January 8, 1999

Dear OKScript User,

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A number of minor fixes and tweeks occured during this
period. Some of these changes were designed to support the
Dave Miller's forthcoming Extensible Modular OKScript Alert
Library (EMOAL), a general purpose bridge script and the
largest and most advanced code package so far produced for
OKScript. I discribe EMOAL in more detail after the program
change notices listed 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 January
8, 1999. 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 or
modified capabilities.

1. OKScript's mechanism for finding windows to target
   keystrokes was completely overhauled. With the new
   scheme OKScript can successfully activate windows that
   have not been previously active for OKScript to
   catalogue. In the past launching OKScript after OKbridge
   and immediately clicking a button would cause a "Window
   not found" error. This no longer occurs.

2. The font color problem that occured when pasting text
   from another application into the Script Editor was
   fixed.

3. The ability to place and remove and test for a check
   mark next to a user defined menu was added. This feature
   is used in the EMOAL code.

4. Macros can now be used in the first arguments of LET,
   TRUNC, ONERROR and MODE. This is an EMOAL enhancement.

5. The occasional crash or hang when faulty license
   information was entered into the registration form has
   been corrected.

6. The Script Editor's title bar now displays the current
   file name. This makes it possible for a second 
   instance of OKScript to send keystrokes the a specific
   OKScript editor.

7. Windows can now be activated by their handle ID (which
   can be retrieved with the -ACTWIN and -TICWIN predefined
   macros. This feature makes it possible to target
   keystrokes to a specific window when there are multiple
   windows with the same title bar text. See the WINDOW
   command entry in the help for more details. 

8. An ambiguous "Window Missing" error message was
   clarified.

EMOAL 
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Dave Miller's (okb://dbmiller) Extensible Modular OKScript
Alert Library (EMOAL) is now available (as a self
installing archive) for download at the OKScript Samples
web page:

   http://home1.gte.net/yweare/samples.htm

EMOAL is an application that runs under OKScript. It
consists of an extensible collection of convention modules
and the coordinating framework that produces a
*dynamically* configurable control panel for alerting in
OKbridge.

EMOAL provides an alternative to OKScript's plagiarize
facility, allowing users to load a pre-built general
agreement script (sayc or 2over1 for example), make partner
specific changes with a few menu clicks (optionally saving
the result for future use) and voila, a custom alert panel,
ready to go!

Users can freely add to EMOAL's modular convention library.
Additions are seamlessly integrated into the resultant
panel. Users are encouraged to submit new modules to Dave
for inclusion in future EMOAL releases.

EMOAL is the most advanced OKScript application to date.
Novice OKScript user's should have little difficulty using
the built-in features, but are encouraged to do some basic
scripting before tackling EMOAL enhancements.

EMOAL is scheduled to be updated in the next couple days.
This will be announced on the OKbridge discuss mail list
and newsgroup. That release of EMOAL will require the
January 8 (or later) release of OKScript to operate.

Support for EMOAL will be provided by Dave. He can be
reached at DBM.LAM@cwix.com or dmiller@star.zko.dec.com.

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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. Thank you
for using OKScript.

Michael Mardesich
okb://mikezzz