Apps can’t help acting on impulse.
The Impulse module was originally released by Computer Concepts (now Xara), and was in part the result of the company’s plans to develop a replacement for Arthur, the operating system used on the Archimedes computers before Acorn brought out RISC OS 2. The module provides a mechanism for inter-application communications, command execution and data transfer, and is used by databases such as Impact and Powerbase in conjunction with Impression, ImpEmail and Ovation Pro to perform mail-merges and produce reports.
Until now, the most recent update to the module was in December 2002, when version 0.20 was released as the first 32-bit version – but thanks to the efforts of Sine Nomine, version 0.21 is now available.
This version fixes some issues whereby the Impulse module can interfere with messages sent by a task to itself (including broadcast messages), issues that came to light during the development of ImpEmail, the new mail merging email software supplied with Impact. In addition to this, a safety check on the length of the command for the Impulse_SendMessage SWI has been added.
Developers who distribute Impulse as part of their applications are strongly encouraged to upgrade their distributions to the new version.
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