Metrowerks Announces Four CodeWarrior Products for Windows 95/NTMetrowerks Inc. has announced new Windows versions of the CodeWarrior suite of programming tools: CodeWarrior Gold for Windows 95/NT, CodeWarrior Academic Pro for Windows 95/NT, Discover Programming C/C++ for Windows 95/NT, and Discover Programming Pascal for Windows 95/NT.
CodeWarrior Gold and CodeWarrior Academic Pro allow developers to build applications for Windows 95, NT, and MacOS, and include support for C, C++, Pascal, and Java. Designed with beginner programmers and hobbyists in mind, Discover C/C++ and Discover Pascal include the full CodeWarrior IDE, and allow users to build applications for Windows 95 and Windows NT.
CodeWarrior Gold DR/1 costs $399, with a competitive upgrade for $199. CodeWarrior Academic Pro costs $119. Discover Programming C/C++ for Windows 95/NT and Discover Programming Pascal for Windows 95/NT each cost $79.
For more information contact Metrowerks Inc., 2201 Donley Dr., Ste 310, Austin, TX 78758. +1-512-873-4758. FAX: +1-512-873-4900. WWW: http://www.metrowerks.com.
Genitor Introduces GENITORGenitor Corporation has released GENITOR, a suite of development tools that helps C/C++ developers to implement and reuse objects. GENITOR stores object information in one or more sharable databases. Using search and browse capabilities, programmers can locate and reuse objects developed by any member of their project team. Users can generate printed or online documentation describing a single or collection of objects by clicking the appropriate toolbar button. GENITOR supports production turnover procedures and integrates to several popular version control systems.
GENITOR automates many coding tasks that are normally done by hand. Users can control formatting, style, and commenting rules that affect the look of generated files. GENITOR can automatically embed trade secret, copyright, or other notices in generated code and documentation.
The current version of GENITOR runs on Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0. Pricing starts at $495.
For more information contact Genitor Corporation, 210 Collingwood Dr., Ann Arbor, MI 48103. +1-888-436-4867 or +1-313-213-2500. FAX: +1-313-213-2525. e-mail: info@genitor.com. www.genitor.com.
MicroEdge Releases Visual SlickEdit v2.0 for X-WindowsMicroEdge, Inc. has announced the release of Visual SlickEdit v2.0 for X-Windows. New features include API Apprentice, which reduces complicated API calls to filling out a dialog box (supports Win32, NEC, OS/2, C-runtimes, and Java), a C/C++/Java code beautifier, difference editing, selective display (code folding), code-block selections, and hex editing. For those programming on the Internet, Visual SlickEdit v2.0 offers support for viewing HTML files for Netscape and Mosaic. In addition to a long list of features, Visual SlickEdit also offers extensive vi, EMACS, CUA, and Brief emulations.
The price for version 2.0 is $395 for X-Windows with the exception of Linux and FreeBSD, which are $195 each. For Windows, Windows 95, and Windows NT the editor sells for $295, and the price for OS/2 is $219.
For more information contact MicroEdge, Inc., P.O. Box 18038, Raleigh, NC 27619. 800-934-3348 or +1-919-303-7400. FAX: +1-919-303-8400. e-mail: sales@slickedit.com. WWW: http://www.slickedit.com.
Zinc Introduces Zinc DataConnectZinc Software has introduced Zinc DataConnect (ZDC), a database product that provides C++ access to relational databases. ZDC provides database independence by transparently supporting different database back-ends with a single object-oriented C++ database API; thus relieving developers of the need to be an expert with each database-specific API. If future circumstances dictate a change in database back-ends, just recompile the ZDC application.
ZDC's thin-layer implementation results in improved performance. ZDC translates its own database independent function calls to the fastest native API calls for each individual database. This is in contrast to ODBC or other generic interfaces that generally exhibit poor performance. As an additional benefit, ZDC allows developers the convenience of doing initial development on a small database, and then scaling to any other needed database platform.
Prices vary depending on Database Access Modules and platform.
For more information contact Zinc Software Inc., 405 South 100 East, Pleasant Grove, UT 84062. +1-801-785-8900. FAX: +1-801-785-8996. e-mail: info@zinc.com. WWW: http://www.zinc.com/.
the doss boss Releases InCOPYnitothe doss boss has released InCOPYnito v1.01, an application used to prepare reports for claiming copyright. InCOPYnito can be used to mask lines of code for the copyright application report. While the source code listing prepared for the copyright authorities has portions blacked out, the report for the user has the same portions visible with a light gray background. Thus, the programmer knows exactly what parts of the code have been released. InCOPYnito also supports multiple work sessions so that legal and managerial feedback can be easily incorporated.
