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Visual DialogScript version 3.01 Release Notes 03 may 1999
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Welcome to Visual DialogScript!
-------------------------------
Thank you for trying Visual DialogScript, the simple program development
tool for Microsoft Windows. Please take a few moments to read this file.
It contains important information both for new users and upgraders from
earlier versions of the product.
What is Visual DialogScript?
----------------------------
Visual DialogScript is a programming language and development environment
that has been designed to enable you quickly to develop simple dialog-based
programs or batch files for Windows 95 with the same ease as you might have
written a batch file or a Basic program for DOS.
The DialogScript language is easy to learn and similar to, though much more
powerful than, a batch language or macro language. Visual DialogScript also
includes visual tools: a Dialog Editor for designing dialog boxes visually,
and an Icon Editor for creating graphical icons for your programs. There
is also a Dialog Wizard which generates the code automatically from your
visually designed dialog. Many useful DialogScript programs can be written
in a matter of minutes!
If you are new to Visual DialogScript, try the short Tutorial, then take a
few minutes to read through the User Guide section of the online manual.
This explains how the program works and covers basic concepts of the
DialogScript programming language. There are also several examples which
you can try out by cutting the code from the help file, pasting it into the
editor window, and running it.
System Requirements
-------------------
Visual DialogScript requires the following minimum system
specification:
- A Pentium 75MHz with 16MB RAM, 2MB hard disk space, color VGA display,
mouse or compatible pointing device
- Windows 95 or NT 4.0.
Specifications for programs created with Visual DialogScript :
- Any system running Windows 95 or NT 4.0.
Removing Visual DialogScript from your system
---------------------------------------------
Visual DialogScript can be removed either by the uninstall applet from the
control panel or by the shortcut " Uninstall Visual DialogScript " in its
Folder.
Registering Visual DialogScript
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We hope you like Visual DialogScript and find it useful. However, please
be aware that Visual DialogScript is not free or public domain software.
You are granted a license giving limited rights to use the software. The
conditions of use are described in the License Agreement in the online
help. Basically, you are allowed up to 28 days to use the software for the
purpose of evaluating it. After that 28 days, or once you begin using it
for other purposes, whichever is the shorter, you must purchase a full
license for the software. You are violating criminal and intellectual
property laws if you do not do so.
This version of Visual DialogScript is fully functional. However, while it
remains unregistered the software can't compile scripts.
This program can be registered through our agents RegNet - The Registration
Network. RegNet can be located on the World Wide Web at the following URL:
http://www.swregnet.com/
Registration costs $99.00 US.
You can register online using your credit card. RegNet offers secure transactions
for users of NetScape or Microsoft Internet Explorer 3 or higher.
To go to the registration page for Visual DialogScript 3 go to:
http://www.reg.net/product.asp?ID=4240
Alternatively, you can send a check or money order (in US dollars drawn on a US bank),
made payable to Wintronix, Inc to:
RegNet
24303 Walnut Street
Suite 200
Newhall, CA 91321
U.S.A.
You can also call the toll-free number 1 800 WWW2REG (1 800 999-2734).
Callers from outside the US should call (661) 288-1827.
Upon registration (allow up to 1 working day for your registration to be processed)
you will receive your personal registration key. This will be sent by email if an
email address was specified when registering.
When you receive your registration key, place it in the program's main directory
(e.g: c:\program files\Visual DialogScript). The software will then behave as a
fully licensed version.
Technical support
-----------------
Support for Visual DialogScript is provided via email to:
support@dialogscript.com
Two levels of support are offered.
Free pre- and post-sales support covers Installation problems, bug reports
and the provision of workarounds (if possible) where a bug is identified,
and simple questions, like "Can you do this using VDS?"
An extra-cost support plan is also offered which provides support cover for
the following areas:
- Help achieving a specific task (we will write sections of script
code)
- Help debugging a script that won't work
- Help writing a script (within the limit of two hours worth of work)
- The provision of interim upgrades of the VDS software by email
where a bug prevents a script from working or necessitates an
inconvenient workaround (other customers must wait for the fixed
version to be generally released.)
For more information about support, visit the support page on our Web site.
Whatever your support problem, please help us to help you by including the
following information in your request:
- Your name and company (as specified on registration)
- The product name and version number (from the About box)
- The version of Windows you are using
- The sequence of events (or a section of script code) which will
enable us to reproduce the problem.
Please do NOT send large screendump files as enclosures as your message may
be deleted.
Known problems
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* The Help menu options to connect to our Web site and to register online
will only work if your system is set up to automatically associate your
Web browser with an Internet URL.
Changes in version 3.01
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New features:
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* Added NOTITLE style for dialog, creates non-movable window with
no title bar.
* Added two options to the EXITWIN command:
LOGOFF - logs the user off the system (the program that issued
the command appears to remain running)
FORCE - forcibly shuts down Windows without allowing programs
to display any "OK to close" messages or similar.
General Changes:
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* Corrected bug that prevented .ICO files from being loaded into a
BITMAP dialog element. As a by-product of this, it is now possible
to include icons in a .DSR and load them by specifying the byte
offset where they begin.
* DIALOG CLEAR,<bitmap> now actually clears the bitmap instead of
hiding it.
IDE changes
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* Fixed bug that caused default registry key setting from OPTION
REGKEY to be reset when stepping through script with debugger.
* Fixed bug that caused default INI file section name to be wrong.
* More logical operation of the IDE script run/debug controls:
- Run and Debug now always start script from line 1.
- Continue will continue in the mode (i.e. run or debug) in use
when the script was stopped.
* Fixed bug where script path was not added to history list when
File, New executed.
* Fixed bug that allowed compiler to try to create EXE in a non-
existant directory if this was specified in the .DSP file.
* Added editor context menu: Clear All Bookmarks
Dialog Designer changes
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* Fixed bug that when elements are on top of a GROUP or TAB element
and that element is moved, the positions of the other elements were
not always updated.
Changes in version 3.0
-----------------------
Important note:
VDS 3 is a major new version. There are many changes compared to VDS 2.
In the interests of improving the language and the features it offers, some changes
have been made that will necessitate rewriting parts of existing scripts.
The most obvious example of this is the DIALOG syn