Eccoext is a piece of software that extends the capability of Ecco Pro.

This is a very exciting development since eccoext includes some enhancements that were previously not possible using the original techniques for creating add-ons to Ecco.

Eccoext currently provides enhancements at several different levels. At the most basic level there are some very nice ease of use enhancements like: seamless support for the scroll wheel of a mouse, correction of a few Y2K related bugs, a number of additional menu items, and visible counts of the number of assignments to folders visible in the "folder view". These additions take no effort on the part of the user to realize benefits.

At a more "intermediate" or "power user" level, there are some very exciting enhancements to Ecco's "auto assignment" feature. Rather than being limited to simple string matches (with a few "wild card" characters), eccoext enables use of "Regular Expressions" and formulas similar to what one would find as a "power user" in an application like Excel.

At an advanced level, of interest to programmers is a whole new set of possibilites for creating embedded programs or macros, and the possibility of creating extensions that rely on real-time events in Ecco.

The creator of eccoext has done a great job of applying some very advanced programming and debugging techniques to enable some exciting progress for a program that has been un-maintained for a decade.

Some links to topics of interest might be appropriate here: (please add more even if you are just creating a wish list...)
How does eccoext work (the "Scientific American" lay person's version)
How does eccoext work (the "Deep Geek" nerd's version)
What is Ecco?