All,

I have a new WinQuake beta release available on my system at
http://www.seismicnet.com/software.html. This release fixes a few bugs
reported to me recently and several new features / improvements. The
version number is 2.6.7 with a release date of 11/17/99.

I fixed an old bug, there since I wrote the code that allows one to save
the view only (cropping the event file). This bug would show up only if the
event file spans a day and the start time of the new event file started
after the new day. Example: if the event file started at 23:30 UTC and
ended the next day at say 01:30, and if the start time of the cropped event
file started at 00:30 the created event file would have bad date
information in the header and WinQuake would not read the new event file
in. I wasn't compensating for the date change.

The other bug I fixed started with the new beta version and had to do with
the colors of the P and S markers and the background color. Everything
worked fine if the P and S markers had a darker color then the background.
If the background was lighter then the markers they would not show up.

I added, by request, a clear button in the Modify dialog box. This clears
out any event report information.

I added support in the GIF saving feature for 32k color video setting.
Before WinQuake could only save GIF images with the proper colors if one
had the video settings set to 256 or 65K (16 bit)  color modes. I recently
changed video cards that had 256, 32k and True Color modes.  My old card
had 256, 65k and True Color and when I saved an event file as a gif image
it worked fine with the card set to 65k. With my new card set to 32k, the
colors were off when I saved gif images. I figured out the problem but had
problems with Windows in figuring out what mode the card was in so I added
a check box in the GIF Settings dialog box. This dialog is accessible in
the Save File dialog box when the Save Format is set to GIF Image.
Unfortunately WinQuake still does not support saving files as a GIF image
with True Color video mode selected. 
 
And in the View menu item I added a selection so that the new PSN Explorer
can be started. 

If you use WinQuake please try out the new beta release and let me know if
you run into any problems. I hope to make this the final beta release if no
major problems are reported.

Thanks,

-Larry Cochrane
Redwood City, PSN


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