[Dx4win] Unexpected "Unlicensed Demo Version, Can't Save" problem

[Rick Murphy]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Gregory Brown <gbrown1 at unl.edu> wrote:
> Hi Mel,
>
> I can understand your frustration, but if the "demo mode" problem I had
> actually was caused by my inadvertently opening two sessions of the
> program simultaneously, I wouldn't be so quick to call it a DX4WIN
> bug...it's probably more of an operator-error, Windows system-error
> issue, which I intend to avoid assiduously in the future!  If, on the
> other hand, the same thing happens spontaneously without any apparent
> provocation, then perhaps it would be (was?) something Paul could fix.
> Personally, this is the first time I've ever experienced this in many,
> many years of using DX4WIN...so I've never seen it happen without the
> double-open, operator-goof that I just performed.  And the loss of data
> was my own fault.  A simple hit of the "Print Screen" key would have
> saved an image of my displayed log which I could have re-entered.

It seems to me that DX4WIN should periodically warn you if it's in
"demo mode" and you have a modified log. If it's not going to save it
to disk, don't allow the user to enter anything without at least
mentioning that the data that you're entering won't be saved.

If that simple fix was made, it would be much less likely that entered
log data would be lost.
Just my humble opinion.
73,
    -Rick
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Rick Murphy, CISSP-ISSAP, K1MU/4, Annandale VA USA