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Version of the PMScript for Windows:
Main new features:
Dialog Engine updated:
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New dialog elements: multiple selection listboxes, comboboxes, multiline
edit controls.
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A callback subroutine can be specified for each dialog element. This subroutine
can retrieve state of all controls in the dialog and update them
if necessary. Yet this subroutine can contain commands modifying PageMaker
document.
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Nested dialogs are possible.
All dialogs look like native Win95 dialogs.
Other features:
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A number of new commands: GetYesNoCancel, GetOKCancel, Continue,
ReadLine, Abort, ...
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Unlimited number of variables.
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Unlimited number of nested loops/subroutines.
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Tracing utility allows to view/modify variables.
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Bug fixes.
How to download trial version:
- back up files PMTSCRIPT.EXE and PMTRACE.EXE ( e.g. copy them from the
PLUGINS directory to secure location )
- In the PLUGINS directory replace them with the new ones: PMSCRIPT.EXE
and PMTRACE.EXE
- Launch PageMaker and try to run and to trace any script.
- If it does not work properly, try to download again
To uninstall: restore older PMSCRIPT.EXE and PMTRACE.EXE into Plugins
directory.
Script examples illustrating new features:
Object Annotation : this script
alows to write, read and edit a text annotation for a PageMaker object.
Annotation is stored in private data record. Script uses a new type of
a dialog control - editwin - which works like a small text editor.
Invoke this script when PageMaker object is selected.
Import Styles: this script
allows to import styles from one document to another. Script uses multiple
selection listbox. Callback subscript and nested dialogs.
Documentation:
- New operators
- Functions. Only 1 new function added: IsQuoted. Returns 0 or 1.
- More documentation pending