Dart Communications Releases PowerTCP v3.0
Dart Communications has released PowerTCP Internet Toolkit v3.0, which allows developers to add TCP/IP protocols to applications. All protocols previously sold in separate toolkits will now be bundled together — with no change in price. Protocols include: FTP, TELNET, TCP, SMTP, POP3, UDP, TFTP, SNMP, and VT320 emulation. Version 3.0 also features new controls: REXEC, RLOGIN, RSHELL, WHOIS, TIME, and FINGER. Each toolkit includes application templates with source code for numerous applications.
Version 3.0 adds support for Visual Basic 5.0, Microsoft Visual C/C++ 5.0, Delphi 3.0, and PowerBuilder 5.0. PowerTCP toolkits will continue to support Visual Basic 3.0 and 4.0, and previous versions of Delphi and Microsoft Visual C/C++. Dart has also added the latest MIME support for POP3/SMTP and new VT320 emulation libraries. Additional protocols including IMAP4 and Zmodem are expected this summer.
Toolkits are priced at $598 and include royalty-free licensing. OEM licensing is available for ISVs. Free trial versions of Power TCP toolkits are available on their web site.
For more information contact Dart Communications, 6647 Old Thompson Rd., Syracuse, NY 13211. +1-315-431-0124. FAX: +1-315-431-1025. e-mail: info@dart.com. WWW: http://www.dart.com.
RTI Announces NetAcquire Java Toolkit
Real Time Integration, Inc. has announced the NetAcquire Java Toolkit that allows Java applets to acquire, process, and update real-time analog and digital data over an Ethernet network. Java applets use the NetAcquire Java Toolkit and a TCP/IP network to communicate with NetAcquire server hardware containing analog-to-digital conversion hardware.
NetAcquire is an intelligent data acquisition system that makes analog and digital data available over an Ethernet network. NetAcquire extends the cross-platform architecture of Java systems by adding hardware input/output capabilities. In conjunction with Netscape 3.0, applets run on 16 possible operating system and computer combinations. Both standalone Java applications and browser-enabled Java applets can connect to NetAcquire hardware to obtain a real-world interface to analog and digital data.
The NetAcquire Java Toolkit costs $495. NetAcquire data acquisition and control hardware is priced at $5,495.
For more information contact Real Time Integration, Inc., 10900 N.E. 8th St., Ste. 900, Bellevue, WA 98004-4405. 888-675-1122 (toll free) or +1-425-462-5817. FAX: 888-670-1122 (toll free) or +1-425-883-0463. e-mail: info@reatimeint.com. WWW: http://www.realtimeint.com.
XPS Announces Year 2000 Tools
Xpress Software has released it's language independent year 2000 software tools. The XPS tools, Inventory2000 and Imp2000, use proprietary technology to parse, catalog, and identify date-related problems in any 3GL, 4GL, and object-oriented computer languages, including COBOL, FORTRAN, DECForms, DCL, Visual Basic, Visual C++, and Pascal. XPS tools run under MS-Windows 16- and 32-bit operating systems. Demo copies can be downloaded from the XPS web site at http://www.xpsoft.com, where a year 2000 bulletin board is also in place.
Prices for XPS's year 2000 tools begin at $395.
For more information contact Xpress Software, Inc., 95 Rams Horn Rd., Dudley, MA 01571. +1-508-949-7661. FAX: +1-508-943-2490. e-mail: xpsoft@xpsoft.com. WWW: http://www.xpsoft.com.
Galapagos Releases Adaptive Object Storage v1.0
Galapagos Software, Inc. has begun shipping the first product based on Associative Database Technology (ADB), called Adaptive Object Storage v1.0 for C++. ADB, a new technology for finding, organizing, and storing data, mimics the associative capabilities of the human mind. Galapagos Software developed ADB to address today's information overload problem caused by the simultaneous convergence of multiple technologies.
