Watcom Announces Watcom C/C++ v10.5
Watcom has announced the release of Watcom C/C++ v10.5, its multi-platform development system. The new version includes Visual Programmer by Blue Sky Software, which enables rapid 16- and 32-bit Windows development. Visual Programmer is a visual development tool and MFC code generator for intuitive development of 16- and 32-bit Windows applications. Watcom C/C++ v10.5 also includes support for the pre-release version of Windows 95. All registered v10.5 customers will be eligable to receive a free Watcom C/C++ version upgrade, featuring additional Windows 95 support.Watcom C/C++'s cross-platform capabilities enable the development of programs for a wide variety of environments from several supported host systems. Developers can standardize on a single host environment and toolset for application development across a wide range of target systems. Watcom C/C++' s multi-platform target support includes Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows 3.x, Win32s, OS/2 Warp, extended DOS, 16-bit DOS, OS/2 1.x, and Novell NLMs. Watcom C/C++ also supports the Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC), Object Linking and Embedding (OLE), and IBM's System Object Model (SOM) and Distributed System Object Model (DSOM).
Watcom C/C++ v10.5 has a suggested retail price of $350. Upgrades from earlier versions of Watcom C/C++ will be available from Watcom for $129. Full printed documentation will be available separately for $129.
For more information contact Watcom International, 415 Phillip St., Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA N2L 3X2. +1-519-886-3700.
CenterLine Announces QualityCenter Automated Testing Tools
CenterLine Software, Inc. has released QualityCenter, their family of automated software testing tools to help development organizations improve the quality and speed of developing software applications. While traditional approaches separate testing from the development process, making quality assurance a post-development endeavor, CenterLine's QualityCenter family allows companies to flush out defects in their code earlier in the development process. By combining QualityCenter with CenterLine's ObjectCenter and CodeCenter programming environments, the company now offers the industry a broad range of C/C++ software development solutions to enable quality-centered development, from the first compile through deployment.The QualityCenter family includes QC/Replay, QC/Coverage, QC/Sim, and TestCenter. QC/Replay automates the process of capturing and replaying user keystrokes and mouse clicks to uncover deviations in an X-Window application's behavior early in the development cycle. QC/Replay combines "widget awareness" (in which test scripts interact directly with Motif buttons, scroll bars, and other GUI building-block objects), an open, standard scripting language, and automatic synchronization to provide object-based capture/playback verification of complex applications. QC/Replay's widget-based approach enables tests which are more readable, maintainable, and resilient to changes. QC/Coverage provides a code coverage and analysis tool for test planning and measuring how much of an application's code was exercised during testing. QC/Coverage provides industry standard testing metrics to assist in test planning with specialized support for the C++ language. QC/Sim is an add-on to QC/Coverage for simulating difficult-to-test situations, such as disk or network failures. Together QC/Coverage and QC/Sim enable users to remove hidden defects by simulating real-life conditions. TestCenter supplies a testing tool for run-time error and memory leak detection together with code coverage capabilities.
Products in the QualityCenter family are priced at $6,995 for QC/Replay, $5,995 for QC/Coverage (C), $8,995 for QC/Coverage (C++), $9,600 for QC/Sim, and $3,995 for TestCenter. All prices are for a single floating license. Most QualityCenter family members run on the following platforms: HP-UX 9.0, SunOS/Solaris, IBM AIX, UnixWare, Digital UNIX, OS/2. Call to confirm the platform for a particular product. For more information contact CenterLine Software, Inc., 10 Fawcett St., Cambridge, MA 02138-1110; +1-617-498-3000; FAX: +1-617-868-6655.
Perennial Announces C++VS v4.2 and CVSA 6.0
Perennial, Inc. announced the release of Perennial C Compiler Validation Suite v6.0 (CVSA) and of Perennial C++ Compiler Validation Suite v4.2 (C++VS).The new release of CVSA contains three distinct test scenarios for testing C compilers: Classic C, ISO C, and the ISO C extension for multi-byte character support. The Classic C section provides conformance testing based on early definitions of the C language as defined in The C Programming Language by Kernighan and Ritchie. The ISO C section is based on the ISO/IEC C standard, and derived from Perennial's validation suite, ACVS, used by NIST and X/Open for certifying compiler conformance to the ISO C standard. ACVS is also included with CVSA. The ISO C multi-byte support section provides conformance testing based on the new Amendment 1 to the C Standard. This release of CVSA also contains improvements to the test harness mechanism. The changes provide a wider range of functionality and compatibility with the test harness used in Perennial's C++ test suite.
