TeleUSE. User Interface Management System. Aonix. for Windows. Product Overview

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1 Product Overview TeleUSE for Windows User Interface Management System TeleUSE User Interface Management System World-class Graphical User Interface Management System development toolset Common toolset across UNIX and Windows 95/NT platforms QuickPort Motif application to Windows from a single source base Extensive widget libraries supply thousands of valuable resources for your every application need Sophisticated client /server development tools support seamless tie-ins to relational databases Specialized palette of widgets provided for deployment of applications on the Internet TeleUSE/Win and QuickPort: Meeting the Multi-Platform Challenge Today s UNIX developers are all too aware of their most crucial challenge: building sophisticated, missioncritical applications and then rapidly deploying those applications across a large, heterogeneous enterprise one that features, increasingly, Microsoft Windows as a client platform of choice. If yours is like most UNIX development organizations, you and your colleagues have become accustomed to the superior robustness and maturity of UNIX development tools. You ve built up a substantial investment in UNIX expertise over the years, and you want to leverage that investment as you take on the Windows challenge. You need the flexibility to build your applications from a single source and give them the look and feel of the platform on which they are deployed, whether it be UNIX or Windows. You need a way to embed platform-specific GUI controls that can be deployed on either of the platforms. Aonix User Interface Management Solutions

2 TeleUSE/Win helps developers reap the substantial rewards of object-oriented technology in creating OSF/Motif GUI applications that look and feel like true Windows applications. You need tools that let you enhance, customize and maintain your GUI applications directly on Windows without having to hire new team members or otherwise acquire Windows programming expertise. Aonix s TeleUSE enterprise solution for multi-platform development gives you all these capabilities, and more. This powerful multi-platform toolset, which features the industry-leading TeleUSE User Interface Management System for UNIX and TeleUSE/Win for Windows NT and Windows 95, provides you with everything you need to design and build large, businesscritical applications in a powerful UNIXlike development environment running on either of the two platforms. TeleUSE/Win allows you to deploy applications that fully meet your user s requirements for a Windows look and feel, and can maintain and enhance the applications directly on Windows. TeleUSE/Win: Superior Multi- Platform Development TeleUSE/Win offers an optimal multiplatform toolset for meeting all of today s enterprise development challenges. By providing all of the features of the TeleUSE User Interface Management System and the Windows NT platform, TeleUSE/Win helps developers reap the substantial rewards of object-oriented technology in creating OSF/Motif GUI applications that look and feel like true Windows applications. TeleUSE for UNIX TeleUSE for Windows Single-Source Base Std. X/Motif API UNIX Application MS Win Application Develop and deploy your application on either UNIX or Windows platforms from the same source code with the same toolset.

3 TeleUSE for Windows Not only is building new multi-platform applications easier than ever before, but you can rapidly port existing TeleUSEcreated applications to Windows. For UNIX development teams that are beginning the transition to MS Windows, there is simply no more powerful solution for giving users the sophisticated, easy-touse, multi-platform applications they demand in today s large enterprise. TeleUSE QuickPort: All of the Porting Tools You ll Need in One Package The TeleUSE multi-platform solution is designed to work best when developers perform their initial development with portability in mind. In the real world, however, this is often not possible; complex UNIX functions might be embedded in an application, in which case porting the application layer becomes more difficult. TeleUSE QuickPort was specifically created to address this need. It includes TeleUSE for UNIX and TeleUSE/Win, along with a comprehensive porting handbook to help significantly shorten the time normally associated with migration of substantial applications from UNIX to Windows 95/NT. If you previously handcoded your Motif applications or used other UIMS products, you can use TeleUSE QuickPort to leverage the robust, crossplatform and single-source application development support within TeleUSE. For existing TeleUSE users, TeleUSE/Win provides seamless migration to MS Windows from UNIX. TeleUSE/Win accepts all GUI files that have been previously created by TeleUSE. Then, all that s required is simply to invoke a build on the Windows side to create a full-functioning Windows application. And not only can you instantly deploy an existing GUI on Windows, but you can reuse both the GUI and the eventmessaging components from your existing Motif applications. TeleUSE/Win and QuickPort Features Single Source for Both UNIX and MS Windows Applications With the TeleUSE solution, you use one set of source code for developing, porting and maintaining your applications on both UNIX and Windows including the GUI components, the event-messaging components and the application components. There is no need to develop, debug and maintain two separate source bases for your applications. With TeleUSE on the UNIX platform and TeleUSE/Win on Windows, your application files are completely compatible and you can add, modify or otherwise make changes on either platform and immediately apply those changes to the other platform. This makes TeleUSE/Win the ideal toolset for bridging the UNIX and MS Windows worlds. TeleUSE/Win Features Single Source for Both UNIX and MS Windows Applications The Ability to Leverage Existing UNIX Development Expertise Flexibility to Create an Application with Windows Look and Feel Windows-aware Motif libraries selectable look and feel at runtime Windows-style widgets and Windows-specific GUI controls The Power of TeleUSE and Motif for Superior Applications An Open, Extensible Standardsbased Architecture Internet/Intranet Support Facilities Client/Server Relational Database Systems Support

