December 10, 1998

Dear OKScript User,

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Two significant OKScript developments occured during this 
period, along with a number of minor tweeks, all of which
are discribed in the list below.

If these issues affect your scripts you can download the 
latest revision from http://home1.gte.net/yweare. Your existing 
license will automatically be active on the new software if you
install it to the same directory, otherwise you will have to 
re-enter the registration data (or copy the okscript.ini file from 
the folder where your licensed program was installed.) The 
current build is dated December 10. Click Help | About to determine 
the date of your copy of OKScript. 

This list is provided in approximate order of importance. See the 
latest help file to learn more about new capabilities.

1. A bug that caused various unpleasant effects when you tried
   to load a non-existant script, or specified a folder from which
   to load all the .oks files, was fixed. Thanks to Dave Miller for
   reporting this.

2. OKScript now catalogues all open windows, regardless of whether they
   have been active or not. As a consequence, you no longer have to click
   on a window to ensure OKScript knows about it. As a part of this
   enhancement, the predefined macro %-TITLES% was added which returns a
   string containing all the window titles that OKScript is aware of
   (separated by {ENTER}s.) Thanks to Volker Lenhardt for getting me to
   move on this idea.

3. Fixed a bug that kept MENU instructions with a particular "quote"
   structure (MENU xxx "yyy..." ...) from properly producing a menu. New
   user Andy Blakely reported this, and I can't imagine why it wasn't
   discovered earlier!

4. It has always been possible to have a menu separator line by placing
   a hyphen at the end of a menu name specification, e.g. MENU abc|def|-,
   but OKScript didn't like more than one separator per menu. That's is
   now fixed.

5. Pink, gray, orange and sky have been added to the available colors
list.

6. You can now have a functioning PLACE directive in a file that is USEd
   by another file. Dave wanted this for the script to end all scripts, to
   be published (I hope) early next year.

7. Most error reporting now goes to the editor status bar instead of
   a window. A programmable staus bar option has also been made available
   for panels, see PRAGMA STATUSBAR and MODE STATUS in the help for
   details.

8. Three other predefined macros were implemented some time back but I
   forgot to report them in the last newsletter: -TIC -TICWIN and -ACTWIN,
   which are useful for orchestrating multiple applications, a request
   from Volker.

As you can see, the evolution of OKScript happens through user input. Your
ideas and problem reports *are* appreciated. You can email them to me
(yweare@gte.net) or post them to the message board that I have set up at
my web site. Happy holidays and thank you for using OKScript. 

Michael Mardesich
okb://mikezzz