Survex 1.0.14 released

[Olly Betts]

On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 10:56:53AM +0200, Josep Guarro wrote:
> After installing the new survex release and tcl and wish (activetcl)
> for windows, svx file asociations don't work, i.e. doubleclicking a
> svx file gives error (svx is not a valid win32 file)

That's very odd.  I tested this on an old win98 box (with Survex 1.0.12
installed before) and it worked.

What is the "Open" file association set to?  You can find it (from
memory) from an explorer window - not too sure which menu it's in
View maybe?  Then Folder Options, then one of the tabs (File Types
I think) and select .svx in the list box.
    
> also
> doubleclicking a 3d file gives error (cannot find CA mesages using
> path) and aven doesn't start. And "process" also doesn't work.

Damn, that's a bug I introduced when I fixed failing to find message
files when run from the command line.  I'll upload a fixed version
for Windows soon - the other versions are all unaffected.

> So I would like to keep the old file asociations, i.e. the normal
> editor being the notepad wich should be asociated with svx files, and
> if you want to use the svxedit, this should be not by default.

My rationale for making it the default is that less computer literate users
would probably prefer it, while techie types would probably prefer to
use their own editor.  And the techie types are more at home adjusting
the file associations.

But perhaps that's not a good idea while svxedit is still a bit
experimental.  Thoughts?

> By the way, tcl and wish are a 8Mb aplication! so I'm not very happy
> with it being the default svx editor.

Tcl is rather big (more than 5 times the size of Survex!), though of
course you only need to download it once, not with each new Survex
version.

BTW, the win32 version has just stopped fitting on a 1.44M floppy disk
again.  Do people think that's a problem, or not worth worrying about?

Cheers,
Olly