What's New in Version 1.2

• MELCO Condensed (.CND) outline files may now be imported. When importing .CND files, the following points should be kept in mind.
  
  • Any parameters which are less than the corresponding minimum BE-100 value are increased to the minimum BE-100 value. Conversely, values in the .CND files which exceed the BE-100 limits are reduced to the maximum.
  • Currently, when a design is imported which contains a specified Maximum Stitch Length, the value is ignored. Instead, the BE-100 Maximum Stitch Length will be used, as set in Values For New Designs.
  • The Start and Stop position for imported Melco designs is set to the coordinates (0,0).
  • Fill patterns are not preserved because of the difference in the ways in which Fill patterns are created in Melco versus BE-100. When a Melco design containing a Simple or Complex Fill shape is imported, the default BE-100 Fill pattern is used.
  • If a design is imported which contains a Running Stitch shape, and there is no specified stitch length, the BE-100 default of 2.5 mm is used.
  • If a design is imported which contains specialized shapes which were created for Chenille machines, such as Chain Stitch and Moss Stitch shapes, those shapes will be imported as BE-100 Path shapes.
  • Currently, Melco E-stitch shapes will be imported as BE-100 Regions. In future versions of BE-100, these shapes will be imported as E-stitch shapes.
  • Currently, Digitized or Special Stitch shapes will be imported as regular Path shapes. In future versions of BE-100, these shapes will be imported as Programmable Path shapes.
  • Currently, when importing designs which contain Stored Symbols, the design will show the symbol where it was punched, instead of correctly duplicating the symbol at each place where it is to be repeated. In future versions of BE-100, the symbol will not show where it was punched, and instead will correctly appear in each place where it is to be duplicated.
  • Multi-head Functions such as High Speed, Slow Speed, Borer On, and Borer Off are currently not being imported. In future version of BE-100, these commands will be preserved, but the Sequin command will not be preserved, as there is no BE-100 equivalent.
  • Trim commands sometimes fail to import, or are applied to the incorrect shape.
  • Melco Columns (BE-100 Regions) with single point arcs are somewhat "flattened" when imported into BE-100. This can especially be seen with certain glyphs in particular Melco fonts, such as 2, 5, 6, 9, b, e and o in the Mini Block font; C, G, O and Q in the Olde English font; e, 3 and 8 in the Open Block font; 0, 6 and 9 in the 2 Color font; U in the Roman Block font; and Q and R in the Sports Symbols font.
  • If a Melco design contains a Single-Line Column (a BE-100 Column) followed immediately by a regular Column (a BE-100 Region), the start of the Region shape incorrectly comes to a point.
  • If a Melco design contains Automatic Lock Stitches applied to Running Stitch shapes, when the design is imported, the Automatic Lock Stitches are lost.
  • If a Melco design uses the Lock Stitch On command to apply Automatic Lock Stitches to Single-Line Columns or regular Columns, there doesn't appear to be any Automatic Lock Stitches applied to the shapes in Melco. Nonetheless, when these designs are imported into BE-100, these shapes (BE-100 Columns and Regions) will have Automatic Lock Stitches.
  • If a Melco design uses the Lock Stitch Execute command to apply Automatic Lock Stitches to Single-Line Columns or regular Columns, there doesn't appear to be any Automatic Lock Stitches applied to the start of the shapes in either Melco or BE-100. There are Automatic Lock Stitches applied to the ends of the shapes in Melco. When imported into BE-100, these Automatic Lock Stitches are lost about half the time.
  • If a Melco design uses the Lock Stitch Execute command to apply Automatic Lock Stitches to Simple or Complex Fills, there doesn't appear to be any Automatic Lock Stitches applied in either Melco or BE-100. If the Lock Stitch On command is used with Fills, however, both Melco and BE-100 apply Automatic Lock Stitches to the starts and ends of Fill shapes.
  • If a Melco design uses the Jump Stitch command to move the embroidery machine head between shapes (as opposed to using the Jump Stitch command to generate stitches), currently a BE-100 manual stitch shape will appear in between the shapes.
  • Certain files which were created with particular versions of Melco contain commands which BE-100 cannot recognize. If you attempt to import these designs, a message box will be generated stating that the design contains an unexpected or illegal command, and the design will not import.
  • Certain Melco Condensed files which appear on the Great Notions CD cannot be imported into BE-100 because they appear to be missing bytes. These files are "14278.cnd" "15074.cnd" and "15196.cnd"
  
