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Stingray Software has announced a pair of Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) extension class libraries--the MFC++ 1.0 (Mantaray Foundation Classes++) and Objective Grid 1.0. Both tools provide a variety of new MFC-based C++ classes that Microsoft Visual C++ users can start using immediately for Windows 95 application development.

MFC++ 1.0 is a set of over 20 general-purpose MFC extension classes that fall into a wide range of categories, including: document/view enhancements; image classes for reading, writing, and manipulating popular image formats; Win32 classes; MDI alternative classes; and MFC-based control classes.

Objective Grid 1.0 is a grid control that supports a variety of cell types and can be used in different contexts. For example, Objective Grid can be used as a child window, as a pop-up window, and even in a dialog. Full ODBC support is provided via a set of CRecordSet derivatives. You can easily attach Objective Grid to any data source by overriding one C++ virtual function. Also, printing, print-preview, find/replace, and cut/copy/paste are supported and completely integrated with existing MFC classes.

MFC++ sells for $495.00; Objective Grid, for $395.00; or bundled together, for $795.00. Both packages include full source code.

Stingray Software

1201-F Raleigh Road, Suite 140

Chapel Hill, NC 27514

http://www.unx.com/~stingray

ProtoView's DataTable 3.0 is a grid-control component that supports Visual Basic 4.0, Visual C++ 4.0, Borland C++ compilers, and any front-end development tool that can use DLLs, VBXs, or OCXs. DataTable 3.0 offers advanced data-caching schemes and virtual memory for database applications. Additional features include: European formatting for date, time, and numbers; 3-D effects; vertical and horizontal splitter windows; bitmaps placed in cells; numeric column totaling; column searches; cell overwriting; improved keyboard handling; automatic row insert; region selection; and autoconfiguration of the grid from a database. DataTable 3.0 (16-bit DLL, VBX, OCX) is priced at $149.00. DataTable 32 3.0 (16- and 32-bit DLL, VBX, OCX) is priced at $495.00. DataTable source code is available for $1495.00.

Cranbury, NJ 08512

Mainsoft has released a version of its MainWin software that supports OLE 2.0 capabilities under UNIX. The first release of Mainsoft's OLE capabilities includes OLE Document technology (visual editing, drag-and-drop, and so on), automation, MFC OLE class support, and OCXs. UNIX platforms supported include Sun, HP, DEC, IBM, SGI, and SCO.

12170 Oakmead Parkway, Suite 310

Sunnyvale, CA 94086

http://www.mainsoft.com

Amzi! has added a Delphi component called "Logic Server" to Release 3.3 of its development environment. The Logic Server component provides methods for recording facts, issuing queries, and updating the logic base. It also blends into the Delphi environment by using existing exception handling and help facilities.

The Delphi component can also be used to extend the Logic Server so it can directly access other components and libraries. This makes it possible for logic bases to access the host application's data, functions, or other APIs.

Amzi! 3.3 also offers a 32-bit Windows DLL and library that allows the Logic Server to run in 32-bit mode under Windows 95 as well as NT and 3.x. Logic bases can be embedded in Delphi, Visual Basic, C/C++, Access, PowerBuilder, and other tools.

Amzi! Prolog+Logic Server 3.3 (formerly Cogent Prolog) is available in Professional and Personal Editions. The system includes a full Prolog development system with a Windows IDE and royalty-free, static and dynamic Logic Server libraries.

40 Samuel Prescott Drive

Iona Technologies has announced the release of its Orbix object request broker (ORB) for the QNX operating system. This version of Orbix includes support for native QNX high-speed message passing. With Orbix for QNX, you can design and implement CORBA-compliant, distributed applications across QNX, Windows, UNIX, OpenVMS, OS/2, Macintosh, and real-time operating systems.

Iona Technologies

55 Fairbanks Blvd.

Marlboro, MA 01752

http://www.iona.ie/

Microport has unveiled its NetMark 1000 Internet Server, a World Wide Web server that offers turnkey operation. Microport's NetMark 1000 is a self-contained Web server on a Pentium PC, complete with two Ethernet ports, external SCSI port, CD-ROM drive, and more. It comes loaded with Novell's UnixWare, providing TCP/IP apps such as PPP and SLIP for dial-up access, SMTP e-mail services, an FTP server, Gopher, Network News services, Mosaic, security functions, and more. The NetMark 1000 sells for $6800.00.

108 Whispering Pines Drive

Scotts Valley, CA 95066

http://www.mport.com/

Intercon has announced InterServer Publisher, a Macintosh-based Internet-server package for TCP/IP communications. InterServer Publisher provides MacHTTP-compatible CGI support, including AppleScript scripts, CGI search modules, MacHTTP 2.0 CGI modules, and asynchronous CGI modules. To restrict access to certain pages, the software provides real-based authentication which lets you use the Internet for internal distribution of documents. The server software sells for $795.00.

Intercon Systems

950 Herndon Parkway, Suite 420

Herndon, VA 22070

http://www.intercon.com

Object/FX has announced its SpatialWorks family of embeddable geographic/spatial visualization and analysis tools. These reusable, object-oriented components are used for viewing and analyzing maps, pictures, schematics, and tables. The toolsets include the Visual Companion Integrator's Kit (VCIK), which allows you to embed SpatialWorks components into existing apps independent of operating system and environment (PowerBuilder, Visual Basic, SQL Windows, C/C++, Cobol, and others). The Visual Companion Object Developer's Kit (VCODK) lets you embed components into ParcPlace-Digitalk Smalltalk apps.

