DD V0.7 Read Me First

Version 0.7, February 1998 Copyright © 1996-1998 Christopher E. Hyde. All rights reserved. drjekyll@hylight.demon.co.uk http://www.hylight.demon.co.uk/ Licence Please note that this software is provided “as is” and without any express or implied warranties, including, without limitation, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Dialog Director is FREE. You may redistribute Dialog Director to anyone as long as you include the complete, unaltered, Dialog Director package and do not charge for it. The “complete package” is defined as meaning the entire and exact contents of the file <http://www.hylight.demon.co.uk/DialogDirector/DialogDirector0.7.sit.hqx>. It includes all scripting additions, all documentation and all examples & utilities, in either compressed or fully uncompressed form. You may, of course, charge for your own software that uses Dialog Director (if you so desire), just not extra for Dialog Director. It also means that you may not sell copies or redistribute parts of the Dialog Director package without obtaining a separate and specific licence from the author. Although not a formal part of the licence I strongly suggest that if you use any URLs to Dialog Director at my website then you should use <http://www.hylight.demon.co.uk/DialogDirector/>. Also I would sincerely appreciate being sent a complementary copy of any compilation CD that includes Dialog Director. What is Dialog Director? Dialog Director is a scripting addition that extends AppleScript and other OSA compatible languages on any computer running Mac OS 7 or later. It provides a rich set of features that allow you to create advanced and dynamic dialog boxes and floating windows directly from within your AppleScript scripts. This gives you the ability to extend & customise an application’s user interface and to write applets, droplets & embedded scripts with the power to interact with your users in a fast, friendly, effective and professional manner. Release Notes Dialog Director v0.7 has many changes and new features. Please read the User Guide. It is in MS Word 4 format, but any decent word processor should be able to open it. It contains full details of the changes as well as all functions and features of Dialog Director along with script examples, descriptions of all the files in the “Examples” folder, instructions for using Dialog Dumper and other useful information. This release also includes Resource Utilities v1.1b1 that resolves a couple of conflicts and adds the facility to access the resource forks of the current script and application and to keep a resource file in the access chain so that its resources are accessible to Dialog Director etc. Updating from Dialog Director v0.6 to v0.7 Basically, DD v0.7 is not fully compatible with DD v0.6 nor is it backwards compatible with the …