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VENDOR: Prominare Designer Release 5 Now Available
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Smith)
Sat Mar 30 11:18:36 1996
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 30 Mar 1996 14:12:30 GMT
From: msmith@prominare.com (Matt Smith)
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Prominare Inc. announces the latest release of the Prominare Designer
programming tool. Prominare Designer is an OS/2 PM based programmer's
development tool for creating fully featured GUIs for OS/2, Windows and
Windows NT. It is capable of importing and converting resources from OS/2 to
Windows and Windows to OS/2.
Prominare Designer allows the developer to create visual interfaces for an
application in a matter of minutes without having to write any source code.
This productivity gain remains high throughout the development of the
application, even as new visual interface elements are added.
Prominare Designer generates code for multiple class libraries and multiple
compilers, and offers the capability to generate code across platforms, eg
OS/2, Windows 3.1 and Windows NT, all from one tool. This feature makes the
process of developing for multiple platforms easy.
Acting as an extended resource editor, Prominare Desinger supports all
versions of OS/2, including Warp. Its inherent flexibility enables the power
of C and C++ to be fully exploited, with the added benefits of intelligent
code generation. Programmers can construct compact, efficient code without
unnecessary overheads or proprietary modules.
Programmers can use one interface to create both the resources and source code
for PM applications. The resource editing capabilities of Prominare are
backwardly compatible with all versions of OS/2. This offers unique facilities
in the areas of custom controls and PM Control Extensions (PMCX), facilities
which are lacking in other tools.
Prominare supports all OS/2 PM controls including multimedia (MMPM/2) and Pen
for OS/2.
Another ability is that of Prominare Designer created applications to easily
conform to individual companies' programming standards, coding conventions and
selected level of CUA compliance. This ability to allow programmers to modify
Prominare Designer's source code generation rules ensures that the source code
generated conforms with company naming conventions and coding standards.
This capability is essential for speeding up programming in major companies
which are developing large applications, as the code is in a form that their
programmers already understand.
Prominare Designer speeds the process by removing unnecessary generation
phases. When the visual design for the application is modified, Prominare
Designer adds source code only the parts that have been modified since the
last generation operation was carried out.
The application developer can add his or her own source code to that generated
and Prominare Designer ensures that the application developer's source code
remains untouched the next time a change is made to the visual design, even
when new source code based on the changes is added.
Prominare Designer Release 5 is available from Prominare directly or from
Indelible Blue. It has a suggested retail price of $195 (US) (without hardcopy
manual) and $249 (US) (with hardcopy manual). Upgrades are available from
Prominare for $99 (US) (without hardcopy manual) and $139 (US) (with hardcopy
manual).
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