Despite InCOPYnito being a Windows 3.1 program, it can read and print large files. The program can output to any printer with bit-block transfer capabilities, including most laser and dot-matrix printers.
InCOPYnito is priced at $71. Shipping and handling is $2.
For more information contact the doss boss, P.O. Box 1626, Sterling, CO 80751. +1-970-522-0853. e-mail: jdeutsch@csn.org.
ILOG Announces ILOG Visualization SuiteILOG announced the ILOG Visualization Suite (VS), a set of components and class libraries for building interactive, graphical enterprise class applications. ILOG VS includes three new products: ILOG InForm, ILOG Vision, and ILOG MultiViewer, and a new release of ILOG Views, a product for building two-dimensional graphical interfaces for C++ applications. ILOG InForm is a component for building data-intensive, graphical applications, allowing access and visualization of relational database information. ILOG Vision is a graphics library for three-dimensional scenes and interactive applications. ILOG MultiViewer coordinates multipanel displays, and can be used for real-time graphics that span multiple desktops.
ILOG InForm runs directly on Oracle, Sybase, and Informix databases, and can be used with any ODBC-compliant data source. ILOG Vision runs on the OpenGL graphics library and Microsoft's Direct3D library, which is bundled with most PC systems. Each product in ILOG VS is priced separately, starting at $5,000 per developer.
For more information contact ILOG, Inc., 1901 Landings Dr., Mountain View, CA 94043. 800-367-4564 or +1-415-390-9000. FAX: +1-415-390-0946. e-mail: info@ilog.com. WWW: http://www.ilog.com.
DRC Announces Visual MagicDynamics Research Corporation (DRC) has upgraded VisualMagic, its object-oriented design and system development environment, to include automatic full C++ source-code generation. VisualMagic's code generation capabilities allow users to generate C++ source code for their applications, including the part that represents the business logic and business rules and/or user interface.
Using a feature called the Executable Model, users draw diagrams of the system to be built based on their requirements. VisualMagic employs three different kinds of diagrams: object models (business structures), state diagrams (business processes), and rule diagrams (business rules). Using these diagrams, VisualMagic creates a system model that can operate as a functional implementation of the software (i.e., the diagrams actually run as an application).
VisualMagic costs $3,500 for a single-user license.
For more information contact Dynamics Research Corporation, 60 Frontage Rd., Andover, MA 01810. 800-522-4321x1100. FAX: +1-508-475-2157. WWW: http://www.visualmagic.com.
Blinkinc Announces NOVLIB 3.1, Shrinker 2.1, and Blinker 4.0Blinkinc has released three products: NOVLIB 3.1, Shrinker 2.1, and BLINKER 4.0.
NOVLIB 3.1 is a 16- and 32-bit network library, which supports Visual Basic, Delphi, C/C++, CA-VO, and CA-Clipper, features network functions for printing, security, mapping, messaging, and accounting.
Shrinker 2.1 is a compression and archiving product that compresses 16-bit Windows and real-mode DOS programs and executes these programs indirectly, with no separate decompression step. Shrinker's compression also encrypts computer software to act as an effective protection against decompilers.
BLINKER 4.0 provides DLL compression and fast linking for multiple programming languages and environments. In addition, Blinker 4.0 is a royalty-free DOS extender that both creates and uses DLLs in DOS extended programs.
For more information contact Blinkinc, 8001 West Broad St., Richmond, VA 23294. +1-804-747-6700. FAX: +1-804-747-4200. In Europe: +44-1222-712444. FAX: +44-1222-700888. WWW: http://www/blinkinc.com.
Intrinsa Introduces PrefixIntrinsa Corporation announced Prefix, a development tool designed to find software defects during development, not in later testing cycles. Built around a machine- and language-independent simulation engine, Intrinsa's Prefix provides automatic, compile-time detection of programming errors.
Prefix is designed around Intrinsa's patent-pending Software Component Simulation (SCS) technology. SCS enables Prefix to provide exhaustive analysis, allowing it to identify and report defects and problems that tend to involve either error conditions or interactions between components.
A key feature of Prefix is the automatic generation of models for functions as they are simulated. In addition, Intrinsa supplies models for operating and windowing systems. Prefix also offers a variety of mechanisms to suppress messages by error code, error type, by file, and by function, among others, for greater ease of use.
For more information contact Intrinsa Corporation, 101 University Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301. +1-415-614-0400. info@intrinsa.com. WWW: http://www.intrinsa.com.
Sun Announces Java WorkShopSun Microsystems, Inc. has shipped Java WorkShop, a Web browser-based tool that lets developers create, compile, organize, and publish Java applications graphically, shielding users from command-line coding.
Java WorkShop costs $295. Educational discounts are available.
