Such a useful and well priced application. Such a shame that the author hasn't bothered to update. Its very definitely unstable now in relation to where it is plaved in the launch order.

Until it is registed, this program pops up a nag window every few minutes (even if it is not being used). It is so annoying that I cannot tolerate it long enough to evaluate. This is certainly not an effective way to encourage people to use and pay for their program.

It works well but takes a very long time at boot-up Looking for fonts. I E-Mailed the author about this but so far have received no reply - still good though as I use spanish characters in some of my correspondence. Perhaps the author may read this and include a cache of some kind so that the app doesnn't search for fonts each time around?

As a former user of Pop Char in Classic (stopped when it became shareware instead of donation-ware), has anyone looked at "Show Character Palette" included in Panther? It seems to do everything Pop Char did or most of what CharView professes to do. The main difference seems to be the GUI. Character Palette runs from the Menu Bar with some features under the "Unicode" heading in Services. My gut feeling is that in my have other features not included in CharView but I could be wrong on this as not having used CharView.

What Character Palette does do is show all Glyphs, Unicode listed in blocks or by hex, gives a visual list of all fonts containing the desired symbol, variants and similar items, a verbal descriptor of each item, its code, insert and favorite capability, groupings, collection groupings, unicode groupings magnification and more.

I am starting to get the impression that if I paid for all the shareware and/or commercial equivalents that Panther includes, such as Character Palette, Fax, Labels, Classic Status, utilities, etc. Panther may be a bargain.

Let us not forget that much of this shareware was free or donation-ware when it was first released and only became salable after users, just like you, documented most of the bugs and suggested improvements. That at least makes me feel better about having to buy Panther all over again a year after Jaguar at full price. At least Panther has some real value beyond bug fixes and performance, and sets standards that 3rd party developers need to allow for in their future releases.

Sorry, Alex, but I haven't been able to use a version since 1.3.5, which worked great (and still works great!). I use 1.3.5 on an iBook G3/500 and a biege G3 (G4/500 CPU) with OS 9.2.2. Every version since has either crashed on launch, or crashed when a font was selected.