Hi, For the last few weeks, I have been doing experiments at beamlines with Windows machines. This has afforded me more time than normal using my programs under Windows. I am appreciating my linux machines more than normal, but that is not the point of this email ;-) I have found a few issues that I wanted to address even though no one has yet mentioned them on this list. 1. Combo-box menus: In Athena, combo boxes are used for a variety of purposes. For instance, in the alignment dialog, a combo box is used to select the data group for use as the alignment standard. It seems that selecting items from the drop-down list does not work as expected. Clicking to post the drop down menu then clicking on your choice does not cause your choice to be inserted into the combo-box text area. The work-around that I have found is to first *right* click on your selection, then *left* click on it. I cannot explain why this works and I wish the whole thing just worked correctly. At least there is a work-around! (Another work-around is to move the appropriate group to the top of the list, but I dislike the right-click/left-click solution less ;-/ .) 2. Several people have mentioned privately that the most recent version of Athena seems very sluggish on Windows. I agree and so, I think, does Matt. We changed how the compiled parts get compiled for the most recent release and perhaps some bed seeting were used. We'll look into for the next release. While doing some profiling on my new coding project, Demeter, I figured out a reasonably simple and very fruitful optimization for the interaction between my perl code and the Ifeffit library. I will implement that for the next release of Athena. Hopefully the next version will be snappier. For now, I apologize that the performance of Athena is less than it should be. 3. In Artemis, there are two or three menu items which involve importing something from a file. One example is "Import variables from text file" under the GDS menu. On Windows, this fails to post the file selection dialog and spews error messages to the console. This bug will be fixed in the next release. Sadly, there is no work-around that I know of. Regards, B -- Bruce Ravel ----------------------------------- bravel@bnl.gov National Institute of Standards and Technology Synchrotron Methods Group at Brookhaven National Laboratory Building 535A Upton NY, 11973 My homepage: http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel EXAFS software: http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/