My forum so I get the final say here.
I'm closing this thread as obviously there is nothing left of any value here.
Let me just say that every online forum has little cliques that have their own "agenda". People like Fred, Terry, Brian, Eljae, Jeff, Dennis, and others tend to write posts that encourage and help others with questions the majority of the time. Others (about three or four on this particular forum who shall go nameless) tend to want their voices to be louder than everyone else's and they think they are entitled to a direct line to Qimage development, bypassing most other "average" users. They think they know best, their way is the right way, and they don't understand why I didn't implement some suggestion they made in 2007. As a result, they tend to be negative most of the time and only pipe up to complain about something with just a few positives or helpful posts thrown in along the way as "bread crumbs". It's OK that they are on a mission, but as I said before, my job is one of calibration and I'm the one who has to grease the squeaky wheels and factor in the "loud mouths" who think their way is the only way along with the consensus of the Qimage consortium as a whole: meaning your list of features may not have the same priority as the general Qimage user base. And no, I'm not singling out Ernst as there are other even bigger "voices" here, nor am I saying nothing can be gained by persistent voices as Ernst (and Ray) have allowed me to find a bug in the test strips. All I can say is, keep the faith, and let's move on.
When looking at someone's "stats" on this forum, better click on the poster's name and then click "Show Posts" to see what they are actually posting, whether they are helping out, just making suggestions, or always complaining about something. That counts a lot more than the total number of posts!
Mike