FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
Kerstin Peters
Uptime Object Factory Inc
Technopark Zurich
Technoparkstrasse 1
8005 Zurich

Phone: +41 / 1 445 16 99
Fax:   +41 / 1 445 16 98
Email: info@uptime.ch


Beta Release of ForeignControls an Extension to NeXT's Enterprise
Objects Framework available

Zurich - April 9, 1996 - Uptime Object Factory Inc announces
ForeignControls. ForeignControls adds two user interface objects
to the Enterprise Objects Framework (EOF) ForeignTextField and
ForeignPopUp.  Both objects provide a large number of handy features,
like chooser functionality, fetching over a relationship, looking
up records through short cuts and incremental searching. Typically
ForeignControls are used whenever data from an associated table is
to be displayed (that is why they called 'Foreign' Controls, because
usually there is a foreign key involved) or when it comes to narrowing
down an ambiguous selection to a single record. All functionality
of ForeignControls can be accessed from the keyboard without using
the mouse. "There has been a drastic cut down in both development
time and the time needed for customers to enter information since
we use ForeignControls" says Matthias Heubi, director of software
engineering at Uptime Inc. "Selecting a record with just a few
keystrokes is an order of magnitude faster than working with the
mouse - not even to speak of drag and drop"

For most convenient use ForeignCotrols is shipped as an Interface
Builder palette. Just by dragging a ForeignTextField or ForeignPopUp
from the palette to your application, specifying the model, entity
and property in the inspector and connecting to an EOController
ForeignControls is ready to run.

There has been made an commitment that ForeignControls will work
with OPENSTEP in its next release. The current release of
ForeignControls works with NEXTSTEP for Intel, Sparc, Hppa-Risc
and NeXT.

For more information down load now your free beta demostration
version from popular ftp sites:

In the US:
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/demos/ForeignControls.1.0PR1.NIHS.b.
tar.gz
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/demos/ForeignControls.1.0PR1.README

In Germany:
ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Commercial/develope
r/resources/palettes/ForeignControls.1.0PR1.NIHS.b.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Commercial/develope
r/resources/palettes/ForeignControls.1.0PR1.README

The distribution is binary only, including preliminary docs and a
subset of the header files, and is time bombed to June 17.

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Uptime Object Factory Inc is a software development and consulting
company in Zurich, Switzerland. Uptime Inc is focused fully on
NEXTSTEP/OpenStep development and provides services ranging from
full network integration to custom application development. As an
authorized NeXT training center, Uptime Inc offers several
NEXTSTEP/OpenStep classes for users, system administrators and
software developers throughout the year. Consultancy services range
from quickly troubleshooting small problems to providing skilled
NEXTSTEP consultants with six years experience on a long term basis
to assist companies realizing their large in-house projects.