1) Scrolling groups: you can add vertical and horizontal scrollbars to
groups, allowing scrolling of arbitrary numbers of controls quickly
and easily.
2) Controls can now be created at runtime in the non-Home stack
(run-time) enviroment.
3) Controls can be created in groups by specifying "in group whatever"
on the create command line, e.g.:
create button "test" in group "some group"
4) A global property named explicitVariables has been added which
causes the script compiler to flag as an error any unquoted literal or
variable used before it is declared with the "local" or "global"
keywords.
5) A new "script errors" dialog will automatically pop up when one or
more controls that have script errors are opened (instead of just
printing an error to stdout like it used to).
6) Functions have been added that allow you find out what fonts are
available on the system.
7) The style of menu items created with button contents can be changed
by adding special characters at the start of each line. You can now
make dividers, radio buttons, and check boxes in button-conents menus.
8) The "popup" command now be can be called from any type of object,
making it possible to open right-button menus (a Windows 95 standard)
from any control.
See the file README.2.1A3 for details on these new features. As
always, prompt reports of bugs and other problems to
support@metacard.com are greatly appreciated.
This will be the last alpha test release. Next up: beta 1!
Scott
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