Hi Bill,

Will the replacement CD's be sent to recent G-8 purchasers
automatically or will they need to be requested?

If the latter, I would like to request a set of the replacement CD's.

Bill G
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--- In guide-user@y..., Bill J Gray <pluto@p...> wrote:
> 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