A VCODK single-user development license costs $2995.00, while the VCIK sells for $1295.00.

2515 Wabash Ave.

St. Paul, MN 55114

ofx@millcomm.com

Microsoft has announced a beta version of a Speech SDK that provides native speech-recognition and text-to-speech capabilities for Windows 95 and Windows NT apps. The Speech SDK includes a speech-recognition engine, Centigram's TruVoice text-to-speech-engine, sample source code, the Microsoft Speech API, and documentation.

The Speech API allows you to leverage a number of text-to-speech and speech-recognition technologies, including discrete and continuous speech recognition for uses ranging from command and control to full dictation. The final Speech SDK is scheduled for release in early 1996.

One Microsoft Way

Redmond, WA 98052

msspeech@microsoft.com

Open Software Associates has released OpenWeb for developing and deploying distributed applications on the Internet. OpenWeb extends Open Software's OpenUI integrated development environment by allowing you to create Web-page links that point to downloadable client application modules. In short, OpenWeb provides Internet-based apps with the GUI functionality required for transaction processing, as well as message-based client/server linkages needed to run apps across the Internet. OpenUI supports Cobol, C, and C++, running on Windows 3.1/95/NT, OSF/Motif, OS/2 PM, Macintosh, UNIX/Motif, and VMS/Motif.

Open Software Associates

20 Trafalgar Square

Nashua, NH 03063

http://www.osa.com

Voysys has announced its voysAccess 2.0 SDK for implementing interactive voice- response capabilities for Visual Basic 4.0 apps. voysAccess 2.0 provides a 32-bit OLE-control software toolkit that lets you add telephony capabilities to applications using software components, without prior telephony experience.

Interactive voice response (IVR) describes a way to access information from a PC database using a touch-tone telephone. IVR lets callers do such diverse things as order a product, obtain instructions, leave information, or receive specific account information, whenever and wherever they need it.

The voysAccess 2.0 for Visual Basic SDK includes an OLE control to add telephone functions and the voysAccess Server, which is capable of expanding the number of telephone lines in a single PC. The SDK will also include a two-port voice board, along with voysSmith, Voysys's software for full-featured Windows sound capture and editing that enables IVR applications to "speak" database information. Sample apps and tutorials are also included. voysAccess 2.0 for Visual Basic 4.0, which supports two telephone lines, is available for $595.00. The complete toolkit, which includes software and a two-line Dialogic voice card, is available for $995.00. Each package includes a royalty-free license to distribute the voysAccess custom control.

48634 Millmont Street

Fremont, CA 94538

ImageBasic for Delphi from Diamond Head Software is an integrated suite of components for creating document-imaging applications. The ImageBasic components support OCR-based, automatic image-indexing options such as handprinted text, bar codes, check boxes, and photographs, from within a visual interface. The core system includes scan, display, and print functionality, and supports third-party imaging engines. The standard edition sells for $1250.00, with additional modules starting at $295.00.

Diamond Head Software

Ocean View Center, Penthouse 3

707 Richards Street

Honolulu, HI 96813

VMARK Software has released uniVerse Objects, an OCX for building client/server applications. uniVerse Objects gives you a view of the data which reflects the nature of a business object (such as customer order) that the data represents.

uniVerse Objects supports application partitioning for creating multitier, client/server applications and includes exception-handling features. uniVerse Objects is designed to work with the Windows 95 32-bit environment and supports Visual Basic 4.0, along with any OLE-enabled application-development tool.

uniVerse Objects, which is part of the uniVerse SDK, is packaged with the latest version of uniVerse for Windows NT 1.2 and sells for $395.00.

50 Washington Street

Westboro, MA 01581

Applied Microsystems has released its CodeTest tool suite, a set of tools for in-circuit verification of software performance. CodeTest can monitor as many as 32,000 C/C++ functions with the system running at full speed, while simultaneously measuring performance, test coverage, and memory allocation.

CodeTest provides a target-system probe that attaches to the CPU running the program being tested. A software instrumenter prepares the user's program for in-circuit verification. The utility reads program-source files and inserts test-point instructions into the C/C++ code. The suite is available for SunOS, HP-UX, and Windows 95 systems. Probes are available for MC68060/68360/68340 and i960 processors. Probes sell for $6000.00 each, with the CodeTest software selling for $3000.00.

Applied Microsystems

Redmond, WA 98073-9702

http://www.amc.com

Intel has announced its Indeo Video Interactive, wavelet-based software that enables real-time interaction and control of video and graphic imagery. The royaltyfree Indeo for Windows 95 and 3.1 SDK is available to software developers at no charge. It includes video interactive drivers, programming tools, and documentation. The SDK is available at http://www.intel.com and on CompuServe in the IntelA multimedia library.

Indeo Video Interactive offers transparent support for interactive digital effects, local window decoding, random key-frame access, password protection, contrast and brightness control, and scalability.

Santa Clara, CA 95052-8119

http://www.intel.com

G6G Consulting has released The G6G Directory of Intelligent Software: Volume VI, a directory of over 600 hardware/software products that profess to possess some level of "intelligence"--that ability to infer, recognize patterns, make decisions, and so on. Among the products covered in the directory are tools related to expert systems, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, natural language, neural networks, virtual reality, and voice/speech. The directory sells for $11.95.

G6G Consulting Group

1137 6th Street, Suite 104

Santa Monica, CA 90403

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