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December 26th, 2006 |
The sample for ActiveCompanionSet xtras has been added. It shows how to play PowerPoint presentation with PowerPoint Viewer. The sample uses the smart technique (Thanks to Steven Hite) of binding the viewer window to the Stage by making it a child of the Stage with BuddyApi xtra. It solves the problem of the player window hiding behind the Projector's stage window.
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December 26th, 2006 |
The sample for ActiveCompanionSet xtras has been added. It shows how to use MediaPlayer ActiveX control to play audio, video or DVD right on Director stage. Sample Director movie is available to download.
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December 4th, 2006 |
ActiveCompanionSet has been updated with:
ActiveX xtra 1.0.4.17
Added more sophisticated support for handling keyboard processing by ActiveX controls. It solves the problem of Internet Explorer ActiveX control ignored Del, Tab, Ctrl+C and other keys. Now when ActiveX control has the focus all normal keyboard events are properly passed to the control.
Updated xtra is available to download.
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July 15th, 2006 |
ActiveCompanionSet has been updated with VbScriptXtra 2.2.0.82
New System helper object has been added to VbScriptXtra. Among other it provides support for Running Object Table (ROT) that allows accessing currently running automation objects and applications known to the system.
Type casting routines of Automation and Binary wrappers have been improved to allow handling strings with zero bytes inside.
Updated xtra and documentation are available to download.
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July 2nd, 2006 |
The notes about translating VB macro recorded in Word, Excel, PPt etc. into VbScriptXtra's Lingo has been added.
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March 11th, 2006 |
ActiveCompanionSet has been updated with ActiveX Xtra 1.0.2.8. Fixed keyboard focus setting code to allow IE ActiveX control to behave correctly in Projector. Some unexpected redraws could still happen under MX 2004 Projector with Document Template. Use Dialog or Tool templates instead. Updated version is available to download.
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November 30th, 2005 |
ActiveCompanionSet has been updated with VbScriptXtra 2.1.3.80
Bug fixed that prevented getting back to Lingo modified String values when using method arguments passed by reference to the custom VB component. Updated version is available to download.
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June 27th, 2005 |
ActiveCompanionSet has been updated with ActiveX Xtra 1.0.2.6. Control activation code has been changed a bit to allow some controls to be shown. Updated version is available to download.
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May 22nd, 2005 |
ActiveCompanionSet has been updated with ActiveX Xtra 1.0.1.4. ActiveX xtra sprites now have Focus property that controls whether ActiveX control's window or the Stage gets keyboard input. Updated version is available to download.
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May 8th, 2005 |
ActiveCompanionSet has been updated with new ActiveX xtra, OLE Xtra 2.2.0.21, VbScriptXtra 2.1.2.79 and ObjectBrowser 2.0.0.25.
VbScriptXtra has been updated with minor events handling fix. Updated version is available to download.
The sample for ActiveCompanionSet xtras has been added. It shows how to use Internet Explorer ActiveX control for on stage web browsing preventing user from creating new IE windows. The sample Director movie is available to download.
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April 12th, 2005 |
The sample for ActiveCompanionSet xtras has been added. It shows how to use Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) together with VbScriptXtra to obtain details about logical drive or running process (Director.exe for example) including memory and process usage details etc.
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April 11th, 2005 |
ActiveCompanionSet has been updated with OLE Xtra 2.2.0.20 and VbScriptXtra 2.1.2.78.
OLE xtra now supports OLE object verbs invocation. VbScriptXtra has been updated with minor error handling and dynamic properties support fixes. Updated version is available to download.
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April 2nd, 2005 |
The sample for ActiveCompanionSet xtras has been added. It shows how to run PowerPoint presentation right on Macromedia Director stage. Sample Director movie is available to download.
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April 2nd, 2005 |
ActiveCompanionSet has been updated with OLE Xtra 2.1.0.17
It now supports InPlace activation of embedded OLE objects. So it can place PowerPoint presentation or Excel workbook right on stage and fully control it with VbScriptXtra's Lingo. Updated version is available to download.
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March 15th, 2005 |
The sample for ActiveCompanionSet xtras has been added. It shows how to use new Registry key wrapper of VbScriptXtra to store and load user's preferences in system Registry.
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March 11th, 2005 |
ActiveCompanionSet has been updated with VbScriptXtra 2.1.1.72
New Registry key wrapper has been added to VbScriptXtra. It can handle operations with system Registry. It is free. VbScriptXtra's documentation has been updated respectively. Updated version is available to download.