4 UNIX developers are not required to reinvent their UNIX applications on Windows when using TeleUSE/Win! The Ability to Leverage Existing UNIX Development Expertise Using other tools, developers port their UNIX applications to MS Windows, and then must use Windows programming environments and Windows expertise to maintain a separate application on the Windows side. With TeleUSE/Win, developers use what is essentially the same development toolset on Windows that they would use on UNIX not just for development but for ongoing maintenance. Developers can continue to work in a comfortable development environment while giving users the look and feel they require. With this powerful solution, there is no learning curve involved in making the transition from UNIX to Windows; UNIX developers are immediately productive in deploying Windows applications. What s more, the organization forgoes the substantial risk in time, money and resources of acquiring new programming knowledge. Create an Application with Windows Look and Feel UNIX developers are not required to reinvent their UNIX applications on Windows when using TeleUSE/Win! A comprehensive set of features ensures that the Windows applications they deploy will be accepted and used by their intended target audience. The installation and usage is very Windowsuser-friendly. The Visual Interactive Presentation (VIP) tool the same powerful palette on UNIX or Windows from which you create GUI masterpieces. Windows-aware Motif Libraries Selectable Look and Feel at Runtime TeleUSE/Win provides all the features and capabilities of TeleUSE on the UNIX platform; essentially, they are one and the same toolset. One difference, however, is that on the Windows side, a special Motif library the Wintif library is capable of rendering GUI elements that look and feel like Motif, Windows NT or Windows 95. A single GUI component, then, is displayed as a Windows component on the Windows platform and as a UNIX element on UNIX.

5 TeleUSE for Windows TeleUSE/Win gives users the ability to select the desired look and feel at runtime thereby invoking the application either as a Motif or as a Windows GUI. This gives the end user full control over the look and feel of the interface at runtime. Simply by setting a resource or an environment variable, the end user can make the interface look and operate like a Motif 1.2 GUI, a Windows 3.1 or NT interface or a Windows 95 GUI. Windows-style Widgets and Windows-specific GUI Controls TeleUSE/Win offers a complete set of Windows-style widgets and colors, along with Windows system fonts, to further enhance the Windows look and feel of the application. The user has dynamic control of colors from within Windows and can use a clipboard-style interaction between TeleUSE-created applications and native Windows applications, such as Excel. Finally, TeleUSE/Win includes a special module containing Windows-specific widgets that developers can use in their applications, such as the ToolBar with Tooltips, Tab Notebook, ComboBox and SpinBox. These GUI controls are expected by Windows users, and they give the TeleUSE-created applications a look and feel that is truly like that provided by native Windows applications. Windows-like widgets and Windows GUI controls give your windows applications the look and feel users have come to expect. Windows end-users readily accept TeleUSE/Win-created applications. TeleUSE also supports the latest version of the XRT Professional Developer s Suite (PDS) from KL Group, Inc., the leading Motif widget product in the industry. XRT/PDS, a separately purchased add-on to TeleUSE, is available for cross-platform development and is the easiest way to add powerful 2D/3D graphs, robust data entry and validation, tables and other intuitive interface elements to your applications. TeleUSE/Win includes a special module containing Windowsspecific widgets that developers can use in their applications.

