Firecalc 3.0 results graph all wacky

[willywonka]

Hi,
I just discovered last night, although it could have been this way for a few days, that the once beautiful results plot is un-readable. It's displaying lots of numeric values in the plot area, and a dense thicket of vertical black lines which approximate the envelope of the plotted scenarios and appear to be composed of numeric values. I have tried it on multiple PCs, with Firefox and with Internet Explorer with the same results. Anyone else seeing this?

 

[kyounge1956]

I am getting similar results on a Mac with OS 10.5.8 and Safari 4.0.4 browser

 

[kat]

I'm having the problem too. It's very recent problem. I use FireCalc often, and this was new in the past couple days.

Mac 10.5.8 with Firefox. I didn't change anything.

 

[Keim]

Google Chrome has the same issue.

 

[Rustward]

Could the FireCalc keeper start a sticky "FireCalc Recent Changes" thread, or would this be asking too much?

 

[chemist]

Guys this clearly has *nothing* to do with what browser or OS you are running. I suspect it has something to do with PHP/SWF charts which Dory uses to draw the charts. On their website they are saying to check out new Version 5, perhaps their update caused FIREcalc to display bizarre charts.

 

[Andy R]

Sorry about the issues, the issues have been resolved.

 

[willywonka]

Thanks for the quick response...it did seem to surface about the same time as the popups asking if I wanted to update my flash player. Was it related to that?

 

[chemist]

I believe I am seeing a glitch now. It seems that when I include a pension down below under "Other income / spending" it is being indexed for inflation regardless of whether or not I tick the inflation box. At least this is what I am seeing when I select the 30 year option and look at the XL sheet.

 

[chemist]

OK I have tested this thoroughly and am still seeing this. In fact, my wife and I both have non-COLA'd pesnsions - when I tick the adjust for inflation box for one and not the other they both get adjusted for inflation according to the Excel sheets generated by FIREcalc. If I am correct here and non-COLA'd pesnsions get the benefit of COLA there are going to be a lot of unhappy retirees a few decades from now....

Would appreciate someone either confirming the bug or telling me what I am doing wrong!

 

[willywonka]

Hi Chemist
Since this is not at all related to the "wacky graph" description, this would probably justify a new thread under FIRECALC Support with its own title, (maybe something like: "Major non-COLA'd pension bug") . Then it would get more visibility and maybe a faster response.