Vision StoryBoard Professional Edition Offers Essential Documentation Tools for Visual Basic Professionals.OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 2, 1996-- Development Tool Kit for Visual Basic Professionals Creates Presentation Quality Documentation for Internet Distribution and Playback Offering Microsoft Visual Basic(R) developers a reprieve from the difficult task of maintaining up-to-date project documentation, Vision Software today announced Vision StoryBoard A sequence of images and annotations for a cartoon, animation or video. Storyboards are previews of the final version and typically contain mockups rather than final art and images. Before computers, storyboards were drawn with pen and ink on lightweight cardboard. (TM) Professional Edition Release 4.5 (Vision StoryBoard PRO). The full upgrade release of Vision StoryBoard is a Visual Basic add-in providing "document as you code" capabilities for creating and maintaining project documentation and specifications from within Visual Basic's design-time environment. Vision StoryBoard PRO will begin shipping on Dec. 18, 1996. Vision StoryBoard PRO offers several new features including the ability to develop effective presentations for design review over Internet or corporate Intranets. In addition, Vision StoryBoard PRO offers an improved Document Explorer interface for greater organizational control and for organizing documents in an intuitive fashion. Vision StoryBoard PRO provides the repository for comments in several configurable document categories so that by annotating an·no·tate v. an·no·tat·ed, an·no·tat·ing, an·no·tates v.tr. To furnish (a literary work) with critical commentary or explanatory notes; gloss. v.intr. To gloss a text. the project as it evolves, documentation is always in synch with the application, regardless of where it is in the development cycle. It is designed to save Visual Basic professionals significant time and expense by enabling them to design the look and feel of the application without coding a thick prototype. It also provides them with a way to present their work to all development team members, including clients, in an effective fashion. "Development teams need access to up-to-the-minute information on the progress of a development project, yet it remains to be an onerous task for development teams," said Anu Shukla, VP of strategy and product marketing at Vision Software. "Vision StoryBoard Professional Edition offers users a seamless solution to documenting their application in the Visual Basic design-time environment, so developers can focus on coding an application without getting caught up in the time-consuming administrative task of documentation." Document Explorer Using Vision StoryBoard PRO's Document Explorer, a familiar Windows Explorer-like hierarchical project tree, users may annotate annotate - annotation forms and controls, create multiple views of a project form during both run-time and design-time, and comprehensively organize the project for documentation purposes. Point-In-Time Documentation Development teams can leverage their annotations to create robust project documentation including screen shots of forms, control and menu item summary tables, detail information about each project element consisting of multiple document categories and code detail for forms, classes or modules. Vision StoryBoard PRO creates output in rich text format Rich Text Format - (RTF) An interchange format from Microsoft for exchange of documents between Word and other document preparation systems. (RTF (Rich Text Format) A document format from Microsoft for encoding text and graphics. It was adapted from IBM's DCA format and supports ANSI, IBM PC and Macintosh character sets. ) for viewing, editing or printing from any Windows word processor. Document styles can be saved as templates for future use or to standardize the corporate look and feel of project documentation. Vision StoryBoard PRO includes new features for code review, documentation and analysis. It also leverages the Windows Help Microsoft WinHelp is a proprietary format for online help files that can be displayed by the Microsoft Help browser winhelp.exe or winhlp32.exe. The file format is based on Rich Text Format (RTF). It remained a popular Help platform from Windows 3. Compiler to create code analysis and API files that can be indexed, searched and distributed. This format is helpful for cross-referencing code for publishing or for distributing guides to the public classes and methods of their reusable OLE Server In OLE compound document technology, it is the application that is called upon to display and process a linked or embedded object. See OLE. code with the click of a button. Instant Online and Context Sensitive Help Vision StoryBoard PRO creates instant online and context sensitive help for Visual Basic projects. Users can designate or name a document category which can be accessed as help text and create industry standard help files which can be used immediately or imported into any number of third party help authoring tools for further editing. Annotated Project Presentations Over the Internet Vision StoryBoard can be used to develop effective visual presentations for design review meetings, JAD (Joint Application Development) An approach to systems analysis and design introduced by IBM in 1977 that emphasizes teamwork between user and technician. Small groups meet to determine system objectives and the business transactions to be supported. sessions or training sessions. Slides of project screens can be hot-spotted to simulate form transitions independently of coding. Slide shows may be played back in the Vision StoryBoard SlideShow viewer or they may be converted to HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. format for distribution and playback over the Internet or via corporate Intranets in a web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . Pricing and Availability Vision StoryBoard Professional Edition is sold at the suggested retail price of $349. Promotional pricing is available through several domestic channel resellers including VBxtras, Programmer's Paradise, Programmer's Supershop and Raleigh Group International. Vision StoryBoard 3.0 and Vision StoryBoard 4.0 users may upgrade to the Professional Edition for $89. System Requirements To be used efficiently, all computer software needs certain hardware components or other software resources to be present on a computer system. These pre-requisites are known as (computer) system requirements and are often used as a guideline as opposed to an absolute rule. Vision StoryBoard Professional Edition is fully backwards compatible See backward compatible. backwards compatible - backward compatibility with previous versions of Vision StoryBoard. It supports both 16-bit and 32-bit Visual Basic 4.0. Vision StoryBoard PRO requires a 486/66 or greater IBM-PC IBM-PC International Business Machines Corporation Personal Computer Compatible; 16 MB RAM or more; 12 MB free HD space. The 32-bit version requires: Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. 3.51 or higher, or Windows95; Visual Basic 4.0 for 32-bit, Professional or Enterprise Edition. The 16-bit version requires: Windows NT 3.51 or higher, or Windows95; Visual Basic 4.0 for 16-bit, Professional or Enterprise Edition. Vision Software develops and markets application development tools for the Intraprise. Vision StoryBoard was developed to increase developer productivity and team communications by making the task of iterative project documentation painless and convenient. Vision Software's products also include Vision Builder, which accelerates Intranet development via Application Targeting, Active Templates and ABD ABD n. A candidate for a doctorate who has completed all the requirements for the degree, such as courses and examinations, with the exception of the dissertation. [a(ll) b(ut) d(issertation).] rule driven technology. Vision Software received venture funding in September 1994 and shipped Vision StoryBoard 3.0 (for Visual Basic 3.0) in September 1995. -0- Editor's Note Editor's Note (foaled in 1993 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by 1992 U.S. Champion 2 YO Colt Forty Niner, who in turn was a son of Champion sire Mr. Prospector and out of the mare, Beware Of The Cat. Trained by D. : Reference sites and screen shot images are available upon request. Vision StoryBoard is a trademark of Vision Software Tools Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners without intent to infringe. CONTACT: Kaufer Miller Communications Abby Mates/Stacey Branom, 206/450-9965 E-mail:abbym@kmcomm.com or staceyb@kmcomm.com |
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