FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:

Monica Watson
M. Onyschuk and Associates Inc.
416/462-3954

M. Onyschuk and Associates Inc. Releases Free Extensible Text
Validation Framework for IB.

TORONTO CANADA - December 12, 1994 - M. Onyschuk and Associates,
Inc. today released a new extensible framework for data entry and
validation. OATextFields is an Interface Builder palette and
accompanying library which offers:

1. a typical collection of data formatting and validation options
(all caps, strip trailing blanks, numerics, numerics with exceptions,
ranges of values)

2. a rather untypical and exciting framework of dynamically loadable
"formatters" - objects which are simple to write and which can
perform more complicated validations both as the user types and
after text entry is complete!

OATextFields is being made available to the public in hopes that
the community can build on the framework provided by the kit, and
develop a library of quality formatters that everyone can use.

MOTIVATION:

Until today, NEXTSTEP has sorely lacked a standard, freely available
text-entry widget with intelligence. This is the motivation behind
OATextFields.

"Think of it as BackSpace for data entry and validation," says
Mark Onyschuk, senior consultant at O&A Inc.

The palette and accompanying libraries allow developers to build
customized formatters for enterprise specific data types, and reuse
publicly available formatters for more common data types.

OATextFields' bundle architecture also allow developers to upgrade
data entry formatters without recompiling the applications that
use them.

BY FTP:

OATextFieldPalette.941212.s.tar.gz is available for FTP download
at


ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/sources/classes/OATextFieldPalette.941212.s.tar.
gz

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M. Onyschuk and Associates Inc. is a privately held software
consulting firm specializing in rapid application development in
the NEXTSTEP environment.

M. Onyschuk and Associates' clients have included several of NeXT's
large customers in the telecommunications industry, as well as NeXT
system integrators and Object Channel partners. Its software projects
have included paperless-office systems, diagnostic tools for the
telecommunications industry, customer and dealer management systems,
and police systems.

M. Onyschuk and Associates' head office is located in Toronto
Canada, and may be reached by phone at (416) 462-3954, or via
electronic mail at ask-oa@oa.guild.org.