The release of C++VS contains broader coverage of the C++ Working Draft being developed as the ISO Standard for C++. Over 2,000 new test cases have been added to C++ VS, primarily for lexical conventions, basic concepts, classes, member access control, and overloading, bringing the total number of test cases to over 30,000.
CVSA runs on UNIX, UNIX-like platforms, and will be available on OS/2 platforms in the near future. The site license fee of $15,000 includes twelve months of technical support and updates. C++ VS runs on UNIX, UNIX-like, and OS/2 platforms. The site license fee of $25,000 includes six months of technical support and updates. For more information contact Perennial, Inc., 4699 Old Ironsides Drive, Suite 210, Santa Clara, CA 95054; +1-408-748-2900; FAX: +1-408-748-2909.
R-Active Releases BetterState Pro V 3.0
R-Active Concepts has introduced BetterState Pro v3.0, a graphical, state-machine design tool. In addition to supporting extended state diagrams with hierarchy and concurrence, and automatic code generation, BetterState Pro v3.0 also includes critical regions, flowchart decision polygons, history states, interactive state-animated debugging for C/C++ designs, and inter-tool editing capability.BetterState Pro v3.0 requires an IBM or PC-compatible running MS-Windows 3.X. Price, including the user's choice of C, C++, Verilog HDL, or VHDL code generator, is $495. A Visual Basic only version is $295. For more information contact R-Active Concepts, Inc., 20654 Gardenside Circle, Cupertino, CA 95014; +1-408-252-2808; FAX: +1-408-438-7684; e-mail: doron@ractive.com or bweeks@ractive.com.
Subtle Software Releases Subtleware Class Generator
Subtle Software, Inc. has released Subtleware Class Generator (CGen), an interactive Windows tool that creates C++ class definitions from relational database schema. CGen allows you to connect to a database, select schema in the database, and generate C++ class definitions that model the selected database schema. It can be used to jump start your C++ development project by creating C++ classes from your existing database schema. Once a C++ class has been generated by CGen, you can refine the class by adding methods, data members, and super-classes just as you would in your normal development process.CGen runs under Windows 3.x and Windows NT, as well as most databases using ODBC. Introductory price is only $89. For more information contact Subtle Software, Inc., 7 Wells Ave. #27-28, Newton, MA 02159; +1-617-558-4100; FAX: +1-617-558-4103.
Blinkinc Releases Blinker 3.2
Blinkinc has announced the release of Blinker 3.2. Blinker 3.2 introduces protected-mode support for Borland C++ 4.5, Symantec C++ 6.1 and 7.0, and Watcom C/C++ 10.0; adds source-level debugger support for Soft-ICE/W running on a single machine in real and/or protected mode; and includes automatic passup of real-mode hardware interrupts to protected mode. Blinker 3.2 features a royalty-free DOS extender, fast Windows linker, DOS dynamic overlay linker, integrated DOS swap package, and a "dual mode" feature, which allows a single program to run automatically in either real or protected mode, depending on the configuration of the run-time machine. Compatible with C/C++, FORTRAN, CA-Clipper, Assembler, and more, Blinker creates memory-efficient Windows and DOS programs quickly, reducing development time.Blinker 3.2 will be mailed free of charge to all Blinkinc newsletter subscribers and can be downloaded free of charge from the Blinkinc BBS (804-747-7333) by all Blinker 3.1 customers. For more information contact BlinkInc, 8001 West Broad St., Richmond, VA 23294; +1-804-747-6700; FAX: +1-804-747-4200.
Dakota Scientific Software Announces DSSLIB 1.6
DSS has released DSSLIB v1.6, an add-on product for Rogue Wave's LAPACK.h++. The combination of LAPACK.h++ and DSSLIB can give C++ programs higher speed than they can get from highly optimized libraries. By linking their existing C++ code with DSSLIB, users can avoid rewriting and still get speed increases. C++ performance suffers on MP machines because C++ compilers do not automatically parallelize user code as efficiently as other compilers. Combining DSSLIB with a C++ class library such as LAPACK.h++ solves those problems by embedding the parallelization in DSSLIB.Both DSSLIB and LAPACK.h++ are available for SunOS, Solaris 1.0, or Solaris 2.x. Prices range from $995 for a single user to $9,995 for a site license. For more information contact Dakota Scientific Software, Inc., 2241 Cedar Drive, Rapid City, SD 57702-3245; 800-641-8851; FAX: +1-605-348-9623; e-mail: sales@scisoft.com.
