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	---- J a v e l i n    N e w s ----

News and Info for the slickest Graphical Object Oriented 
	     Development Tool for JAVA

	     Edition 3. April 11, 1996 
	    Step Ahead Software Pty Ltd
		Sydney, Australia

	       -- C o n t e n t s --

o What people are saying about Javelin.
o Be quick - $US39 introductory offer runs out soon!
o Internet Distribution - less waiting to receive the goods.
o Hot New Version 4.47 evaluation is on web site NOW. Save feature is 
  unlocked by all existing user's passwords.
o Standard or Professional Edition.
o How to receive this news feed directly
o Future Releases

What people are saying about Javelin.
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Many people ordering by phone are very enthusiastic people who have, in a 
very short time during their evaluation, fallen in love with the Javelin 
product. They can't wait to get their password to unlock the save feature. 
They tell us how they love the idea of developing JAVA classes using icons, 
drag drop etc., rather than dealing with the rather old fashioned text 
files (which were a gift to us from the 1970's!).

New JAVA programmers are reporting that they don't have to worry about 
typing all that class setup syntax correctly - they just let Javelin do it. 
And when it comes to adding new fields and methods Javelin saves them time 
and helps them to navigate and document their projects with ease.

Experienced C++ or JAVA programmers tell us that the tool helps them to 
think at the conceptual level and then dive down into the code with a few 
mouse clicks when necessary.

Our sales staff report that phrase's such as "I love it" and "Cooool" are 
not uncommon when taking orders and with good reason! Javelin has been 
receiving good recommendations from sites all over the internet. The new 
version 4.47 makes it an even "cooooler" tool. See below for more details 
on that.


Be quick - introductory offer runs out soon!
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The introductory offer of $US39 ($AUS40) for Javelin standard edition is 
valid until April 15, 1996. After this date the price goes to its RRP of 
$US199 ($AUS249) - so be quick or you'll miss out.


Internet Distribution - less waiting to receive the goods.
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Javelin standard is distributed over the internet. You can download the 
evaluation version in which the save feature is disabled. By purchasing the 
product (by phone or fax order) you will receive a serial number and 
password that turns your evaluation copy into the real thing, enabling the 
save feature. The serial number and password are normally sent via email 
within 24 hours. Quite often they are sent within hours of placing your 
order.


Hot New Version 4.47 is on our web site NOW.
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Version 4.47 adds some great new features in the area of the in built 
editor and the design slate. The in built editor now has a new menu and 
full find/replace functionality.

The design slate has been empowered with the ability to customize the 
colors of certain features. It also now shows the grid so that you can see 
where objects will automatically align to. Though these are cosmetic 
enhancements some people have expressed a desire to be able to choose their 
own color set - and we agree with them. When you work with a particular 
tool all day long its important to be able to set up an environment that 
suits you. With this feature you can make some pretty hot looking color 
combinations (and some pretty putrid ones too!). So try it out. Maybe we'll 
even hold a competition to find the most preferred color combination.

Here's one of my favourites:
Though you can set up colors from the Options|Colors menu if you know the 
colors you want you can direcly add or change a line in the [System] 
section of javelin.ini to read:
; A nice Alpine looking color scheme
sc=0xFF0000 0xFF0000 0x2FFFFFF 0xC0C0C0


Standard or Professional Edition?
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Many people have been asking about the difference between the standard and 
professional version. We have provided a section on this under the Javelin 
page on our web site. In addition you can take advantage of the current 
deal on the standard edition and upgrade to the professional with a huge 
saving - all with a simple, single order. See readme.doc in the Ver 4.47 
distribution files.


How to receive this news feed directly
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If you would like to receive this news feed directly to your email address 
then simply mail us a message with JAVELINNEWS as the subject and your 
email address somewhere in the body of the message. You may add any 
comments you like on lines following your email address.


Future Releases
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The Javelin product is a result of well thought out, well structured, 
development plan. In the next few months you can expect to see some very 
hot features including: Assistance with development of GUI JAVA code, 
importing of existing libraries and some features which are just too hot to 
mention at this stage! So get on board now and come along for the ride in 
order to stay, A Step Ahead.
-- 
Chris Colman         
Step Ahead Software, Makers of Visual Classworks and JAVelin
email:	stepsoft@ozemail.com.au
web:	http://www.ozemail.com.au/~stepsoft