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January 2004  ======= N E WS   F L A S H ======== New Languages Tested With PixieLink and PixieWeb PixieLink and PixieWeb can now be used with the following languages. COBOL C Basic Plus (which inludes VAX Basic) For more information on developing a GUI on these or other text-based languages please contact: sales@pixieware.com These languages add to the PICKBasic and filePro languages already supported. July 2002  ======= N E W S   F L A S H ======== Improvements to PixieEngine® PixieEngine can now also use PICK(TM), MVBASE(TM), UNIVERSE(TM), UNIDATA(TM), ULTPLUS(TM) as its datastores, providing them with the VB language as an alternative to PICKBASIC.   NEW: Support for PICK-style queries, eg "LIST", "SORT", and PICK-style "SELECT", "SSELECT" even with MySQL, MS_SQL, MSDE, Oracle or MS_Access/Jet.   NEW: GUI now achieved by HTML, eg LIST and SORT can produce HTML reports. (previously used "VBGUI" which was a set of custom markup tags).   NEW: More Datastore drivers/support: ORACLE(TM) and most MVs (see above).   NEW: Consumer programs can create 2 or more PixieEngine objects, each working with different datastores. Great for automated updates e.g. of portable Jet/Access files from a central PICK-etc. April 2002  ======= N E W S   F L A S H ========   Browserize Your Green-Screen Software with PixieLink® or PixieWeb® There are many products available to make character-based software function within a browser or thru a browser. But, none of them provide all of the functionality of the original software like PixieWare’s PixieLink® and PixieWeb®. Unlike most other products, PixieLink® and PixieWeb® provide field-by-field, interactive editing and server response to each data entry action, just like your green-screen software. The browser-user-interface (BUI) is achieved by adding HTML markup tags, which do much the same job as the traditional terminal escape sequences, to the page output by the program on the mv server. HTML may even include such things as references to other web documents using hyperlinks, instructions for text formatting and other content, such as image placement.  Web pages (including the HTML) are generated by mv programs or procs. The output of these mv processes include markup strings built by PixieWare’s mvbasic subroutines, which translate the traditional green-screen @(x,y) co-ordinates into positioning co-ordinates that a web browser or browser agent can process. For example: SC = SC:@(10,10):"Customer" is replaced by: CALL WEBDX(10,10,0,0,"Customer","","",SC) For Users who want a browser user interface without the browser, PixieLink® provides a direct telnet connection to your mv server from any connection on the mv server’s LAN or WAN. PixieLink® is installed on each client machine and offers some features that web browsers do not: e.g. external software execution (Word, Excel) and file upload/download initiated and controlled by mvbasic programs. For Users who want to use a browser and do not want to install any software on the client’s computer, PixieWeb®, in conjunction with an IIS web server, provides a direct telnet connection to the mv server from anywhere on the web. Applications developed or upgraded with PixieWare’s HTML subroutines can be accessed through either PixieLink® or PixieWeb ®, or both. So, give your green-screen software a facelift without giving up its functionality. January  2002  ======= N E W S   F L A S H ======== Upgrade Product - PixieWeb® - Can now be used to connect Apache directly to a PICK program using Telnet. Only batch form submission is supported. A PHP program is supplied. November 2001  ======= N E W S   F L A S H ======== One new product and one major product enhancement. New Product - PixieExcel™ - Populates Excel spreadsheets with data selected by Pick database queries. Upgrade Product - PixiePCL™ - Can now print popular barcode fonts with controls embedded in PCL output from Pick. Can position nominated barcode font anywhere on output document as well as specify its height and width.  August 2001  ======= N E W S   F L A S H ======== The following article on "Field-by-Field Web Application Development" was reprinted with permission from - INTERNATIONAL SPECTRUM JULY/AUGUST 2001 - Pages 10/14 Spectrum Article June 2001  ======= N E W S   F L A S H ======== Pixieweb® software version 3.4 is now released and can be downloaded. New features include: Netscape 6.01 and higher, support. Improved set of example programs to allow you to start-up quicker. Speed, efficiency and error-handling improvements. An alternative serial port connection object available for non-persistent connection. Improved field-by-field methods provided (e.g. standard styles, grids). Support for storing binary data in MV engines (e.g. images, Russian/German documents). New functions for direct data handling (e.g. RRead, WWrite, PxRowset - PICK queries returned as two-dimensional arrays), from VB and other COM aware languages. PixieWeb® allows a web browser to be used as a terminal or GUI front-end to a legacy MV application, and can also provide connectivity for COM aware Windows clients in general. PixieWeb® works with all MV database systems that support TCP/IP, as well as some non-MV DBMS's.      "We are contractors facilitating the transformation of  text-based legacy software"

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