Choreographer         programming/custom interfaces
Interface Builder for Windows, OS/2 Unveiled at COMDEX
 
Microbytes Daily News Service
Copyright (c) 1989, McGraw-Hill, Inc.
GUIdance is demonstrating Choreographer, a custom interface
builder for Windows or OS/2's Presentation Manager, at the IBM
booth in room A2 of the East Hall at Comdex. GUIdance says that
with Choreographer, the interface you create can compile into a
DLL (Dynamically Linked Library) or .EXE file. An application can
drive the interface, or vice-versa, the company reports.
 
According to GUIdance, you can call C code from within
Choreographer or call Choreographer from C code using an
Application Programming Interface (API). You aren't required to
run everything from Choreographer, the company reports. When
you compile the application, the development environment can
drop out; what's left is an object module that's linkable,
similar to something you'd produce with a C compiler.
 
Choreographer includes display and bitmap editors, class and
instance browsers, an object inspector, an interactive
debugger, a thread manager, an interface object library, and a
display editor.
 
GUIdance says you can use Choreographer to build GUIs for Unix
Motif, LAN Manger, Logical Unit 2 and 6.2, and SQL.
 
Price: from $2995 to $7500.
 
Contact: GUIdance Technologies, Inc., 800 Vinial St., Suite
412, Pittsburgh, PA 15212, (412) 231-1300.
 
                              --- David L. Andrews
 
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