XVT-Design Release 2.0 Debuts 

With major new features for the layout, testing and generation of GUIs,
XVT-Design 2.0 increases productivity dramatically for cross-platform
developers. It will begin shipping in April.

"Release 2.0 provides a great leap in functionality that makes XVT
developers more productive," said Roger Oberg, XVT's Director of
Marketing.

Together with the XVT Portability Toolkit, XVT-Design 2.0 delivers an
advanced, easy-to-use solution for portable GUI development.

New time-saving features allow the developer to:

* Enter, edit, and maintain application-specific behavior code within
XVT-Design. The Action Code Editor makes defining the connections and
actions easy, while ensuring the code is preserved during regeneration.
Connections and any function calls you add are automatically included in
the generated code and maintained as part of the interface definition.
This eliminates the need to modify generated code or merge changes when
the GUI is changed.

* Instantly see how the interface will work. TestMode lets you view the
appearance and behavior of the user interface and check connections
between windows, dialogs, controls, and menus without leaving XVT-Design.
The resulting project file may be opened in XVT-Design on other platforms.
WYSIWYG is provided by native control rendering. The ability to switch
instantly between design and TestMode greatly improves productivity
compared to the typical edit-compile-link-execute cycle.

Other key features include:

* Complete makefile generation for all target platforms, including the
ability to integrate external files.

* Programmatic GUI specification using the Project File Access (PFA)
Library, so you can create XVT-Design project files from external
programs. Users can also generate XVT-Design project files from existing
URL files.

* Custom control support lets you represent your own interface controls
with placeholder objects.

* Reusable event-handler classes let you define behavior of a container
object once and save the "class behavior" as an attribute. Users can
create libraries of such modules. Subsequent development is accelerated
since predefined classes of container object behavior can be selected from
an XVT-Design listedit, thus avoiding the need to rewrite code.

XVT-Design users will finish applications in a fraction of the time
required to manually program the GUI.

XVT-Design++ Announced 

XVT-Design++, an interactive application framework, is a complete GUI tool
for creating C++ applications. It will begin shipping during the second
quarter, 1993. Together with the XVT Portability Toolkit, it forms the
most productive multi-platform C++ development solution in the industry
today.

The package includes two components: an interactive design tool for user
interfaces which incorporates a C++ Code Editor, and a C++ class library
which includes GUI objects.

XVT-Design++ is XVT's first C++ interactive application framework product.
Developers build upon the framework to create applications, rather than
starting from scratch. The objects streamline many details that are
essentially the same from application to application, such as creating
graphical windows. Because the framework is based on objects, the
developer can easily modify it to suit the needs of the application being
developed.

XVT is also creating new support, consulting and training services for
XVT-Design++. In addition, XVT Partners offer a number of complementary
products that service C++ developer needs, including products from Object
Design, Objectivity and Raima.

XVT-Design++ requires an XVT Portability Toolkit, and can be purchased
bundled with the Toolkit for $2150 on PCs, or $6500 on UNIX Workstations.
Separately, XVT-Design++ is $1395 on PCs and similar systems, and $3095 on
UNIX workstations.

XVT-Design Upgrade Option

XVT customers with current XVT-Design 1.1 maintenance will automatically
receive XVT-Design 2.0. These same customers may also purchase
XVT-Design++ at a special promotional price. Call your sales
representative for details. This offer expires May 31, 1993.

XVT Software Inc. 4900 Pearl East Circle Boulder, CO 80301
(303) 443-4223    Fax: (303) 443-0969    1-800-678-7988

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