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Item 7215757 93/08/30 11:27
From: CONRAD_GEIGER@NEXT.COM@INTERNET#
Subject: Announcing DragBook for NEXTSTEP
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Jason Anthony
President, Digital Expressions Inc.
2142 Lynnwood Drive
Schenectady, N.Y. 12309-2514 U.S.A.
+1 518 347-2463 Voice/Fax
Email: DigitalExpressions@andi.org (NeXTmail)
Announcing "DragBook" from Digital Expressions Inc.
Schenectady New York, August 30, 1993 -- Digital Expressions Inc.
is pleased to announce the release of "DragBook", a Workspace
utility for NEXTSTEP.
DragBook is a scrapbook-like utility which collects all of a user's
NEXTSTEP resources such as documents, applications, images, and
fonts. Resources are grouped into a series of "palettes", and are
accessed in a manner similar to InterfaceBuilder's palette system:
by dragging elements out of DragBook's window to their destination.
Destinations include other applications which support
drag-and-drop, and a special "Pasteboard Well", which copies the
resource into the NEXTSTEP pasteboard.
"By collecting heterogeneous resources in any manner that the user
finds convenient, and allowing them to be accessed with the
highly-intuitive drag-and-drop paradigm, DragBook can become the
center of your NEXTSTEP experience," says Jason Anthony, President
of Digital Expressions Inc. "DragBook resulted from our need for a
general-purpose resource organizer which fit in well with the
NEXTSTEP environment."
DragBook "elements" may be EPS or TIFF images, files, plain-text,
rich-text, fonts, ruler-definitions, or sounds. "One of the
palettes we use, for example, is for creating company documents.
It contains our company logo, our company-font, a Virtuoso template
for correspondence, and a text element with our company address.
Whenever we need one of these elements, we simply drag-and-drop!"
commented Anthony. "Another palette we use is for programming. It
contains `text' elements which have templates for classes, methods,
comments and documentation files."
DragBook is also excellent for laptop and crowded screens.
DragBook has an "auto-hide" facility, which makes DragBook
automatically hide its window when the user drops or picks up an
element. For example, with the "Hide on Grab" option enabled, when
the user clicks on an element, the window immediately hides, and
the element may be dropped into a window which was underneath
DragBook's window. "When we are using NEXTSTEP on a VGA screen, we
collapse the dock, hide the Workspace Manager, and access 90% of
our resources using DragBook," Anthony noted. "It provides a very
efficient use of screen real-estate."
DragBook ships as a multiple-architecture-binary with support for
both NeXT Computers and NEXTSTEP for Intel. NEXTSTEP 3.0 or
greater required.
To try out DragBook, a demonstration version may be obtained via
ftp at:
cs.orst.edu: /pub/next/submissions/DragBook.tar.Z
sonata.cc.purdue.edu: /pub/next/submissions/DragBook.tar.Z
Or, contact "DigitalExpressions@andi.org" to have a demonstration
copy NeXTmail'ed to you (approximately 720K).
The demonstration version may be fully enabled with a license key,
which may be purchased over the phone with a VISA or Mastercard.
DragBook has an introductory price of $79. A special student
discount of $39 is also available. Site-license and quantity
discounts are available. Contact Digital Expressions for more
information or to order.
Look for DragBook on the next issue of the Paget Press AppWrapper!
# # #
Digital Expressions Inc., located in upstate New York, develops
shrink-wrapped software and offers computer training. "DragBook",
a resource organizer, is the first of a number of applications
being developed for the NEXTSTEP operating system. Digital
Expressions Inc. also offers end-user training for the Macintosh
and Windows, and software-development courses for NEXTSTEP.
DragBook is a trademark of Digital Expressions Inc. and copyright
(c) 1993 Digital Expressions Inc. NEXTSTEP is a trademark of NeXT
Inc. All rights reserved.
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