AppleWorks 4 experience: UltraMacros

[swpeters@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Scott Peterson)]

A few notes about UltraMacros and AppleWorks 4: 

When I ordered AW4, I told the sales rep that I had Ultra 4.2.  I was told
I would need to upgrade, so I placed that order.  However, AW4 updated my
UltraMacros files (compiler, options, Macros2Menus (TimeOut creator)) just
fine.  On the invoice it says "Backordered: UltraMacros V.4.3 Upgrade
from V.3.1 or earlier." So, this might mean that any Ultra 4.x version can
be updated by the AW package (but, the manual and files on disk only 
refer to 4.2).  I called Quality and cancelled this order, saving me
$39.95. 
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Macro-related items you get with AW4 (provided you activate macros in the
standard settings): 

Macro player for playing macros from the TimeOut menu.  Two types
supported (depending on the author of the macro): 

     "Run once" operations
     "Macro sets" -- a macro set is loaded, then macros are accessed by
solid-apple combination or by the solid-apple-escape macro menu. 

TEMPORARY keystroke recorder.  Use open-apple-x to start recording,
control-@ to finish.  These cannot be saved and will expire upon exiting
AW.  I don't believe this is documented. 

Many Macro 0 operations (read information -- cell, path, prompted).

Debugger, although not too useful for non-programmers. However, all
debugger operations are available (view/change variables, show macros
defined, trace, breakpoints, etc.)

Bonus keystrokes formerly packaged with UM:  Upper/Lower case changer,
current date & time, jump forward/backward to next space, find a menu item
using a macro 0 match. 

All the other miscellaneous bonuses formerly associated with UM (screen
clock, screen blanker, mouse support). 
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Who will need the separate UltraMacros package:

Anyone without Ultra 4.2 (or perhaps 4.x -- information so far is
contradictory) who wants to record & save keystrokes, list (decompile)
macros into a WP file, write & compile macro programs, or create TimeOut
macro application files. 

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Scott Peterson
swpeters@nox.cs.du.edu