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- PRESS RELEASE
- 9 OCT 92
-
- Trident Infotech (USA), Inc., is pleased to announce the release of WinTfmt
- (pronounced WIN-T-FORMAT), a super-classed field formatting software for
- Windows programmers using C/C++. Unlike similar products, WinTfmt offers a
- full range of unique features that make implementation of data-entry screens
- a breeze! Since WinTfmt was specifically developed for the programmer, it
- can be easily incorporated into applications.
-
- WinTfmt supports four types of field formats:
-
- - Generic, fixed-length fields (e.g., telephone numbers, Social Security
- numbers, etc.).
-
- - Dates.
-
- - Numeric Fields ("true" number fields with variable field lengths).
-
- - Currency Fields (specialized numeric fields to hold currency data).
-
-
- Any application that accesses WinTfmt automatically inherits the following
- formats:
-
- Generic, fixed-
- length formats: U.S. Social Security Number
- U.S. style telephone number
- 5-digit U.S. ZIP code
- 9-digit U.S. ZIP code
-
- Date formats: U.S. style date (without century digits)
- U.S. style date (with century digits)
-
- Numeric formats: U.S. million style (i.e., fields supporting
- 13 digits and 4 decimals)
-
- Currency formats: U.S. million style dollar fields (i.e.,
- fields with "$ " supporting 13
- digits and 2 decimals)
-
- WinTfmt's most salient features include...
-
- - client-server methodologies to dynamically support any number of client
- applications with any number of application instances, and any number
- of Windows or fields (subject to memory availability).
-
-
- - customized formats for application needs. Client applications can
- customize formats -- transparent to internal inheritance mechanisms --
- for specific needs (e.g., credit card number, British style date,
- numeric weight field [accepting 5 digits and no decimals],
- British Pounds, Japanese Yen, etc.).
-
- - minimal overhead. Each new class or format used by an application
- requires a mere 80 bytes! Because of WinTfmt's inheritance
- optimization techniques, subsequent instances of a registered client
- use only two bytes per additional registration per class/format. Each
- field created under WinTfmt consumes only 16 bytes! All memory
- management is performed by WinTfmt. Memory is allocated and held in
- WinTfmt's data segment.
-
- - dynamic enabling or disabling user input to a field. With a single
- function call, applications can control events in a WinTfmt field.
- This feature is useful when data is to be displayed in a specific
- format without allowing data modification.
-
- - controlling numeric and currency fields to accept signed or unsigned
- numbers.
-
- - displaying negative numbers in various formats -- parenthesis around
- (finance format), signed to the right or signed to the left of the
- number.
-
- - loading/retrieving data from/to a file to/from a field. Data stored in
- files (without formatting characters) can be loaded to the screen
- transparent to the format of the field.
-
- For example, U.S. telephone numbers stored as 8009999468 in a
- file will be displayed as (800) 999-9468. Dates stored in a
- file as 19921001 will be displayed in US century format as
- 10/01/1992 or British century format as 01/10/1992. Numbers
- stored in a file as 9999999.99 will be displayed in U.S. million
- format as 9,999,999.99. Currency values stored as 9999999.99
- will be displayed in U.S. currency format as $ 9,999,999.99.
-
- With WinTfmt's abstracted APIs, applications can get and set data
- into data variables thereby eliminating overhead generally required to
- convert data to character strings.
-
- - data comparison APIs that allow applications to compare data in a field
- with their data variables. With abstracted comparison APIs,
- applications will call the same function regardless of field type.
- Hence, the learning curve is small -- you need learn only one set of
- APIs (IsEqual(), IsLesser(), etc.). Additionally, generic fixed-length
- fields can be compared with and without case-sensitivity.
-
-
-
- - "coloring" fields with two function calls. Additionally, colors can be
- changed, turned on or off.
-
- - free re-distribution of the WinTfmt DLL with your application(s).
-
- - comprehensive product support.
-
- WinTfmt is offered at an introductory price of $39.95 through
- December 31, 1992. Thereafter, WinTfmt will list for $74.95.
-
- For a demonstration of WinTfmt, download WTFDEMO.ZIP from this or other
- popular CompuServe forums dealing with C/C++ / Windows.
-
- Trident Infotech can be reached at:
- 80 Grand Ave., Suite 200
- Oakland, CA 94612-3743
- TEL: 1-800-999-WINT
- FAX: 510/415-5842
- CompuServe: 70760,2460
-