Lee asked:
What is the slideshow mode?? I can't find anything about that in the docs.
Rich just renamed the feature that old timers know and love as Autokey by the name "slideshow". The history is that when finishing up Fractal Creations 2nd Edition, Mitch Waite asked for a way to do demos. Because the keystroke capturing was nicely organized through a single function, it was an easy matter to feed keystrokes in from a file. Bert Tyler (I think, or maybe Jonathan) made a few changes to the assembler implementation of the gvetkey routine, and I did the rest in a few days work. Rich wrote:
I looked at it because it came up when I transliterated the assembly code and also because I thought "hey, if it works, then I can use it as a sort of unit test for going through the screens.".
Good point. My advice is only to point out that if you haven't finalized the keystroke input, then the autokey is a moving target. Finalize the ketstroke input, then you probably won't find it hard to finish autokey. (He says, realizing that the event-driven nature of windows might make it hard.) You are right that as long as we keep the keystroke input, autokey is a great mechanism for regression testing. Tim