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In article <9212311600.AA02477@turtle.cis.ohio-state.edu>, ramesh@news.cis.ohio-state.edu (Tharuvai S Ramesh) writes:
> Has anybody used this product? Any opinions?

Yes,   I've   used   it   for  almost  two  years.  I'm  working  at  Nokia
Telecommunications  in  Finland  where we are using Choreographer to design
highly  graphical user interfaces for telephone operators. We're developing
on OS/2, which is also our target OS.

The  Choreographer  language and the OO-concept in it is very much the same
as  in  Smalltalk/V PM (the biggest exeption is that Choreographer provides
multiple  inheritance).  The system includes several tools for OOP. Most of
them  are  similar to the ones in Smalltalk/V PM and Object/1 but there are
also  more: an editor for graphical objects, a bitmap editor, an editor for
making Presentation Manager windows and dialogs etc.

Choreographer  appeared  to be the most advanced way to go when we selected
the  development  tool  two years ago - I think it still is. It has all the
benefits  of  an  object  oriented  environment  and  it still enables good
connectivity  to  outside world. All standard features of OS/2 PM are avai-
lable  through Choreographer. It's strengths are in making garphical inter-
faces,  however  it's  possible  to  implement the entire application using
nothing  but  Choreographer.  Due to the overhead of an interpretative sys-
tem, any number crunching is better off done in a DLL.

The  biggest disadvantage is the price: about US$7500! Not a tool for every
boy and girl ;(

The  current  version  is  Choreographer  1.3  for  OS/2  (1.x and 2.x) and
Choreographer  2.x for Windows 3.0. Inspite of the smaller number, the OS/2
version  has  got  more  functionality. There will be a major update during
the  spring  (Choreographer 3.0). This is expected to include a full 32-bit
and  WPS support for OS/2. This version also combines the now separate OS/2
and Windows versions. A version for the NT should be out later this year.


To get more information, please contact

        GUIdance Technologies, Inc.
        800 Vinial Str.
        Pittsburgh PA 15212
        voice/fax (412) 231 1300

GUIdance is represented in Europe by ICL.

Yours,
         
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