New Art Technologies Unveils NA-Word Y2K Tool
New Art Technologies has released NA-Word. NA-Word searches documents to locate, compare, or replace strings of specified text. Although Microsoft Word is used as an automation server, NA-Word can also process WordPerfect, Microsoft Works, HTML, Microsoft Write, and others supported by Microsoft Word. In addition, since NA-Word can process all ASCII (text) files, source code such as Java, COBOL, and C can be processed through NA-Word's intelligent filters.
NA-Word can process from one to n files at a time and has a file finder that can find files anywhere on your local/network drive.
NA-Word is part of the NA-Series re-engineering toolset, which enables finding and fixing non-Y2K-compliant date references in source code, spreadsheets, and data files.
NA-Word costs $225 for one to four copies. Site licenses are available.
For more information, contact New Art Technologies, Inc., 800.276.1118 or +1.212.362.0559; info@newarttech.com; www.newarttech.com.
WetStone Technologies Debuts SMARTCrypt ActiveX Security Control
WetStone Technologies has announced their first commercial product, the SMARTCrypt ActiveX Security Control. SMARTCrypt is an ActiveX control that simplifies development and integration into applications of SmartCards and cryptographic tokens that meet the PKCS #11 standard. SMARTCrypt provides abstracted functionality for file signing, file encrypting, and key management. The SMARTCrypt component drops directly into the pallet of modem-integrated development environments, such as Microsoft's Visual J++ and Visual Basic. SMARTCrypt also provides a point-and-click interface for developing security-aware applications that employ PKCS #11 tokens and SmartCards.
SMARTCrypt is compatible with Windows 95/98 and NT operating systems.
For more information, contact WetStone Technologies, Inc., +1.607.539.9981; fax +1.607.539.9930; info@wetstonetech.com; www.wetstonetech.com.
BlueWater Systems Announces WinRT v3.0 and WinRT-VB v3.0
BlueWater Systems, Inc. has released WinRT v3.0, a hardware-access toolkit providing direct binary compatibility and control under Windows 95/98/NT. Bluewater has also released WinRT-VB v3.0, an integrated ActiveX control for developing memory I/O and port I/O hardware controls for Visual Basic 4.0 and 5.0.
The WinRT v3.0 toolkit contains a group of programs that give developers control of hardware devices from Win32 applications. Among the new features of WinRT v3.0 are high-speed hardware interrupt processing, slave and bus master DMA capability using a shared common buffer, access to all PCI base address regions and additional ISA address regions, and high-accuracy kernel-mode timer capability.
WinRT-VB v3.0 gives programmers control of hardware devices from within OLE containers, such as Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0/5.0 and Borland Delphi 3. WinRT-VB v3.0 allows port I/O and memory I/O to be handled directly from their code without using the Microsoft DDK.
WinRT v3.0 costs $295; WinRT-VB v3.0 costs $125. Both include six months of free technical support.
For more information, contact BlueWater Systems, Inc., 800.962.2114 or +1.425.771.3610; fax +1.425.771.2742; info@bluewatersystems.com; www.bluewatersystems.com.
KAI Introduces Assure
Kuck & Associates, Inc. (KAI) has announced Assure, a tool for debugging multithreaded Java applications. Assure enables application developers to identify timing-related problems in their Java source code.
Assure uses dynamic run-time analysis to monitor the execution of the Java program, and to report errors pinpointed to the source line in the program. The results of the analysis are displayed in the context of the program with an interactive browser.
Assure costs $495 and is available directly from KAI for x86 platforms under Windows NT, Windows 95, Solaris operating systems, and SPARC Solaris systems.
For more information, contact Kuck & Associates, Inc., 888.524.0101 or +1.217.356.2288; fax +1.217.356.5199; assurej@kai.com; www.kai.com.
Cygnus Solutions Ships GNUPro Toolkit for Win32
Cygnus Solutions has released GNUPro Toolkit for Win32. The GNUPro Toolkit enables software developers to use GNU tools for Windows 95 and Windows NT applications, such as gcc, gdb, gas, linker, binary utilities, and libraries. The GNUPro Toolkit for Win32 includes a specialized library function, which provides a shell allowing developers to run GNUPro using Unix-style commands.
Besides Windows 95 and Windows NT, the GNUPro Toolkit offers cross-platform capabilities and support on other major operating systems, including Solaris, SunOS, Digital Unix, HP-UX, AIX, UnixWare, and IRIX.
Pricing for the native GNUPro Toolkit starts at $7,495 for a one-year support contract for up to five developers, and it includes a commercial-use license for the Cygwin32 library.
For more information, contact Cygnus Solutions, 800.294.6871 or +1.408.542.9600; fax +1.408.542.9699; info@cygnus.com; www.cygnus.com.
