Multiplatform Development Library for Office Applications

Bernhard Steppan

The StarView C++ library helps software developers keep the face of an application identical under a multitude of different platforms. This object-oriented GUI library uses its own resource script format. It comes with a design editor and several resource compilers. The library includes language support for English, German, French, and other European languages, full printer support, endian-aware classes, a platform-independent file specification, and drag and drop. Star Division, the developer of StarView, uses the library to program its own office suite.

Version 3.0 now comprises performance-optimized element functions and multithreading for Windows 9 5/NT and OS/2 applications. There are also new GUI components like progress bars, dockable toolbars, and multipage dialogs.

The 3.0 major redesign may produce incompatibilities with previous versions. However, a converter program helps translate existing StarView applications so they'll work with the new version.

I tested StarView 3.0 for Windows 95/NT with Microsoft's Visual C++ 4.0 compiler and found it to be a comprehensive and well-bred function library. Star says the Windows 3.1, OS/2, Mac OS, and several Unix versions of the StarView C++ library should be released by the time you read this.

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Product Information

StarView.....................DM 500 per seat, plus about DM 2000 
                             for each platform

Star Division GmbH
Hamburg, Germany
Phone:    +49 40 23646810
Fax:      +49 40 23646550
E-mail:   
svinfo@st
ardivision.de

Internet: 
http://www.stardivision.de

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