Hi folks, A new tarball of the source for Athena, Artemis, and Hephaestus is now available at SourceForge and at my website. Linux, unix, and Mac OSX users can grab it or use the horae_update script at their leisure. Windows users will have to wait just a bit longer. Matt and I have almost settled on the new Windows release. More details should follow later this week. There are only a few new features in the codes this time around. The bulk of the changes are various bug fixes which should address the majority of the problems reported in the last two months. In particular, Artemis should now be a lot more stable. As always, please report any new problems you find with the new versions or any old problems that I did not actually fix! Among the changes to the Artemis: 1. An autosave file is written at certain times so that you can recover work in the event of a crash. 2. Artemis now uses a native menubar. This means that the menus can be driven entirely from the keyboard using (on PC keyboards) the Alt key. 3. There are a couple of small changes in functionality on the GDS page. Now, if you click on a different variable while editing a variable, the first variable will be defined before the new one is displayed. 4. The General->workspace variable is no longer used. I apologize to those who used this feature, but it was the source of too many problems. 5. The writing of trap files has been disabled in this version, but the same information still gets written to the console and should be included by cut-n-paste in bug reports. In Hephaestus there is a new page which shows a chart of the electronic transitions associated with the various single-electron fluorescence lines. Athena just has a bunch of bug fixes. It does not yet use a native menu bar. (Next time for sure!) A final note about Artemis. There is no drag-n-drop functionality anywhere in the program. It is quite easy to trigger a bug when the GDS page is displayed if you click the mouse button and then drag the mouse to another part of the Artemis window. I do not know the cause of this bug, but it is easy to avoid. Regards, B -- Bruce Ravel ----------------------------------- ravel@phys.washington.edu Code 6134, Building 3, Room 405 Naval Research Laboratory phone: (1) 202 767 2268 Washington DC 20375, USA fax: (1) 202 767 4642 NRL Synchrotron Radiation Consortium (NRL-SRC) Beamlines X11a, X11b, X23b National Synchrotron Light Source Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973 My homepage: http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel EXAFS software: http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/