Windows, Mac, and Web Data Publishing

Bernhard Steppan

ACI's latest release of the 4th Dimension for Windows graphical database, version 6.0, uniquely combines cross-platform development, Web database publishing, and an intuitive graphical interface to make database development more accessible, especially to users who aren't database wizards.

4th Dimension includes an RDBMS and several integrated or stand-alone tools, such as graphical form editors, menu and method editors, data-recovery and verification tools, and a cross-compiler that translates applications into the machine language of the target platform. With this multitarget translator for the Mac and Windows, you can run your applications on Motorola's 68000 processors, PowerPCs, and Intel CPUs. Thus, you can launch a Windows application for Windows under MacOS without changes. You can even choose between System 7 and Copland look and feel. The only difference I saw between a native Mac application and one developed with 4th Dimension for Windows and then ported to the Mac was the reversed order of the OK and Cancel buttons.

You can also publish your database applications over the Internet with the same flexibility. The program includes a Web server and an HTML converter, so you don't need any CGI knowledge or additional database gateways for Web publishing. But you can add JavaScript applications, as well as Java applets.

4th Dimension is a stable and easy-to-use database-development environment that allows you to design complex database front ends without writing a single line of code. You can access all GUI elements and their properties with a single mouse-click.

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Where to Find

4th Dimension 6.0
 for Windows 95/NT...............£395

ACI
Clichy, France
Phone:    +33 1 40 87 92 00
Phone:    +33 1 40 87 92 01
Internet: 
http://www.aci-4d.com

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