Inner Media Announces Active Delivery v1.2
Inner Media has announced Active Delivery vl.2, the developer toolkit for creating self-extracting zip files with many of the features of setup programs. Using any of the provided AD Interfaces (DLL, VCL, OCX/ActiveX), developers can call into AD and tell it whether to create a true 16- or 32-bit executable, what files to add, how the package is to appear to the end-user (if at all), what external programs to run, etc. Developers can then ship the AD libraries royalty-free with any number of products.
Active Delivery costs $249 and Active Delivery Pro (which also includes DynaZIP-32) costs $384.
For more information, contact Inner Media, Inc., 800.962.2949 or +1.603.465.3216; fax +1.603.465.7195; sales@innermedia.com; www.innermedia.com.
Seattle Lab Ships SLmail v3.0
Seattle Lab has announced SLmail v3.0, a new generation mail server designed for Microsoft Windows NT 5.0 that still runs on Windows NT 4.0. SLmail v3.0 is built on Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM). Through open APIs, SLmail v3.0 allows system administrators to control incoming mail to build interfaces to proprietary email systems, pagers, or universal messaging systems.
Programmer access is provided throughout the mail server using Microsoft's ActiveX, which allows filters to be written in any language. Script engines also allow control of the mail server in VBscript, JavaScript, and Perl.
SLmail v3.0 costs $425. The server comes with 60 days of free technical support. A one-year premium support package, if purchased in conjunction with the server, is $99.
For more information, contact Seattle Lab, +1.425.402.6003; fax +1.425.486.2766; sales@seattlelab.com; www.seattlelab.com.
MicroGOLD Licenses VBA for WithClass 98
MicroGOLD Software has released WithClass 98. WithClass 98 includes a license for VBA from Microsoft that gives developers the ability to reverse engineer Java, C++, Relational Databases, IDL, Delphi, and Visual Basic code into graphical designs. For those familiar with the older versions of WithClass, this new edition provides full support for designing, drawing, and documenting for Unified Modeling Language (UML) 1.1.
WithClass 98 includes support for methodologies such as UML, Booch, Rumbaugh, Shlaer/Mellor, and Coad-Yourdon. The interface now includes tabbed dialogs, a flexible integration toolbar, and a simultaneous tree class browser.
WithClass 98 costs $795 for a single-user version on CD-ROM. WithClass 98 network licenses begin at $3,500 for five users. Educational discounts are available.
For more information, contact MicroGOLD Software, Inc., +1.732.683.1606; fax +1.732.683.1065; sales@microgold.com; www.microgold.com.
Raima Launches Raima Database Manager++ for Windows CE
Raima Corporation has released a beta version of its Raima Database Manager++ (RDM++) embedded database engine for Microsoft Windows CE. Requiring approximately 150K of RAM, RDM++ for Windows CE claims a smaller footprint than any database management system released or planned for Windows CE.
RDM++ consists of a compact embedded database engine along with a set of development utilities and a comprehensive library of low-level C functions. RDM++ also includes an object-oriented interface that encapsulates object storage, retrieval, and database navigation into C++ classes.
For more information, contact Raima Corporation, 800.327.2462 or +1.206.515.9477; fax +1.206.748.5200; sales@raima.com; www.raima.com.
Crossware Releases 8051 C Compiler
Crossware has released a new version of its 8051 C Compiler that takes advantage of the multiple data pointers provided by Siemens, Dallas, and Amtel chips, and the arithmetic unit of the Siemens 80C517/80C537 chip to improve the performance of the generated code.
The standard 8051 microcontroller and the majority of its variants provide only a single 16-bit data pointer with which to access external data and program memory. Access to these memory areas can therefore often involve a large amount of memory swapping as the contents of this data pointer are saved, loaded with a new value, and later restored to the original value. The new Crossware compiler uses the multiple data pointers provided in the support chips to avoid this memory swapping and create faster and smaller code.
C8051NT costs £460 with support for one memory model and £700 with support for two memory models.8051PSDS-A costs £280 with support for one memory model and £520 with support for two memory models.
For more information, contact Crossware, +44.0.1223.421263; fax +44.0.1223.421006; websales@crossware.com; www.crossware.com.
Catalyst Announces SocketTools Library Edition
Catalyst Development Corporation has released SocketTools Library Edition, a collection of DLLs for sockets programming. SocketTools Library Edition provides a simple, straightforward API without the overhead of embedding different controls in an application.
The new SocketTools Library Edition contains 17 libraries supporting commonly used protocols. The vast majority of the SocketTools functions are implemented with only strings and integers as arguments. The libraries do not use complex structures and data types that are difficult to implement in languages other than C or C++.
