ENVELOP ENGINE FACT SHEET
Development Tools
* Visual form editor
* Extensible form creation toolset for alignment, scaling and
tab order of controls
* Property Editor manipulates object properties visually, without
writing code
* Object Viewer presents the object hierarchy in multiple views
* Fully integrated application development capability
* Add your own components, tools, object editors and wizards easily.
Object Arsenal
* Over 80 reusable objects and components
* Support for the latest Microsoft systems technologies:
OLE2.0, DLL's, OCX controls, ODBC, MAPI
* Standard components for menus, buttons, edit fields, panels, pictures,
property sheets, outlines, object hierarchies, lists and more
* Data aware controls for accessing organized data sources, including
relational databases and various ASCII sources.
* Access data during design or runtime
* Seamlessly incorporates the standard dialogs for managing files,
printers, colors, fonts, message and alert boxes, etc.
* Objects in the Arsenal encapsulate and simplify access to OLE 2.0
servers, the clipboard, file system and inter-application drag and
drop, even video and audio servers
* Extend the Arsenal with any of 100's of OCX controls, enveloped
extensions of 3rd party DLLs, or your own Envelop objects
* Includes source code and documentation for over 50 sample objects
Envelop Basic
* Structured, object oriented language
* Familiar to Visual Basic users - extended as a full object-oriented
language, but without excessive syntax
* Full support for inheritance, polymorphism and encapsulation
* Create "first-class" components using Envelop's "copy and specialize"
object metaphor
* Runtime type checking
* Runtime object persistence in Envelop's medium grained, distributed
object oriented database
* Structured exception handling, including full support for user defined
exceptions
* Support for user defined types, object aggregation and object reference
Powerful Editing
* Unlimited undo and redo
* Full-featured BRIEF-style editing
* No limit on file size
* Regular expression (GREP-style) search/replace
* "On the fly" Color Syntax Highlighting
* Powerful browsing features optimized for working with objects
Integrated Debugging
* Visual Object Debugger
* Conditional breakpoints and watchpoints
* Execute code in response to breakpoints or watchpoints
* Inspect and modify object properties, expressions and variables
* Call stack window lets you trace execution flow
* Use suite of Object Editors to inspect and manipulate objects at runtime
Minimum System Requirements
* Intel 486-based PC or higher
* Windows '95 or Windows/NT 3.5
* 12Mb of extended memory
* 20Mb of hard disk space
Networks Supported
* Any Microsoft Windows '95 or NT supported network.