measurements on the diagonal are lame...

either make it calculate the actual distance or use something that games like PF use to 'estimate' the distance.

If you go into your map settings you can change the type of measurement used. There are four different measurement options.  - Gauss

awesomeness. thanks!  a friend was whining about it...

I'd like more options, if that's possible. :-) We could use "inches" for Hero System (which uses hexes as 2m, but all game terminology is really in inches). The straight line in the hexes also seems to measure some strange units when you go further out (it assumes any angular movement gets the increase like squares do, I think, and moving off a side of a hex at 60 degrees in a straight line across hexes gets weird numbers, even when hexes are in a straight line).

Unfortunately, at this time hex support is very basic. I apologize for this.  Regarding inches, perhaps you can make a suggestion in the suggestion forum for this to be added to the scale drop down selector.  - Gauss