ADB Technology is based on three core capabilities. First, it supports collections of values and bi-directional linking between these collections, allowing additions and deletions to these collections at any time. Second, it offers "category-item" and "recency" models that allow information to be organized based on inclusion in a category and on a specified time period. Third, it supports a unique "dynamic hierarchy" navigational model, which allows users to build a hierarchy on demand. Points of the hierarchy are not fixed, but are decided on by the user while performing a search or organizing information.
Adaptive Object Storage v1.0 costs $300.
For more information contact Galapagos Software, Inc., 1042 E. Fort Union #265, Midvale, UT 84047. +1-801-256-0184. WWW: http://www.Galapagos1.com.
COSMIC Software Announces 68HC11 C Cross Compiler v4.0
COSMIC Software has released C Cross Compiler v4.0, which supports Motorola's 68HC11 family of microcontrollers. Version 4.0 features full assembly source-level debugging with optional IEEE695 output. The C Cross Compiler v4.0 package includes a new assembler that generates full assembly-language debugging information, allowing assembly source-level debugging. In addition, C source-level debugging is still available. The macro-assembler has been rewritten to be fully Motorola MCUasm-compatible, and compatible with COSMIC's other v4.0 assemblers.
A standard COSMIC C compiler package includes: optimizing C cross compiler, macro assembler, linker, librarian, object inspector, hex file generator, object format converters, debugging support utilities, run-time library source code, and a multi-pass compiler command driver.
The Compiler package starts at $1,500 for PC tools. The Codewright Windows Code/Project Editor and Integrated Development Environment are available for $225.
For more information contact COSMIC Software, 100 Tower Office Park, Ste. C, Woburn, MA 01801. +1-617-932-2556. FAX: +1-617-932-2557.
Asymetrix Announces SuperCede RAD Tools
Asymetrix Corporation has released two new editions of the SuperCede Java development environment: SuperCede Java/ActiveX Edition and SuperCede Database Edition. SuperCede Java/ActiveX Edition targets the corporate Visual Basic or RAD developer who wants to move to Java to create industry standard, network-enabled applications. SuperCede Database Edition targets corporate Visual Basic, C++, and Java developers, who need to quickly build Java database applications for corporate intranets, Windows client/server environments, and the Internet.
The new editions of SuperCede include an extensive array of bundled controls and libraries from companies such as ProtoView, FarPoint, KL Group, Stingray, Shafir, Object Design, JGL, and Asymetrix. Both products also include integrated version control from Starbase and Visual Basic-to-Java translation technology from TV Objects. SuperCede Database Edition includes database connectivity software from INTERSOLV and Visigenic Software.
SuperCede Java/ActiveX Edition costs $199; the SuperCede Database Edition costs $549.
For more information contact Asymetrix Corporation, 110-110th Avenue N.E., Bellevue, WA 98004-5840. 800-365-8553. WWW: http://www.supercede.com.
LEAD Technologies Announces LEADTOOLS Pro Express
LEAD Technologies has shipped LEADTOOLS Pro Express, an imaging toolkit for developers. New features include functionality designed specifically for document imaging applications. The product now features rapid 256-shade Scale-to-Gray, Favor Black, despeckle, deskew, and region-of-interest processing, as a result of enhancements that have increased processing speeds.
LEADTOOLS Pro Express has also incorporated fast compression/decompression of multi-page TIFF and CCITT G3/G4 documents, optional compression of images in memory, built-in annotation capabilities, Dicom medical imaging support, and a variety of new features for Internet-related document imaging. These include Internet enablement of ActiveX controls, a Feed/Load function to display image data as it is being transmitted, a special DLL plug-in that allows Netscape Navigator to read LEADTOOLS images, and a net-aware ActiveX that allows Microsoft Internet Explorer to read LEADTOOLS images.
Pro Express costs $1,995.
For more information contact LEAD Technologies, Inc., 900 Baxter St., Ste. 103, Charlotte, NC 28204. 800-637-4699 or +1-704-332-5532. FAX: +1-704-372-8116. WWW: http://www.leadtools.com.