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March 8th, 2005 |
ActiveCompanionSet has been updated with VbScriptXtra 2.0.1.69
Fixed a bug with handling Binary wrappers in typecasting operations of Automation wrappers of VbScriptXtra (v2). It did not recognize them. Fixed.
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February 26th, 2005 |
ActiveCompanionSet has been updated with new release of OLE xtra. OLE xtra now supports full scripting control over embedded OLE object. See more details in pdf documentation.
VbScriptXtra and ObjectBrowserXtra have also been updated with minor bug fixes and supporting code for OLE xtra.
New ActiveCompanionSet is available to download.
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February 6th, 2005 |
The sample for ADOxtra_MUS has been added. It is a basic procedure to make ADOxtra_MUS running.
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October 29th, 2004 |
New OLE xtra has been added to ActiveCompanionSet. OLE xtra is a replacement for the similar xtra from Macromedia. It allows inserting OLE object as a cast member. Data stored within cast member includes native OLE object's data and either DIB or Metafile data that could be optionally used for drawing object on stage.
With OLE xtra you can insert Excel table or PowerPoint slide or Equation object right in your movie. Object could be drawn either with native OLE application or with internally stored either DIB (for raster images) or Metafile (for vector images).
Also VbScriptXtra and ObjectBrowser xtras are updated with minor cosmetical changes.
Updated version is available to download.
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October 20th, 2004 |
ActiveCompanionSet has been updated with VbScriptXtra 2.0.0.63 and ObjectBrowserXtra 1.5.0.20. Changes are related to handling connection to event sources.
Bug in ObjectBrowserXtra prevented it from showing event interfaces in some cases (i.e. SAPI - Microsoft Speech Object Library).
Bug in VbScriptXtra prevented it from connecting to the event source in some cases (and again it happened with SAPI).
Both bugs are fixed. Updated version is available to download.
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October 1st, 2004 |
VbScriptXtra updated to version 2.0.0.62. It is now shipped within ActiveCompanionSet that is about to be released.
The ActiveCompanionSet includes documentation in PDF. It is available to download.
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October 14th, 2003 |
VbScriptXtra updated to version 1.3.4.49.
Fixed a bug with setting object property with a value that is a reference to other COM object. It failed with error "Member not found".
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June 16th, 2003 |
VbScriptXtra updated to version 1.3.3.47.
Fixed a bug with passing object pointers back to the event source via event arguments passed by reference. See version history for more details.
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February 8th, 2003 |
New ADOxtra sample is available to download.
A very simple but quite powerfull movie demonstrating how to use ADOxtra for database driven applications. The sample demonstrates how to display texts and images based on a database.
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February 8th, 2003 |
VbScriptXtra updated to version 1.3.2.43.
Added new debugging mode. Now when VbScriptXtra detects an error, it tries to call movie level method VbScriptXtra_DebugEvent errMes, errCode. If break point is set inside this method, then whenever error occurs, it allows to see the Lingo statement where error happened, including the calling context.
To activate this mode use xtra("VbScriptXtra").Init(2). See more details about debugging recommendations.
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December 23rd, 2002 |
VbScriptXtra updated to version 1.3.1.35.
Fixed a bug which caused significant slow down of xtra("VbScriptXtra").CreateObject calls. Especially when creating an object from a type library that has a lot of enumeration values.
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December 5th, 2002 |
VbScriptXtra updated to version 1.3.0.33.
Added more sophisticated control over "Busy dialog". Now it is up to Lingo to decide how to respond on application's busy state. For example Excel falls in busy state when it has a dialog opened.
Added support for custom callback handlers.
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October 8rd, 2002 |
ADOxtra_MUS updated to version 0.8.2.19.
Demo limitation was significantly weakened. See version history for details.
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September 17th, 2002 |
VbScriptXtra updated to version 1.2.6.26.
Improved error checking support. Added LastErrorCode wrapper object's property which indicates the numerical code of the error, which corresponds to the error description available via LastError property.
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September 3rd, 2002 |
ADOxtra_MUS updated to version 0.8.1.18.
Fixed several bugs. See version history for details.
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August 5th, 2002 |
VbScriptXtra updated to version 1.2.5.22.
Added support for non Integer enumeration values to provide better integration with CDO (Collaboration Data Objects).
ObjectBrowserXtra updated to version 1.2.3.14.
