CompuServe Messages

Hard to nail down, exactly. Shooting for xmas, thereabouts, anyway. IM V10 provides several major changes – first, it's totally retargetable; that is, you can run it on top of any gfx environment it supports (of which there will be a fiar number). Second, it's UI-configurable; that means that a user can completely configure the UI, right down to how the buttons look, how functions are arranged/available in windows, and so on… a side effect of that is that if some cool artist-type makes a really nice UI for it, they can give (or sell) it to you, and you can have the benefit of their vision. Third, v10 is "flat", which means that you can get at any function from anywhere, anyway you want to arrange it. Fourth, it handles other data types besides 24-bit, 8-bit greyscale being one of them, others to be announced later. Fifth, it's modular; it supports the idea of "drag to drawer and drop-in" functions a 'la the Mac. As you can see, this isn't a small change – so the final target date is quite uncertain as of now. We're trying to be sooner rather than later, though. :^) –Ben …via AutoPilot