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The transition from ADS to ARX has some fatal consequences. If an ADS application crashed, it would just be unloaded, and could be reloaded from the same autocad session (and crash again etc...). Since ARX applications are implemented as DLLs, they run in the same address space as autocad. This means, that whenever one of them crashes, it will take autocad with it, killing all your work back to the most recent save.
So, if you want to use this beta release with production data, do so at your own risk (you use spacelin on your own risk anyway, but the chance of a crash is a lot bigger with a beta version). In any case, if you use it when working on anything you care about, save often!
I have only tested this beta version on windowsNT 4.0sp3. Please test it on Windows95/98 and tell me about the results. If autodesk and microsoft live up to their claims, then it should run there equally well. If not, I need your help in pinpointing the problems and make the necessary changes.
This release is meant for testing, to find the bugs that have escaped me while porting and enhancing. Please try it on the most tricky data you can find and in the most convoluted ways you can come up with. Please read the special beta notes in the bundled readme.txt file, and tell me about your results. Once I have enough feedback, I will make the necessary changes and fixes and release a version 1.1 final.
Please upgrade immediately, as soon as the final release is available. The beta version should become extinct soon after. Drop me a note if you want to get notified on future releases of spacelin.
Download Beta 1 of Spacelin 1.1 for WindowsNT/95 (143238 bytes)