Re: GaryG To Offer His Weight Tracking Program For Free (was: The Atheist)

From: Hi_Therre (Bruce35_at_Rosebud.com)
Date: 10/22/04 

Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 15:56:33 -0500

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:49:00 -0700, "GaryG"
<garyg@shasta_SPAMBEGONE_software.com> wrote:

>"Hi_Therre" <Bruce35@Rosebud.com> wrote in message
>news:n4hin0dr609j54c3ramokha98tv7lhbn22@4ax.com...
>> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:25:51 -0700, "GaryG"
>> <garyg@shasta_SPAMBEGONE_software.com> wrote:
>>
>> >"MU" <munospam@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
>> >news:8aykg3c25yku.1c0z4dlrdvil7.dlg@40tude.net...
>> >> On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 08:28:38 -0700, GaryG wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > What a cute little fairy tale. Thanks for sharing.
>> >>
>> >> Welcome. We *give* freely. How about offering *your* weight tracking
>> >> program, at no charge, to anyone who reads Usenet. Chung even gave the
>> >> 2PDiet away to the Governor of Georgia, no fee attached. Never has
>charged
>> >> a soul and neither have I.
>> >>
>> >> Whaddya say, GG?
>> >
>> >Sorry, dear MU. Although I do donate quite a bit of my time and software
>> >development talents to various non-profit organizations, my WeightWare
>> >program ( http://www.WeightWare.com ) is one of my sources of income. As
>> >such, I cannot afford to give it away for free.
>> >
>> >Do you have a job? If so, do you give away your time for free?
>> >
>> >GG
>> >http://www.WeightWare.com
>> >Your Weight and Health Diary
>> >
>>
>> My Health software does almost the same thing. Plus my software is
>> Free.
>
>My compliments...for freeware, that's a pretty good looking program (except
>for the MSChart control which always seems to produce "muddy" text - I

Boy, are you correct. MSChart has lots of problems which I had to
learn the hard way. It also produces a crappy graph. It only allows
me to put up four data lines on one chart, very limiting function.

How much did chartfx cost you?

>dumped that control about a year ago in favor of ChartFX from
>SoftwareFX.com). Your app seems more focused on diabetes, while mine is

I created it under the theme of diabetes, since that is what I have,
but is moving in other areas.

>more about understanding and tracking weight loss although there is some
>overlap (e.g., WeightWare tracks blood glucose, but not A1C - your program
>tracks weight, but does not have a goal setting feature, nor does it
>calculate trends).

Why spend time worrying about Trends with weight loss? A waste of
time. Weight loss is slow. You use trend analysis for erratic
movements like BG's and maybe BP, not weight.
>
>The user interface is also pretty good, if a bit rough in spots (e.g., the
>first time startup questions are pretty confusing, and the use of option
>buttons to launch the various features is non-standard).

True. But it is simple and very functional.

>
>I did notice one bug - when I recorded two weight entries, the program
>truncates the "Weight Change" column to an integer value. With the
>popularity of digital scales, this seems unnecessary and confusing. For
>instance, I recorded 175.2 lbs one day, and 173.6 lbs the next day (a loss
>of 1.6 lbs), but the program reported the weight change as "-1" lb.
>

A valid point. An easy fix. Thanks for the heads up.

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