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cactus Mail Starting 9/27/97

From: dfultz@sourcedesign.com (David Fultz);
Sent at 9/28/97; 11:29:00 AM;
Frontier 5 Release

I just downloaded it, haven't looked at it, save your info pages, oh boy! Have you fellows been busy or what!?

Congratulations to you, Doug, and the rest of your team.

From: edecarie@aei.ca (Emmanuel M. Decarie);
Sent at 9/28/97; 12:16:34 AM;
About Frontier 5

I like very much the new outlining of the ODB. Its much more easier to navigate thru it. But there is a lot of white space now surrounding each table and it get more tiresome for the eyes to look at it, but this is really a minor glitch. Overall, I like t

My problem is that I have a PowerBook 1400 and Frontier is always running and I need the "About Frontier" to be open all the time but I don t need the Frontier.root window to be open at all. I never access my root by the root window, so this forme a was

Also, how can I call from Frontier the "About window" in a script. I can't find it's address (if its having one). Maybe here again, it could be possible to have a preference to automatically open this window at the start up of the root. Also, this window

The possibility to save script, wptext... as file is really great. But its getting confusing to have desktop script that have the same icon as a wp file. Why not keeping the old icon for what is going to be exported in the traditionary way (menu Main-->Ex

Also, its seems that the root save itself every time you close a window, even if you don't do any changes. This is very annoying because it takes maybe one second or two each time, and when the root is saving, the display of it change for the time its sav

Last suggestion. I think in general the name of the html Read Me files are misleading. You never know if its going to be a real Read Me file in html format, or just a pointer to www.scripting.com. MSIE and NetScape take forever to launch, and sometime yo

Hey, overall, I'm very exited by Frontier 5. It open so many possibilities that I'm just starting to explore. Its very funny to think that maybe Frontier will help to attract people from the PC side when they are going to realise how much more scriptable

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