From:

 Allison and Chip Orange

Subject:

 anyone developing apps using the MS office app?

Date:

 Thu, Apr 28, 2011 9:22:52 pm

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