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- From: oylonen@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi (Otso Yl|nen (OSY))
- Subject: Re: Choreographer
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.135137.1@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi>
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- Organization: Nokia Telecommunications.
- References: <9212311600.AA02477@turtle.cis.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 11:51:37 GMT
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- In article <9212311600.AA02477@turtle.cis.ohio-state.edu>, ramesh@news.cis.ohio-state.edu (Tharuvai S Ramesh) writes:
- > Has anybody used this product? Any opinions?
-
- Yes, I've used it for almost two years. I'm working at Nokia
- Telecommunications in Finland where we are using Choreographer to design
- highly graphical user interfaces for telephone operators. We're developing
- on OS/2, which is also our target OS.
-
- The Choreographer language and the OO-concept in it is very much the same
- as in Smalltalk/V PM (the biggest exeption is that Choreographer provides
- multiple inheritance). The system includes several tools for OOP. Most of
- them are similar to the ones in Smalltalk/V PM and Object/1 but there are
- also more: an editor for graphical objects, a bitmap editor, an editor for
- making Presentation Manager windows and dialogs etc.
-
- Choreographer appeared to be the most advanced way to go when we selected
- the development tool two years ago - I think it still is. It has all the
- benefits of an object oriented environment and it still enables good
- connectivity to outside world. All standard features of OS/2 PM are avai-
- lable through Choreographer. It's strengths are in making garphical inter-
- faces, however it's possible to implement the entire application using
- nothing but Choreographer. Due to the overhead of an interpretative sys-
- tem, any number crunching is better off done in a DLL.
-
- The biggest disadvantage is the price: about US$7500! Not a tool for every
- boy and girl ;(
-
- The current version is Choreographer 1.3 for OS/2 (1.x and 2.x) and
- Choreographer 2.x for Windows 3.0. Inspite of the smaller number, the OS/2
- version has got more functionality. There will be a major update during
- the spring (Choreographer 3.0). This is expected to include a full 32-bit
- and WPS support for OS/2. This version also combines the now separate OS/2
- and Windows versions. A version for the NT should be out later this year.
-
-
- To get more information, please contact
-
- GUIdance Technologies, Inc.
- 800 Vinial Str.
- Pittsburgh PA 15212
- voice/fax (412) 231 1300
-
- GUIdance is represented in Europe by ICL.
-
- Yours,
-
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