A couple of hints and that's your lot [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

The "stately home" error message - my word, how we laughed when that popped up during an exhibition demo - only appears under very special circumstances. Which unfortunately I can't remember precisely, but it goes something like this: the program has an error message to report such as "some fonts had to be substituted", "do you want to make this the current attribute", or whatever. Simple informational messages count as "errors" in the sense I'm using the term. To report the error, it loads a dialog template from the resources (if you're not familiar with Windows programming this may all be gibberish to you), formats the specific error message into the dialog's static text control, and then displays the dialog. However, if the program should happen to run out of memory after loading the dialog template but before formatting the error message, then the dialog is displayed with the static text control's default wording, as specified in the dialog template. And that just happens to be "Help help we're trapped ..." Now, I can't remember if it's all error dialogs which potentially do this, or just some. Knowing the person who put this message in, and what he worked on, you might like to explore the dialogs associated with the galleries, especially the font and clipart galleries. And beware of the fish.

Credit screen - apologies again, I can't remember exactly how to bring this up, but it goes like this: choose File / Import to bring up the "Import File" common dialog. Holding down Control, Alt, and Shift (I think), double-click on the dialog's background (ie. "client area" to use the Windoze terminology). Cancel the dialog. Go through the cycle again. And then a third time - but this time _don't_ hold down Ctrl-Alt-Shift when double-clicking the client area. If you've done it right you should see a scrolling list of credited programmers (and others). Two problems, though, because the easter egg code hasn't been updated for a number of years: developers who only worked on the program after ~1995 aren't mentioned; the list is scrolled on "idle events" and therefore may flash past at light-speed on newer machines.