Choreographer

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2 total messages Started by Tharuvai S Ramesh Thu, 31 Dec 1992 06:00

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Author: Tharuvai S Ramesh
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 06:00

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Has anybody used this product? Any opinions?
This is what I know -- its an object-oriented user interface development
tool that runs under both OS/2 PM and Windows 3.0.
Appreciate your inputs.
Happy New Year!
Ramesh

Re: Choreographer

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Author: Otso Yl|nen (OSY)
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 11:51

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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,

_____________________
Otso Ylonen :__________________________________________
Phone office +358-81-551 4131, home +358-81-365292
Mail Talvikkitie 18 A 2, SF-90580 Oulu, Finland
Internet oylonen@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi
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