THUMBSUP REGISTRATION --------------------- ThumbsUp is NOT public domain or freeware; it is SHAREWARE! You are not allowed to use ThumbsUp beyond the 30-day trial period. If you are not already a registered user, you may obtain a single-user license for ThumbsUp! by sending a check or money order for $50.00 (US) to: Cerious Software 5424 Chedworth Drive Charlotte, NC 28210 Voice: (704)529-0200 Internet: cerious@vnet.net CompuServe: 71501,2470 America Online: CeriousSW In Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea, please contact: Patrick O'Sullivan P.O. Box 65 Armadale, Victoria 3143 Australia Voice: 03 509 5250 Fax: 03 576 0801 CompuServe: 100240,273 Corporate packages, site licenses and network licenses are available; contact Cerious Software at the above locations for more information. Alternately, you may register ThumbsUp on-line on Compuserve by 'GO SWREG'. The registration ID for ThumbsUp is 1357. Only single-user copies may be registered this way (though you can register multiple single-user copies). By registering, you will receive: o A user code to register your copy of ThumbsUp. o A floppy containting the next version of ThumbsUp when it is released. o Product support by telephone, e-mail or post. An order form and additional information are available in the ThumbsUp online help. Select "Ordering" from the "Help" menu. LAST MINUTE NOTES ----------------- .CDR (CorelDRAW!) format was a last minute addition, and has been tested only on the version 3 CD-ROM, which was completely scanned. Only a few Version 4 files have been tested. Note that the ".PAT" files (vector patterns) distributed by Corel are also CDR format. To thumbnail these, add the .PAT extension to the "File Types" dialog box. ThumbsUp can only access the small built-in thumbnail (preview) in CDR files. The drawing itself is stored in Corel's proprietary format. Because of this, no support is planned for CDR drawings themselves. (Which is a pity, since ThumbsUp makes much better thumbnails than CorelDRAW!) REMOVE TREE (from the Thumbnail Menu), which is supposed to remove all thumbnails in a directory tree, is broken and will be fixed in an upcoming release. VOLUME LABELS: In order to provide off-line viewing, ThumbsUp uses volume labels, rather than disk names, to discriminate between different disks. Make sure your floppies have unique volume labels. PROBLEMS CORRECTED IN 1.3C -------------------------- o No longer shows "expired" when first loaded (keeps track of days) o Directory list displays drives in drive order (rather than label) o Volume labels are no longer used for local hard drives o "Save window pos" menu item corrected to "save position & database" o Faster directory list display o Windows colors are now correct after minimizing full-screen 256-color image on 256-color displays o View window no longer shows "select" cursor when image is stretched o Drag-and-drop from File Manager is fixed (drag to view files) o Catalog-printing progress indicicator is correct, and window doesn't disappear when not using Print Manager. o Latest JPEG library (4a) has been incorporated into ThumbsUp. o The Help file is now distributed as a separate file, and no longer contained within the .EXE. Its name was also changed to THUMBSUP.HLP o GP faults fixed: - Loading incomplete or invalid GIF files - Loading some 256-color RLE encoded PCX files - Loading some small 16- and 256-color RLE BMP files - Slide show with short delay using filtered files - While or after printing images - Added sanity check when reading index to avoid index-related GP faults - Added sanity check when purging and rebuilding index to avoid GP faults RESTRICTIONS AND KNOWN PROBLEMS ------------------------------- o Duplicate disk labels for network drives still confuse ThumbsUp. A future version will use the entire network connection information, but this will necessitate a change in the database structure. o The "Remove Tree" option on the Thumbnail menu, which is supposed to remove all thumbnails for the currently selected directory tree, does not work. o The Slide Show requires that you select files (using the mouse or Edit/Select All) before selecting "File/Slide Show" or using F8. This will be changed in a future release to default to all files in the current directory if none are selected.