This file updates the Vox Proxy program for Version 4 ONLY. When you download the file, save it to the Vox Proxy application directory and overwrite the existing file of the same name.

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO USE THIS UPDATE WITH VERSIONS 1, 2 or 3.

This file updates the Vox Proxy program for Version 3 ONLY. When you download the file, save it to the Vox Proxy application directory and overwrite the existing file of the same name.

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO USE THIS UPDATE WITH VERSION 1 or 2.

06/23/06 v3.188
—Bug fix: SayWav did not work with :nowait option.

06/05/06 v3.185
—Fix to Excel read & write to conform with changes in Excel 2003.

01/28/06 v3.176
—Bug fix in CDPrep if slide has no title. Enhanced diagnostics.

01/23/06 v3.175
—Bug fix in DisplayClock: did not display correcly with DualMonitor on.

01/11/06 v3.174
—Bug fix in PlayMedia command: full-screen display sometimes would disappear unexpectedly.
—New automatic pre-defined variable: &pptver. This provides version information for PowerPoint. Current possible values are "ppt11.0"; "ppt10.0"; "ppt9.0"; "viewer2003"

09/22/05 v3.168
—Bug fixes in CD Prep and misc internal fixes.

05/09/05 v3.157
—Bug fix in ScaleCharacters; Bug fix in Think command processing of apostrophe in words; Allow comma-separated list of character animations in order to handle animation names with embedded spaces. Needed for characters from e-clips (Keiko).

04/12/05 v3.153
—CDPrep bug fix in Tools/Diagnose CD. Diagnostics failed if CD did not contain a Viewer folder

03/15/05 v3.151
—Minor bug fixes in finding and fixing embedded file links in PowerPoint

—Bug fix to support French Canadian voice "Arnaud" in AT&T Natural Voices.

—CDPrep bug fix to properly locate some files called in scripts.

—Bug fix playing sound files with no controls on Media Player 8 and older

01/24/05 v3.138
—CDPrep enhancements: Automatic detection of PowerPoint linked files. This major enhancement finds links to files inserted directly into PowerPoint slides, converts these links to relative links, and includes the source files in the CD Image folder. Common linked files include music in other than wav format; movies; and linked pictures.

—Variable window sizes in PlayMedia wizard. Previously, you were limited to fixed windows sizes such as 1X, 2X, 1/4-screen, 1/2-screen, etc. Now when you click "Drag on slide", you can arbitrarily resize the movie form.

—Player update that displays a progress bar while preparing to open and start a presentation on a CD prepared with CD Prep.

—Minor bug fixes

12/15/04 v3.1291 Bug fix in NextSlide command

12/10/04 v3.129 Bug fixes in CDPrep:
-When creating companion script (.vps) file used to play with the PowerPoint Viewer, it could sometimes cause the wrong character to speak or move during playback.
-The &otherdir variable erroneously pointed to the \media folder on the CD
-The CloseBitMap command got missed when converting file paths in the script

12/04/04 v3.125 Avoids a Microsoft Agent bug that causes the Agent control to crash during a presentation when you are speaking with WAV files and have empty balloon text.

11/30/04 v3.123 bug fix in PlayMedia window sizing

11/18/04 v3.122 bug fixes in CDPrep & misc

09/28/04 v3.115
Misc bug fixes; fix alarm play in DisplayClock; CD Prep context-sensitive help
New experimental script syntax checker on Tools/Diagnose menu

09/10/04 v3.107
CDPrep bug fix: program did not copy PowerPoint Viewer files into viewer folder
CDPrep documentation fix

This file updates the Vox Proxy program for Version 2 ONLY. When you download the file, save it to the Vox Proxy application directory and overwrite the existing file of the same name.

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO USE THIS UPDATE WITH VERSION 1.

