Half a millenium ago, the great genius Leonardo da Vinci sketched out the first airplane. But, try as he might, he couldn't build it. Not because his dream was flawed, but because the necessary tools did not yet exist. If you, like da Vinci, are able to conceive the ultimate application but are unable to implement it due to limitations in your environment, then dream no more for the answer is here.
The emergence of the Graphical User Interface has made using computers easier, but introduces a vast number of complexities for the programmer. Platform API's are notoriously difficult to program, requiring a myriad of steps to accomplish even the simplest of tasks. Furthermore, while most platform API's provide the programmer with similar services, such as mechanisms to open a window or output some text, these calls are almost never compatible among different environments. This makes supporting multiple platforms difficult. zApp was created to solve these problems.
zApp, the award-winning
C++ application framework, provides over 200 object classes of
power that are just waiting to become your best-selling application.
The
zApp Interface Pack is a group of prepackaged
user interface components that you can plug into your applications
to give them the professional look-and-feel of a best-selling
software package. The zApp Interface Pack puts the power of visually
appealing toolbars, 3D custom controls, and a spreadsheet-like
table object at your disposal.
zApp Factory, Rogue Wave's
fully visual application designer and code generator, lets you
drag and drop a wide assortment of objects like toolbars, tables,
and 3D dialogs. You can define their characteristics and build
interfaces of any complexity. A high-level Project Manager makes
creating and manipulating objects easy. In addition, zApp Factory
offers a powerful prototying mode that allows you to test the
look and feel of your application. After you have designed and
tested your user interface, zApp Factory will generate fully commented
C++ code with the push of a button.
When you're done building your application, then you can decide what platforms you want to support! Applications built using zApp are single-source portable to fourteen different platforms. By simply recompiling, your application will run natively on Windows, Win32 (Win32s, Windows NT, Windows 95, and NT on the DEC Alpha), OS/2, and seven UNIX X/Motif platforms: IBM RS/6000 AIX, Hewlett Packard HPUX 9.x, SGI IRIX 5.2, SCO UNIX, Sun Solaris 2.x, SunOS 4.1.x/Solaris 1.x, and Sun Solaris x86. Apple Macintosh will join the zApp portability family soon.
Support and Service for Your
Success With zApp, you are never left out in the cold. zApp comes with ample, well-indexed documentation (a Programmer's Guide and a Programmer's Reference), both on-line and in printed form, which PC Techniques calls "thorough and easy-to-follow" and .EXE touts as "a great relief to most users." To get you started, zApp comes with what PC Magazine calls "an excellent step-by-step tutorial" as well as a plethora of example programs. Rogue Wave offers professional technical support through voice, fax, BBS, CompuServe, and on the Internet. zApp comes with full source and no royalties. Our sixty-day, no-questions-asked, full money-back guarantee has been an institution at Rogue Wave since day one.
Rogue Wave also periodically hosts training seminars to teach C++ programmers how to effectively use zApp to create GUI applications.
Free Demo! If seeing is believing for you, download a copy of our demo and get a glimpse of what the future has to offer. You can also call 1-800-346-6275 to ask for our free demo disk.
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