In message <48062bff4d.tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In message of 26 Feb, David Pilling <flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> >=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0What happens when I click of the Save As icon it f=
>> lashes as it should but
>> >no Save Box appears. As I said before, saving a document previously saved
>>
>> I've sorted this out now.
>>
>> What happened is that between the versions of things that worked and the=20
>> ones that don't work, I increased the level of Windows that I wanted to=20
>> support, doing that changed some things that I had not foreseen - I'm=20
>> using sizes for the save and open dialogue parameter blocks that W98=20
>> won't accept.
>>
>> I'll put up a fixed version of OP for Windows in an hour or two.
>>
>> At least I now know that two of you want to use the program on W98, and=20
>> that no one has tried DPScan on W98.
>
> Three of us. There's me as well.
>
>>
>> I'm keen to drop support for anything older than XP 8-)
>
> But think of the expense here in (a) buying full versions of XP and
> then (b) buying manuals to tell me what on earth it was doing. Not to
> mention the wasted time on this group answering questions about "how do
> you do this?".
But the point here is that it creates problems for David in developing
the program. To maintain backwards compatibility, most PC programs
have dropped or are dropping support for 98.
As for cost of XP, get an OEM version for about 67 ukp of Home or 87
for Pro. Home is now the same price as RISC OS 4.39 Adjust at the
moment.
>
> (And why has your e-mail suddenly started to sprout "=20" and "=A0"?)
>
I noticed that as well. =20 is the space charactor.
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Chris Hughes
