Powerful Spreadsheets and Tables in VisualAge With WidgetKit/Professional

San Jose, CA, September 11, 1995 - Objectshare Systems, Inc. announces
WidgetKit/Professional for VisualAge, the first product that enables
programmers to add high-powered spreadsheets and tables to their VisualAge
for Windows applications. WidgetKit/Professional provides four basic
spreadsheet parts with hundreds of additional options. Several of the
spreadsheets provide power similar to that of Excel.

All of the spreadsheets in WidgetKit/Professional share features such as
ability to load and save data and properties to files, ability to signal
events, printing capability, virtual data loading (useful when large
amounts of data come from an underlying database), and much more. A sample
of the specific capabilities include control of gridlines, cursor, scroll
bars, column and row headers, drag/drop, freezing rows and columns, and
Excel-style block selection of cells. A WYSIWYG spreadsheet designer
provides the programmer with an easy and fast way to get the look and
behavior they want.

The simplest spreadsheet type is a basic table part, which displays a
matrix of cells displaying strings. A data-aware table part adds the
ability to have typed data. Cell types include button, check box, combo
box, date, float, masked edit string, and more. A spreadsheet part adds
the ability to support formulas in numeric cells. An object-aware
spreadsheet part adds the ability to populate the spreadsheet with
instances of VisualAge part classes. WK/Pro also includes data-aware
validated editor parts for date, float, integer, masked edit, and time.
Most of these editors allow programmers to choose between various
presentation styles.

WidgetKit/Professional for VisualAge uses the proven FarPoint Spread DLLs.
It also has well-crafted common widget (Cw) abstractions that integrate
all the controls into the IBM Smalltalk class library, and Smalltalk
classes that allow all the controls to be placed and edited interactively
with the VisualAge Composition Editor.

WidgetKit/Professional for VisualAge is available for VisualAge Standard
and Team versions for Windows. The Team version comes with Smalltalk
source code for the public classes. WK/Pro for VisualAge is provided in
.APP modules for VisualAge Standard and .DAT export library format for
VisualAge Team. There are no royalties for distribution of end-user
applications. WidgetKit/Professional also includes complete documentation,
hypertext help, and ninety days of free technical support from Smalltalk
experts at OSI by telephone, fax, and CompuServe. It comes with a 30-day
money-back guarantee.

WidgetKit/Professional for VisualAge costs $495 for VisualAge Standard and
$795 for VisualAge Team. They are available for immediate shipment.
Programmers can place orders or obtain more information by calling
408-9707280, sending a fax to 408-970-7282, or sending e-mail to
76436.1063@compuserve.com. Objectshare Systems, Inc., 5 Town & Country
Village, Suite 773, San Jose, California 95128-2026
 
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