Spatial Technology Ships 3D Building Blox
Spatial Technology Inc. has announced 3D Building Blox, an ActiveX control for creating 3-D software applications. 3D Building Blox is used in 32-bit visual development environments, such as Microsoft Visual Basic, that support ActiveX controls. Using 3D Building Blox, a developer can create applications that display, manipulate, and query 3-D model structures in ACIS .SAT file format.
3D Building Blox provides the followingcapabilities: set camera angles and distances; rotate, walkthrough, and fly through models; apply scene lighting; set material properties and add textures to model entities; and query 3-D model structures for geometry, topology, and other attribute data. 3D Building Blox also provides features to create simple models using solid primitives, True Type fonts, and Boolean operations.
3D Building Blox costs $249 per developer seat.
For more information contact Spatial Technology, Inc., 2425 55th St., Building A, Boulder, CO 80301. +1-303-449-0649. FAX: +1-303-442-5921. WWW: http://www.spatial.com.
NobleNet Announces RPC for OpenNT
NobleNet, Inc. has announced RPC for OpenNT, Softway System's implementation of UNIX technology on Windows NT. The SDK includes NobleNet RPC 3.0 for OpenNT, ONC/RPC libraries, RPC GEN, and, for a limited time, NobleNet RPC 3.0 for Windows 3.x, all at a special introductory price of $2,500.
RPC for OpenNT provides programmers with native middleware tools needed on OpenNT to port existing UNIX RPC programs, hand-code lightweight RPCs, recompile existing NobleNet RPC 3.0 applications, and develop new, industrial-strength client/server production systems.
For more information contact NobleNet, Inc., 337 Turnpike Rd, Southboro, MA 01772. +1-508-460-8222. FAX: +1-508-460-3456. WWW: http://www.noblenet.com.
Rogue Wave Standard C++ Library Supports Solaris and Sun
Rogue Wave Software, Inc. announced that its implementation of the ANSI/ISO Standard C++ Library now supports the Solaris operating environment. Rogue Wave's Standard C++ Library vl.2.1 also supports SGI Irix, HP-UX, IBM AIX, OS/2, Windows 95, and Windows NT.
Rogue Wave's Standard C++ Library has been licensed by most major compiler vendors, including Sun, HP, SGI, DEC, Borland, and others. Standard C++ Library v1.2.1 includes updated data structures and algorithms (the STL), an Allocator class for memory management, string classes, and a complex class for representing and manipulating complex numbers.
Rogue Wave's Standard C++ Library vl.2.1 costs $295 for a single-user source code license. Annual support contracts are priced at $195.
For more information contact Rogue Wave Software, 850 S.W. 35th St., Corvallis, OR 97333. 800-487-3217 or +1-541-754-3010. +1-541-757-6650. WWW: http://www.roguewave.com.
Stingray Announces Objective Diagram 1.0
Stingray Software, Inc. has announced Objective Diagram 1.0, a product that allows developers to draw complex graphical objects, and fully supports Visual C++ v5.0.
Objective Diagram includes over 20 classes that work together to give the Visual C++ developer a framework that defines graphical objects in terms of how they appear, what events they handle, and how they relate to other graphical objects. Objects can also be joined at pre-defined connection points. Objective Diagram's graphical objects support a variety of fill patterns, line styles, color schemes, and can easily be extended by the developer.
Objective Diagram 1.0 costs $495, which includes full source code and 60 days of technical support. Subscriptions are available for $245, and provide annual support and updates.
For more information contact Stingray Software, Inc., 3000 Aerial Center, Ste. 110, Morrisville, NC 27560. 800-924-4223 or +1-919-461-0672. FAX: +1-919-461-9811. e-mail: sales@stingsoft.com. WWW: http://www.stingsoft.com.
TracePoint Announces Visual Coverage
TracePoint Technology, Inc. has announced Visual Coverage, a Windows-based testing tool that provides code coverage analysis throughout a product's development-test-delivery cycle. With Visual Coverage, developers can view coverage on any portion of their code and generate a report on the percent executed, as well as the specific areas that need further testing.
