"Expected" errors and known bugs in WinFit

S. Krumm, e-mail: krumm@geol.uni-erlangen.de
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There are several erorrs in WinFit that may occur under certain circumstances. Although we are already working on corrections, there may be some additional errors. If you find one, please report it to us. However, please have a look at the "known bug table" below first.
Thanks
Stefan

NOTE:WinFit was developed on a Win95 platform. It should run on 16bit-Windows either (Win3.1 and WfW) but we had no opportunity to test this!

Error What to do:
The program crashes immediatly after start up or afer loading a file look for a file called "lastfit.fit" in WinFit's directory. Delete this file!
The program crashes whenever I loaded a difractogram Make sure that you selected the proper diffractogram file format. If the problem persists, mail the file to us.
the program crashes whenever a dialog box is about to open make sure that you have a file called "bwcc.dll" somewhere on your system. If not, download it from the Erlangen software page and install it into your "windows/system/" directory.
the program is exceedingly slow, the graphics are odd or the program crashes at all if you have a 386 SX or 486 SX or lower, you need a math. coprocessor!
WinFit and ATI Win95-Driver: Older versions of the ATI graphics adapter driver for Win95 report wrong mouse coordinates. That has a catastrophous effect on WinFit! Be sure to have the newest driver possible. You can download them from ATI .
German menu entry, warning or error message,
spelling or translation error
please report it and include a sample part of the text
graphics within dialog boxes are scaled wrongly and placed somewhere on the screen this is a problem of screen resolution and system font size ("large fonts", "small fonts")
please report it and include graphics resolution and system font size if possible; please also include the title of the dialog
most dialog boxes are too large to fit into the screen WinTek is written on machines that use a 1024*768 pixels graphics adapter. However the dialogs should fit 800*600 and even 640*480 (not recommended!) screens. You probably have to play with the size of the "system font". See your Windows or graphics driver manual!
after copying graphics to CorelDraw the difractogram is not complete or missing at all Corel limits the number of nodes a polyline can have. Sorry!
after copying graphics to WordPerfect an empty box appears have a look at the clipboard. If the graphic looks okay there, ask WP or Novell or who currently owns the corp.
if also the clipboard looks odd, please report the error.


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