Open Tax Solver 0.5 (GUI) review

Open Tax Solver GUI is an optional Graphical User Interface for all Open Tax Solver programs and tax-form versions

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Aston Roberts

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Open Tax Solver GUI is an optional Graphical User Interface for all Open Tax Solver programs and tax-form versions. It provides a simple way to enter and edit your tax-data and to run the tax-solver on it. The OTS GUI is written to work with any OTS tax data file, both past, present, and future. It is a modular addition to the OTS program set.

The OTS GUI contains no specific tax-form data itself, but rather it reads your selected tax-form file and configures itself accordingly. By virtue of OTS-GUI, all OTS versions now automatically have a GUI front-end, and anyone, even without GUI-writing experience, may create new tax programs having this graphical front-end.

The OTS_GUI is written in C using the Otk (Open Tool Kit) graphics library. It appears to compile easily and run properly on all platforms, including Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OsX, Solaris, Irix, and other Unix's in general. Otk was chosen for its cross-platform support, simplicity, and smallness. The OTS GUI is a single C file having less than a thousand lines, and the Otk library consists of a few small files.

Requirements:
Open Tax Solver

What's New in This Release:
A convenient pull-down menu was added to the GUI for selecting filing status.
A quit-warning pop-up was added to avoid accidental exits.
A bug in the comment editor was fixed.
The GUI was made to tolerate a wider range of file name options.
The graphical frontend for OTS tax solver programs is optional but convenient for entry and editing of tax data, and calculation of taxes on all platforms.
OTS can always be used in pure text mode with your favorite editor.