮，困扰网页所有超过circa 1996年呢？ And the cursor is also blue, so good luck trying to go back and edit your expression before hitting Enter.和光标也是蓝色，所以好运试图要回去和编辑您的表达之前，按下Enter键。 The cursor is almost invisible against that blue backdrop.光标几乎是无形的反对蓝色的背景。 I hate the interface.我最讨厌的界面。 I really do.我真的这样做。

On a positive note, I like that gCalc! applies the correct operation precedence to the expressions.一个积极的注意，我想这gcalc ！适用的正确操作优先的表达。 I mean, both 22*16+4*2 and (22*16)+(4*2) equal 360 .我的意思是，无论是22 * 16 4 * 2和（ 22 * 16 ） + （ 4 * 2 ）平等360 。 You may want to enclose certain operations in parentheses, but it’s not necessary most of the time.您可能要附上某些业务在括号内，但它没有必要，大部分的时间。

The last item in my list of complaints about gCalc! is the absence of integrated documentation.最后一个项目在我的名单上的投诉gcalc ！就是缺乏综合文件。 There is a “Calculator Help” entry in its menu, but that will simply launch your default browser and send you to that有一个“计算器帮助”项目，在其菜单上，但这将只是启动您的默认浏览器，并寄给您这 reference page参考网页 I mentioned earlier.我刚才所说的。 I find that lazy and bad taste.我觉得懒惰和品味低俗。 That’s what desktop application developers do when they want to save the trouble of including and updating the documentation in every release of the software: just send you to a Web page.这是什么桌面应用开发商这样做时，他们要保存的麻烦，包括和更新的文件在每一个版本的软件：刚才您发送到某个网页。 That is a lot worse in a mobile device.这是一个很大差在移动设备。 Fetching an online page is slow and not everyone has data available all the time or unlimited plans etc. Some people don’t even have a data plan.撷取一个在线的网页是缓慢的而不是每个人都有可用数据的所有时间或无限计划等，有些人甚至不有一个数据计划。 They upload applications via USB and just use the phone and whatever application that is good enough and doesn’t require a data plan, like pretty much any calculator application on the face of the Earth.他们上传申请通过USB和公正的使用手机和应用，无论是不够好，并且不需要数据计划一样，几乎任何计算器适用于地球表面。 Then again, most of the other calculators have very little built-in documentation or no documentation at all.再说，其他大部分的计算器很少有内建在文件或文件并没有在所有。 Bunch of lazy calculator developers, all of you!一群懒惰的计算器开发商，所有的你！ Well, I kid.那么，我的孩子。 But these apps really should have more built-in documentation.但这些应用服务，实在应该有更多内建在文件。 I should have mentioned that when I reviewed the other calculators.我应该也提到，当我回顾了其他计算机。

This calculator loses quite a few points in UI design, data display, auxiliary functions and all points in measurement conversion, so the end score is not good.这计算器失去了不少分，在用户界面设计，数据显示，辅助职能和各点的测量转换，因此，年底评分是，也不是好事。 At least, gCalc! is free.至少， gcalc ！是免费的。 You can always get another calculator for the more frequent and/or heavy-duty stuff and keep gCalc! around in case you need to plot charts.您随时可以得到另一计算器更频繁和/或重型的东西并保持gcalc ！靠近的情况下你需要的地积图表。

Pros: unmatched plotting chart, no other calculator has it; easy straightforward access to all functions; 100% free application. 利弊：无与伦比的策划图，没有其他计算机，它;容易直接获得的所有功能;百分之一百的免费应用程式。

Cons: the big giant chart can’t be turned off; poor UI design; rather small collection of functions; no measurement conversion at all. 意见：大巨图无法关闭;穷人的用户界面设计;相当小的收集职能;没有度量换算所有。

Still applying that one single comparison method for this roundup of calculators:申请仍然认为，一个单一的比较方法，这综述：计算器：
0 = absent 0 =缺席
1 = present, but couldn’t be worse 1 =目前，但不能差
5 = pass 5 =通过
9 = very close to perfect 9 =非常接近完美
10 = stellar 10 =恒星

Look and feel: 外观和感觉：	6六	(typing flows very well, but the display is ugly and a little clunky) （打字流向很清楚，但显示的是丑陋和少许笨重）
Ease of use: 易于使用：	10十	(this calculator is indeed very easy to use) （计算器，这实在是非常容易使用）
Math functions: 数学函数：	6六	(remarkably fewer than all the other calculators reviewed so far) （显着少于其他所有计算器审查至今）
Data display: 数据显示：	6六	(it’s good to have a chart, but the overall result is not good) （它的好，有一个图表，但总的结果是不好的）
Measurement conversion: 度量换算：	0	(this feature is absent) （此功能是缺席）
Average: 平均：	(6+10+6+6+0=28) / 5 = 5.6 （ 6 10 6 6 0 = 28 ） / 5 = 5.6

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