Year: 1997

Free Apple Guide-to-WinHelp Translator, FAQ

DALLAS, Texas — DECEMBER 22, 1997 — StepUp Software announces the
availability of guideWorks Translator and the Apple Guide FAQ, assets of
the former guideWorks, LLC. guideWorks Translator is a utility which
converts Apple Guide source code files to WinHelp files. Combined with
StepUp Software’s $99 Guide Composer (recently upgraded to version 1.2.1),
this free utility provides an inexpensive cross-platform active
assistance/help solution for Macintosh software developers.

VIVISTAR CONSULTING ANNOUNCES NEW VTEXT DISTRIBUTION POLICY

22 December 1997 — In conjunction with the immediate availability of its
CWPro 2 update for its VText library ViviStar Consulting announced an even
more relaxed source distribution policy.

VText is an incredibly flexible and versatile C++ add-on library for
Metrowerks’ PowerPlant application framework.

From: hawkfish@electricfish.com (Richard Wesley)

CWProjector 1.0 Press Release

Electric Fish announces the release of CWProjector, a shareware version
control plugin for Metrowerks CodeWarrior, which allows you to use MPW’s
Projector for source control without leaving the CodeWarrior IDE.

CWProjector provides an easy to use source-code control system, at minimal
cost, using established technology from Apple.

From: Ron Liechty (mwron@metrowerks.com)

CodeWarriors,

There is a release of the PowerPlant 1.8.1 Update for CodeWarrior
Professional 2 PowerPlant is available now or soon for downloading from

http://www.metrowerks.com/tools/software/updates/ or
ftp://ftp.metrowerks.com/pub/updates/
ftp://ftp2.metrowerks.com/pub/updates/

If you are connecting from europe, you may want to try the mirror at:
(ftp://ftp.promo.de/pub/Metrowerks/mirror/updates/)

PowerPlant 1.8.1 stresses improvements to the new Appearance Classes, with
some additional fixes to core PowerPlant.

UML Design Tools
With Scriptable HTML Reports

MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa — December 22, 1997 — Excel Software is pleased to
announce availability of major upgrades to its software engineering
products for Windows 95, Windows NT and Macintosh. WinA&D 2.0 and MacA&D
6.1 add complete Unified Modeling Language (UML) support to existing system
analysis, software design and code generation capabilities.