Some of the things that are not in the Windows 3.1 version: long filenames, background colors, and enhanced metafile support. Menus and shortcuts have more of the standard Windows look. The 2D part has several new constructions in the Point and Circle menus, and the mouse has acquired a rotation function. Bouncing-ball animations can be added to polygons and to conics. The 3D part of the program has been redesigned to make it more like the 2D part. (There is a construction History, for example, and macros as well.) The “Voronoi” module from Winlab has been added to the main menu of this program, as well as a new “tesselation” module. A “guess” module (analogous to the function-guessing program from Winlab) has also been created for this version of Wingeom.
Details of other changes can be found in the updated Help files.
There will of course be occasional bugs. I have been using and fine-tuning the program for a few weeks now, but I expect that you will find things that I have missed. Please tell me about them, and send along any suggestions.
You can now add password protection to your files.
If you use Windows XP and want Wingeom controls (buttons, scroll bars, etc) to have the Windows XP “look”, download this file (right-click and Save Target As). From this zipfile, extract the file whose name matches the program version you are using (there is one for each language), sending it to the same folder where the program itself is found.
It occasionally happens that initialization files (*.ini) become defective (in the event of a crash, for example). Opening a bad ini file can cause the program to act strangely, or not work at all (this is the source of many problems). For example, if the Btns menu does not display a check mark that indicates the current mouse function, this is a sure sign that the ini file has been corrupted. To tell the program not to use a suspicious ini file when it opens a window, check the menu item called “Use defaults”. (This is easier than finding the ini files and deleting them.) When windows close normally, their ini files are restored to health.
Wingeom normally places its initialization files in the “Windows” directory, and looks for them there. If this is not desirable, there are two other “network” versions of the program: The first one places its initialization files in the directory where the program is found, and the second one places its initialization files in the current directory (where the program happens to be operating at the time). If you would like one of these special versions in one of the available foreign languages, just let me know — my e-mail address can be found in the Help|About dialog box.