Re: [Pan-users] New Windows installer

2016-03-22 Thread Steve Davies
Just as a FYI... The build I upload is a 32-bit build, because that is the only Winblows compile environment I have at present - I probably ought to build a 64-bit environment and Pan version now that Mingw64 is meant to be stable (it wasn't last I tried) but the effort involved is significant and

Re: [Pan-users] New Windows installer

2016-03-21 Thread Duncan
Alan Taylor posted on Sun, 20 Mar 2016 15:05:03 -0300 as excerpted: > I would expect Windows can somehow control the size of a particular > window, but I have no idea how it is done outside of the program that > created the window. It's strange that the problem dimension won't > respond to manual

Re: [Pan-users] New Windows installer

2016-03-20 Thread Alan Taylor
I uninstalled Pan .140 and verified the .pan2 directory was still there. The I re-installed Pan and everything worked fine - no problem with "This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way" even though an old (well, same version) .Pan2 directory was there. This was n

Re: [Pan-users] New Windows installer

2016-03-20 Thread Alan Taylor
On 20 March 2016 at 14:17, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Alan Taylor posted on Sun, 20 Mar 2016 12:33:21 -0300 as excerpted: > >> I forgot something about the newest Windows installer. I am running two >> screens. When I open the Edit - Edit Preferences window, that window is >> almost t

Re: [Pan-users] New Windows installer

2016-03-20 Thread Alan Taylor
>> >> The fix/solution is to delete the existing C:/users/USERid/.pan2 >> directory before trying to install, because (I guess) the uninstaller >> doesn't delete it and its presence somehow messes up the new install. >> After deleting that directory Pan will install and run. > > It would be interes

Re: [Pan-users] New Windows installer

2016-03-20 Thread Duncan
Alan Taylor posted on Sun, 20 Mar 2016 12:33:21 -0300 as excerpted: > I forgot something about the newest Windows installer. I am running two > screens. When I open the Edit - Edit Preferences window, that window is > almost two screens wide and cannot be resized in the horizontal with the > mou

Re: [Pan-users] New Windows installer

2016-03-20 Thread Duncan
Alan Taylor posted on Sun, 20 Mar 2016 11:13:19 -0300 as excerpted: > On 15 March 2016 at 09:34, Steve Davies > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> With all of the recent activity I thought it only fair that I should >> assemble a new Win32 installer build. It is at the usual location: >> >> https://sites.google

Re: [Pan-users] New Windows installer

2016-03-20 Thread Alan Taylor
I forgot something about the newest Windows installer. I am running two screens. When I open the Edit - Edit Preferences window, that window is almost two screens wide and cannot be resized in the horizontal with the mouse. I can resize it vertically with the mouse. On 15 March 2016 at 09:34, S

Re: [Pan-users] New Windows installer

2016-03-20 Thread Alan Taylor
On 15 March 2016 at 09:34, Steve Davies wrote: > Hi, > > With all of the recent activity I thought it only fair that I should > assemble a new Win32 installer build. It is at the usual location: > > https://sites.google.com/site/paninstall/ > > It runs for me here but is not heavily tested as I am

[Pan-users] New Windows installer

2016-03-15 Thread Steve Davies
Hi, With all of the recent activity I thought it only fair that I should assemble a new Win32 installer build. It is at the usual location: https://sites.google.com/site/paninstall/ It runs for me here but is not heavily tested as I am not a big NNTP user anymore. My attempts in 2014 were a bit