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- Microworks ObjectMate 2.6
- Windows Interface Development Kit.
- Copyright ⌐ 1992-1994 Microworks
- Sydney, Australia.
- CompuServe 100026,1134
- Release date: 6-9-94.
-
-
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- WHAT IS OBJECTMATE?
- -------------------
- ObjectMate is a professional Windows interface development kit
- for Borland C++ 4.0 and Borland Pascal 7.0. Included in the kit
- is the ObjectMate Interface Library SFX200.DLL, the
- ObjectWindows SFX Class Library, an Object Viewer, sample
- applications, complete on-line documentation and a printable
- reference guide.
-
- --------------------------------------------------
- WHAT DOES OBJECTMATE OFFER THE WINDOWS PROGRAMMER?
- --------------------------------------------------
- ObjectMate offers the Windows programmer a complete interface
- development solution that is easy to use and is compatible with
- both ObjectWindows and Resource Workshop.
-
- The ObjectMate Interface Library, SFX200.DLL, is ObjectMate's
- custom control library. It's noticeably different from any
- other custom control library because it's not a BWCC.DLL or
- CTL3D.DLL clone. Instead, it uses its own distinct
- 3-dimensional style to implement an impressive range of custom
- objects including bitmap buttons, icon buttons, text buttons,
- static controls, group shades, check boxes, radio buttons, edit
- controls, list boxes, list edit boxes, combo boxes, toolbars,
- status bars, percent gauges, dialog boxes, windows, MDI
- windows, message boxes, string input boxes and 3-dimensional
- menus. Within each object there are multiple styles to use when
- designing your own interface and there's an extended set of
- common dialog box templates in four custom styles.
-
- One of ObjectMate's best features is its functional enhancement
- over existing custom control libraries. For example, three new
- buttons Go, Stop and Browse, have been added to the eight
- standard Borland-style bitmap buttons and the buttons have been
- enlarged so there's no glyph cram. Static controls can display
- text or bitmaps in a variety of alignments and styles. Shade
- controls can be used as group boxes, vertical and horizontal
- dividers or colored panels. Check boxes and Radio buttons can
- be recessed or raised and come in a choice of check color. The
- toolbar object can be used to create popup toolbars, child
- toolbars, button panels and status bars. The message box
- function includes 4 new button combinations: MB_GO, MB_GOSTOP,
- MB_OKCANCELHELP and MB_YESNOHELP; and there are seven message
- box styles. The input box function works just like the message
- box function but instead displays a dialog box that prompts the
- user for a single line of input text
-
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- WHAT'S NEW IN OBJECTMATE 2.6?
- -----------------------------
- Well, just about everything! SFX200.DLL has been completely
- rewritten! The interface looks more stylish than before and its
- more functional. There are new flicker-free paint methods that
- smoothly draw the window frames and custom controls, and
- Chicago-style title bars have been added as an option. The
- common dialog box templates have been redesigned and now
- include several useful file-features and some extra buttons.
- The standard Apply and Help buttons can be activated by simply
- specifying the appropriate flag, so there's no need to worry
- about hooks, and there are five new common dialog box functions
- to use instead of Windows' common dialog structures. Several
- new features have been added to the library including
- resizeable Borland-style bitmap buttons, icon buttons, a status
- bar object that supports flyover and tabbbed text and
- 3-dimensional menu's.
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- WHAT'S CHANGED IN OBJECTMATE 2.6?
- ---------------------------------
- To remove the unnecessary frame flicker, SFX200.DLL now draws
- the non-client area of its own dialogs and windows. Specifying
- the new MWS_SFXCAPTION window style flag draws a minature class
- icon (or custom icon) next to the system menu control box on
- the title bar and aligns the window text next to it, flush
- left. A few minor changes were necessary but overall little or
- no change should be required to your source code. In most cases
- just recompiling your source code is all that's necessary.
- There are several new functions and messages, and some function
- arguments have changed. The SFXDefFrameProc now takes five
- arguments instead of four, and the DrawBorder and Draw3DBorder
- functions' first argument takes a display context not a window
- handle.
-
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- SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS.
- --------------------
- ObjectMate requires a Windows compaitble PC with either Borland
- C++ 4.0 or higher or Borland Pascal 7.0/1.5 or higher, Resource
- Workshop and 1.5 MB of hard disk space.
-
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- SHORT DESCRIPTION.
- ------------------
- ObjectMate 2.6. Windows Interface Development Kit for Borland
- C++ 4.0 and Borland Pascal 7.0. Shareware.
-
-
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- LONG DESCRIPTION.
- ------------------
- ObjectMate 2.6 is a professional Windows Interface Development
- Kit for Borland C++ 4.0 and Borland Pascal 7.0. It offers a
- complete 3-dimensional interface solution that's easy to use
- and is compatible with ObjectWindows and Resource Workshop. The
- kit includes 11 multi function custom controls, 5 custom dialog
- classes, custom windows, custom MDI windows, message boxes,
- sting input boxes and 3D menus. Shareware.
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