I agree with Lynn's assessment. I think we should take small steps with Wycliffe on this project. Lynn has built and installer, and if we can get something setup to finish the macro registration, though it won't be fullproof, it will likely make their users much happy and in a small amount of time.

After this, we can talk with them about other, more drastic, improvements.

Thank you for all of your great feedback and work! Looking forward to anyone with VB experience helping Lynn on the registration part, and possibly making recommendations or bug fixed to the problems that you've reported here, to the VB code.

-Troy.



Lynn Allan wrote:
I concur with the idea of using VB. Concerning different versions, a key
decision is whether to support Win95 and/or Win98-FE. Freeware authors do
themselves a huge favor by assuming the recipient has Win98-SE or *later*
(not *better*, on the off chance there are any Linux aficianados [sp?] in
this group).

We could ask the powers that be at Wycliffe: Would a solution that worked
"pretty well" be acceptable for your people using Office-97 or later, using
Win98 second edition or later? Would you rather have that in Dec, 2003, or
something that worked well for the other 4.72% in late 2004 or early 2005?

<alert -- mounting pulpit>
I think we can very quickly do something that solves 80% of the problem.
With 20% of the effort that a semi-ideal solution would take, they can
realize 80% of the benefits.  I would speculate they have had a significant
number of motivated volunteers fall by the way-side due to frustration
getting EasyEnglish set up. That's bad! We can help! By next week! Not next
year!
<all clear -- dismounting pulpit>

FWIW, my 2 alt-155,
Lynn


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