Whale Express (c) 1993-94 Tartan Software INSTALLATION: Included with the files you've downloaded is the Whale Express install program. Just run the program INSTALL.EXE from Program Manager, File Manager or Windows launcher of choice. The install program will allow you to create a special directory for your Whale Express program files and scripts. While you can include these files in your America Online directory we recommend a separate directory for all Whale Express files. IMPORTANT NOTES: * Whale Express requires America Online for Windows version 1.1 or greater. * To cancel a script at any time use the F3 key. * Some America Online options are required. Use CTRL = in AOL to change these options. You don't have to be online at the time. Before using the SignOn command autopassword must be enabled. Before using NEWWIN.wex script you should disable confirmation of downloads when using the Download Later button. DOCUMENTATION: There are two files provided which can be printed out to provide a manual for Whale Express. WHALEX.DOC is provided for users who have Microsoft Word and would like proper documentation. WHALEX.TXT is the same document without all the custom formatting. ORDERING INFO: An order form is available in the Whale Express Help file. The most critical information is to include your AOL screen name. At the current time, check or money orders can be used to order Whale Express. Your registered version will be distributed to you via Email immediately upon receipt of $39.95 to the following address. New York residents add sales tax. Tartan Software 143 Horstman Dr. Scotia, NY 12302 For the quickest response, you may also registered directly on CompuServe. Go SWREG, select "Register Shareware" and choose Register by ID. The Whale Express ID is 2221. NEW FEATURES: Previous Whale Express users please make note that we have some good news and bad news. New users can ignore the following info. First the bad news... There has been a change to the SelectList command which will affect your current scripts. We realize this will be bit of trouble, but we hope you'll agree it's worth it to maintain consistancy and allow for new functionality. Now the good news... SelectList now allows you to select a list item by using text included in the list. Example... SelectList Lobby Will allow you to select the Lobby regardless of it's position in the list. I'm sure many of you are using SelectList to select a particular item in the list by it's position. SelectList 2 We recommend you change these to include as much text of the list item you'll need to create a match. This will be worthwhile especially if AOL changes the items in a list so that your script breaks. If you stil require selection by position use the following convention. SelectList #2 This is consistant with the SelectIcon command which also allows icon selection by position. Now for the Great news!!!!! We have a new command modifier for our powerful ReadList command. "listMatch" listMatch will allow you to specify particular items you wish ReadList to process based in the text found in the list. Suppose you want to read all Email from anyone named Bob. All you need to do is add listMatch to your script. Example: OpenLog bob.log Menu Read listMatch Bob ReadList Closelog Any mail which has Bob anywhere in it's title will be read. While logical operands such as AND and OR are not supported you should find listMatch extremely useful in choosing the message boards you might be interested in reading. =============================================================== New Batch Upload =============================================================== We had a new Upload command which will allow you to include multiple uploads in a single script. This new command will only be available for registered users. Upload filename The Upload command may only be used when the current America Online window is an Upload form. This form is usually in response to selecting the Upload icon, or using "SelectIcon Upload". Before using the Upload command it's appropriate to set the values of the various fields. These values can be set once and used for each upload or can be reset before each Upload command. If no values are set, default values will be used. Subject Author Equipment Needs Description Subject data This field is required by America Online Data field is limited to 32 characters Author data Data field is limitid to 20 characters Equipment data Data field limited to 32 characters Needs data Data field is limited to 36 characters Description filename This data field should be the name of a description file. If no file is specified default value is used. Example script In the following example we have a number of files, all with the same Author, Needs and Description. We set these fields once and then instruct Whale Express to upload the file. After the initial upload, we change the Subject line and upload other parts SelectIcon Upload Subject PAINT: v1.3 Basic Paint Program Author My Software Company Needs An UnZIPing program Description C:\paint\mypaint.txt Upload c:\paint\mypaint.exe Subject PAINT: Utility for MyPaint Upload c:\paint\paint1.dll Upload c:\paint\paint2.dll Upload c:\paint\paint3.dll Upload c:\paint\paint4.dll CloseWindow ==================================================== Other Changes ==================================================== NewScreenName Wasn't checking to be sure a user was already online. Choosing NewScreenName while offline caused Whalex to hang. Screen Savers Whale Express will not disable screen savers while a script is running. America Online will no respond to Whale Express commands while a screen saver is active. Auto Re-Dial Another favorite new feature has been added in response to recent problems at America Online. Signon and NewScreenName will now automatically redial when connection fails. The number of times can be set using the Read variable. The default value is 5 time. Fixed SendMail bug Apparently we had reversed response when uploading files via Email. We were reporting file to large and failing. You should now have no problems uploading files via Email. Fix some ReadList bugs. Had some problems with listStart and listEnd, and the Read variable. This wasn't always accurate but should be fine now. Fixed Bitmap bug Had some problems displaying bitmaps.