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Claw Introductory Edition Now Available

R.R. Software, Inc. is proud to announce the Claw Introductory Edition. The introductory edition provides a free version of Claw for evaluation and personal use.

Claw is the Class Library for Ada 95 and Windows 95. It works with any complete Ada 95 compiler for Windows 95 and/or Windows NT.

The Claw Introductory Edition includes a portion of the complete Claw package. An introductory version of the Claw Application Builder is also available; the combination provides an easy way to write fully functional Windows applications in Ada 95.

As with all versions of Claw, the Claw Introductory Edition is provided as Ada 95 source code. Thus, users can extend and modify the code to meet their needs.

For personal use, the Claw Introductory Edition can be used without charge forever. (Commercial use is limited to 30 days.)

The Claw Introductory Edition replaces the old, less powerful Claw Demo version. The introductory edition provides more capabilities and examples than the demo, making it more appropriate for personal use. Try Claw for free today!

Major Features supported in the Claw Introductory Version:

Windows and Dialog Boxes;
Controls: Labels, Buttons, Checkboxes, Radio Buttons, Group Boxes, Edit Boxes, Scroll Bars, Trackbars, Up-down buttons;
Tools: Fonts, Pens, Brushes;
Graphics: Icons, Bitmaps;
Canvases: For windows, for painting;
Drawing operations;
Menus;
Help access;
Basic registry operations;
Basic socket operations;
Directory operations.

Claw Personal Edition for Rational Apex NT Now Available

The Claw Personal Edition of Rational Apex NT is now available. This version of Claw is tailored to the Rational Apex NT environment and compiler. It automatically sets up an optimal Apex environment for creating Claw programs, replacing the demonstration version of Claw included with Apex.

The Claw Personal Edition for Rational Apex NT includes all of the features of the Claw Generic Edition. The only difference is that support for compilers other than Rational Apex is omitted from the package. The Claw Personal Edition can later be upgraded to the Claw Generic Edition if support for another compiler is needed.

This package is one of the results of our cooperative agreement with Rational to provide integration between Claw and Rational Apex.

Claw and Compiler now just $295!

Many Ada programmers have told us that they would love to be able to write Ada 95 programs using Claw, but cannot afford to pay the full license fee. We are listening, and are happy to announce The Claw Personal Edition Combo for Windows NT/95.

With this money saving package you get both the Claw and Janus/Ada 95 Personal Editions at one incredibly low price. With this package you will be able to write Ada 95 programs using a validated Ada 95 compiler and the Ada programmers secret weapon for windows: Claw.

So if you have been struggling with documentation written for non-Ada programmers, try Claw. If you are sick of having to go through routines in other languages, you need to get Claw. And if you haven't experienced Janus/Ada 95, the time is now to get a modern compiler system from the company that first brought Ada to the PC.

Claw 1.3 Available Soon

A new release of Claw will be available soon. This version has many enhancements and bug fixes over the previous version.

New and Enhanced Features:

Claw features:

Basic bars (automatically dock to a window);
Status bar controls;
Toolbar controls (including dockable toolbars);
Clipboard operations;
Stream sockets;
Stream registry entries;
Read/write bitmaps from streams;
Marshalling for streams;
Tile/cascade window operations;
Directory (folder) searching;
Time operations (formatting, conversion to/from UTC);
Additional limit and caret operations for edit controls;
No background for windows;
System change action routines;
Conversions when loading bitmaps;
Load predefined bitmaps.

Claw Builder features:

Floating, dockable toolbars for commands and controls;
List boxes are now supported (including drop-down styles);
Dialog box enhancements: action handlers, No Result dialogs;
Radio button labels can be set;
Show and select object dialogs (allowing larger projects).

To insure that you receive this update as soon as it is available, be sure that you have a current Claw support agreement. If you're not sure, or to order a Claw support agreement, contact our slaes department at 1-800-722-3248 or e-mail us at sales@rrsoftware.com.

Can't wait for the update? A beta version of Claw (1.29) is available which contains most of these features. Contact Randy Brukardt (randy@rrsoftware.com) to get a copy.

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