November 4th, 2008

ActiveCompanionSet has been updated with:
ActiveX xtra 1.0.8.25
Added support for ActiveX controls that require run-time licences. Control's run-time license is now automatically saved with ActiveX cast member during authoring.

Updated xtras and documentation are available to download.

July 26th, 2008

ActiveCompanionSet has been updated with:
VbScriptXtra 2.6.1.127
Removed unnecessary limitation in type casting of linear list of lists to array of variants.
Added support for DCOM. CreateObject call can now accept Server parameter to create COM object remotely via DCOM.

OLE xtra 1.4.2.34
Fixed minor inconsistency that prevented hyperlinks to work in running on stage PowerPoint presentation.

Updated xtras are available to download.

January 29th, 2008

ActiveCompanionSet has been updated with:
VbScriptXtra 2.5.5.125
Added proper handling for PowerPoint events interface. Now PowerPoint events interface is detected and handled correctly. PowerPoint sample movie has also been updated to demonstrate PowerPoint events usage with a PPt presentation (OLE object) embedded right on the stage.

ObjectBrowser 2.2.1.43
Cosmetic changes for displaying outgoing interface type information.

Updated xtras and PPt sample are available to download.

January 8th, 2008

ActiveCompanionSet has been updated with:
VbScriptXtra 2.5.4.124
Added a couple of methods to Binary wrapper: MakeImageFromRGB and GetRGBFromImage. They allow direct manipulation of raw image bytes. Also it is possible now to create Lingo image object from raw RGB bytes.
Added new wrapper object for handling images. It helps in translation between Lingo Image objects and StdOle.Picture COM objects and also HBITMAPs as well.

ActiveX xtra 1.0.7.24
Fixed a potential crash with controls that do not provide some COM interfaces.
Minor changes in closing ActiveX control procedure.
Fixed placement of ActiveX controls property pages. Now they appear at full size without truncation.

OLE xtra 1.4.1.33
Added several asset properties for fine tuning display and clipping area for the running in place OLE objects.

ObjectBrowser 2.2.1.42
Added support for alternative method of describing COM interface properties used by some ActiveX controls.
Type library loading now occurs when item is selected instead of being displayed.

Updated xtras and documentation are available to download.

November 11th, 2007

ActiveCompanionSet 'Unlimited Plus' license is available to purchase. It allows using of some advanced features (IUnknown based COM Automation objects) of VbScriptXtra. Among others this license allows using MontiVision SDK (Video capture, TV Tuners, DirectX filters) right in Director.

October 19th, 2007

ActiveCompanionSet has been updated with:
VbScriptXtra 2.5.1.115
Added support for non IDispatch COM Automation compliant interfaces. Newly added TypeLib and TypedInstance wrappers allow creating typed COM Automation variables that can be used for handling IUnknown based COM Automation compliant interfaces.
ObjectBrowser 2.2.0.39
Fixed a bug with browsing system registry that prevented finding and displaying type libraries whose path was defined as expandable string. Now they are handled correctly.
Added support for displaying IUnknown based COM Automation compliant interfaces. They are shown with blue key icon.
Updated xtras are available to download. Updated documentation is coming.

July 9th, 2007

ActiveCompanionSet has been updated with VbScriptXtra 2.3.3.106
Added support for named arguments to simplify Visual Basic to Lingo translation. It is implemented with property lists passed as argument. In this case the contents of the property list is passed to the calling method as named arguments. Using property list that holds arguments also may be used for handling arguments that may be passed by reference.
Fixed the issue with calling methods that expect reference to Byte value. Now typecasting routine performs special processing for arguments that may be used as references. Their types are checked against what is expected by wrapped object and type casted accordingly.
Updated xtras and documentation are available to download.

June 6th, 2007

The batch processing sample for ActiveCompanionSet xtras has been added to the samples collection. It shows how to perform batch "search and replace" any string in each MS Word Document found in a folder. Thanks to Steven Hite.

May 11th, 2007

ActiveCompanionSet has been updated with:
OLE xtra 1.3.0.29
Fixed a licensing issue. Evaluation reminder will only appear in unregistered version when asset.GetObject() has successfully returned automation object for the embedded or linked OLE object.
Updated xtra is available to download.

April 18th, 2007

ActiveCompanionSet has been updated with:
ActiveX xtra 1.0.6.22
Added HWND property to ActiveX sprite that allows access to the window handle of the ActiveX control.
Updated xtras are available to download.

April 14th, 2007

ActiveCompanionSet has been updated with:
ActiveX xtra 1.0.5.21
Fixed imaging code that might cause crashing Director by clicking on another frame while movie and ActiveX control is running.
Fixed container issue that prevented accessing DOM property of DHTML edit ActiveX control. Now DHTML edit control is fully functional in Director environment.

Minor changes in other xtras. See details in version history. Updated xtras and documentation are available to download.

February 26th, 2007

ActiveCompanionSet has been updated with VbScriptXtra 2.3.2.102
System helper object now has full control over keyboard layouts. It can activate specific layout, load/unload them, retrieve the current keyboard layout and the list of available layouts. This functionality is for free. You may freely use it in your multilingual applications.
Other xtras was rebuilded due to minor refactoring of internal string classes.
Updated xtras and documentation are available to download.

February 18th, 2007

The exporting PowerPoint slides sample for ActiveCompanionSet xtras has been added to the samples collection. It shows how to make JPeg images from PowerPoint slides. Thanks to Steven Hite.

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