VIP-C Creates Power Mac Apps

Quickest Way to Create Applications for 68K Macs or Power Macintosh

San Jose, CA, March 15, 1994--Mainstay today demonstrated Power Macintosh
applications created by VIP-C, their Visual Interactive Programming
environment for C. VIP-C creates ANSI-standard C code which can be
compiled to PowerPC native code using one of the third-party compilers,
such as Metrowerks' Code Warrior, now available for the new line of Power
Macintosh computers from Apple Computer, Inc..

This makes VIP-C the quickest way to create applications for 68000-based
Macintosh or Power Macintosh computers, because it provides a
comprehensive environment for programming, with precoded functions,
integrated resource editors, and a Dispatcher-based application framework.
Using VIP-C, programmers can work in a bottom-up fashion, developing a
standard Macintosh interface quickly and easily, and just write specific
algorithms to link automatically generated interface code to particular
program functions.

From beginning Mac programmers to MIS staff responsible for in-house
applications to professional programmers, VIP-C provides an appropriate
level of assistance. VIP-C integrates five levels of increasingly
comprehensive aid to allow programming in the way that best suits users'
abilities, with the support that can help them succeed. These levels are a
visual C text editor/interpreter/debugger, prototypes of Macintosh toolbox
calls, VIP-C functions, VIP-C resource editors, and the VIP-C
Dispatcher-based application framework.

Coding can take place directly in the text editor, using standard ANSI C
and Mac toolbox calls. Or, using the VIP-C higher-level functions,
complete program development can take place without using toolbox calls.
VIP-C functions spare a programmer from having to master Inside Macintosh
to understand low-level Mac toolbox calls and their various combinations
of use. Use the VIP-C Dispatcher-based application framework along with
VIP-C's integrated resource editors to automatically set up an
application's main event loop and user interface elements. All the while
the programmer can modify anything--code, interface resources, etc., and
immediately see the result. Functions are easily selected in a
customizable palette; a library of standard C functions is provided, and
custom VIP-C function libraries can be written.

VIP-C comes with a royalty-free, run-time module for the creation of
stand-alone, double-clickable applications. Full source code for the
higher-level functions and Dispatcher-based application framework is
provided. VIP-C is available now for a suggested retail price of $495
through retail and mail-order outlets.

Mainstay is a Camarillo, California based publisher of Macintosh and
Windows business and workgroup productivity software. For more information
on VIP-C or any other Mainstay product, please contact Lance Merker at
(805) 484-9400.

Mainstay
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Camarillo, CA 93012
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FAX: (805) 484-9428,  Phone: (805) 484-9400

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