NAME:

Screen Machine, V1.41

 

VENDOR:

Objective Interface Systems, Inc.

1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 250

Reston, Virginia 22091-5448

(800) 800-OIS7 (inquiries)

(703) 264-1900 (voice)

(703) 264-1721 (fax)

Email: info@ois.com

 

SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:

This is an Ada PIGUI which includes a WYSIWYG GUI builder. The product fully supports Ada's built in multi-threading capabilities (protects against non-re-entrant code in the native windowing systems). This allows SQL applications and such to continue processing input from the user while waiting on one or more database transactions. Screen Machine (I have to give them two points for the name alone) includes an Ada code generator that generates layered Ada GUI code that follows the presentation/dialog/application scheme.

 

SUPPORT:

Free (with updates) for one year. After that, call for pricing.

 

FUTURE PLANS:

OIS is currently developing an Ada94 (fully O-O) parallel implementation of Fresco/C++ (new Xt replacement technology in X11R6). This new Fresco_Ada(tm) will offer the same object embedding (via CORBA), multi-threading support, resolution independence, multiple look-and-feel emulation, and structured graphics that the C++ version of Fresco. The CORBA interface will allow Fresco_Ada applications to transparently interoperate with Fresco/C++ applications. OIS is extending the product to include a full MVC paradymn and fully automatic memory reclaimation. Windows NT and Windows 4.0 versions are planned in addition to the VMS and Unix X Windows versions.