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Item 5465192 93/05/19 16:03
From: CONRAD_GEIGER@NEXT.COM@INET# Internet Gateway
Subject: Xanthus Announces Celebro, the Multi-User Flat-File
Database for NEXTSTEP
News:
For more information, please contact:
Jesper Lundh Xanthus P.O. Box 20161 S-161 02 Bromma Sweden phone: +46-8-635 30
62 fax: +46-8-98 70 67 email: celebro@xanthus.se
Xanthus International Announces Celebro, the Multi-User Flat-File Database for
NEXTSTEP
Stockholm, May 19, 1993 - Xanthus International AB today announced Celebrod,
its multi-user flat-file database application for the NEXTSTEP computing
environment.
Aimed at everybody that wants to create complete databases quickly, Celebro
offers a number of unique features, including intuitive form design tools,
true multi-user access, multiple views of data and a powerful scripting
language.
For example, Celebro is the perfect tool for customer and client databases
where you want different report types, label printouts, complex queries and
most importantly, multiple users on the same database.
"Celebro makes multi-user databases extremely simple to create and use", says
Jesper Lundh, marketing manager at Xanthus. "Also, a customer database is not
very efficient if only one person at a time can use it. This product fills the
database need of most small and medium sized companies."
The extended version of Celebro, called Celebro Professional, makes it
possible to create a stand-alone database application from a Celebro database.
that can be freely distributed.
Celebro comes with a powerful scripting language, CScript that allows the user
to customize database applications in almost any way. CScript can be used for
data validation, data formatting and many other things.
CScript is an extended version of Xanthus Common Language (XCL), a uniform
scripting language used in all Xanthus software products with scripting
capabilities. XCL gives you a uniform scripting syntax and a common set of
basic functions. In addition, XCL allows you to write external functions in
XCL or in Objective-C that can be used by any XCL-based application from
Xanthus.
Selected Celebro features:
- True multi-user access with record locking and notification of new
database users.
- Multiple views of your data, including card, page, label, report
and table-views.
- Powerful label design features. The label view allows you to
freely design labels, including margins, inter-spacing and
even which of the labels on the page that should be printed.
- Table overview. Each database can be inspected as a table view.
You can edit the field values directly in the table view.
- Versatile report view. You can easily design customized reports
from your data, including aggregated fields like sum and
average.
- Multiple field views. A field in the database can be displayed
through multiple objects in the same view. For example, a
numeric field can be displayed and edited with a slider and
simultaneously displayed in a gauge or a graph.
- Full support for multimedia data-types like image and sound.
- Celebro supports the following field-types: number, string,
boolean, RTF text, color, sound, image, date, text-file,
sound-file, image-file, file-name and calculated.
- Full WYSIWYG layout capabilities in all view types.
- Input controllers like buttons, text-fields and sliders can be
drag-and-dropped anywhere on a view and connected to a data
field.
- Powerful queries. Any number of query objects can be created and
saved with the database document.
- Output objects like graphs and gauges can be drag-and-dropped
anywhere on a view and connected to database fields for
continuous updating.
- A ToolBox that includes object palettes and a number of other
tools that removes the need for modal panels. The ToolBox
also includes complete scripting support.
- Drawing tools that allows you to draw directly on any view type.
- Full support for object linking.
- Unlimited undo. All commands can be undone and the number of undos
are user defined.
- Full support for user palettes. Users can easily create new
palettes with customized objects.
- Powerful scripting language - CScript - that allows you to
customize your database in almost any way, for example for
data formatting and validation.
- The extended version, called Celebro Professional, allows you to
automatically create freely distributable, stand-alone
database applications from your Celebro databases. These
applications can have your own custom icon and Info panel.
Celebro will be shown in Xanthus booth at NeXTWORLD Expo in San Francisco, May
25-27 1993.
Celebro is now beta tested at selected beta sites, and will be available Q4
1993 through selected resellers worldwide.
Xanthus International, headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, is a privately
owned software development company that specializes in the NEXTSTEP platform.
Celebro is the fifth in a series of general-purpose productivity tools for
NEXTSTEP, including the multi-media programming tool CraftMan and the
spreadsheet application Questor. Xanthus International was founded in 1990.
NeXT and NEXTSTEP are trademarks of NeXT Computer Inc.
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