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- VISUAL DIALOGSCRIPT 2.01 RELEASE NOTES 1st August 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.
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- 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!
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- 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. You can use the same serial number that you
- received for WinScript 2.0 to register Visual DialogScript.
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- 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.
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- 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. This is only necessary if you will be
- running DialogScript executables from directories other than the one in
- which the runtime engine is located.
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- 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.
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- Registry entries used by the Visual DialogScript development environment
- are stored in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\JMTech\DialogScript\2.0.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Details of how to register, and what it will cost, will also be found
- in the online help.
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- 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.
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- Support is provided via Internet email at: support@jmtech.demon.co.uk.
- CompuServe members may also obtain support via CIS ID: 100015,1242.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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