For each test run, developers can select various types of coverage. Function coverage shows which functions have and have not been executed. Class coverage allows the developer to view coverage by classes and by methods. Code coverage identifies which instructions have and have not been executed. Line coverage maps completed execution to specific lines of source code. Branch coverage shows which logical branches were and were not taken. Multiple condition coverage shows whether each condition was covered with both the true and false values. Call Pair coverage identifies which calls were and were not executed.
Visual Coverage costs $599.
For more information contact TracePoint Technology, Inc., One Almaden Blvd. Ste. 1100, San Jose, CA 95113. +1-408-283-5377. FAX: +1-408-283-5353. WWW: http://www.tracepoint.com.
Greenleaf Ships ViewComm for Windows v1.1
Greenleaf Software has shipped Greenleaf ViewComm for Windows v1.1. ViewComm for Windows v1.1 supports Windows 95 and Windows NT, providing real-time display/capturing of RS-232 data, review of captured data and modem signals, search and error display capability, timestamps, and extensive trigger facilities. The VCW software runs on PC and laptop systems.
ViewComm for Windows supports standard COM ports for NT and Windows 95. It also supports RS-232 line monitoring, protocol analysis, and observation of and interaction with terminals, computers, and other RS-232 devices. Ease of use is enhanced by a new graphical user interface. ViewComm includes timestamp or relative timestamp for each character, with resolution to one millisecond. ViewComm also includes a utility to dump data, timestamp, and signal information to a printer.
Greenleaf ViewComm for Windows v1.1 costs $399; upgrades are available for DOS ViewComm users.
For more information contact Greenleaf Software, Inc., Bent Tree Tower Two, Ste. 100, 16479 Dallas Parkway, Dallas, TX 75248. +1-972-248-2561. FAX: +1-972-248-7830. e-mail: info@gleaf.com. WWW: http://www.gleaf.com.
i-Logix Announces Statemate MAGNUM Release 1.2
i-Logix Inc. has introduced Statemate MAGNUM r1.2 embedded-systems design software. Embedded-systems developers use Statemate MAGNUM to graphically model, simulate, analyze, and verify the functionality and behavior of complex embedded systems. Prototype source code is automatically generated from a verified Statemate MAGNUM system model.
With Release 1.2, embedded systems developers can generate code for physical prototypes running on target hardware platforms using real-time operating systems such as VxWorks. In addition, Statemate MAGNUM system models on a development host can be linked to the physical prototype running on the target hardware.
Statemate MAGNUM r1.2 supports Windows NT, SunOS, Solaris, and HP-UX.
For more information contact i-Logix, Inc., Three Riverside Dr., Andover, MA 01810. +1-508-682-2100. FAX: +1-508-682-5995. WWW: http://www.ilogix.com.
GLOBEtrotter Releases Web Interface Version of GLOBEtrack
GLOBEtrotter Software has released a Web interface to GLOBEtrack, an automated, integrated bug and support-tracking system. The Web interface allows companies to automatically publish the status of bugs, application notes, and links to software downloads in realtime. In addition, GLOBEtrotter is providing a fully functional, single-user version of GLOBEtrack for free.
Normally sold at prices starting at $4,700 per developer site, GLOBEtrotter is offering a permanent, single-user license of GLOBEtrack for free to independent software vendors. While GLOBEtrotter's free single-user bug and support tracking offer does not include technical support, a low-cost starter kit, including maintenance, is available. This free 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.
The MathWorks Introduces MATLAB C++ Math Library
The MathWorks, Inc. has introduced the MATLAB C++ Math Library, a library of over 300 MATLAB mathematical and supporting functions. This new release allows programmers to build standalone, mathematically-intensive C++ applications that rely on MATLAB's industry-standard math and data formats.
