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IMPROV FOR WINDOWS, RELEASE 2.1 - RELEASE NOTES

This document contains notes about Improv(R) Release 2.1.
The notes describe problems you might encounter and
provide information not available in the Improv Handbook,
Improv in Action, and the Help systems. To print this
document, choose File Print.

NEW FEATURES
WK4 Import/Export-- Improv can now import and export
1-2-3(R) files in WK4 format. For more complete information
search in Help under "Importing."

Working Together Icons-- Improv now has a set of SmartIcons
that allow you to launch other Lotus applications from
within Improv.  For more complete information search in
Help under "Customizing SmartIcons" for "Using the Working
Together SmartIcons Set."

Notes Data Exchange-- Improv can now exchange data with
Lotus Notes(R). Improv supports text, numbers, and date/time
numbers in editable Notes fields. For more complete information
search in Help under "Data exchange."

INSTALL
1. If your system is running the DOS SHARE utility when
you install Improv, then the Improv Install program will
be unable to delete a temporary file named INSTMAIN.EXE,
which is located in the subdirectory named LOTUSTMP,
which is located in your Windows directory. After you
complete the Install program, manually delete the file
INSTMAIN.EXE and then remove the LOTUSTMP directory.

2. For Server installations, after setting up the \Lotshare
directory, create a subdirectory named \Improv.v20. This
directory will contain the license files. The full path
will be \Lotshare\Improv.v20.

IMPROV GUIDED TOUR
1. For optimal viewing of the Guided Tour, before you
launch Improv for the first time, turn off any screen
saver program and switch to the Windows 3.1 VGA display
driver.

2. Improv attempts to load the Guided Tour the first time
that you launch the program. If you delete the Guided Tour
before launching Improv for the first time, be sure to
change the following line in the IMPROV.INI file, which is
located in your Windows directory: Change FirstTime=YES to
FirstTime=NO. Changing this line prevents Improv from
trying to launch the tour.

SAMPLE SCRIPTS
The following sample library scripts are provided in the
Scripts directory.  To find out more about how these
scripts work, open the .LSS files and read the descriptive
comments in the scripts. The scripts marked with an asterisk
(*) are attached to SmartIcons.
*COLORCEL.LSS - Allows you to assign colors to cells, based
on their values. There is an option to color "All Cells on
Recalc." When the option is checked, each time the worksheet
recalculates, the script checks every cell value. To turn
this option off,  run the script again, and uncheck the
option.
*LOADTMPL.LSS - Allows you to view a dialog box that lets
you choose from a list of worksheet templates to open.
*ADDINS20.LSS - Registers the add-in @functions for use in
formulas.
SEARCH.LSS - Allows you to search for and/or replace cell
values or text of formulas.
SCRPUTIL.LSS - Includes a set of utilities for writing
Improv applications in LotusScript.

DEFAULT PATHS
When specifying default paths in the Default Paths dialog
box (Tools\User Setup\Paths), do not enter a trailing
backslash at the end of a subdirectory path.  For example,
enter C:\IMPROV\MYFILES, not C:\IMPROV\MYFILES\. All root
directories must end with a backslash.  For example, enter
D:\.

PRINTING
1. Multi-line text in a model may appear truncated when
you print to an HP LaserJet III.  To correct this, check
Send TrueType as Graphics in the Options panel of the
Print Setup dialog box and then print the model.

2. Settings on the Print Setup dialog box--for example,
paper size--are not saved with the Improv model. If you
open an existing model and notice, for example, that the
layout of a presentation has changed, check the paper size
specified in the Print Setup dialog box.

3. If you set worksheet grid line styles to double lines,
the space between the lines may not appear in a print
preview. However, the lines will print correctly.

LOTUS CHART(TM)
1. If you get the message "Cannot create a chart" when
you open a file containing charts, do not save the file
or you will lose the charts previously contained in the
file. Instead, when you get the message, click the Explain
button to get more information about resolving the problem.
Then close the file without saving it.

2. The only information that is linked between the
worksheet and a chart is the data that you plot. The
legend names and X-axis names are not linked. Therefore,
if you edit an item name, the chart does not update to
reflect the new name.

3. To cut and paste data and keep a chart of that data
updated, cut and paste the cells only. If you cut and paste
items, the chart does not update.

4. The High-Low-Close-Open (HLCO) chart layouts that have
bars at the bottom and lines at the top will not display
correctly unless the chart has five or six data series.

5. The High-Low-Close-Open (HLCO) chart layouts that have
no bars at the bottom or lines at the top will not display
correctly unless the chart has four or fewer data series.

6. If you enter a maximum value for the chart scale, the
chart may not display it if there is not enough room.
To correct this, enlarge the chart vertically, change the
major ticks value, or change the minimum value.

7. You cannot format the series labels in a pie chart.
The series labels for other chart types take their format
from the Y-axis label format.

8. In a 3D chart, the X-axis tick labels may overlap or
appear truncated. To correct this, enlarge the plot of the
chart or assign a font in a smaller point size to the X-axis.

9. Assigning some fonts to the Y-axis title in a chart
results in horizontal text rather than vertical text
appearing in the print preview; however, the printout
appears correctly.  These fonts include FixedSys, Helvetica
Narrow, MS Sans Serif, MS Serif, Palatino, System, and
ZapfChancery.

