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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: jesper@cooper.xanthus.se (Jesper Lundh) Subject: ANNOUNCING: Celebro Multi-User Flat-File Database from Xanthus Organization: Next Announcements Approved: sanguish@digifix.com For more information please contact: Jesper Lundh phone: +46-8-635 30 62 fax: +46-8-98 70 67 email: celebro@xanthus.se Xanthus International Announces Celebro, the Multi-User Flat-File Database for NEXTSTEP Stockholm, May 19, 1993 - Xanthus International AB today announced Celebro, its multi-user flat-file database application for the NEXTSTEP computing environment. Aimed at everybody that wants to create complete databases quickly, Celebro offers a number of unique features, including intuitive form design tools, true multi-user access, multiple views of data and a powerful scripting language. For example, Celebro is the perfect tool for customer and client databases where you want different report types, label printouts, complex queries and most importantly, multiple users on the same database. "Celebro makes multi-user databases extremely simple to create and use", says Jesper Lundh, marketing manager at Xanthus. "Also, a customer database is not very efficient if only one person at a time can use it. This product fills the database need of most small and medium sized companies." The extended version of Celebro, called Celebro Professional, makes it possible to create a stand-alone database application from a Celebro database, that can be freely distributed. Celebro comes with a powerful scripting language, CScript that allows the user to customize database applications in almost any way. CScript can be used for data validation, data formatting and many other things. CScript is an extended version of Xanthus Common Language (XCL), a uniform scripting language used in all Xanthus software products with scripting capabilities. XCL gives you a uniform scripting syntax and a common set of basic functions. In addition, XCL allows you to write external functions in XCL or in Objective-C that can be used by any XCL-based application from Xanthus. Selected Celebro features: - True multi-user access with record locking and notification of new database users. - Multiple views of your data, including card-, page-, label-, report- and table-views. - Powerful label design features. The label view allows you to freely design labels, including margins, inter-spacing and even which of the labels on the page that should be printed. - Table overview. Each database can be inspected as a table view. You can edit the field values directly in the table view. - Versatile report view. You can easily design customized reports from your data, including aggregated fields like sum and average. - Multiple field views. A field in the database can be displayed through multiple objects in the same view. For example, a numeric field can be displayed and edited with a slider and simultaneously displayed in a gauge or a graph. - Full support for multimedia data-types like image and sound. - Celebro supports the following field-types: number, string, boolean, RTF text, color, sound, image, date, text-file, sound-file, image-file, file-name and calculated. - Full WYSIWYG layout capabilities in all view types. - Input controllers like buttons, text-fields and sliders can be drag-and-dropped anywhere on a view and connected to a data field. - Powerful queries. Any number of query objects can be created and saved with the database document. - Output objects like graphs and gauges can be drag-and-dropped anywhere on a view and connected to database fields for continuous updating. - A ToolBox that includes object palettes and a number of other tools that removes the need for modal panels. The ToolBox also includes complete scripting support. - Drawing tools that allows you to draw directly on any view type. - Full support for object linking. - Unlimited undo. All commands can be undone and the number of undos are user defined. - Full support for user palettes. Users can easily create new palettes with customized objects. - Powerful scripting language - CScript - that allows you to customize your database in almost any way, for example for data formatting and validation. - The extended version, called Celebro Professional, allows you to automatically create freely distributable, stand-alone database applications from your Celebro databases. These applications can have your own custom icon and Info panel. Celebro will be shown in Xanthus booth at NeXTWORLD Expo in San Francisco, May 25-27 1993. Celebro is now beta tested at selected beta sites, and will be available Q4 1993 through selected resellers worldwide. To participate in the beta testing, please send a note to celebro@xanthus.se. Xanthus International, headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, is a privately owned software development company that specializes in the NEXTSTEP platform. Celebro is the fifth in a series of general-purpose productivity tools for NEXTSTEP, including the multi-media programming tool CraftMan and the spreadsheet application Questor. Xanthus International was founded in 1990.
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Marcel Waldvogel and Netfuture.ch.