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<p>GRANTHAM, NEW HAMPSHIRE/OAKVILLE, ONTARIO -- Industry leaders in Macintosh<br />
development tools, Bowers Development and Water's Edge Software, have<br />
announced immediate availability of the AppMaker/Tools Plus software<br />
development bundle. The bundle combines two award-winning development<br />
tools: Bowers Development's AppMaker, the visual application designer and<br />
code/resource generator, and Water's Edge Software's Tools Plus Pro<br />
libraries and framework, best known for its compact and simple source code,<br />
and its feature richness.</p>
<p>AppMaker is a visual application builder that lets programmers design their<br />
application by simply dragging and dropping user interface elements, and by<br />
setting object properties. With a click of a button, AppMaker generates an<br />
application's resources and complete source code in C++ or Pascal. All the<br />
developer needs to do is compile his project, and the application is ready<br />
to run.</p>
<p>Tools Plus Pro is a set of compiled libraries that replace the need for as<br />
much as 95% of conventional toolbox code with simple, high-level Tools Plus<br />
routines. These routines include functionality that covers everything from<br />
creating a window to creating powerful picture/icon buttons and drawing<br />
zoom-lines when opening an object. Tools Plus also includes numerous<br />
popular features like support for a tool bar and floating palettes,<br />
regardless of the system version the application is running on. Once an<br />
object is created with Tools Plus, it works automatically without the need<br />
for support code. Tools Plus gives Mac developers much of the ease-of-use<br />
and rapid development capabilities found in fourth generation languages<br />
(4GLs) while retaining the flexibility, speed, and compact memory and disk<br />
footprint that is typical of hand-tuned code.</p>
<p>Both manufacturers have typified this bundle as a "marriage made in heaven"<br />
where AppMaker's strength in visual design is complemented by Tools Plus's<br />
ability to greatly simplify source code while adding feature richness.</p>
<p>"Historically, reviewers have argued that Tools Plus is 'better than any<br />
visual programming alternatives' because a developer using Tools Plus works<br />
with a minimal amount of simple, high-level code, and very few source<br />
files. Now that AppMaker creates source code for Tools Plus libraries,<br />
developers can enjoy the best of both worlds." Water's Edge Software<br />
president, Steve Makohin, reported.</p>
<p>Spec Bowers, president of Bowers Development, reaffirmed AppMaker's<br />
leadership as the visual design tool of choice for Macintosh developers.<br />
"AppMaker is more than just a GUI [Graphic User Interface] builder. It is a<br />
complete, visual prototyping and application building environment that is<br />
designed to make you productive quickly. Our latest addition of Tools Plus<br />
support is a natural progression in our aim to create world-class,<br />
maintainable code that rivals hand-written, hand-optimized works. Our users<br />
tell us we've achieved this goal."</p>
<p>The AppMaker/Tools Plus bundle supports Metrowerks CodeWarrior IDE. Both<br />
680x0 and PowerPC-native Tools Plus libraries are included, along with<br />
several megabytes of custom controls (SuperCDEFs), custom windows (WDEFs),<br />
icons, animated color cursors, fonts, and other valuable resources.</p>
<p>The AppMaker/Tools Plus bundle is available immediately for only US$299, a<br />
savings of $100 off the regular prices. It can be purchased from Bowers<br />
Development (<a href="http://members.aol.com/bowersdev" title="http://members.aol.com/bowersdev">http://members.aol.com/bowersdev</a>), and Water's Edge Software<br />
(<a href="http://www.interlog.com/~wateredg" title="http://www.interlog.com/~wateredg">http://www.interlog.com/~wateredg</a>). It is also available from Developer<br />
Depot at 1-800-622-3381, or <a href="mailto:orders@devdepot.com" title="mailto:orders@devdepot.com">mailto:orders@devdepot.com</a> . Outside North<br />
America, call 1-805-494-9797.</p>
<p>About AppMaker:</p>
<p>AppMaker is a programming tool that makes it faster and easier to make a<br />
Macintosh application - not just the user interface, but also the<br />
functional code. With AppMaker you create the menus, windows, dialogs and<br />
their contents by clicking and dragging to arrange what you want on-screen.<br />
You also point and click to declare data structures and to connect UI items<br />
to data items. AppMaker creates resources to describe your design, and<br />
generates "human, professional quality code" in your choice of either<br />
procedural or object-oriented programming languages.</p>
<p>More than a GUI Builder -<br />
AppMaker's generated code uses the Model-View-Controller (MVC) paradigm.<br />
The Model is composed of data classes and data items which represent the<br />
application's content. The View and Controller are UI items which display<br />
and modify the Model's data.</p>
<p>The MVC paradigm and the Model component, in particular, let AppMaker<br />
generate much more complete code than most other GUI builders. AppMaker<br />
automatically generates code for file I/O, code to display data in custom<br />
multi-column lists, for modeless dialogs to display/modify the frontmost<br />
window's data, and code to handle the AppleScript object model.</p>
<p>About Bowers Development:</p>
<p>Bowers Development was formed in 1989 to develop programmer productivity tools.</p>
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