FONTS
1. To assign a font size that is not listed in the InfoBox
or on the status bar, you must use LotusScript--for example,
use the command SetIntProperty(0, TextSize, 72) to specify
a 72-point font. In header/footer text, enter a format code
to specify the desired font --for example, {F 72}.

2. Improv does not support SuperText and SuperPrint
(Releases 1.1, 1.2, 2.0, 2.1) from Zenographics.

TEXT EXPORT
If you export an unsaved file to a text file, there is no
limit to the size of the file you can export. If you export
a saved file to a text file, you can export a maximum of
8192 rows and 256 columns.

FILE IMPORT
1. Remove password protection from a file before you
import the file into Improv.

2. Remove embedded charts and graphic objects from a
Microsoft(R) Excel 4.0 file before you import the file
into Improv.

3. When you import a 1-2-3 or Excel file that contains
many formulas, the import may take a long time. To import
the worksheet faster, don't import the formulas.  To do
this, uncheck Import Formulas in the Worksheet Import
dialog box.

4. When you import a 1-2-3 or Excel file, most functions
will be translated into their Improv equivalents; however,
you may need to recreate some manually after you import
the file. For more information, see Appendix B of the
Improv Handbook, which lists 1-2-3 and Excel functions and
their Improv equivalents.

5. Improv can import Excel 4.0 files. If you upgraded from
Excel 3.0 to Excel 4.0, you must save Excel 3.0 files as
Excel 4.0 files before you import them into Improv.

DDE LINKS
A DDE link may break without warning if Improv is the
server and you rename, group, or ungroup items that are
included in a linked selection. If the link breaks,
delete the link formula and recreate the link.

COLLATE OPTIONS
In the International dialog box (Tools/UserSetup/International),
the ASCII option actually displays the ANSI character set.

LOTUSSCRIPT
1. Be aware of the following issues with scripts that use
the CloseModel or CloseIWindow functions to close models:
a) If you have a library script that closes the model it is
attached to, do not attach it to a model. Instead, use a
model script for this purpose.
b) Do not debug a library or model script that uses
the CloseModel function to close the file that contains
the script.

2. Within a script, reading files from a floppy device
that is not ready and then choosing the Cancel option from
a "Drive not ready" message will cause Improv and Windows
to crash. To work around this problem, scripts should first
include another file operation that checks the drive to make
sure that it is ready. For example, include the dir$
function in the script, along with a way to exit the script
if the dir$ fails. Then if the drive is not ready, choosing
Cancel will succeed, but the dir$ will fail and the script
will stop. If the drive is ready, the script can continue
with the file operation that you originally wanted to perform.

3. If you do not use U.S. as your International country
setting, you should note the following. Using "\$" within
the second argument to the format$ function will cause the
"$" to appear at the beginning of the resulting text--for
example, print format$(1234.56,"#,###.##\$") will print
$1,234.56. If you want the "$" trailing the text, use print
format$(1234.56,"#,###.##")+"$" which will print 1,234.56$.

4. In scripts, use the float data type to store Improv cell
values. Use the SetLongDoubleCellValue and
GetLongDoubleCellValue functions in place of SetCellValue
and GetCellValue to set and get Improv cell data. This will
avoid rounding errors due to the conversion of 8 byte data
to 10 byte data.

5. GetBrowserNote doesn't work when the selection is a model
script.

6. GetSelection doesn't work when the selection is a library
script.

7.  Do not assign the same name to two scripts in the same
script library file. This includes scripts with the same
names and different capitalization. For example, do not name
two scripts SCRIPT1 and script1.

8.  After deleting or renaming a script name in the Script
Name box of the script library window, you must press Enter.

9. Do not debug a script (Tools/Run Script/Debug) containing
the command CreateChart or CmdExec(xcmd_CreateChart). Instead,
insert a STOP statement in the script after these commands.
Then to debug the script, run the script. The STOP statement
will invoke the Debug window, and you will be able to debug
the script from that point.

10. In Script Help, the description of the parameters for the
GetStringProperty is incorrect. Use the parameter IT_CONTEXT1
to find the view/presentation/script name; use the parameter
IT_CONTEXT2 to find the worksheet name.

SCRIPT RECORDING AND PLAYBACK
1. Recorded scripts may have references to the specific
model that was operated on. To use the script on a different
view, worksheet, or model or to make the script more general,
edit the lines before running the recorded script.

2. You cannot generalize a script that records changes to
settings of graphic objects in Presentations because the
names of the objects are generated by Improv.

3. The option to replace data with calculated values when
adding a formula does not get recorded. When you run the
script, the formula will be created, but the data values
will not be replaced. To work around this problem, record
clearing the cell values first and then create the formula.

4. When recording moving between views, opening the Browser
will always be recorded. To move between views without
opening the Browser, change the SetSelectionByName function
call in the recorded script to CreateSelHandle, use the
OpenIWindow command on the selection, and remove the script
text that opens the Browser.

5. When editing text, operations such as Cut, Copy, and
Paste  are not recorded. All that is recorded is the
resulting edited text.

LOTUS DIALOG EDITOR
Do not use hard carriage returns when entering text for
buttons or text boxes. Instead, resize the control to allow
the text to wrap.

C API
The Scripts directory contains an import library file
(LIBPL.LIB) and a header file (CAPI_PUB.H) for C API users.
To call into the Improv C API interface, create a Windows
.DLL file that includes the CAPI_PUB.H (Improv C API
prototypes) and links with LIBPL.LIB (Improv C API import
library).