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<div class="left_inner_box_heading"><h1>[MD1] Bowers Development Ships AppMaker CD #11</h1></div>
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<p>Grantham, NH - December 2, 1998 - Bowers Development announced that it is<br />
now shipping AppMaker CD #11. It is in the mail to all current subscribers,<br />
domestic and international.</p>
<p>"Thanks to user feedback, we think this is an exciting release," said Spec<br />
Bowers, President of Bowers Development. "Working with real-world<br />
applications we found ways to make it easier for you to add your functional<br />
code and ways for AppMaker to do more of the programming job for you."</p>
<p>About AppMaker -<br />
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 />
The theme in AppMaker #11 is to write more of the application logic for<br />
you. Code that you would have had to write by hand, AppMaker now generates<br />
for you. You design your user interface and design the data items, then<br />
connect them. AppMaker generates the skeleton, the sinews, and much of the<br />
muscle of the application logic in addition to generating resources and<br />
source code for the user interface.</p>
<p>Among many other enhancements to the code generator, AppMaker now generates<br />
file I/O to read/write any data Members that are specified as "persistent."<br />
Commands that invoke modal dialogs can include code fragments to be<br />
generated before and/or after invoking the dialog. AppMaker now generates<br />
code to enable or disable UI items depending on the state of connected<br />
boolean data items.</p>
<p>AppMaker #11 adds a custom list box, the "Panel" flavor, that uses a Panel<br />
to specify the format of each row of the list. A Panel is a collection of<br />
window items, usually static text items. This makes it very easy to create<br />
multi-column lists. You can connect the list to an array of data items<br />
which provide the content for each column of the list. The<br />
AppMaker-generated and library code automatically reacts to changes in the<br />
data by redrawing the list.</p>
<p>New documentation describes how to add functional code, how to define data<br />
and connect to the UI, and the design theory and structure of the generated<br />
code.</p>
<p>An updated AMReminder example shows how easy it is to create a very<br />
functional application with just a few code fragments entered into<br />
AppMaker. A new LayerGroups example shows several kinds of LayerGroups,<br />
controlled by Tab Panels, List Boxes, Popups, and Edit Fields. (A<br />
LayerGroup is a very useful and very flexible widget. Download the Demo to<br />
see examples.)</p>
<p>AppMaker #11 was tested with Metrowerks CW Pro 3 and Pro 4.</p>
<p>Pricing and Availability -<br />
AppMaker CD #11 is available now from DevDepot,<br />
<a href="http://www.devdepot.com/" title="http://www.devdepot.com/">http://www.devdepot.com/</a>, or from Bowers Development,<br />
<a href="http://members.aol.com/bowersdev/" title="http://members.aol.com/bowersdev/">http://members.aol.com/bowersdev/</a>. The $199 price includes a one-year<br />
subscription.</p>
<p>About Bowers Development -<br />
Bowers Development was formed in 1989 to develop programmer productivity<br />
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