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From: george@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (George Browning)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: New version of Usher to be released (soon)!
Keywords: usher
Message-ID: <1991Jan16.222658.4806@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: 16 Jan 91 22:26:58 GMT
Reply-To: george@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (George Browning)
Organization: Computer and Technologies Theme Program
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Thanks for all the interest in Usher.  I've been swamped with
email messages requesting a uuencoded version.  If you're
interested in a version emailed to you then please write.
If you've already written then I've got your name on file.
If you have ftp access use that instead.  I do need to work on 
some of my classes :-).

I'll probably upload the next release to GEnie and CompuServe
if all goes well.

The new release will come out this weekend.  I'll upload
to cica (of course).  It will go into pub/pc/win3/uploads as
usher101.zip.  I imagine the sysop will move the file to
pub/pc/win3/util.  Hopefully, he/she will remove the old usher.zip.

New features I will add:
    - A way for you to add separating lines to your personal menus.
      Probably @@LINE@@ or something like that in the usher.ini file.

    - I'll move About, Reload, and Close under a hierarchical menu
      Close already goes away if Usher is the shell (since you can't 
      really close the shell).  A person suggested keywords similar to 
      @@LINE@@ for these menu options.  That would be OK but I think
      these are important enough so that they should always be
      available.  Especially the About!! :-)

    - I'll add Button=left or Button=right support from the
      usher.ini file.  That way those who like the right button
      activating the menu will be happy.  The default will be
      the left button.

    - I'll look into adding an option for keeping the menu up
      instead of having to hold the button down.  I think this
      is an easy addition but I'm not sure.

    - For those concerned about size, these additions shouldn't add
      much to the overall code size.

Thanks again for your interest in Usher.  Feel free to email or
post any other suggestions.  If you write before the next release
I'll try to put it in Usher 1.01.

george

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| o |  George Browning                 george@catt.ncsu.edu        | o |
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