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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.announce
- From: tholen@newton.ifa.hawaii.edu (Dave Tholen)
- Subject: WATCOM VX-REXX FOR OS/2: Product announcement
- Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1993 22:28:33 GMT
-
- Submitted by: pspinfo@vnet.ibm.com
- Source: pspinfo@vnet.ibm.com
- Date received: 1993 June 25
- Date posted: 1993 June 25
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- ANNOUNCING WATCOM VX-REXX, A VISUAL SOLUTION BUILDER FOR OS/2
-
- June 25, 1993
-
- WATCOM and IBM announced VX-REXX on June 21, 1993, in Toronto, Canada.
- VX-REXX is a visual solution builder which enables a broad new class
- of users to rapidly create rich GUI applications for OS/2. VX-REXX is
- an easy-to-use, powerful and fully integrated environment for creating
- applications that exploit the power of OS/2 and the Presentation Manager
- graphical user interface.
-
- VX-REXX operates with IBM's OS/2 REXX and includes a project management
- facility, visual GUI form designer and interactive source level
- debugger.
-
- Unleashing the Power of OS/2 2.x
-
- VX-REXX exploits the power of OS/2 and further enables developers to
- exploit the power of OS/2 in their own applications.
-
- - VX-REXX enables graphical creation of PM windows with CUA'91 objects,
- simple customization of object properties, and association of REXX
- code with object events.
-
- - VX-REXX exploits multithreading, and allows applications to use
- multithreading simply and effectively.
-
- - VX-REXX uses the OS/2 2.x System Object Model (SOM) to implement its
- object-oriented GUI run-time support. This will deliver extensibility and
- interoperability with other languages such as C/C++.
-
- - VX-REXX uses IBM's OS/2 REXX which is included with the OS/2 operating
- system. This means that all API's which IBM provides for REXX are
- available from VX-REXX, including DB2/2 and multi-media APIs such as
- Ultimotion.
-
- - The VX-REXX development environment and interactive debugger can be
- used with existing OS/2 REXX code.
-
- - VX-REXX exploits OS/2's 32-bit capability both at design time and
- execution time.
-
- - VX-REXX can be used as a scripting language for "REXX aware"
- applications (e.g. EPM). In this role, the ability to easily create
- scripts which use the PM GUI considerably enhances the power of REXX
- as a scripting language.
-
- VX-REXX Highlights
-
- VX-REXX supports IBM standard REXX and provides advanced capabilities
- including:
-
- - Easy to use visual development environment
- - Dynamically create and modify GUI objects at both edit and run time
- - Powerful project management facility
- - Advanced interactive source-level debugger
- - Packaging of user applications as both EXE files or PM macros
- - Support for multithreaded applications
- - Include OS/2 style help and hints in user applications
- - Integrated console window for easy migration of existing REXX code
- - Access to standard REXX API's including DB2/2
- - System Object Model (SOM) based object manager
-
- Pricing
-
- VX-REXX has a suggested retail price of $299 (US). Until September 30,
- 1993, VX-REXX is available for an introductory price of $99 (US)
- including royalty-free runtime. There is special pricing for IBMers
- of $74 (US) until July 31, 1993.
-
- WATCOM Company Information
-
- IBM has formed an alliance with WATCOM to jointly market VX-REXX. In
- addition to OS/2 visual development tools, WATCOM's product line
- includes PC-based client/server SQL database tools and multi-platform,
- high-performance, 32-bit compilers (for DOS, Windows, OS/2, Windows NT,
- NetWare and PenPoint). WATCOM C/C++ has become recognized as the
- industry's choice in 32-bit development tools, resulting in strategic
- relationships with Autodesk, GO Corporation, IBM, Intel, Lotus,
- Microsoft and Novell.
-
- Founded in 1974, WATCOM International Corporation is a leading supplier
- of high-performance multi-platform application development technologies.
- WATCOM has subsidiaries in the US and Europe, with corporate offices
- located at 415 Phillip Street, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3X2.
- Phone (519) 886-3700, or fax (519) 747-4971.
-
- For more information about VX-REXX, contact WATCOM's Sales Department
- at (800) 265-4555 in the US and Canada. Outside call (519) 886-3700.
-
- WATCOM and VX-REXX are trademarks of WATCOM International Corporation.
- OS/2 is a trademark of the IBM Corporation. Other trademarks are the
- properties of their owners.
-