
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.



