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- Overview Sound & Vision for CA-Clipper
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- Sound & Vision provides complete support for graphical
- look-a-like Windows, sound cards and CD-ROM Drives. In
- just a couple of function calls you can change the entire
- look and feel of an application.
- Your programs will come alive. No more simple beeps! you
- can make any sound you want using a sound blaster card and
- the Sound & Vision library. Sirens, chimes and verbal
- commands make your programs more user friendly and responsive.
- Reveille when they sign in and taps when they sign out. You
- could even have a nuclear explosion if they crash the program!
- You're only limited by your imagination as to how sound will
- integrate into your applications. Support for Sound Blaster
- and Adlib is complete, so you can record sound as well as
- play it. It's possible to deliver voice messages, attach verbal
- notes to a customer record or create a complete voice mail
- system.
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- With almost no overhead, Sound & Vision gives you the option
- of having a complete graphical interface on your application.
- Use buttons, sliders and listbox - just like Microsoft Windows,
- but much faster. Your interface can have mouse support, SAA/CUA
- menus, INI file management, moveable/sizeable windows and much,
- much more.
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- Finally Clipper programs can have access to the vast amounts
- of data available on CD-ROM marketing statistics, demographics
- and mapping/routing databases are a few of the thousands of
- databases available to you. Sound & Vision will elevate your
- programs to a new level of sophistication with almost no effort
- on your part.
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- Sound & Vision was written entirely in assembler - just like
- Blinker - so it's lightning quick and as small as possible.
- It's compatible with real and protected mode CA-Clipper 5.x
- and is provided only on 3.5" diskette.
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- Technical Highlights
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- Sound:
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- Sound & Vision is the first library, which
- allows CA-Clipper programmers to play audio-CDs,
- .VOC and .WAV Files. You can have sound play in
- the foreground or background. Record from microphones,
- audio-CD or any other stereo or mono input. A replete
- CD-Player is included, complete with buttons to skip
- tracks, pause and control volume. To help you learn
- how to write MultiMedia code, we included full source
- code for the CD-Player.
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- Object Orientation:
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- At the heart of Sound & Vision is a powerful object
- engine. Using this engine, you can create fully object
- oriented programs. Create your own classes, inherit
- from existing classes and define new methods. Source
- code is provided for all of the classes including:
- WindowClass, MenuClass, enhanced GetClass, ButtonClass,
- ScrollbarClass, ListClass and IniClass.
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- SAA/CUA Windows:
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- With Sound & Vision it's easy to create programs that
- have the look and feel of Microsoft Windows. Windows
- will automatically be sizeable and moveable with
- scrollbars and maximize/minimize buttons. The true
- windowing system supports icons, pushbuttons and
- spinners. Additional controls include radiobuttons,
- checkboxes and listboxes. You can even frame gets,
- outlines and scrollboxes to give them a 3D effect.
- SAA/CUA style pulldown/popup menus are included,
- accessible with the mouse, hotkeys, cursor or short
- cut keys.
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- Mouse Support:
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- Complete mouse support is provided with a graphical mouse
- cursor - even in text mode. The cursor can be set to an
- hourglass while system processes are taking place.
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- Less Memory/More Speed:
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- 90% of the library has been written in assembler, which
- makes all of Sound & Vision's functions extremely fast
- and saves you valuable memory.
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- Protected Mode:
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- All of Sound & Vision's function run in protected mode.
- Using linkers like ExoSpace, Blinker 3.x or Causeway.
- You can be rest assured that there is more than enough
- memory to run your program.
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- Plus:
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- There are dozens of other features including a complete
- EventSystem, full .INI file handling, Screensaver functions,
- showing .PCX Files, full VGA color palette changing,
- alertboxes, Font handling, Bit twiddling and CRC Checksum
- support.
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- Documentation:
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- Full documentation is provided in a Norton Guides database.
- Plus, there are tons of sample programs with source code
- included for all classes. this gives you a head start on
- creating state of the art multimedia applications with
- CA-Clipper 5.x. The documentation is available in english
- and german language.
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- System Requirements
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- * CA-Clipper 5.x or later
- * MS-DOS operating system version 3.3 or later
- * Personal computer with an 80286 or higher micropocessor
- * 1 MB of RAM required
- * One high density 3.5" disk drive and a hard disk
- * VGA or EGA grapics adapter and monitor
- * SoundBlaster / Adlib or compatible card for the Sound part
- * Sound & Vision is licensed for use on a single development
- station. Applications developed with Sound & Vision may be
- distributed royalty free.
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- Distribution
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- USA/Canada England Germany/Worldwide
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- Programmer's Warehouse QBS Software Ltd. SOFTSOL GmbH
- 8283 Hayden Rd, Ste 195 10 Barley Mow Passage Neue Strasse 35a
- Scottsdale, AZ 85258 London W4 4PH 21073 Hamburg
- U.S.A England Germany
- Tel.:1-800-323-1809 Tel.:+44-81-994-4842 Tel.:+49-40-7661290
- Fax :(602)-443-0659 Fax :+44-81-994-3441 Fax :+49-40-7665664
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- Omicron Software Spain Australia
- 3493 Trenholm Rd. ───── ─────────
- Powhatan, VA 23139 Danysoft Int. RCM Software
- U.S.A Apartado de Correos,227 1198 TooRak Rd.
- Tel.:1-804-375-9703 28100 Alcobendas (Madrid) Hartwell, Victoria
- Fax :1-804-375-9733 Spain Australia
- Tel.:+34-1-6546298 Tel.:+61-3889-0580
- Fax :+34-1-6546382 Fax :+61-3889-0263
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- Austria
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- HD Ing. Dietmar Hauser
- Fasanengasse 51/2/4
- 1030 Wien
- Austria
- Tel.:+43-1-7983908
- Fax :+43-1-7989120
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- Support
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- First check with your local reseller/distributor, if they are able to
- provide you with technical support. In any case you may contact SoftSol
- (in addition to phone and fax) via any of the following means:
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- CompuServe : 100112,3401
- Internet : max@softsol.clipper.de
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- BBS / USA : (415)-949-0172
- Fido / USA : 1:143/515
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- BBS / Germany : +49-40-7665527
- Fido / Germany : 2:240/5300