thanks Jared. I have ripped it apart to add another new feature; when it's ready, I'll probably be contacting you.
they are amazingly nice, and there isn't another window-eyes development environment around which is anything like it. I'm not taking credit you understand, it's the Word VBA development environment which is so good; I only had to add a few tweaks to make it work with both window-eyes and VBS. I've recently run some of my large 5000 line scripts through it's full paces by adding type information to all variables and to all parameters, and unbelievably I had errors! I was passing in variables of the wrong type, or in one case, not enough arguments to a routine which evidently doesn't get called often, and it found all of this! also, it let me know (via the newest feature), that optional arguments existed for some of the methods I was using, which I didn't even know about. when I looked them up, they did just what I needed. and finally, it has an immediate mode, just like the one published by GW, except this one has intelli-sense, so when I want to try things, I don't even need to look up the exact name of a property or method, but the immediate mode prompts me each step of the way. you'd think I'd be able to turn out more than I do wouldn't you <grin> thanks for the offer. Chip -----Original Message----- From: Jared Wright [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 8:49 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: anyone developing apps using the MS office app? Chip, I'd be happy to put this through its paces if you'd like. I haven't used it as of yet, I'm not really a fan of MS Office in general. But I do have Office 2007 on this box at the moment for another project, and some of those new features sound quite useful and would be at least worth taking for a test drive. On 4/28/2011 9:22 PM, Allison and Chip Orange wrote: > Hi all, > > some years back I published an app named "ms office" which allows you > to develop window-eyes VBScript apps inside the Word VBA integrated > development environment. this offers a long list of advantages, but > of course you must own a copy of Word. > > I'm publishing an update to this app (renaming it to Office VBA and > VBS Editor, adding additional features, fixing some outstanding bugs, > etc.), and I'd like someone who has been using this app to beta test > the new version before it's published. It would be especially helpful > if the person was using a version of Word later than 2003, which is what I usually use. > > > The most significant new feature is that the app will automatically > speak a short syntax summary of any built-in function or object > property or method, as you type in it's name in your current command > (e.g., if you type "windows.filterByClassAndModule(" it will speak > "filterByClassAndModule(class as string, module as string [, matchType > as > match]) as windows" in order to remind you of the parameters and their > types, as well as the returned type.) This is something the Word VBA > environment was already providing in a popup tooltip window, but > window-eyes isn't speaking the contents of this window. > > I may add other features before it's released, depending on what > suggestions I get. > > so, anyone interested in beta testing, please drop me a line (if > you're already familiar with app development using this app). > > thanks. > > Chip > >