The Library Edition costs $247, including a 30-day unconditional money-back guarantee and no run-time licensing or royalty fees.
For more information, contact Catalyst Development Corporation, 800.766.3818 or +1.760.228.9653; fax +1.760.369.1185; info@catalyst.com or sales@catalyst.com; www.catalyst.com.
American Cybernetics Unveils Multi-Edit 8
American Cybernetics, Inc. has announced Multi-Edit 8, its programmer's text editor. Internet programming features in Multi-Edit 8 support HTML with embedded scripts, such as JavaScript and VBScript. It also supports PERL, Java, and other commonly used internet languages. Programmers can develop and manage an entire website with the Project and Site Management tools, which include built-in FTP functions. From within Multi-Edit, programmers can view web files in any browser and integrate external tools.
To encourage online purchase, American Cybernetics is offering a special download price of $129 for new users, or $69 to upgrade. Call for additional pricing, including site licensing. A demo Of Multi-Edit 8 is available for download at the company's website.
For more information, contact American Cybernetics, 800.899.0100 or +1.602.968.1945; fax +1.602.966.1654; sales@multiedit.com; www.multiedit.com.
Albert's Ambry Debuts ZEUS
Albert's Ambry has released ZEUS, a text editor and IDE designed for the professional software developer. ZEUS is highly customizable and is language-neutral, working with third-party development tools and compilers. ZEUS is available in 16- and 32-bit versions. Both versions support background compiling and build task runs.
ZEUS supports keyboard mapping for Brief, WordStar, Epsilon, and Emacs. ZEUS also includes a built-in macro scripting language, color syntax highlighting, and fully customizable (smart code) completion.
ZEUS costs $95 for a single-user license. Multiple license discounts are available.
For more information, contact Albert's Ambry, 888.999.7638 or +1.610.623.2014; fax +1.610.667.2497; feedback@alberts.com; www.alberts.com.
HardBall Software Introduces DataShark 2.5 for Oracle
HardBall Software, Inc. has announced DataShark 2.5 for Oracle, a product that creates customized data via sampling and generation, to streamline the testing process for new and existing applications that use Oracle databases.
DataShark allows developers to generate data where none exists, sample from production databases, perform black-box testing, and specify business rules to extract referentially correct database slices. DataShark also simplifies Year 2000 testing through generation, sampling, and information extraction.
DataShark 2.5 for Oracle runs on Windows 95 and Windows NT (versions 3.51 or 4.0). The product is priced at $3,995 per copy and is available in a variety of project packs with group pricing for 5, 10, and 20 users. A free 30-day trial is available for download from the company's website.
For more information, contact HardBall Software, Inc., 888.328.2742; fax +1.304.823.1346; www.hardballsw.com.
Bullseye Offers C-Cover 4.0
Bullseye Testing Technology has released C-Cover 4.0 for Windows NT and Windows, a full-featured code coverage analyzer for C++ and C. A new graphical coverage viewer gives developers and testers a way to find untested code. C-Cover also features a new user interface.
For more information, contact Bullseye Testing Technology, 800.278.4268; info@bullseye.com; www.bullseye.com.
Windmill Point Software Announces Tech Support Assistant Lite
Windmill Point Software has released Tech Support Assistant Lite, a product designed for software developers to reduce the cost and time required to perform technical support for their Windows applications. Tech Support Assistant Lite is a software component that automatically detects configuration-related problems in applications. By connecting Tech Support Assistant Lite to an application's Help menu or About box, software developers can help their users and technical support staff solve configuration-related problems.
Tech Support Assistant Lite supports Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0. The basic license fee is $99, and there is a 30-day return guarantee policy.
For more information, contact Windmill Point Software, +1.802.796.3635; info@windmillpoint.com; www.windmillpoint.com.
MindQ Introduces Developer Training for Java
MindQ Inc. has introduced Developer Training for Java, modular courses that cover introductory, intermediate, and advanced aspects of Java programming, including language fundamentals, visual development tools, JavaBeans and component theory, the Java Development Kit, class libraries, security, user interface programming, JDBC, and CORBA.
Developer Training for Java may be licensed for one year for $995 per developer. The license covers all training materials, updates, and any new modules added by MindQ within the period of the license.
For more information, contact MindQ Inc., 800.646.3008 or +1.408.927.4800; fax +1.408.927.4811; info@mindq.com or sales@mindq.com; www.mindq.com.
Enea OSE Systems Unveils OSE Illuminator and OSE MMS
Enea OSE Systems has released OSE Illuminator and OSE Memory Management System (MMS). OSE Illuminator, a suite of tools, debugs and analyzes real-time embedded systems applications during run time. OSE MMS enables software "hot-swapping" to reconfigure and change an embedded system's memory attributes at run time without perturbing the system's operation.
