OOTher -- OO Documentation & CASE Tool Release 1.06b for MS-Windows 3.1

The tool is a complete documentation development package for the following
methods/notations:

- Peter Coad's OOA method (Coad/Yourdon)
- State Machine diagrams using a subset of SDL
- allocation of objects to processors and processes
- Use Case diagrams and Object Interaction diagrams
  as proposed by Ivar Jacobson in his OOSE book

The tool also performs verification of consistency between the  diagrams,
and by direct coupling assures for consistent naming of objects and
methods/services.

The tool is build around 5 easy to use graphic editors and is  capable of
documenting all objects, their attributes, services  and also associations
between objects. 

Each service may have a state machine (FSM) diagram. C++ Headers may be
generated automatically from the OOA diagram - it assures consistent
naming of member functions and attributes. The applied mark-up notation
for C++ headers should be powerful  to give compliler ready headers for at
least 80% of applications.

For a better integrability with other windows applications and to allow
esthetical control, the tool allows free font selection and a copy-paste
transfer of diagrams via clipboard in meta file format to e.g. Word for
Windows 2.0.

The resulting file is ASCII with open & documented format, i.e. it's easy
to add own utilities for data extraction.

Complete user documentation is attached in form of a hypertext windows-help
file.

The tools distributed as:

- freeware for students
- as shareware for others (USD $70/home user license,
  USD $170 for corporate 1-5 user license).
- free upgrade form 1.0x to 1.06b for registered users if they
  fetch files from e.g. SimTel Software Repository
- free evaluation in 4 weeks

- an evaluation copy may be ordered from the author
  (USD $70, rest of the license fee if/when you register)
      Roman M. Zielinski
      Tre Kaellors Vaeg 7
      S-145 65 Norsborg Sweden
  (You may also reach me at conrozi@KK.ericsson.se until July-94)

*****   Version 1.06b contains bug corrections and updates:

1. Fixed UAE when calling FSM before any service is created.
2. Fixed printing when View,ShowServ/Attr was 'off' did suppress
   serv/attr in OOA graphics printout
3. New parameters PenWidthFine, PenWidthBold and PenWidthDash
   in win.ini allow user customizable line widths
4. By means of the new parameter viewer= in win.ini and
   File, Customize Paths. You may specify another viewer
   application than notepad.exe.
   (viewer may be path, file.exe or file.pif)
5. There was a bug in check that name of a copied object is
   already used
6. Corrected the lost current working directory at copy/import
   object handling
7. I made the copy/import object dialogue more consistent
8. Recompiled under Borland C++ 4.0

*****   Version 1.06a contains new functions:

- state machine editor administers diagrams per service
- improved drawing in FSM diagram (aligning functions)
- use case overview diagram editor
- object interaction diagrams (sequence diagrams) editor 
- verification of consistency between diagrams
- C++ header generation
- name of file to be edited can be passed as argument when
  starting OOTher (e.g. from the File Manager)
- the recently edited files, as remembered by OOTher may
  be located anywhere
- all paths used by OOTher can be customized via a dialogue
  (it was earlier done by manual editing the WIN.INI file)
- description texts may now be up to 5000 characters
  (earlier 1500)
- bug corrections from 1.05a/b

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