| A-Flow is an easy-to-use and powerful general-purpose software development and authoring tool suitable for creating a wide range of Windows applications, which comprises, but is not confined to:
Presentation and multimedia applications. Computer-based training and testing applications. Dynamic gaming applications (such as "brick" game). Interactive database applications. System utilities, shells and integrated end-user environments. And many others... A-Flow completely visualizes applications under development. You do not write application code but rather draw it by using a point-and-click approach.
A-Flow is an open tool. Developers who also domain other tools may easily extend A-Flow capabilities by adding more foreign components to the core environment, thus using A-Flow for software integration purposes.
The result from using A-Flow are freely distributable standalone Windows applications (*.exe files), which may run outside the A-Flow development environment.
Supported Interfaces and Standards Supported interfaces and standards include:
Microsoft MCI. A simple, but quite flexible support for multimedia applications is provided. ODBC. An industry-strength standard Application Programming Interface (API) suitable for accessing relational databases. WinSock 1.1. A support for managing client-side sockets is provided. Ole Automation. A modern comprehensive industry standard for software integration based on COM (Component Object Model).
What's New (in Comparison to Release 3.15.4) Finally - main menu bar and popup menu support! Finally - explicit Open Database Connectivity support! Printing support in user applications. Improved debug support. Tab keys navigation support for controls in user applications. Improved on-line reference and user guide (help). To further improve our internal development processes, we now make use of the modern HTML Help instead of Windows Help help system. New sample applications. Redesigned from the ground up the flowchart drawing algorithm. This makes it slightly more consistent at our opinion and fixes all these long living nasty bugs in this module. Some element types considered deprecated or obsolete have been replaced by newer versions and/or moved away from their original libraries to a special library: Deprecated Types. Added some new element types, slightly changed the behavior of and fixed subtle problems with some other element types to make it easy implementing Windows user interface standards and guidelines. To further take advantage of componentization support, some most specialized element types and object classes have been separated from the standard component and now constitute a number of add-on components. New approach to UNREGISTERED SOFTWARE restrictions. We now offer two separate licenses: the core license, which covers development environment along with standard components, menu support and deprecated element types, and the extensions license, which covers by now all other components. With each license there comes an individual Personal Activation Code. New A-Flow startup/about screen. New setup program based on Inno Setup. Free and original graphics clipart. |