ObjectArts Announces Info Sleuth 1.0
ObjectArts has released Info Sleuth 1.0, a data control that uses outlining technology to provide a picture of data structures. Outlining makes it easier to analyze data at different levels of the structures by presenting information more clearly and intuitively than traditional tables and grids. Info Sleuth can handle data from multiple sources, including databases, spreadsheets, text, and other defined sources. Drag and drop capability permits levels to be dragged up or down for the most informative view, and data can be dragged to or from other OLE-enabled applications. Info Sleuth also incorporates a complete set of dialogs and wizards, including design and run-time wizards to connect to ODBC and other sources.The Inspector Window lets the user examine underlying data at any level of the structure. For example, the Inspector Window can show data, activate pop-up search windows, view graphic images, and move up or down in the structure.
Info Sleuth can be used with Visual Basic (VBX), Access 2.0 (OCX), Visual C++ (DLL), any OLE-enabled package, and Borland OWL and other MFC-compliant compilers. It ships as a 16- and 32-bit OCX and DLL, along with a VBX version, and is Windows 95 ready. Info Sleuth sells for the introductory price of $149, including ObjectArts TIMES Drag 'n' Drop utility that manages the OLE "pipe" to simplify adding drag and drop capability to other applications. For more information contact ObjectArts, One London Place, 255 Queens Ave., Suite 1920, London, Ontario, CANADA N6A 5R8; 800-661-0247 or +1-519-663-9738; FAX: +1-519-663-5797.
Visual Systems Releases GUI-Kit Release 1.1
Visual Systems Corporation is shipping v1.1 of GUI-Kit for WIN32s and Windows NT. GUI-Kit is a cross-platform GUI toolkit for C and C++ that allows developers to write applications using a portable, object-oriented C/C++ API and portable resources. GUI-Kit allows interactive testing of resource files and includes a cross-platform make utility, DMAKE. Version 1.1 offers performance improvements, additional compiler support, and a hypertext-based on-line programmer's reference.GUI-Kit supports 32-bit cross-platform development under Windows 3.x (WIN32s) and Windows NT. All major compilers are supported including Microsoft Visual C++, Borland C++, WATCOM C++, and Symantec C++. GUI-Kit v1.1 for WIN32s and Windows NT may be purchased directly from Visual Systems for $495, including a 60-day money-back guarantee and no run-time fees. For more information contact Visual Systems Corporation, 2512 Crosstown Blvd. N.E., Ham Lake, MN 55304; +1-612-434-6382; FAX: +1-612-434-6538; e-mail: vsystems@ix.netcom.com; CompuServe: 73361,3131.
Imagix Announces Imagix 4D
Imagix has released Imagix 4D v1.5, a three-dimensional program-understanding tool for C and C++ that applies knowledge-based exploration and information-visualization technologies to reduce the time spent studying existing code. A new data collection system in v1.5 enables Imagix 4D to analyze any source code written in the K&R, ANSI, Microsoft, or GNU C dialects. Version 1.5 provides 15 different views of the software being analyzed. Imagix 4D incorporates visualization and knowledge technologies to help users collect, integrate, focus on, and comprehend information that is pertinent to their current problem. To develop a comprehensive knowledge base about the key aspects of the software being explored, Imagix 4D collects data from many different sources. These range from portions of the software itself, such as the source code and the makefiles, to static and dynamic analysis data flies generated by the compiler and tcov and gprof utilities. As it's collected, the data is integrated in a proprietary entity/relationship/attribute database. The information in this database is used to create a series of views. These enable users to quickly check or systematically study their software at a range of levels. By focusing their views through Imagix 4D's knowledge-based exploration engine, developers can visually explore a wide range of aspects about their software, including control structures, data usage, and inheritance. Imagix 4D makes use of color and three-dimensional imaging to help users sort through and comprehend the views.Imagix 4D v1.5 runs on Sun workstations, under both Solaris and SunOS. Imagix 4D v1.5 sells for $795 per seat, and includes support as well as upgrades to later 1.x releases. For more information contact John Blattner, +1-503-644-4905; e-mail: johnb@imagix.com.
DataPak Announces 32-bit PAIGE for Windows
Datapak Software, Inc. (DSI) has released a 32-bit version of PAIGE for Windows. The supported platforms now include Macintosh, Power Macintosh, Windows 3.1, WIN32, and Windows NT. PAIGE is an advanced, open architecture text and page-layout programming library that gives developers control over data elements (text, graphics, containers, sound, video, etc.) and how they are incorporated into documents. PAIGE uses no globals, breaks all segmentation barriers, and is not limited to a specific compiler, development system, class library, or development methodology.PAIGE is available for the Macintosh 680x0, Power Macintosh, Windows, and Windows NT. For more information contact DataPak Software, Inc., 9317 N.E. Highway 99, Suite G, Vancouver, WA 98665-8900; +1-360-573-9155; FAX: +1-360-573-9269; e-mail: 76424.3027@compuserve.com.
