VISUAL DIALOGSCRIPT 2.05 RELEASE NOTES                    20th October 1996
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Welcome to Visual DialogScript!
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Thank you for trying Visual DialogScript, the simple program development
tool for Microsoft Windows.  Visual DialogScript has been designed
to allow you to quickly 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.

If you are upgrading from WinScript look at the section titled
'Upgrade Notes', which lists the things that are new or different about
Visual DialogScript 2.0.

Installation
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If you haven't already done so, run the program SETUP.EXE, which will
copy the program files to the desired directory and create an entry
on the Windows 95 Start Menu for the Visual DialogScript development
environment.

You may want to move the runtime engine DSRUN.EXE to the Windows System
directory, or alternatively to add the location of your Visual DialogScript
directory to your PATH statement. If you run DialogScript executables from
directories other than the one in which the runtime engine is located you
will get the error message "Cannot run script" unless this is done. This is
not done from Setup both to give you the option, and to draw attention to
the fact that similar arrangements must be made when installing EXEs
created with VDS on other systems.

Removing Visual DialogScript from your system
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Visual DialogScript adds files to no other directories than its own.  To
remove it, simply delete all the files in the Visual DialogScript directory
and then remove the directory.

Registry entries used by the Visual DialogScript development environment
are stored in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\JMTech\DialogScript\2.0.

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 licence giving limited rights to use the software.  The
conditions of use are described in the Licence Agreement in the online
help.

This version of Visual DialogScript is fully functional.  However, while it
remains unregistered the software will display its startup screen for an
extra six seconds, with a gentle reminder that the software is still
unregistered.  Also, any EXE programs you create will display a message
that they were created using an unregistered copy of the product when they
terminate.

Details of how to register, and what it will cost, will also be found
in the online help.

Technical support
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Technical support is available by Internet email, only to registered
users.  However, we will endeavour to answer any questions that may
arise during your evaluation of the product.

Support is provided via Internet email at: jmtech@netlink.co.uk.
CompuServe members may also obtain support via CIS ID: 100015,1242.

Multi-platform support
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This version of Visual DialogScript can create both 32-bit and 16-bit
executable files. DialogScript executables require the appropriate runtime
engine DSRUN.EXE (32-bit) or DSRUN16.EXE (16-bit). Either runtime is freely
redistributable, without royalties, in accordance with the terms and
conditions set out in the file DSRUN.TXT.

The 16-bit runtime is not included in the package, so you will not be able
to run any 16-bit programs that you create. To obtain it we recommend that
you get it from our World Wide Web site to ensure you have the latest
version.

Changes in version 2.05
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Changes:

* (16-bit) Fixed bug affecting Alt-keys in WINDOW SEND.
* Fixed bug in @NAME function (returned null if no period in filename.)
* Fixed some problems with dialog editor.

Changes in version 2.04
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Changes:

* (16-bit) Fixed bug which made RUNM, RUNZ, RUNH all have the same effect
  as RUN.

Changes in version 2.03
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New features:

* The OPTION PRIORITY command lets you set the priority level of your
  programs.  (32-bit only)
* The OPTION SKDELAYcommand lets you add a delay between characters sent
  using the WINDOW SEND command.
* The RUN and SHELL commands have an extra optional priority level
  parameter.  (32-bit only)
* In the REGISTRY command and the @REGREAD function you can now use the
  STATS root key to access the Windows performance statistics under
  Registry key HKEY_DYN_DATA.  (32-bit only)

Changes:

* Fixed problem with 32-bit Dialog Editor which caused incorrect wrapping
  of dialog elements when inserting to the editor.
* Fixed bug in Dialog Editor whereby value field clears when value of
  RADIO dialog element is changed.
* Fixed bug in Dialog Editor that caused default style names to always be
  STYLE1.
* Fixed bug in 16-bit runtime that caused first command line parameter
  passed to an EXE program to be lost.
* Fixed problem that caused 'Unable to run EXE' or 'Sharing violation'
  messages on some systems.
* Default INI file handling has been changed to use DS16.INI instead of
  DEFAULT.INI for compatibility with the 16-bit version.

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