Can’t change line patterns for thick lines on Windows 95/98/Me

Symptoms Under Windows 95/98/Me, if you increase the thickness of patterned line, the line pattern buttons are disabled even though the patterned line is still displayed on the screen. Cause Windows 95/98/Me cannot display patterned lines for lines thicker than 1 device (screen) unit - Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista can. Under Windows 95/98/Me, Metafile Companion disables the [...]

By |2024-01-02T14:19:48-05:00April 15th, 2008|Known Issues, Metafile Companion|0 Comments

Floating toolbar buttons don’t change size properly

Symptoms When you select Tools, Options, Toolbars and change the setting of Large Buttons, the docked toolbars are resized correctly but the floating toobars are not. Cause Possibly a problem in the compiler toolbar code. Work-around(s) Click on the resizing border of the floating toolbox to have it redrawn at it's proper size, or Exit [...]

By |2024-01-02T14:19:49-05:00March 31st, 2008|Known Issues, Metafile Companion|0 Comments

“Failed to update the system registry” message on startup on limited user account

Symptoms When you try to start Metafile Companion (or any other OLE server Windows program built with an older version of the Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) library) on a "limited" (restricted) user account, the following warning message appears: Failed to update the system registry. Please try using REGEDIT. Cause There was a bug in code [...]

By |2024-01-02T14:19:50-05:00March 31st, 2008|Known Issues, Metafile Companion|0 Comments
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