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Couldn't this be done in Excel?
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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Yes Excel could do the same, but far less flexible. Here are a few key reasons why using any kind of spread-sheeting for this is worse:
- Reordering items requires the user to cut the row, insert a new row and finally paste the row back in. There is no decent way of quickly reordering an item.
- Non-native Windows interface. In my opinion a spreadsheet equivalent will never look as clean or friendly.
- Not user friendly, especially for those like my parents who would find Excel confusing and are only accustomed to browsing the internet.
- Requires expressions (somewhat like coding) to make a similar sheet in Excel.
- Upcoming features in Rolling Total disabling items (for temporarily removing them from being counted) is not possible in Excel.
- Not everyone can afford Excel, and Google Docs Spreadsheet has a good second or so delay between changes (initially what infuriated me enough to push me to create Rolling Total).
- Item Quantity (prefix of "2x" in the item name doubles to item total) not possible in Excel without some fairly complex expression.
- Inline Calculator (upcoming feature) also not possible in Excel.
modified 22-Dec-13 5:36am.
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First post is boosting your software.
Equals spam, equals spammer.
You will note that the original message is already gone.
See how we feel about this?
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What!? This is a bewilderingly opposite reaction I was expecting, I would even have preferred to have been completely ignored than this.
I was no boosting my software, I was simply asking for feedback to understand better what people think of it . Hence why I titled this "First Impressions For My Software".
I am gutted to see the original post deleted, as the moderators seem to have thought it was spam. I would expect people to see how for example I was asking for feedback, and to see how I personally replied to d@nish. A spammer would post with generally poor grammar, a vague message with a link and run.
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While I agree it didn't look like spam, it did (to me, anyway) look like thinly-veiled advertisement.
That's the curse of a product that you ask money for. Any mention of it is interpreted as advertisement.
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And when it's your first post as well... 
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I usually am not active on forums very much. I didn't even think much of how this was my first post. I was going to greet everyone for the first time, but I couldn't think of a collective way to refer to all of the members, other than "Code Projecter's" (which I thought sounded off).
This has prompted me to think quite a bit. I need to be more cautious when talking about something of mine (especially with links) in the future on any forum.
I know this is all my doing. I seriously wish it started off better...
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Don't sweat it. We all make mistakes - in a week, no one will remember anyway! 
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CPians to how the users of CodeProject are often called.
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Your first post leads to an advert.
Even if thinly disguised, it's still an ad.
You're lucky you still have an account!
AquaGeneral wrote: A spammer would post with generally poor grammar, a vague message with a link and run
Not all of them. We get a lot of spam, some of it is as you describe - particularly the live streaming rubbish - but not all of it is by a long shot. Some of it is educated, scholarly stuff which just happens to be for a paid product which looks like an adequate article. Some of it is site driver or "external link" count booster. We're all getting pretty good at spotting this kind of thing.
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I apologize for my reaction earlier and I am coming to terms with how it my original post may have come off as spammy.
I did say "Hi All!" since I wasn't sure how to great the users of CodeProject in a snappy way. Saying "Hi Code Projecter's" seemed wrong.
I promise I had no intention of using my post to promote my software. I couldn't sidestep in showing my website and tour video, while at the same time looking for feedback.
It looks like the response is understandable considering the horrendous amount of spam there is all over the internet.
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"Hi All!" is fine.
Personally, you can pretty much call me what you want to, as long as it isn't late for lunch...
Welcome aboard! The exits are located here, here and here, and the sick bags are in the pouch in the back of the PC in front of you. (You may need that if you ever get an MVP award...)
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First off, your message comes across a bit 'spammy' so is unlikely to survive.
I had a quick look at your website and feel it is safe to say that you will never get a purchase.
For all it does, even in an app store, it wouldn't be valued at more than 50 cents. It doesn't do enough to justify a price, it is the sort of thing that is thrown together as a one off tool and given away.
Just take a look at my articles and the apps/tools I have written, and they are all given away.
Look at some of the other users of codeproject, e.g. dan.g Todo list, again free.
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That is understandable. I made it with myself in mind, not at all as something I would expect plenty of people to use. I did overestimate how successful it might be, but I know there are going to be at least some people who will find it useful.
It is not just a simple tool, nor was it something thrown together. I use software just like that on a occasion, and I am grateful it exists and understand why it is free (with support for donations usually). I feel Rolling Total is definitely more complex than ToDo apps and other similar software.
I feel as though now Rolling Total's future may lead into becoming freeware by the response. Not that I feel as though it's not worth a cost (there is also a time-unlimited demo available with some restrictions such as no ability to save).
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Indeed it is, but to me there is something to be said about the complexity and the non-native Windows look of it.
I see what you mean though, it's fully featured (and more) yet open source.
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I think you better learn how to make links clickable. It is not as if there is a button for it in the message editor 
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You are rigth. Ok here it is not realy important. But in q&a, how can I refer to an other answer and also to an other member?
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Yes, it is just as important here as anywhere else.
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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Then please guide me how to do. In q&a a link to e.g. a wiki page or what else I'm able to do....even sometimes I think the editor is against me 
But e.g. how I can make a link to "solution #x"
thx for help, Bruno
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Select the text and click on the link or [^] tag above the edit box. If you don't see those controls then just manually type a HTML anchor tag like <a href="URI goes here">text goes here</a>.
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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Not clear for me. Supose I like to refer in my solution to your solution #1. Configure unity Container[^]
How can I get the href which points exactly to your solution?
Thank you for your patience with a beginner
modified 22-Dec-13 7:43am.
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You just copy the full address from the browser address bar.
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