I think you can still get a free copy of Serif's DrawPlus X8. It's not supported anymore (they put all their efforts into the Affinity products and chose not to provide a straightforward upgrade path) but I still use it for odd stuff and it's OK.

Inkscape's quite well thought of too, although I never got far up the learning curve before giving up!

...after a little research, DrawPlus X8 looks like you can only really find it at various non-Serif sites, but archive.org have it.

There's a universal license at

https://support.serif.com/hc/en-us/articles/10259070288015-Do-you-still-support-the-Serif-Plus-range-software

An initial note. Quite a few of my CRAP buttons use "runas" so I can use an admin account to run things from a non-admin login.

If I use the new "skip command window" option, I have to set the application as runas.exe and pass everything else (the actual program as well as the user account details) to the command as a lengthy parameter.

It works -- of course! -- and is exactly as the command actually works but it means, for me at least, most of my buttons -- those that don't need a results window left open, anyway -- are going to be runas.exe with the actual program I'm running (along with its parameters) demoted to a parameter of runas.

Not sure if this matters or not! I haven't found an error with it, just a change of focus. :)

Here’s my reasoning for the application launch mode. With the command line window the command is all arguments side. If I am going to skip it then I need a reliable way to tell what the executable is without dealing with the arguments side of things.

-hamradio (March 31, 2024, 08:47 AM)

There were, I think, some commands that took a lot of tinkering to make work properly -- and there are definitely some where the command window should be left open as well as some that don't.

I think I made most things work by either using start /b or not -- the remote desktop example I documented in the help is one where it was needed, but -- and I think it's down to Microsoft rather than anything else! -- expecting consistency is possibly a step too far!

I thought I'd left a note on here a few days ago to help with updating the help, if it's needed, for the new version, but I don't see the message so I expect I abandoned it accidentally :)

Anyhoo -- I'm still using CRAP only on a Windows 10 machine, but that doesn't mean I don't have Win11 available to test on if it's useful!