Hello Lebeau-Software Subscribers,

Just letting you all know that my new quite of Balloon VCL components for
Borland C++ Builder are finally finished and ready!! I just have to make up
the documentation for them and then they'll be released afterwards.

For you new members who don't know what these are, they're a suite of native
VCL components for making any window look like a speech input balloon ala
the Office Assistant in MSOffice. A lot of users see the input window in
Office and ask MS how they can place input controls into the default speech
balloon of their own implementations of Microsoft Agent. This is currently
not possible, the input window in Office is a custom control not part of
Microsoft Agent itself. Since this is so frequently requested, I'm
releasing a suite of components so you C++ Builder users cna make your own
input windows as well.

Once the new balloon components are released, I'll also be releasing the new
version of my TMSAgent component as well (it's a full native-VCL wrapper
around the Microsoft Agent technology). There have been a lot of changes to
it since the last version. It's been done for sometime now, actually, but
just waiting for the companion balloon components to be finished as well.
Unfortunately the project files for the documentation for TMSAgent got
messed up since the last release, so I may have to re-do the documentation
from scratch again. If so, that might take a while to do as there's a lot
to document. In such case, I'll end up releasing the balloon components
separately than TMSAgent (any of you adventurous programmers can email me
requesting the new TMSAgent release before then, if you don't want to want
for updated documentation).

I'll let you all know when they're actually released.


Remy Lebeau
Lebeau Software