#ProWrite 3.1
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James… YES! I love the enhancements you mentioned. Arexx support will
allow me to use Cygnus Ed for a lot of the text editing I do, and 'import'
it to ProWrite for addition to letters/reports/articles. An example of what
I'm thinking…. "_look_ at that" I could have Arexx translate on its way
to ProWrite, turning _look_ into italics (and dropping the underlines). Or,
for that matter, I could pull a ProWrite doc into Cygnus Ed via Arexx and
do the translation backwards. Or pull text offline from VLT, or push it
online via VLT directly from ProWrite (hmm… might make replying to
messages a bit easier :). it would be nice if ProWrite could specify which
document the Arexx port was to put text into, while not interfering with
the users entry of text (my specific app would be to capture an online
conference in one document while entering text on another). –Eet–
Director of Mayhem
Extra Terrestrial Imports, Ltd.
Jim,
Through ProWrite's AREXX port, you can specify which document window you
want text to be sent to. The command that does this is "Window
(window-name)".
With version 3.1 we have even added a command to get the name of the
document that is currently selected. The command is "DocName" and returns
the result in the AREXX variable "result".
James Bayless
New Horizons Software, Inc.
This is great news. Periodically I get re-infatuated with Arexx (most
recently with the new release of VLT). Maybe it's laziness, I want my
computer to do all the work for me 🙂 (hmm… have BBS's autodoc-maker
create the autodocs file and pump it to ProWrite, and have ProWrite use
that info to make up a user's manual, with appropriate text styling, pump
the created document out VLT to my publisher… all with 1 touch of the
keyboard 🙂 –Eet–
Director of Mayhem
Extra Terrestrial Imports, Ltd.