Chicago Map Corp. has introduced its Precision Mapping Developers Kit, a geographic mapping toolset for integrating map displays within applications. You can display map images, created by the mapping software, directly into custom Precision Mapping-based applications. Toolbars can also be included for additional functionality and customized features.
Programs can be constructed using a variety of Windows-based development languages, including C, Visual C++, Visual Basic, Pascal, Delphi, and others that utilize DLLs. A single-user development Precision Mapping Development Kit costs $59.00. Developed applications must be licensed with CMC prior to use or distribution.
Chicago Map Corp.
15419 127th Street
Lemont, IL 60439
630-257-7616
http://www.chicagomap.comp
Neuron Data has released Elements Environment 2.0, a development environment designed to assemble portable enterprise and intranet applications from diverse software objects. Elements Environment incorporates multiple object models, such as OLE, CORBA, and Java. It is a components-based development software suite consisting of Open Interface Element, Intelligent Rules Element, Data Access Element, Distributed Messaging Element, Web Element, and InterOperable Objects Element. The components can be used stand-alone or as a development environment. Elements 2.0 is available in C or C++ versions on Windows 95/NT, Solaris, and HP-UX platforms.
Neuron Data
1310 Villa Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
415-528-3450
http://www.neurondata.com/
Chorus Systems has announced Chorus/ Cool ORB 3.1, an environment for distributed real-time application development. Chorus/Cool ORB 3.1 has a small memory footprint and a common programming environment across heterogenous machines. Chorus/Cool ORB 3.1 supports Windows 95/NT, Linux, AIX, Solaris, SunOS, and SCO OpenServer 5. It provides thread-safe run-time libraries for multithreaded systems such as Chorus/OS, Solaris, and Windows NT.
Chorus Systems
6 avenue Gustave Eiffel
Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines, France
408-879-4100
http://www.chorus.com/
NetObject has introduced NetObjects Fusion, a set of tools for designing and developing web sites. Fusion consists of SiteStructure, PageDraw, and SiteStyles Manager. SiteStructure is a visual site editor that allows you to conceive and edit the hierarchical map of the entire site. PageDraw is a draw-based page layout editor offering drag-and-drop control. The SiteStyles Manager provides a centralized way to apply overall graphical elements to a site. The suite lets you visually integrate existing content from ODBCS data sources into web sites. Fusion runs on Windows 95/NT.
NetObjects
2055 Woodside Road
Redwood City, CA 94061-3352
415-562-0285
http://www.netobjects.com/
Fortran90-lint from IPT is a source-code analyzer that complies with the latest Fortran standards. Fortran90-lint processes thousands of lines of code a second and is capable of handling projects in excess of a million lines. Error conditions reported include usage conflicts, unused variables, common block errors, and variables that are referenced before initialization or are not initialized. Fortran90-lint allows target and host options for cross-platform portability, provides call trees and reports, and documents code. It is available for systems running on most UNIX platforms and Open VMS.
IPT
1076 East Meadow Circle
Palo Alto, CA 94303
415-494-7500
http://www.iptweb.com/
Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. has announced SPECweb96, a standardized benchmark for measuring the performance of World Wide Web servers. In its initial release, the benchmark focuses on server performance for static web pages, measuring the server's ability to service HTTP requests. The software measures the response time for each request and calculates a metric based on overall throughput, measured as maximum benchmark operations per second.
SPECweb96 was developed by SPEC's Open Systems Group in conjunction with web product vendors and research organizations, including CommerceNet, Digital Equipment, HAL Computer Systems, HP, IBM, Intel, Netscape, OpenMarket, Siemens Nixdorf, Silicon Graphics, Spyglass, and Sun.
Standard Performance Evaluation
10754 Ambassador Drive, Suite 201
Manassas, VA 22111
703-331-0180
http://www.specbench.org
WinGREP, from Hurricane Software, is a multifile search utility that lets you quickly locate text strings in source-code files. WinGREP is tightly integrated into over a dozen editors and IDEs and can display the results of a search in your native working environment. WinGREP can automatically synchronize an editor or IDE with the results of a search, opening a file and positioning to the line of the match.
Hurricane Software
2401 South East 7th Street
Blue Springs, MO 64014
816-373-9252
http://www.hurricanesoft.com/
Diamond Multimedia Systems will begin offering its Monster 3D graphics subsystem to OEMs looking to create high-performance PC gaming machines. Monster 3D, based on the 3Dfx Interactive Voodoo Graphics technology, is a 3-D-only pass-through graphics subsystem that provides high frame rates for 3-D games. The PCI-bus architecture allows 3-D to work seamlessly with existing 2-D graphics accelerators.
In addition to the Microsoft Direct3D API, Monster 3D also supports 3DR, Renderware, Brender, and the Glide API, an interface widely utilized in the creation of coin-op/arcade titles. The 3D-only accelerator operates transparently with popular VGA and Windows accelerators via an analog pass-through connector on Intel-based platforms. With dedicated texture memory architecture, Monster 3D allows for advanced 3-D rendering. The subsystem provides 3-D features such as full-speed Z-buffer, perspective-corrected texture mapping, bilinear and advanced composite texture filtering, MIP-mapping; double-buffered Gouraud shading, texture compositing, morphing and animation, and per-pixel special effects for transparent and translucent objects.
