[Coco] Portal-9 tester needed for Windows 2000

[John R. Hogerhuis]

On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 22:56, Roger Taylor wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am looking for one person who uses Windows 2000 and can work with me on a 
> daily basis by e-mail to test the Portal-9 software.
> 
> Currently, Portal-9 will not start up on any Windows 2000 machine, to the 
> best of my knowledge.  Based on the kind feedback of a Swedish customer, I 
> have traced the bug down to the exact Windows API function that creates two 
> dialogs in the app (the side panels).  Apparently, the dialog styles and/or 
> control styles within are incompatible with Windows 2000.  Communicating 
> with this man is not always easy and we are definately not synchronized.
> 
> What I need to do is e-mail an ~80k file as often as necessary, or when you 
> are available, called portal9.exe which you can replace the old one with 
> from the full installation of the IDE.  You'll need to download and install 
> the IDE first, then replace the main .exe file as I send them to you.
> 
> Each new .exe will have slight changes to the dialog window styles for the 
> side panels.  When the IDE finally starts up, the bug will have been found.
> 
> For your time, I would like to grant a free registration of the software 
> when the bug is fixed.

I can do this work. I run Win2000 (in VmWare, which shouldn't matter),
and I am a programmer so we're probably on the same wavelength.

-- John.