VText Press ReleaseVText Press Release1 July 1997 -- ViviStar Consulting announced the immediate availability of an update for its VText library for Macintosh developers. The update includes full compatibility with and sample project files for CodeWarrior Pro 1.
VText is a C++ add-on library for Metrowerks' PowerPlant application framework. VText provides complete Macintosh text support including: greater than 32kb text, tabs, rulersets, undo, drag and drop editing, AppleEvent scripting and recordability, full support for multibyte characters and inline input methods including Japanese and Chinese text, and full support for bidirectional script systems including Arabic and Hebrew.
"VText is a definite buy from its WorldScript features alone," said Jonathan Hess, product manager at ViviStar Consulting. The multilingual features support drag and drop, OSA scripting systems, tabs, and rulers. Hess added "developers don't have to do any special programming to get this WorldScript support."
VText includes templates for PowerPlant's Constructor resource editor. These templates allow VText views to easily be added to PowerPlant view resources.
Hess indicated that beyond basic text applications, "absolutely the best developer feature of VText is its flexibility." VText has an advanced object oriented API that breaks text functionality into engine, view, handler, selection, styleset, and rulerset objects. This extremely flexible architecture makes VText ideal for efficient syntax hiliting and format intensive applications -- applications which often give grief to developers using other text solutions.
The complete VText library is priced at $350 per developer seat. The license includes royalty-free binary redistribution when linked with developer applications with appropriate reference in the application's about box. Site licensing is available directly from ViviStar Consulting.
A VText demonstration application, the entire PDF VText Developer Manual, and a demo source library is available on the ViviStar Consulting website.
VText is available from:
MacTech Developer Depot, http://www.devdepot.com/, (800) 622 3381
ViviStar Consulting, http://www.vivistar.com/, (602) 483 3123
ViviStar Consulting specializes in Macintosh products and services including software engineering, computer graphics, computer aided geometric design, AppleEvent factoring, and Macintosh text support.
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For more information, contact:
Jonathan Hess; ViviStar Consulting; (602) 483 3123; Scottsdale, AZ
