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- Contact: Regis McKenna Inc.
- One Pacific Square
- 220 N.W. Second Avenue, Suite 1150
- Portland, OR 97209
- Janet VanRysselberghe
- (503) 222-7080
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- SmethersBarnes
- P.O. Box 639
- Portland, OR 97207
- Craig Barnes (503) 274-7179
- AppleLink: D1314
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- All New Prototyper 3.0 Now Shipping!
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- Portland, OR--August 15, 1990--SmethersBarnes announced and began shipping
- the third generation of their innovative interface building tool today,
- Prototyper™ 3.0. According to Randy Hill, Product Manager, "version 3.0 has
- been extensively re-written to satisfy the requests generated by its
- predecessors. It has greatly improved editing, simulation, and code generation
- capabilities."
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- Custom Controls, Window Definitions, Palettes and Sounds
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- Prototyper 3.0 builds on the award winning features of version 2.0 by adding
- support for custom controls (e.g., sliders, gauges, toggle switches, etc.);
- custom window definitions (like HyperCard-style windoids); tool palettes (ala
- PageMaker and MacPaint); and sounds.
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- David Burnham, Quality Assurance Supervisor at Symantec, thinks "all the new
- editing features make it extremely easy to extend the standard Macintosh
- interface. Creatively, it opens up all kinds of doors."
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- More Powerful Linking
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- "It's hard to overestimate the value of Prototyper's simulation capabilities,"
- said Michael Hunt, Manager of Machine Intelligence Technologies at General
- Physics Corporation. "By letting me show my customers exactly what they will
- be getting, Prototyper has already help me land a huge programming job for the
- U.S. Navy. And now that I can link to sounds I can produce self-contained
- prototypes that customers can go through without my having to be there. To
- make things as authentic as possible, it will even let me link to simulate time
- delays for things like disk accesses."
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- To help programmers better analyze their designs, most linking limitations have
- been removed. For example, you can now link from dialogs to open and close
- windows, something not possible with earlier versions of Prototyper. The new
- tool palette feature allows linking from individual palette items.
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- More Intelligent Code and Resource Generation
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- Version 3.0 can regenerate code for a prototype after it is modified — without
- losing any code that may have been added by hand. For noted author and
- programmer Dan Shafer, this is version 3.0's most significant feature: "Being
- able to regenerate code fits the way programmers really work. Programs are
- always created iteratively."
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- "Because the source generated by Prototyper 3.0 is 32-bit clean and MultiFinder
- aware it's a great tool for teaching students professional coding techniques"
- claims Jean Scholtz, Asst. Professor of Computer Science at Portland State
- University. "The fact that Prototyper now automatically generates Printing and
- File I/O code and provides special hooks to make it easier to take advantage of
- Color QuickDraw and math coprocessors means we can spend more time with our
- students on programming problems unique to their projects, and let Prototyper
- take care of the routine things. In fact, that's really the whole point of
- Prototyper: to let you focus on the design of your application without having
- to worry about how to implement that design."
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- Dan Shafer is also impressed by how much the manual has been expanded to help
- programmers take advantage of all of these new capabilities: "The step-by-step
- tutorial is excellent. It really brings you up to speed quickly. Plus there's
- much more information on the structure of the generated code. It's really a
- very comprehensive reference and user's guide."
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- Registered Prototyper owners can upgrade to version 3.0 for only $79 — $220 off
- of its $299 suggested list price. The upgrade includes the complete
- Prototyper 3.0 package. Upgrade orders and information requests can be placed
- toll-free by calling 1-800-336-4945.
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- When SmethersBarnes launched Prototyper 1.0 in 1988 it was the first tool that
- let Macintosh programmers work the way they think: visually. Prototyper 2.0,
- which added 'C' code generation and a host of other valuable features began
- shipping in 1989.
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- SmethersBarnes is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Now Software, Inc.
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