
ReadMe for VBXtasy(tm), Volume 1 v1.10.3 Update
===============================================

Spinoza Limited
11333 Iowa Ave
First Floor
West Los Angeles, CA  90025
310/231-9770
310/231-9773 fax


How To Apply This Update
========================

To update your VBX files to version 1.10.3, you must run the UPDATE.BAT file
from the DOS command line, and you must provide the path of your Windows
directory (e.g., C:\WINDOWS) as the one and only argument to the batch file.
For example:

   C:\> UPDATE C:\WINDOWS

The patch program will ask you to confirm that it has found the correct
directory for your VBX files (unless you are using a shared installation of
Windows, this should be your \WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory).  Once the patch
process has completed successfully, you may delete all of the files that came
with the patch (UPDATE.BAT, PATCH.EXE, XTC1-1-3.RTP, and READ_ME.TXT).

This patch is designed to update any previous version of VBXtasy except for
version 1.10.0.  If the files on your system come from that version, the
patch program will produce the following error:

   error ept0036: Old file not found. However, a file of the same name was
                  found. No update done since file contents do not match.

If you purchased that version of the product, you should have already
automatically received update disks that would bring you up to version 1.10.1
(which this patch supports).  If you have such disks but haven't installed
them, you should do so before applying this patch.  If you haven't received
those disks, please contact Spinoza Limited at the phone number provided
above in order to receive the update you need.

What This Update Contains
=========================

The table below enumerates the bug fixes and improvements that were added in
the in-line updates Spinoza has provided since version 1.10.1:

Version  Improvements
-------  ------------
1.10.2   A fatal bug associated with button Click events was fixed.  The bug
         caused a general protection fault (GPF) when the code for a button's
         Click event unloaded the form on which it resided.

1.10.3   Improved appearance of colors (palette handling) when drawing in
         the background (i.e., when our window isn't active) on 256-color
         displays.

         Fixed a bug that caused our color-mapping to go out of whack when
         VBXtasy Backgrounds were used on MDI Child Forms.

         Other improvements in our palette-handling implementation fixed
         color-related bugs on some display adapters.

         In response to popular demand, we made it possible to resize the
         Command buttons in the Aluminum design set to be more narrow.  You
         can now select between fat and narrow buttons just by dragging the
         height of the button on the form.

A Note About Your README.TXT File
=================================

There is one change to your VBXtasy installation that this patch doesn't
cover, because the change is so small and unimportant that we felt it didn't
merit the overhead it would have required.  The change involves the
README.TXT file that resides in the directory where you installed the
VBXtasy, Volume 1 product (by default, C:\SPINOZA\VBXTASY).  The first non-
blank line in that file contains a version number.  It should be changed to
"1.10.3".  You can, of course, make this change yourself using any text
editor.
