February 11, 1999

Dear OKScript User,

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Two significant enhancements and a number of minor fixes and 
tweeks occured during this period. 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 February 10, 1999. Click Help | About to determine 
the date of your copy of OKScript.

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

1. The BUTTON directive now supports an optional 'width' argument
   (between the 'name' and 'color' arguments) that lets you specify an
   exact width (in pixels) for the button. This makes it easy to build
   panels with buttons in nice, even columns.

2. Keystroke strings that can be recorded and played back in the 
   script editor (with the F4 and F5-F8 keys) are now persistent
   between sessions. This can be helpful if you have frequently 
   recuring key sequences that you use to build or modify scripts.
   Note, because of the encoding method used to implement this
   feature, some particularly long strings will not be saved.

3. The ability to field any button or menu click in one handler
   was added to the DO directive. If you find that you are always 
   doing the same processing at the start or end of your handlers
   you might want to use this new capability to put all that 
   processing in one place. To make this feature more useful,
   three new predefined macros were added to retrieve key properties
   from the currently active button/menu: -myname returns the item's
   name, -mycolor returns the button's color and -mycheck returns
   the menu's check mark status.

4. It is now possible to expand macro references nested within
   other macros using a variation of the LET command:

   LET #<macroname> <text with macro references>

5. For applications that are not keeping up with, or are garbling 
   the text you are sending you can now configure OKScript to
   pause briefly between characters or just at {enter}s. See the
   Script | Set Panel Options menu.

6. The name of last button hit is now underlined. This is useful 
   when OKScript is used for giving on-line seminars.

7. The OPEN instruction now directly supports loading all of the
   .OKS files in a directory. Just use the directory path as the
   argument.

8. A PARSE instruction that will incrementally divide a string into
   words (or other delimited units) was implemented.

9. PRAGMAs to inhibit error reporting on faulty window activations
   (WINERROROFF) and to remove the File and Help menus from
   panels (FILEHELPOFF) were added. These should be used with
   caution.

10. Clicking on Abort-Script while a script is in the middle of sending
   a string no longer waits until the string is completed.

11. A number of menus are now disabled when no file is loaded
   in the script editor.

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