The C++ Math Library makes the familiar, intuitive syntax of MATLAB available directly from C++, without the overhead of an interpreted environment. The Library provides this via a C++ object class that supports the MATLAB matrix math notation.
The MATLAB C++ Math Library is available for Windows 95/NT and UNIX platforms. Prices start at $895 for PC/Windows platforms.
For more information contact The MathWorks, Inc., 24 Prime Park Way, Natick, MA 01760-1500. +1-508-647-7000. FAX: +1-508-647-7001. e-mail: info@mathworks.com. WWW: http://www.mathworks.com
Pacific Media WorX Announces Open Media Toolkit
Pacific Media WorX has announced the Open Media Toolkit Pro. Media Toolkit Professional is a high-performance commercial level C++, 32-bit, 3-D-capable framework designed for cross-platform game and multimedia product development. Products created within OMT Pro's single source-code framework, when compiled, will produce software capable of running on four different operating platforms, including Windows 95 or NT, the Macintosh, and Power PC.
OMT Pro is not a Windows/Mac cross-platform API or a "porting" software utility, but a platform-independent framework that has two layers: Windows and Mac. Hybrid products are simultaneously developed for each specific platform, from genesis. Stability and operating system incompatibilities typically associated with software that is "ported" are non-existent.
For more information contact Pacific Media WorX, 8870 Navajo Rd. #131, San Diego, CA 92119. +1-619-462-6042. FAX: +1-619-465-0323. e-mail: pmnews@pacmedia.com
ObjectSpace Announces Five New Object-Oriented Classes for C++, Java, and MFC
ObjectSpace, Inc. has announced the addition of five new courses to the company's curriculum: Building Object Systems with MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes), C++ for Object Programmers, Java and Object Design, Java for Object Programmers, and Advanced Java.
Experienced instructors guide participants through an interactive curriculum that features a blend of lectures, discussions, and hands-on projects with real-world examples. The projects implemented in class illustrate the full power of technology, and the techniques students employ can easily be applied directly to commercial development activities. Courses are developed and based on a variety of methodologies in order to ensure a professional adult learning environment.
For more information contact ObjectSpace, Inc., 14881 Quorum Dr., Ste. 400, Dallas, TX 75240. +1-972-934-2496. FAX: +1-972-663-9099. e-mail: training@objectspace.com. WWW: http://www.objectspace.com.
Hyperception Adds Matrix Math Library
Hyperception, Inc. has announced the addition of a Matrix Math Library to its Hypersignal Block Diagram and Hypersignal RIDE software products. This new matrix math capability is now included with the products' large standard set of functions, and allows engineers and scientists to perform matrix math computations via a state-of-the-art graphical interface.
The release of the Matrix Math Library lets engineers develop complex algorithms and perform problem solving through the supplementary use of matrices. The combination of the product's abundant signal processing and analysis functions with this new Matrix Math Library allows for high-performance, mathematical computation.
Hypersignal Block Diagram costs $1,995; Hypersignal RIDE 4.0 costs $3,995. Discounted site licenses are available for both.
For more information contact Hyperception, 9550 Skillman, LB 125, Dallas, TX 75243. +1-214-343-8525. FAX: +1-214-343-2457. e-mail: info@hyperception.com. WWW: http://www.hyperception.com.
Fourth Dimension Software Announces EasyClient
Fourth Dimension Software has released its EasyClient application development platform, which can run as an ActiveX control. EasyClient is Fourth Dimension's multi-user development platform for creating an application's graphical front-end. ActiveX allows users to access their EasyClient generated applications within any Web browser from their desktop, or from any Web access device.
Unlike Java or HTML, EasyClient has the functionality to develop the windows needed for large scale systems. Programmers do not need to know a programming language to build windows and do not need to be communications experts to administer session handling with the mainframe.
For more information contact Fourth Dimension Software, 555 Twin Dolphin Dr., 5th Floor, Redwood City, CA 94065-2102. +1-415-592-4400. FAX: +1-415-592-4426. WWW: http://www.4ds.com.