6 A TeleUSE/Win Scenario: Quickly Deploying a Mission-Critical Banking Application on UNIX and MS WIndows ABC Bank has been developing its businesscritical applications in UNIX over the years. Faced with a new requirement to create a key banking application that will run not just in UNIX but in Microsoft Windows as well the company seeks to leverage its substantial UNIX development expertise while also continuing to enjoy the superior maturity and robustness of UNIX development tools. What is the ideal environment for meeting these requirements? A UNIX-like toolset that runs in both UNIX and Windows. Such a unified toolset would enable the developers to build their application with a single set of sources and then to easily deploy it within the heterogeneous environment for UNIX and Windows. The TeleUSE QuickPort solution, consisting of the TeleUSE User Interface Management System on UNIX and TeleUSE/Win on Windows NT, gives ABC Bank everything it needs to be successful very quickly. First, developers use TeleUSE to create the banking application on Solaris the platform on which the application will initially run. Because the developers believe that the application will likely be deployed primarily on Windows systems within 18 months, they elect to code their application to ANSI standards, thus ensuring an easier port when the time comes. For the application s GUI and event message-handling, TeleUSE provides tremendous depth and richness in particular, its unique template feature, its use of multiple inheritance and its dialog scripts enable the developers to design a highly sophisticated, easy-to-use interface quickly and efficiently. Knowing that their eventual Windows users will expect features such as toolbars and a notebook, the developers elect to include these special controls and find that they are easy to manipulate with TeleUSE s drag-and-drop GUI builder. After creating an executable for Solaris, the developers transfer all their TeleUSE files to TeleUSE/Win on Windows. TeleUSE/Win, which includes precisely the same set of tools that are provided by TeleUSE on Solaris, accepts all the files. When the Application Builder is invoked, TeleUSE/Win automatically invokes Visual C++ and links the application with libraries that provide a native Windows look and feel. Why have the ABC Bank developers been successful in developing and deploying their application quickly on both UNIX and Windows? The developers leveraged their UNIX expertise in moving toward multiplatform development. They used robust, mature, standardsbased tools. TeleUSE gave them the flexibility to generate an application from a single source one that looks like Windows when run on Windows, and like UNIX when run on UNIX. TeleUSE provided the flexibility to select platform-specific GUI controls and deploy them in the application, interchangeably, on any platform. TeleUSE/Win continues to enable the developers to further enhance, customize and maintain their GUI directly on the Windows platform.

7 TeleUSE for Windows Internet/Intranet Facility TeleUSE/Mariner TeleUSE/Mariner, a standard feature of TeleUSE/Win, allows users to deploy their applications on the Internet. This feature includes a specialized palette of widgets for creating user interfaces for deployment on the Web from within the TeleUSE Visual Interactive Programming tool (VIP). Powerful Client/Server Development Tool Database Support with TeleUSE/DB TeleUSE/DB delivers seamless graphical access to relational databases, minimizing training and maintenance costs while letting developers take full advantage of advanced GUI, client/server and Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) technologies. TeleUSE/DB database support is available as an optional add-on to TeleUSE/Win. A specialized SQL data type is added to the dialog scripting language to provide a high-level script interface to the SQL routines of relational databases, such as Sybase and Oracle. You can write dialog scripts that can be used with multiple RDBMS. The RDBMS used by the The sophistication of UNIX development the user-friendliness of Windows. interface is determined by the reusable component that you build into your application. A Database Template Builder in TeleUSE/DB enables you to bind network database objects and actions to GUI objects. The templates generated can be used in conjunction with the bind operations of the SQL data type, resulting in much faster application development. TeleUSE/DB provides a set of Motif widgets containing specialized database resources that are used to create database templates. TeleUSE/Win allows users to deploy their applications on the Internet.

8 TeleUSE/DB employs a unique Database Object Value Tool which, when combined with database templates, facilitates displaying SQL results in standard OSF/Motif widgets. As an alternative, TeleUSE/DB also provides KL Group s XRT/table widget and an API for using the widget in basic ways. You can extend the functionality provided by separately purchasing the XRT/PDS family of widgets and take full advantage of the XRT/table library. In addition to the API routines, TeleUSE/DB includes convenience routines that enable you to reference objects in the database and obtain information associated with their fields. TeleUSE/DB includes a browser that you can use as is, or enhance and include as a component in your end-user application. The browser enables the end user to view database object information located locally or across the network and to retrieve and update the data via dynamic SQL operations. An SQL query builder window is provided for end users unfamiliar with SQL syntax. Aonix: More Than a Supplier a Partner At Aonix, we are as diligent in supporting our customers as we are in developing world-class development solutions. In today s world of distributed enterprises and global businesses, large applications are frequently developed and/or distributed by teams operating in different locations and possibly even on different continents. With our global presence and worldwide sales and support locations, we are there to serve our customers in a variety of ways, including customer support, training, consulting and customization services. Aonix solutions are designed to improve the quality of software applications and to improve programmer productivity for even the most challenging of applications, and our qualified support staff is looking forward to helping you achieve these goals. To obtain more information, please contact Aonix at or your local Aonix office. Aonix World Headquarters Phone: (800) 97-AONIX Fax: (858) info@aonix.com Aonix France Phone: +33 (1) Fax: +33 (1) info@aonix.fr United Kingdom Karlsruhe, Germany München, Germany Sweden Phone: +44 (1491) Phone: +49 (721) Phone: +49 (89) Phone: +46 (8) Fax: +44 (1491) Fax: +49 (721) Fax: +49 (89) Fax: +46 (8) info@aonix.co.uk info@aonix.de info@aonix.de info@aonix.se 1999 Aonix. All rights reserved. Aonix and TeleUSE are registered trademarks of Aonix Corporation. All other company and product names are the trademarks of their respective companies. UIMS