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Welcome the Dawn of a New Standard
Are your clients demanding updated applications?

GUI Look-and-Feel? Modern Features?

Visual PRO/5 and PRO/5 are the answer!!!
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Protect Your Investment

No one wants to lose the effort theyÆve invested in applications that work. No one wants to spend productive time learning a new language. Time is money. With Visual PRO/5 and PRO/5, you can make existing applications look and feel fresh using a powerfully enhanced language you already know, and do it without conversion.

Upgrade to GUI Without Starting Over

Using Visual PRO/5, you can upgrade your clients to a modern GUI interface without re-engineering your whole application. The Resource Editor lets you create full-featured dialogs and windows visually and save them for later use in a Visual PRO/5 program. You can migrate your application to GUI at your own pace, incrementally. And you only need to learn the GUI controls not a whole new language.

New Protection for Your ApplicationÆs Data

Avoid the nightmare of rebuilding a mission-critical MKEYED file from yesterdayÆs backup. PRO/5Æs Auditing feature lets you keep a log of updates to a file. In case of a system crash, you can restore the backup file and then apply all the updates to make the data current.

And, Transaction Tracking lets you make related changes to one or more MKEYED files with a guarantee that ALL or NONE of the changes will be made. Related changes are treated as one operation. If a problem occurs before all the operations are finished, the user can discard changes made before the problem happened.

Move to an Open Architecture

Break out of the proprietary-data prison. Now you can give your software a competitive advantage with enterprise data accumulated in third-party applications. With Visual PRO/5 and PRO/5 you can use SQL and ODBC to read the data stored in external RDBMSs and spreadsheets and use it in your application. You can even modify it and write it back to the external application. And Visual PRO/5 lets you share your data with industry standard reporting tools via Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE).

Graphical User Interfaces (GUI)
Write your own graphically-driven applications. Design your own graphical windows and dialog boxes using:
Clipboard	Pushbuttons
Color mapping	Radio buttons
Edit boxes	Scroll bars
List boxes	Title bars
Menus	Tool bars
Mouse hot spots	Variable font sizes
	and families,
	and much more

GUI Resource Editor

Build GUI dialogs and windows in resource files for later use in your programs
Internationalize GUI objects by editing the resource files, not your programs

Structured Query Language (SQL)
Standardized access to external data sources and PRO/5 data, including:
Informix	Oracle	Excel
Ingress	Sybase	dBase
Progress	Access	Any ODBC-enabled RDBMS

Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)

Give your application access to Windows third-party data
Move your spreadsheet data into your Visual PRO/5 program

New Data Security Features

Use Auditing to protect your important data
Let Transaction Tracking help protect related file maintenance operations from errors encountered in mid-stream

Language Enhancements

Simplify your multi-way flow control with the new SWITCH verb
Use the new looping controls offered in BREAK and CONTINUE to streamline your applications
Use the new DIMS() function to query array dimensions, and PAD() to justify text
Use the new NEVAL() and SEVAL() functions instead of EXECUTE ù even in public programs

Increased Program Size

Program generators such as TAOS: The BB^X DeveloperÆs Workbench« can now produce larger programs
New 1MB program size accommodates graphical applications with ease

YouÆre looking for the best business software development environment you can get. And, you want the most value for your money. Visual PRO/5 and PRO/5 are the products to buy. Why? Because they work!

Visual PRO/5 is now available for Microsoft Windows 3.1x, Windows for Workgroups, Windows NT, and Windows 95. PRO/5 is available for most other platforms.

Welcome the Dawn of a New Standard

Are your clients demanding updated applications?

GUI Look-and-Feel? Modern Features?

Visual PRO/5 and PRO/5 are the answer!!!