OKScript Status Report #24

October 27, 2003

Dear OKScript User,

The OKScript Status Report is sent to OKScript
licensees, developers and friends when significant
updates have been made to the program. Interesting
techniques and applications for the program will
also be distributed in the report periodically. To
update or be removed from this distribution list
please see the links at the bottom of this message
or write me at yweare@gte.net.

This issue announces a major update to the script 
editor and the discontinuance of the 16-bit version
of the program.

The October 23, 2003 OKScript (and Ophidio) release 
incorporates a more capable script editing component.
The user benefits of this update include:

  - Multi-level "undo" and "redo" replaces the
    single level undo-only feature in past versions.
  - More search options.
  - Capability to send a script file or a selected 
    section of a script to a printer.
  - Column and line selection mode, in addition to
    the normal text selection mode.
  - Ability to "reverse the case" of a selected
    piece of text.
  - Block indent and un-indent.
  - Drag and drop editing.
  - The editor options dialog now includes buttons
    to quickly setup a light or dark background syntax 
    coloring scheme.

The new features can be found under the Edit menu except
for Print which is in the File menu. No changes were made 
to the OKScript commands - existing scripts will work as 
before.

The 16 bit version of OKScript is obsolete and has
been removed from the website.

For users interested in Linux, I briefly explored running 
OKScript on a Linux platform under WINE. It ran ok and 
created a button panel, but didn't properly send keystrokes 
to other Windows applications (e.g. Notepad) that were also 
running under WINE. I'd appreciate hearing from users who
have successfully used OKScript under Linux.


For more information, or to offer suggestions or 
interesting techniques or applications for OKScript write 
me at yweare@gte.net. To download the latest version visit 
the website at ...
http://home1.gte.net/yweare/index.htm

Thank you for supporting the continuing development of 
OKScript.

Michael Mardesich
okb://mikezzz