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Programming Windows CE
For those of you interested in making small computers do big things, read Programming Microsoft® Windows® CE (Microsoft Press, 1998) by MIND contributing editor Doug Boling.
In this practical, authoritative reference guide, Doug takes you under the hood of the streamlined Win32® API. He reviews the basics of event-driven development and tackles the intricacies and idiosyncrasies of this modular, compact architecture. The book contains software development tools on CD-ROM, too. After writing some killer apps, you can bench-press the 880-page book and regain the muscle mass lost while programming. Find out more
about the book at http://mspress.microsoft.com/prod/books/1596.htm.
Microsoft Press
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052
1-800-MSPRESS
http://mspress.microsoft.com
Put Some Charm in Your Web Pages
Mainstay is shipping PageCharmer Pro, a collection of 22 customizable Java applets designed to offer cross-browser, cross-platform alternatives to DHTML. PageCharmer Pro applets offer DHTML-like control objects and interactive display billboard banners and graphs that require no programming or scripting. Button and imagemap controllers send messages to billboards and banners for interactive text, graphics, animation, and multimedia displays.
PageCharmer Pro applets work in both Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator without modification. Using Mainstay's AppletSet'r technology, the
applets are WYSIWYG-customizable—in real time—directly within a Web browser. Displays can change automatically when a user interacts with a live PageCharmer Pro button or imagemap, which is done via AppletEvents sent among various applets (or optionally via JScript®). Elements of the billboards can react to events, or you can choreograph control of the applets located anywhere in a
Web page. The PageConductor applet provides autopilot event sequence control, while the SoundConductor applet provides coordinated sound, voice, and music among various applets. Your New Stuff columnist played with PageCharmer at Comdex, and had to be torn away from the demo computer as the show closed. Check it out.
Mainstay
591-A Constitution Avenue
Camarillo, CA 93012
805-484-9400
http://www.mstay.com
HTML Text Editor
Fookes Software has released NoteTab Pro v. 4.52, a Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT®-based application that replaces the Windows text editor with a text and HTML editor. NoteTab handles multiple files and supplies notebook-style tabs for switching among files.
NoteTab's Clip Wizards let you set up shortcuts and macros for any programming language, with support for HTML and other languages already built in. HTML tags are automatically highlighted, and you can preview your current page using as many as three Web browsers. NoteTab supports automatic indenting and lets you strip HTML tags, sort lines, and change case. With its ability to edit multiple documents, you can make universal changes to all of your Web pages at once. NoteTab gives you configurable toolbar and shortcut menus, and printing with adjustable margins, page numbering, headers, and footers. There's even a built-in spellchecker and thesaurus. For the power user, there's a programmable Clipbook tool, a built-in macro editor, and a playback facility. You can download more than 100 Clipbook libraries from the NoteTab Web site. NoteTab can also calculate mathematical expressions that it finds in your text.
Fookes Software
Av. Eugène-Pittard 22 Ter
CH - 1206 Geneva, Switzerland
Fax +41-22-789-5844
http://www.notetab.com
Seagate Polishes Crystal
Seagate Software recently announced the availability of Seagate Info 7, an integrated suite of business intelligence tools that enables users to analyze and share information across the enterprise. Formerly known as Seagate Crystal Info, Seagate Info 7 is a significant upgrade.
Seagate Info 7 provides a suite of analysis tools that is easy to learn and use and offers a variety of ways to access information. Designed as an integrated package, Seagate Info 7 incorporates all of the expected set of data access and analysis components including report design, ad hoc querying, advanced SQL editing, OLAP cube
building, multidimensional
analysis, report viewers, schedulers, and processing servers. Seagate Info 7 integrates with Seagate Holos for complex, business-specific application development, data mining, and statistical analysis. It also integrates with applications from vendors such as SAP, Baan, and PeopleSoft, and with legacy data, OLAP data, or PC data across the organization.
Seagate Software
920 Disc Drive
Scotts Valley, CA 95067
800-877-2340 , 408-438-6550
http://www.seagatesoftware.com
Process and Manage Forms
ITX Software Corporation announced the inaugural release of WebForms, a Web server-based application that offers enterprises a framework to manage the submission, routing, processing, storage, and retrieval of HTML forms.
WebForms provides a workflow process where all form processing is conducted through standard Web browsers. Once a form is registered in WebForms, it can instantly take advantage of the data storage, routing, searching, and data export facilities provided by the program. WebForms is an ISAPI application requiring Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) and SQL Server™.
ITX Software Corporation
135 - 8623 Granville Street
Vancouver, BC Canada V6P 5A1
800-820-8322, 604-261-1008
http://www.itxsoftware.com
Analyze Your Web Site Faster
Active Concepts recently started shipping Funnel Web 2.5 for Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT. Now with regional reporting, mean path through site, domain aggregating, and offsite processing capabilities, the new Funnel Web 2.5 upgrade for Windows also extends support for several new servers and graphic formats. Upgrades are free to current registered users and are available at http://www.activeconcepts.com. The mean path report creates a visual snapshot of the most-followed traffic pattern.
Funnel Web's new offsite processing capabilities allows a company hosting its site on a remote ISP server to automatically schedule Funnel Web to log into that ISP server, download the log file to the desktop via FTP, process the file, and then upload the report back to the Web server. Compatible with current support for reporting in 12 languages, the new regional reporting feature in Funnel Web 2.5 displays the number of hits by seven geographic regions: Antarctica, Africa, Asia, Europe, South America, North America, and Oceania. Support has been added for JPEG, PNG, and BMP graphics, comma-delimited and RTF export, and Robot exclusion through filtering on agents.
Support has also been extended for several new Web servers and routers. Funnel Web currently supports 72 different Web servers, including WebSTAR, IIS, WebSite, and all Netscape servers.
Active Concepts
159 Pelham Street
Carlton Victoria, Australia 3053
+613-9348-2122
http://www.activeconcepts.com
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