Charon changes/red mode

Bill J Gray Feb 21, 2002

Hi Bob,

The only change is a bug fix: I got a report that the position angle
(shown when you right-click on the image and drag a line) was getting
garbage values. I found the problem and fixed it.

Pierre, dunno about the "red mode" problem in XP. My immediate
suspicion was that it meant Microsoft changed something in the
SetSysColors function, the one Guide uses to adjust colors of
menus, dialogs, etc. But a Web search turned up no "use a different
method in XP" comments. So the problem may be something
unrelated to XP.

I _did_ find that the color change took about 30 seconds on my
machine. It was much faster when I was using Win95, but I upgraded
a few months back to WinME. However, I just found out that revising
that function in Guide slightly (to set a whole array of colors at once,
instead of doing so one at a time) brought that down to a couple of
seconds. My hope is that, on your system, it will fix the problem.

I was about ready to post an update when the replacement CDs
arrived. I am now focussing on getting those out the door, so it may
be a while before the updated software actually gets posted.

-- Bill