Blue Sky Announces WinHelp Office 1.5 and Moving to WinHelp '95 Kit
Blue Sky Software is now shipping the Moving to WinHelp 95 Kit and WinHelp Office v1.5. The Moving to WinHelp 95 Kit provides help authors with a way to move current Windows 3.x Help systems to Windows 95. This kit includes the Moving to WinHelp Porting Tool and Mastering Windows 95 Help, the Official Book on Help Authoring. The Porting Tool automates the process of moving Windows 3.x Help systems to Windows 95 Help; Mastering Windows 95 Help discusses the Windows 95 Help features and compares Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 Help. WinHelp Office v1.5 has added a help debugger for Windows 95, an improved WinHelp HyperViewer, and an improved WinHelp Graphics locator. The complete office suite includes: RoboHELP, WinHelp Video Kit, Toolkit and HyperViewer, the book Mastering WinHelp, and the Moving to WinHelp 95 Kit. WinHelp Office v1.5, with the Moving to WinHelp 95 Kit, is priced at $599. The Moving to WinHelp Kit sells separately for $199. For more information contact Blue Sky Software Corporation, 7486 La Jolla Blvd., Suite 3, La Jolla, CA 92037; +1-619-459-6365; FAX: +1-619-459-6366; e-mail: 71052.1641 @ compuserve.com.
Black Ice Announces Complete Fax Development Toolkit
Black Ice Software has released the Fax Toolkit, a fax development toolkit for the Windows 3.1 and Windows NT environments. The Fax Toolkit contains Fax C++ (to send and receive faxes), a generic print capture driver, and TIFF SDK and Image SDK Plus. Fax C++ supports Class 1, Class 2, and Class 2.0 fax modems. The Fax Toolkit includes a mode for Binary File Transfer (BFT), compliant with CCITT.434. Other improvements include faster image display, Fax Debugging Tools, and Magnifying Glass. Fax C++ supports TIFF/CCITT G3, PCX, DCX, device-independent bitmap (compressed or uncompressed), and other formats.The Fax C++ Class Library provides send and receive queue management, dynamic configuration of fax modems, communication port control, and support for over 42 standard page sizes. It has both a C++ and a C user interface and includes complete documentation and a sample application with source files. The library is fully compatible with any development environment that supports DLLs, including Microsoft Visual C++, Visual Basic, SQL Windows, and Borland C++. The Monochrome or Color Generic Print Capture Driver captures print output from any Windows application and generates fax output. The TIFF and Image SDK Plus allows developers to create a user interface for their fax applications.
The components can be purchased separately, or as a complete fax development toolkit for $2,500 for Windows or $3,500 for NT, royalty free. For more information contact Black Ice Software Inc., 292 Route 101, Salzburg Square, Amherst, NH 03031; +1-603-673-1019; FAX: +1-603-672-4112.
Mailer's Software Announces MAILERS'+4 Programmer's Tool Kit
MAILER'S Software has released MAILER'S+4 Programmers' Tool Kit, which allows programmers to automatically verify addresses upon entry and permits browsing by street, city, and ZIP Code. The Tool Kit includes all necessary programming tools to standardize and append ZIP+4 codes to addresses. Used in conjunction with the company's popular MAILER'S+4 Windows-based direct marketing software program, the Programmers' Tool Kit consists of a DLL that enables users to integrate the MAILER'S+4 look-up engine into any Windows application. The MAILER'S+4 API calls can be included to standardize addresses and add the ZIP+4, carrier route code, and delivery point code, allowing the DLL to automatically handle the address matching process.The software's DLL can be used by programs written in C, C++, Visual Basic, SmallTalk, Delphi, and any other language that allows for access to Windows DLLs. In addition, the DLL returns the telephone area code, time zone, metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area (PMSA), Dominant Market Area (DMA), county, address type, and ZIP type of the verified address.
The MAILER'S+4 Programmers' Tool Kit uses the same address and look-up verification engine used by MAILER'S+4 software. The program is CASS-certified by the US Postal Service, and allows users to immediately verify any one of the 123 million addresses in the US. This national address database has been compressed to only 500 MB on a single CD-ROM.
The MAILER'S+4 Programmers' Tool Kit is available from MAILER'S Software for $195. For more information contact Mailer's Software, 970 Calle Negocio, San Clemente, CA 92673-6201; +1-714-492-7000; FAX: +1-714-492-7086.