For more information contact SunSoft Inc., 2550 Garcia Ave., Mountain View, CA 94043-1100. +1-415-960-3200. WWW: http://www.sun.com/developer-products.
Mainsoft Announces Visual SourceSafe 5.0Mainsoft Corporation has announced Visual SourceSafe 5.0, a multiplatform, project-oriented, version control system for UNIX, functionally identical to Microsoft Visual SourceSafe for the PC and Mac platforms. Mainsoft Visual SourceSafe features an identical graphical user interface across platforms, with optional Motif look, drag-and-drop operations for file sharing and project configuration, visual file difference displays for side-by-side history review, and customizable options for personalized user environments.
Mainsoft Visual SourceSafe 5.0 new features include: support for collaborative enterprise Internet and Intranet web site management, preserving hyperlinks within HTML source documents under version control; full archiving facilities to backup projects and files, including specific versions of files, and restore them into another SourceSafe 5.0 repository; visual file merge window that enables side-by-side viewing of files to interactively resolve merge conflicts; and a project difference window allowing the visual reconciliation of files in the SourceSafe repository with the developer's working directory.
For more information contact Mainsoft Corporation, 1270 Oakmead Parkway, Ste. 310, Sunnyvale, CA 94086. +1-408-774-3400. FAX: +1-408-774-3404. e-mail: info@mainsoft.com. WWW: http://www.mainsoft.com.
SQA Announces SQA Suite 5.1SQA, Inc. has announced the release of SQA Suite 5.1, an upgrade of its Windows client/server testing tool. A significant new feature in SQA Suite 5.1 is the addition of SQA Manager WebEntry, a free, browser-based defect entry and tracking system written in HTML and JavaScript. SQA Manager WebEntry enables users to submit defects to the SQA Test Repository, then list and view status of defects they have reported from any browser on the web. A simple administrative tool provides the ability to customize the HTML interface. This integrates a broader set of individuals in the testing process.
SQA Suite:TeamTest Edition costs $3,295 for a single-user license. When purchased separately as single-user licenses, the SQA Robot 5.1 costs $2,695 and the SQA Manager 5.1 costs $1,395.
For more information contact SQA, Inc., One Burlington Woods, Cambridge, MA 01803. +1-617229-3500. FAX: +1-617-229-3780. WWW: http://www.sqa.com.
JAALSoft Announces JAALJAALSoft has announced JAAL, a Java-based development environment with its own 4GL. JAAL Application Server executes WhizCode, a 4GL designed to meet the needs of a wide range of developers, from database to Client/Server and Web developers. The WhizCode 4GL binds HTML and SQL together and provides an interface to both. JAAL offers Rapid Application Development, optimizes database connections, and uses a third of the lines of code required for similar applications built in SQL, C, Shell scripts, or Perl.
JAAL uses CGI with Web servers running under Windows NT, Windows 95, and UNIX. JAAL also uses 32-bit ODBC drivers and native interfaces to Oracle, Sybase, and Progress.
For more information contact JAALSoft, 4699 Old Ironsides Dr., Ste. 350, Santa Clara, CA 95054. +1-408-980-1978. FAX: +1-408-980-1255. WWW: http://www.jaal.com.
Dragon Systems Announces Dragon SpeechTool 1.0Dragon Systems, Inc. has shipped Dragon SpeechTool, for building small, targeted vocabularies for speech-enabled applications. Dragon SpeechTool can also be used to produce add-on vocabularies for DragonDictate, so users can dictate specialized terms such as client names, product codes, or other terminology, without user training.
To build a custom vocabulary using Dragon SpeechTool's interactive user interface, a person says the word, then SpeechTool translates the voice into a vocabulary model and uses DragonDictate's available text-to-speech capability to pronounce it for them. The developer can listen to and modify each pronunciation or create multiple pronunciations for the same word.
Dragon SpeechTool costs $295.
For more information contact Dragon Systems, Inc., 800-825-5897 or +1-617-965-5200x348. e-mail: reneeb@dragonsys.com.
UWI Unisoft Wares Announces UWI Masque Developer's ToolkitUWI Unisoft Wares Inc. has announced UWI Masque Developer's Toolkit (DTK) including the UWI Masque Visual Forms Designer v3.0.0 b1. The graphical environment of the Visual Forms Designer offers developers a point-and-click method for designing forms. Developers can choose from a wide array of form components such as fields, radio buttons, check boxes, and push buttons. Tools to refine forms and tailor them to specific departmental needs include features such as spellchecking, previewing, and enclosing. Detailed help pages, which can be viewed through a web browser, are also included. Plus, UWI Masque multi-page forms, with computations and conditional statements, are fully supported by the Visual Forms Designer.
The UWI Masque DTK, including UWI Masque's C APIs and the Visual Forms Designer, costs $995.