06/05/04 v2.181
>Bug fixes in online registration
02/20/04 v2.177
>Bug fix in Convert speech to Wave files
03/16/04 2.173
New online registration in Script Writer/Help/Register online
02/04/04 v2.166
>Bug fix in WaitforClick. This bug was first introduced in v2.163.
01/08/04 v2.165
>:noloop - New feature for animations whose name ends in "ing" but are NOT lopping animations. For example: StartListening:noloop
>Bug fix for showing characters at other than standard size: move location was wrong.
11/14/03 v2.163
>New file/print menu item for character animation lists.
06/08/03 v2.16
>Bug fix playing some CDPrep presentations on PowerPoint 97 machines.
06/05/03 v2.15
>Bug fix speaking with wav files. If you include balloon text with the SayWav command, the pronunciation dictionary would attempt to correct words in the text, resulting in a failure to play the file.
05/16/03 v2.14
>Bug fix for running disks prepared with CDPrep on PowerPoint 97. IMPORTANT: If you prepare CDs using CDPrep, be sure to overlay your VP.W3 file in the cd image folder with this updated version.
>New features for ShowExcel: allow optional display of many window elements such as scroll bars, worksheet tabs, etc. Allows you to display nothing but a form frame containing a range of cells.
>Bug fix in Preferences - if you de-select all items in the WAIT page, you couldn't permanently re-select them.
05/05/03 v2.13
>Bug fix installing TruVoice TTS engine on some Windows XP systems
>New feature for PlayMedia and PlayFlash: sets &Response variable to 1 if the play succeeded; 0 if failed. Allows testing with an IF statement.
> RunSlideShow command bug fix: starting and ending slides didn't work
>CD Prep - minor bug fixes; bug fixes related to menu of presentations
>Allow a slide show to start another slide show and revert to the first when the second is ended.
>New comparison functions to be used with IF statements: LT; GT; LE; GE; EQ; NE; NOT; AND; OR
>New variable &datenum can be used with comparison commands
>New feature for PlayMedia: loop=N allows repeating playback files
>Bug fixes when selecting slides using the thumbnail view in PowerPoint 2002 (Office XP); caused script not to be saved.
03/06/03 Bug fix to allow creating shortcuts to script macros on all versions of Windows. Previously, it worked only on 95/98/Me.
03/04/03 Rework Waitfor wizard
02/20/03 Fix bug in assignment of variables. Allow URL for path to a PPT file in RunSlideShow.
02/15/03 Bug fixes in Excel and Flash features.
New Excel features:
Allow read/write from a currently-visible worksheet rather than only from file
New event: onExcelChange. Allows call of a script macro whenever a change is detected in the active worksheet; Assigns variables for use in macro: &excelChangeCell and &excelChangeValue
These features are experimental and may change without notice!
02/05/03 Minor bug fixes in character properties; Allow resize of character animation list form.
01/27/03 Workaround for a PowerPoint 2002 quirk that doesn't display the slide script on the first slide when selected by thumbnail.
01/24/03 Bug fix: Convert-to-wav function (workaround for and erroneous message that no AT&T voices were found, caused by a Win SAPI4 bug).
01/14/03 Bug fix: SayWav would not generate wav file using AT&T Natural Voices.

This is the current version of the Vox Proxy onlinje help file. Overlay the old file of the same name in the help folder.

Updated: 09/10/04

This is the current version of the Vox Proxy onlinje help file. Overlay the old file of the same name in the help folder.

Updated: 09/10/04

This program is required only for use with PowerPoint 2002 (delivered with Office XP) or 2003 running on Windows 95, 98, or ME. With this configuration, you start Vox Proxy by clicking on Windows Start/Programs/Vox Proxy/Vox Proxy Menu.

This version fixes a bug which caused the menu not to appear on Version 2 systems.

Users running on Windows NT, 2000, or XP do NOT need this program. With these versions of Windows and PowerPoint 2000 or newer, Vox Proxy always starts as an add-in on the PowerPoint menu.