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- From: jesper@harry.xanthus.se (Jesper Lundh)
- Subject: Xanthus Announces Questor Spreadsheet for NeXTSTEP
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.155542.21026@sics.se>
- Keywords: Xanthus, Questor, Spreadsheet
- Sender: news@sics.se
- Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:55:42 GMT
- Lines: 106
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- Xanthus International Announces
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- Questor
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- - the State-of-the-art Spreadsheet Application for NeXTSTEP
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- Stockholm, November 17, 1992 - Xanthus International AB today announced
- Questor, its spreadsheet application for the NeXTSTEP computing
- environment.
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- Aimed at everybody that has been waiting for a high quality matrix-based
- spreadsheet application tailored for the NeXTSTEP environment, Questor
- offers the ease-of-use of traditional spreadsheet applications combined
- with the extra power offered by NeXTSTEP.
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- For example, Questor can easily retrieve data from relational databases
- like Oracle and Sybase using the Database Kit in NeXSTEP and display the
- data in full color charts that can be placed in other documents and
- automatically updated by the Object Linking mechanism of NeXTSTEP.
-
- "Questor brings the power of the Database Kit to everybody," says Jesper
- Lundh, marketing manager at Xanthus."Questor will increase the
- productivity of anybody with a computer running NeXTSTEP on their desk."
-
- Questor is the perfect tool for all the things traditionally done with
- spreadsheet applications, like budgets, scientific calculations, creating
- tables and charts for presentations etc. In addition to the basic
- spreadsheet power, Questor comes with user interface objects like buttons
- and sliders as well as a powerful and easy-to-use scripting language
- called QScript. These tools will allow users to customize spreadsheets to
- perform very specific tasks.
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- The open architecture of Questor, with an extremely powerful API, also
- lets users control spreadsheets from other applications written in
- objective-C and Questor to control any other application with a
- Speaker/Listener interface through the QScript language.
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- Selected Questor features:
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- - A structured scripting language - QScript with an "intelligent" editor
- including automatic pretty-printing and programming support. QScript
- allows you to customize your spreadsheet to perform very specific tasks.
-
- - Input controllers like buttons, text-fields and sliders can be
- drag-and-dropped anywhere on the spreadsheet and connected to QScript code
- or directly to cells by control-dragging.
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- - Images and sound can be drag-and-dropped anywhere on the spreadsheet to
- create stunning documents including graphics and sound effects.
-
- - "Output objects" like charts and gauges can be drag-and-dropped anywhere
- on the spreadsheet and be connected to cell areas by control-dragging for
- continuous updating.
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- - Drawing tools that allows you to draw directly on the spreadsheet.
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- - Seamless connections to relational databases like Oracle and Sybase
- using the Database Kit in NeXTSTEP.
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- - A powerful double-directed API that allows Questor to easily control and
- exchange data with other applications.
-
- - External functions can be written in C or in QScript and be loaded into
- Questor for easy extensibility.
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- - A ToolBox that includes object palettes and a number of other tools that
- removes the need of modal panels for filling, searching and sorting data.
- The ToolBox also includes complete scripting support.
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- - Full support for user palettes. Users can easily create new palettes
- with customized charts, graphics and control objects.
-
- - Full support for Lotus 1-2-3 bracket-macros.
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- - Unlimited undo.
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- - Full support for object linking.
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- - The Questor QScript Debugger which allows functions to be debugged in a
- seamless manner.
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- - The Questor Macro Stepper which allows macros to be debugged on
- different levels of granularity.
-
- - Basic support for multi-user access. Several users can look at the same
- document, but only one can open it in read/write mode. Users with a
- document opened in read-only mode are notified as soon as the disk version
- of the document changes.
-
- Questor is now beta tested at selected beta sites.
-
- Questor will be available Q1 1993 through selected resellers worldwide.
-
- For more information please contact questor@xanthus.se
-
- Xanthus International, headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, is a privately
- owned software development company that specializes in the NeXTSTEP
- platform. Questor is the fourth in a series of general-purpose
- productivity tools for NeXTSTEP. In May 1992, Xanthus started to ship its
- first product CraftMan, the multimedia programming tool for the NeXT
- computer. The second product was LaserMan, a tool for controlling Laser
- Disc Players and other devices from a NeXT computer. The third product
- was SplitBuilder/Receiver, a tool for sending large files via NeXTmail.
- LaserMan and SplitBuilder/Receiver started to ship in September 1992.
- Xanthus International was founded in 1990.
-