For more information contact UWI Unisoft Wares, Inc., +1-604-479-8334. http://www.uwi.com.
MKS Ships MKS Toolkit 5.2 and MKS Source Integrity for German MarketMortice Kern Systems, Inc. (MKS) has shipped MKS Toolkit 5.2 for Windows NT and Windows 95 with new features for tape conversion and Web development. Version 5.2 adds a number of new features and Web tools, including Perl, the popular Web development language; a graphical interface for PAX; a command line interface to Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE); the ability to create hard-links to files in Windows NT; and tools that interact with Web servers to retrieve, modify, and update Web pages.
In addition, MKS released a German version of MKS Source Integrity 7.2, a software configuration management tool for developers and IT project managers.
The MKS Toolkit 5.2 for Windows NT and Windows 95 costs $399; upgrades from any previous version are $199. The German version of MKS Source Integrity 7.2 costs DM 1280. Upgrades from the previous version cost DM 640.
For more information contact Mortice Kern Systems Inc. 800-265-2797 or +1-519-884-2251. FAX: +1-519-884-8861. e-mail: sales@mks.com. WWW: http://www.mks.com.
NuMega Announces BoundsChecker 4.2NuMega Technologies, Inc. has announced BoundsChecker 4.2, the latest release of its error detection tool for Windows operating systems. BoundsChecker 4.2 expands the number of Windows APIs supported by BoundsChecker, including ActiveX and ODBC, and provides extensive support for Windows NT 4.0.
BoundsChecker 4.2 provides developers with extensive support for Win32, COM, ActiveX, ODBC, DirectX, the CryptoAPI, Winsock and other Windows-specific APIs, improving detection of API and OLE interface errors between components, as well as between components and the operating system.
BoundsChecker 4.2 costs $549 for the Professional Edition and $349 for the Standard Edition. Upgrades and corporate site licenses are available.
For more information contact NuMega Technologies, Inc., 9 Townsend West, Nashua, NH 03063. +1-603-889-2386. FAX: +1-603-889-1135. WWW: http://www.numega.com.
On-Time Marketing Announces RTKernel-32On Time has released RT Kernel-32, a portable, real-time multitasking system for 32-bit embedded systems based on the Intel 80386 and higher CPUs. RT Kernel-32 enables the programmer to develop real-time multitasking applications for embedded systems running without an operating system. RTKernel-32 is based on the proven technology of RTKernel-C and RT Kernel-Pascal, On Time's real-time system for MS-DOS and 16-bit embedded systems.
In addition to its native interface, RTKernel-32 offers an interface compatible with RTKernel-C, as well as Win32-compatible functions. RT Kernel-32's Win32 emulation covers about 30 Win32 API functions for threads, semaphores, critical sections, etc. Also, Win32 Thread Variables are supported and will be duplicated for each task automatically at run time.
An RTKernel-32 developer's license costs $1,950. Complete source code is available at an additional cost of $1,650. There are no runtime royalties.
For more information contact On Time Marketing, 88 Christian Ave., Setauket, NY 11733. +1-516-689-6654. FAX: +1-516-689-1172. e-mail: info@on-time.com.
GLOBEtrotter Offers FLEXlm Free to Qualified CompaniesFor small Windows application developers seeking an easier and less expensive means to distribute their commercial applications, GLOBEtrotter offers the fully functional version of FLEXlm for Windows license-management product at no cost to qualified companies.
Normally sold at prices starting at $4,000 per developer site with no limits on desktop users, FLEXlm will be offered free to independent software vendors (ISVS), with annual revenues below $2 million, for a license allowing two desktop users. GLOBEtrotter does not charge royalties for end-user applications with embedded versions of FLEXlm. While GLOBEtrotter's entry-level license management offering does not include technical support, several low-cost options, from $250 to $ 1,000, are available. This offer may be withdrawn at any time.
For more information contact GLOBEtrotter Software Inc., 300 Orchard City Dr., Ste. 131, Campbell, CA 95008. +1-408-370-2800. FAX: +1-408-370-2884. WWW: http://www.globetrotter.com.
Prentice Hall Releases SmartLabs CDsPrentice Hall PTR announces the publication of MFC SmartLabs: An Intelligent Tutoring System and OLE SmartLabs: An Intelligent Tutoring System, the first two CD-ROMs in the new SmartLabs Series.
Designed for the 1.2 million programmers using Microsoft's Visual C++ environment, both CDs provide hands-on, self-paced guidance using the SmartLabs system of multimedia training. MFC SmartLabs helps users master the Microsoft Foundation Class Library. OLE SmartLabs helps users learn Object Linking and Embedding.
For more information contact Prentice Hall PTR. +1-201-236-7000. WWW: http://www.prenhall.com.