Lead Technologies Announces LEADTOOLS DLLs for Windows and OS/2
LEAD Technologies has released LEADTOOLS DLL v5 for Windows, WIN32 v5, and LEADTOOLS for OS/2. LEADTOOLS 5 for Windows and WIN32 provides image-file format/compression support, image processing, and bitonal image processing. LEADTOOLS 5 includes over 30 demo samples complete with source code to assist the programmer in the development process. LEADTOOLS 5 is TWAIN-compliant and supports multi-page scanning.LEADTOOLS OS/2 supports OS/2 v2.1+ and OS/2 Warp. LEADTOOLS OS/2 includes advanced image processing capabilities such as rotate, flip, brightness, contrast, invert colors, change hue and saturation, sharpen or blur, posterize, mosaic, emboss, average filter, median filter, intensity detect, detect edges and lines, user-defined spatial or binary filters, creation of an optimized, fixed or user-defined palette, zoom, paint effects, and others. LEADTOOLS OS/2 also supports different video modes, compression and file formats, environment integration, high-level and low-level functions, and high performance for hi color and true color.
LEADTOOLS can be used as a Windows DLL (3.x, WIN32s, WIN95, NT) for Microsoft C compilers and Borland compilers, or any language that supports DLL calls. LEADTOOLS also supports a VBX that can be used with Visual Basic or Visual C++ Custom Controls and any language that supports a VBX, Paradox, or OS/2 C-Set. LEADTOOLS supports standard 16-bit Windows development, and 32-bit development using WIN32s, WIN95, NT, or OS/2. Prices start at $495 with no royalties or license fees required. For more information contact Lead Technologies, 900 Baxter St., Charlotte, NC 28204; +1-704-332-5532; FAX: +1-704-372-8161.
Geophile Consulting Ships Spatial Access Method
Geophile Consulting has released Geophile 2, a spatial access method. Geophile 2 provides set-oriented operations on sets of spatial objects, including containment and overlap search, nearest neighbor search, and polygon overlay. The libraries include C and C++ interfaces and are available for DOS, Windows 3.1, NT, and most UNIX platforms. Geophile 2 can manage any kind of spatial object, in any number of dimensions. Spatial objects may be stored in main memory data structures such as sorted arrays and balanced trees, or on disk in ISAM or B-tree structures. Adapters for popular libraries are available and the adapter interface is documented so that Geophile can be used with proprietary libraries. Consulting and training services are available.For more information contact Geophile Consulting, 11 Bird St., Needham, MA 02192; +1-617-455-8245; e-mail: geophile@hooked.net; WWW: http://www.hooked.net/users/geophile/geophile.html.
Eloquent Technology Announces Eloquence Text-to-Speech Software
Eloquent Technology has introduced Eloquence, a text-to-speech software package that produces speech from any English text. Eloquence produces a natural intonation pattern that improves the speech quality and increases the user's ability to comprehend and retain the spoken text. The product's high-level annotation scheme allows users to mimic many human characteristics including custom voices, voice quality, and intonational effects. Input text can be entered in standard English, including abbreviations and phonetic symbols. The program handles a variety of pronunciations, including proper names, acronyms, abbreviations and fractions. It produces a definable dictionary that allows users to add their own pronunciations.Eloquence was developed using the Delta System, a special-purpose programming language and interactive development environment for speech synthesis and more general natural-language processing. Eloquence was created with a series of grants from the National Institutes of Health to provide speech-impaired individuals with natural sounding, human-like speech aids, but is also used in a variety of other areas.
Eloquence requires a 486/25 PC or higher running Windows, a Sun SPARCStation, or RS/6000 and Silicon Graphics workstations. A software development kit is available to provide software developers and OEMs complete control over Eloquence from within applications including DLL and DDE servers for Windows and shared libraries and Sockets-based servers for UNIX. For more information contact Eloquent Technology, Inc., 24 Highgate Circle, Ithaca, NY 14850; +1-607-266-7025; FAX: +1-607-266-7030; e-mail: eti@plab.dmll.cornell.edu.
Recognita Releases OCR Development Tool Kit v3.0
Recognita Corporation has developed the OCR Development Tool Kit (DTK) v3.0. DTK offers omnifont OCR, image handling and processing, scanner support, barcode recognition, checkmark recognition, handwritten numerical recognition, and nine-pin draft dot matrix recognition. Other features include TWAIN compatibility; driver support for more than 85 scanner models; grayscale scanning of two-, four-, and eight-bit images; the ability to set dropout color for scanners; recognition of character sizes from 6-48 points; grayscale to black and white conversion; image rotation; and others.The OCR Toolkit has a suggested retail price of $995. For more information contact Recognita Corporation of America, 1156 Aster Ave., Suite F, Sunnyvale, CA 94086. +1-408-241-5772 or 800-255-4627.