  
• The STB (Stitch to Block) function is now available in Feature Levels 4 and 5. This means that Manual stitch shapes can be converted to Path and Region shapes.
• The STB Settings dialog has been added to the Shape/Convert To Menu. With the STB Settings dialog, sensitivity for several parameters which are used for shape recognition can be adjusted. If the sensitivities are set too high, variations in density and stitch length may cause more individual Path and Region shapes to be created than is desired, which may result in poorer performance.
• In the STB Settings dialog, the Straight and/or arc points option, the Arc approximation bar and the Convert Now button are currently disabled in this version of BE-100.
• Twenty-seven new sample design (.BDF) files have been added.
• Six new pre-memorized fabric settings, tewnty-five new programmable fill stitch patterns, twenty-six new programmable jagged edge patterns, and twenty-four new programmable run stitch patterns have been added.
• A new pre-memorized path stitch pattern called Bean-Stitch was added.
• Seven new fonts were added.
• The name of one font, Albertville, has been changed to Alaska. If you have designs which contain text objects created with the Albertville font, before uninstalling your current version of BE-100, drag the file "Albert.bfn" out of your Fonts folder. Then, after you have uninstalled your current version of BE-100 and installed Version 1.2, drag the file back into your Fonts folder. If you forget to do this, when you open your design you will get a message box stating that BE-100 cannot load a font for a text shape. Simply click OK to dismiss the message box, then when the design opens select your text shape, bring up the Properties dialog, and on the Text page select "Alaska" from the Fonts drop-down list box. Click OK to dismiss the Properties dialog, and re-save your design.
• The Cut Corners option is now de-selected (i.e., turned off) by default for the pre-memorized path stitch pattern called Run .
• You can now access the General, Stitches and Commands tabs in the Text Properties dialog in Feature Levels 1 and 2.
• The minimum Density Adjustment has been lowered from 25% of the overall Design Density to 1% of the overall Design Density.
• A problem in which the user had to click OK or Cancel twice to dismiss the Design Info dialog has been fixed.
• A couple different problems in which the DAO/Jet engine would fail to initialize have been fixed.
• A problem in which BE-100 would crash when closing a document has been fixed.
• A problem certain dialogs had in recognizing decimal points if the user had chosen to display the decimal point with a comma (,) instead of a period (.), as set in the Windows Control Panel, has been fixed.

• BE-100 is a Windows 95-only application. It will not run in Windows 3.1.
• The library database BES.MDB should not be kept on a network server.
• BE-100 can be uninstalled by clicking Add/Remove Programs from the Control Panel.
• Most display errors can be traced to problems with video drivers. If you see problems with what is being displayed, ask your vendor if there are newer video drivers available.
• BE-100 has difficulty recognizing digitizer menus on certain digitizers, such as the Graphtec tablet.
• When doing On-screen Punching, sometimes certain bitmap (.BMP) image files fail to load.
• If BE-100 is installed to a non-default location, and the path contains long file names and/or blank spaces, BE-100 may fail to load background images for On-screen Punching.
• Printing with PCL print drivers crashes the application. The workaround is to use a Postscript print driver.
• If a design contains shapes which were created with intermediate colors, the shapes may not print out with certain color printers.
• Sometimes if you try to change the size of particular designs from the Properties dialog, an erroneous message box will be generated stating that the change will move the design outside of the legal design area. The work-around here is to use the Move tool to size the design.
• If a Region contains a sharp angle and the Entry and Exit points of the Region are switched, an internal run stitch may stick out of the shape.
• The Glyph Default Override controls are not correctly affecting Decorations in Monogram text objects.
• If a Gallery button is used to convert a multi-line text object, the Properties dialog will only display the first line of text, even though the design itself still contains the additional lines of text.
• With multicolored text shapes, the Color Sequence dialog only displays the text shape's default color. To display all of the individual colors in the Color Sequence dialog, first deconstruct the text shape or convert it to paths and regions.
• If a text shape follows a shape which uses a different needle, make sure the first glyph in the text shape uses the text shape's default needle. Otherwise the color change information as displayed on the Summary page of the Design Info dialog and on the printouts will be incorrect. (Also, if no glyph in the text shape uses the default needle, the number of needles used will also be incorrect--neither of these problems will affect the sewout, however.)
• If there is a one point Manual Stitch shape at the coordinates (0,0), using the Navigation Palette can cause shapes to incorrectly display the selection appearance.
• If you create a closed column shape, the column width punch points are duplicated.
• If the Memorize button on the Text Effects page is used during text creation, and then the creation of the text object is cancelled, the Text Effects Recall drop-down list box in the main window becomes enabled but the list is empty.