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July 25th, 2002 |
ADOxtra for Shockwave Multiuser Server is available to purchase.
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July 10th, 2002 |
Demo movie "VbScriptXtra & ADO databasing guided tour" with sources is available at Downloads.
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June 12th, 2002 |
ADOxtra for Shockwave Multiuser Server is about to be released. Demo version is available at Downloads.
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May 5th, 2002 |
VbScriptXtra updated to version 1.2.4.21.
Added support for multilingual environment by customised Unicode/MBCS text conversion.
See more details in version history.
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March 18th, 2002 |
Several check points for proper installation of RDS (Remote Data Sevices) was added to the FAQ collection of ADOxtra. Be sure to read them to find out whether you have correct installation for remote databasing with ADOxtra.
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February 18th, 2002 |
The site was moved to a new provider.
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January 11th, 2002 |
VbScriptXtra updated to version 1.2.2.18.
The code has been optimized a bit. Now property access at xtra's side is faster up to 10%.
See more details in version history.
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January 11th, 2002 |
ObjectBrowserXtra updated to version 1.2.2.12.
Fixed a bug, which prevented getting correct values of enumerations.
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December 13th, 2001 |
VbScriptXtra updated to version 1.02.001.
Added a detection of the 'busy' state of the server application.
The problem arose for example with Excel being in a cell editing state. VbScriptXtra failed with Lingo error while accessing to any method or property of Excel while it was in 'busy' state.
See more details in version history.
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November 18th, 2001 |
VbScriptXtra updated to version 1.02.000.
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November 14th, 2001 |
ObjectBrowserXtra updated to version 1.02.001.
Now it fully supports Browse Lingo method, which allows easily get the description of Automation object contained in a VbScriptXtra wrapper.
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November 14th, 2001 |
VbScriptXtra documentation (printable version in PDF) has been added to VbScriptXtra downloads.
BinaryXtra documentation (printable version in PDF) has been added to BinaryXtra downloads.
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November 11th, 2001 |
VbScriptXtra updated to version 1.01.000.
Added support for COM Automation Events. VbScriptXtra wrapper objects now support EventsHandler property. Events generated by wrapped automation objects are passed to a parent script attached to this property of the wrapper.
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November 11th, 2001 |
ObjectBrowserXtra updated to version 1.02.000.
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October 24th, 2001 |
New Free BinaryXtra released.
VbScriptXtra updated to 1.00.003.
ADOxtra updated to 1.11.001.
BinaryXtra extends the capabilities of ADOxtra and VbScriptXtra in handling BLOB data in databases.
Both ADOxtra and VbScriptXtra has been updated to support BinaryXtra.
BinaryXtra and updated ADOxtra and VbScriptXtra are available at downloads section.
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October 12th, 2001 |
VbScriptXtra updated to 1.00.002.
Fixed a bug with Failed and Succeeded properties which always indicated successful completion status, even when LastError property returned a description of a error. More detailed description has been added to VbScriptXtra's version history.
New version is available at Downloads section.
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October 9th, 2001 |
Using ADO to open an Access database from a read only media (CD-ROM) has been added to the FAQs collection for ADOxtra.
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September 27th, 2001 |
Using DAO or ADO for databasing in Macromedia Director has been added to the FAQs collection for VbScriptXtra.
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September 19th, 2001 |
ADOxtra documentation (printable version in PDF) has been added to ADOxtra downloads.
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September 14th, 2001 |
Free auto documentation companion for VbScriptXtra is available in downloads section. It is a tool similar to Visual Basic's Object Browser, which allows you to view all available scriptable components, to view their interfaces, methods and properties, enumerations right from Director. See more info at VbScriptXtra Reference.
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September 5th, 2001 |
Comparison of ADOxtra and VbScriptXtra for databasing in Macromedia Director has been added to the FAQs collection for ADOxtra.
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August 16th, 2001 |
Several useful Lingo utilities has been added to the samples collection for ADOxtra.
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August 1st, 2001 |
ADO sample has been added to the samples collection for VbScriptXtra.
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July 24th, 2001 |
Site navigation: added left side quick navigation bar.
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July 10th, 2001 |
Microsoft Word and Excel automation samples has been added to the samples collection for VbScriptXtra.
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June 27th, 2001 |
Internet Explorer automation sample has been added to the samples collection for VbScriptXtra.
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June 24th, 2001 |
VbScriptXtra documentation is ready.
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June 16th, 2001 |
Site is created.
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