Diamond Multimedia
2880 Junction Avenue
San Jose, CA 95134-1922
408-325-7000
http://www.diamondmm.com
ParcPlace-Digitalk has extended its Parts family of visual-development tools to include Parts for Java. Parts for Java facilitates the creation of applets and applications in Java by providing you with a visual Java development environment; the ability to explore, construct, and understand Java code; and an extensible system for adding new Java components to their development palette. Parts for Java includes a browser for viewing and editing source code and class hierarchies, an open toolset for selecting compilers and other tools, and a workbench for visually constructing applets and applications from components.
ParcPlace-Digitalk
999 East Arques Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94086-4593
408-481-9090
http://www.parcplace.com/
Kontron Elektronik has announced DProbe167, a real-time debugger for embedded-systems development. DProbe167 features transparent real-time debugging without using any resources of the target system. The DProbe167 supports all supply voltages and runs up to the controller's maximum clock frequency at 0 waite states. 64 KB samples of qualified trace provide a wide look at the controller's internal and external activities. Debug can be done in any operating mode, including single-chip mode. All on-chip peripherals can be halted or can continue functioning after a break point is reached.
Kontrol Elektronik
4440 Von Karman Avenue, Suite 200
Newport Beach, CA 92660
714-851-1872
http://www.kontron.com/
KL Group has released JClass LiveTable Pro and JClass LiveTable Applet. These table components enable Java developers and web-page designers to build interactive tables and forms for Java and web applications. JClass LiveTable Pro provides the building blocks for creating dynamic forms and spreadsheets. It offers column sorting, components in cells, programmatic callbacks, and an array of presentation capabilities. JClass LiveTable Applet allows web-page designers to add scrolling views of the table, on-the-fly sorting, and in-table searching capabilities.
KL Group
260 King Street East
Toronto, ON
Canada M5A 1K3
416-594-1026
http://www.klg.com/
Dragon Systems' DragonXTools is designed to let you integrate software-only speech capability into your applications. These visual controls combine standard VBX components with performance improvements, Windows 3.1/95/NT support, and text-to-speech capabilities of the recently announced DragonDictate for Windows 2.5. You can add speech functionality ranging from small vocabulary command-and-control to full 60,000-word dictation into existing custom controls and programs, using development tools supporting the industry-standard VBX format.
Dragon Systems
320 Nevada Street
Newton, MA 02160
800-825-5897
http://www.dragonsys.com/
Bumble Bee Software has released Object Outline for Windows 95/NT. Object Outline generates updated documentation for software written in C++. The generated document combines the project's source code, the comments in the source code, and the external documentation. The resulting documentation is a single, coherent meta document that documents the entire project. Object Outline organizes the generated documentation into hierarchical groups of subsystems. It requires no source code changes and no ugly formatting comment tags. It can produce documentation as a fully hyperlinked HTML file or a fully indexed RTF file.
Bumble Bee Software
P.O. Box 541
Hudson, MA 01749
800-214-4746
http://www.bbeesoft.com/
X-AIM from InterLinear Technology (ILT) is an Asian Input Method for Windows NT. PC-Xserver vendors can import Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and other Asian languages on Windows NT applications in addition to standard 8-bit characters. X-AIM allows application developers to input Asian characters directly into local applications (like Motif) that are running on Windows NT without requiring a UNIX server. You can integrate the X-AIM capability into PC-X applications by purchasing the royalty-free source code from ILT.
InterLinear Technology
1420 Harbor Bay Parkway, Suite 281
Alameda, CA 94502-6556
510-522-5077
http://www.ilt.com/
Subtle Software has announced Version 3.0 of the Developer Edition of its Subtleware C++ Class Generator (CGEN), a Windows-tool that creates persistent C++ classes from relational databases. CGEN Developer Edition 3.0 extends the tool's database mapping capabilities by adding support for relationships, primary keys, foreign keys, and stored procedures. Once CGEN generates a persistent C++ class, you can refine the class and build applications as per your normal development process. You can specify the use of DBTools.h++, MFC, Borland's ClassLib, or the included Subtleware SQLExec database-class library. CGEN works under Windows 3.1/95/NT.
Subtle Software
1 Albion Road
Billerica, MA 01821
508-663-5584
http://world.std.com/~subtle
MultiQuest has released S-CASE 3.0, an object-oriented analysis and design tool with support for C++ reverse engineering. With S-CASE's integrated parsing engine, you can reverse engineer by selecting the files that need to be parsed. S-CASE 3.0 also adds automatic layout capabilities. Reverse engineered models can be integrated with existing applications or new products. S-CASE 3.0 runs on Windows 95/NT.
MultiQuest
1931 North Meacham Road, Suite 318
Schaumburg, IL 60173
847-397-9930
http://www.multiquest.com/
Black Diamond Consulting has begun shipping its Surround Video SDK, a collection of tools that you can use to add 360 degree panoramic images to applications, as well as an ActiveX control to allow the use of Surround Video images in HTML documents or web pages. The images can either be photographed or generated via 3-D rendering software. The Surround Video SDK supports progressive rendering, real-time image correction, hot spotting with URL links, and development of Internet and native multimedia titles. The Surround Video SDK sells for $495.00.
Black Diamond Consulting
195 Hanover Street, Suite 20
Portsmouth, NH 03801
603-430-7777
http://www.bdiamond.com.
FairCom has announced FairCom Database Servers and c-tree Plus File Handle for use as a web back end. FairCom's Web Server supports a multiprotocol interaction between client and server processes. FairCom's web servers are available for Windows NT, OS/2, MacOS, and over 20 UNIX environments. The web Servers are licensed on a per-server-machine basis.
FairCom Corp.
4006 West Broadway
Columbia, MO 65203
800-234-81880
http://www.faircom.com/