Overview Sound & Vision for CA-Clipper ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ 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. 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. 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. 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. Technical Highlights ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ Sound: ÄÄÄÄÄÄ 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. Object Orientation: ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ 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. SAA/CUA Windows: ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ 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. Mouse Support: ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ 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. Less Memory/More Speed: ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ 90% of the library has been written in assembler, which makes all of Sound & Vision's functions extremely fast and saves you valuable memory. Protected Mode: ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ 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. Plus: ÄÄÄÄÄ 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. Documentation: ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ 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. System Requirements ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ * 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. Distribution ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ USA/Canada England Germany/Worldwide ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ 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 Omicron Software Spain Australia 3493 Trenholm Rd. 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