OSE Illuminator integrates three main components that work together to create a comprehensive debugging suite: the System Browser, Evact Handler, and Memory Profiler. The System Browser gives a clear overview of an entire distributed system, with each CPU target represented. The Evact (for "event" and "action") Handler is used to debug interprocess communications and other events in an OSE application. The Memory Profiler allows users to analyze and debug run-time memory usage in an OSE system even if the system uses many distributed processors.
OSE MMS integrates the OSE kernel memory management features with both a hardware memory management unit (MMU) and the OSE Program Handler, enabling run-time loaded programs to be memory protected. OSE MMS is available for systems based on the OSE fault-tolerant, real-time operating System (RTOS).
The OSE Illuminator costs $2,000; the OSE MMS costs $2,500.
For more information, contact Enea OSE Systems, Inc., +1.214.346.9339; fax +1.214.346.9344; info@enea.com; www.enea.com.
ARTISAN Announces Real-Time Studio v2.0
ARTISAN Software Tools has announced Real-Time Studio v2.0, a modeling environment that forms the basis for a complete Object-Oriented (00) development environment supporting all aspects of real-time systems development, including features such as UML modeling, C++ and Java round-trip engineering, scenario animation, document generation, multiuser object repository, CORBA IDL, and SQL generation.
Real-time Studio supports industry standards such as UML for notation, OLE for tool integration, and COM and CORBA for component integration. A single-user license costs $4,995 and includes both C++ and Java code synchronizers (generators), full-roundtrip engineering, and full automatic document generation. Quantity and site license discounts are available.
For more information, contact ARTISAN Software Tools, Inc., 888.511.7975 or +1.408.475.5554; fax +1.408.475.3195; info.us@artisansw.com; www.artisansw.com.
Uniscape Ships Global C v2.0
Uniscape has announced Global C v2.0, a run-time library for creating single source applications that are cross-platform portable and multilingual. Applications written using Global C can be localized by changing simple data files and do not require modifying program code. Global C provides a function superset API.
By using Global C, developers are able to build a single application code base that is free of language, territory, code page, and sort order dependencies (language independent source).
For more information, contact Uniscape, Inc., +1.650.596.1430; fax +1.650.596.1436; info@uni-scape.com; www.uni-scape.com.
Whole Tomato Software Debuts Visual Assist
Whole Tomato Software has announced Visual Assist, the company's add-in for Visual Studio. The Enhanced Format helps developers write and debug code. It makes extensive use of color and attributes to distinguish method types, keywords, macros, variables, context, matching parentheses, and more.
Symbol Expansion eliminates the need to memorize long symbol names. When letters identify more than one symbol, Symbol Expansion provides a list of valid choices for the developer. In all cases, the product examines the surrounding code and suggests only symbols that are valid in the given context.
Visual Assist costs $149. Free beta copies of Visual Assist are available for evaluation on the company's website.
For more information, contact Whole Tomato Software, +1.408.323.1590; fax +1.408.323.1591; info@wholetomato.com; www.wholetomato.com.
DPC Technology Announces ChartFolio Interactive
DPC Technology has announced ChartFolio Interactive, the latest in a family of C++ graphical charting developer tools available in the ChartFolio product line. ChartFolio Interactive extends control to the end users of a programmer's application, allowing these end users to manipulate the run-time attributes of charts and graphs via tabbed dialogs. The ChartFolio programmer can now provide interactive controls for adjusting all presententation aspects of the charts or graphs in an application.
ChartFolio Interactive deploys a set of extensions to the ChartFolio Framework's standard API. These extensions implement a set of custom controls and dialog objects that interface directly to ChartFolio Framework. Chart objects can be manipulated in real time, allowing modification of colors, view angles, proportions, 2-D/3-D charting modes; and addition of titles, labels, legends, and other annotations.
In addition, ChartFolio Interactive can serve as a template for programmers who want to develop their own customized chart controls. DPC Technology distributes all products in source code form, allowing developers to see exactly how the control objects are used from the base framework to interact with ChartFolio chart objects. ChartFolio Interactive can also serve as an example and benchmark for advanced C++ programmers who will want to extend the open-ended architecture of the ChartFolio Framework.
ChartFolio Interactive is available for both Zinc Software's Zinc Application Framework and the Microsoft Foundation Classes. ChartFolio Interactive costs $995 for both Zinc Application Framework and MFC. The owner support package costs $299. Demos and free evaluation copies are available from DPC's website at www.dpc-tech.com.
For more information contact DPC Technology, 800.372.0411 or +1.619.702.5245; fax +1.619.702.5722; info@dpc-tech.com; www.dpc-tech.com.