Hi folks,

Just a quick note about something you might want to try out:

Brave citizens willing to be beta-testers may wish to download
the 32-bit version of Guide now on the Web site, to try out toolbar
buttons for rotating the chart at 5-degree intervals and for LX-200
focus control. I don't have an LX-200, so my testing has been limited;
once I get some "it works" comments, I'll make it an official update.
In the meantime, here's what you'll have to do.

You'll download the 32-bit update file, GUIDE7.ZIP, and unZIP it
in your Guide directory. So far, everything is as usual.

Now edit the file TOOLBAR.DAT. You'll see that the first line says
"0192", meaning that there are 192 possible toolbar buttons. Modify
this to be "0199", indicating that you want to make available seven
additional buttons. These happen to include two buttons for rotating
the screen, plus "focus in", "focus stop", "focus out", "focus slow",
and "focus fast" buttons. (If you're interested, you can see these
listed at lines 194 to 200 of TOOLBAR.DAT. But you don't actually have
to know about this.)

By default, the new buttons will be off. Go into Guide, click on
"Settings... Toolbar", and scroll to the bottom of the list of toolbar
buttons. You'll see the seven new buttons listed; turn on whichever
of the seven you actually want to use, and click OK.

Incidentally, with this many buttons, it's common for Guide to add
an extra menu line, invading your screen space... exactly the thing I
hoped to add when I put the toolbar on the same line as the menu. To
help prevent this, I usually set the "max menu length" in the Toolbar
dialog to three. This causes, for example, "Settings" to become "Set"
and "Display" to become "Dis", freeing up some extra space on the menu
bar. Not something you absolutely have to do, of course, but it can
be slightly helpful. Submenus are left "as is"; there's no screen
real estate issue there.

Also: click on "focus in" once, and the focus will move in; click on
it again, and the focus will stop. So I can't really say there is much
need to turn the "focus stop" button on.

Further note about toolbar buttons: after line 200 in TOOLBAR.DAT,
you'll see a whole slew of possible buttons that are, at present, not
in use. In some cases, toolbar bitmaps haven't been made yet. Some
functions just don't work yet (for example, the toolbar buttons to
toggle to Hebrew or Portuguese won't actually do anything until someone
translates Guide's text to those languages). Still other buttons
refer to functions that only exist in the DOS software. Bottom line:
be careful, adjusting these lines may not work in the way you intended.

-- Bill