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Which Pixieware® Product Is For You?
Pixieware Software has developed a software tool-kit for a number of specific purposes. The following
Click for: PixieRobot, PixiePrint, PixieExcel and PixieBridge
PixieEngine™
PixieWeb®
PixieLink®/HTML
PixieEditor™
• Migrate MV application to the Windows environment
• Windows based MVstyle database engine bringing together new developments in the Windows, VB and database areas
• Resembles closely MV concepts
• Take advantage of the RAD features of VB• A general connectivity device for accessing MVDBMS's.
• Allows web browser to be used as a GUI front-end.
• Allows access to MV databases from within MS apps (e.g. Excel).
• Transforms the text based UI to a Windows based UI.
• First of a new breed of super terminal emulator (interpreter).
• Transforms text based UI to a GUI front-end by means of HTML language.
• Produces a browser interface without a web server.
• Provides modern method of editing and extracting MV data and programs.
• Brings to Pick data item viewing and editing facilities, that has a "look and feel" close to the style that has become standard for Windows apps.
• Source code is converted to Visual Basic. Key features include:
• Persistent or non-persistent connections.
• No phantom processors, uses conventional programs.
• Field-by-field or batch processing of forms.
• Connects IIS or Apache to MV program via Telnet.
• Attractive Windows GUI style screens presented to the user.
• Many GUIising features provided (e.g. drop down boxes, expanding grids, copy & paste to Excel) using HTML.
• Provides simple MV data extract facility to MySQL, MS ACCESS, MS SQL Server.
• A one-step streaming process with a scripting facility to enable an entire account to be exported in one automatic operation.
• Data store can be MySQL, MS ACCESS, MS SQL Server, Oracle. Others planned. • Source code needs to be modified to generate HTML code. Text and GUI interfaces from single set of source code. • Source code needs to be modified to produce HTML. Text and GUI interfaces driven from single set of source code. • Multiple files can be opened allowing compare, or copy and paste activities to take place. • Application displays same screen format as before conversion.
• GUI may be provided by VB user interface.
• GUI may be provided by PixieLink or browser.
• Attractive web style screens presented to the user. • Multi-tasking - open several pages, flip between tasks, while any or all are in mid-task.
• Dynamic database "drill down" without usual web-app need to redraw entire page.
• Create multivalue grids incorporating cancel control buttons, drop-down boxes, etc.
• Provides full Windows Graphical environment, including mouse support, to previously terminal serving programs.
• Has an Explorer style interface for Pick/Universe, which provides a "Tree View" method of navigation and selection.
• New data stores are made to behave in same way as traditional MV databases. • Glues IIS and browsers (especially IE5) together in such a way that they create an alternative to terminals.
• Apache also connects to a MV program directly via Telnet (no phantoms required).
• Pixielink is a Visual Basic application residing on a client PC, communicating with a legacy PICK application via the HTML protocol.
• Text can be opened, edited and saved in Windows or in Pick. • The core of PixieEngine is a "Server-side ActiveX" wrapper for non-MV database engines (i.e. Access, MySQL, Oracle, SQL-Server).
• Login security is available through password and Id. encryption.
• Well-written PICK applications with a consistent structure will be easy to modify.
• Uses TCP/IP sockets to connect to the MV database. • While its core is "Object Oriented", PixieEngine also has a "Socket Server" component that enables it to support terminal emulation in the "Classic" style. • Includes PixieBridge to connect WWW to older serial databases, such as R83 PICK.
• Uses TCP/IP sockets to connect directly to MV database without the need for web-server. • Configures database to present its operations in an MV-like way. • Uses TCP/IP sockets to connect to MV database.
• Any DBMS with TCP/IP is a candidate (e.g. filePro®).
• Provided free with PixieWeb licence to allow green-screens to be used while app. is being converted. • Provides a host programming environment in VB with a DATABASIC-like flavour. • Set of Pick-like functions available to be called from ASP scripts if web serving (massage data being passed from Pick).
• Web-server and PixieWeb combination is added if publishing same screens on the web. • Includes a Pick Basic converter, and Pick data converter.
• Includes MV functions.
• Set of Pick-like functions available to be called from VBA programs if used with MS applications (e.g. Excel, Access). Used to massage data being passed from Pick.
Need to know more? How Pixieengine works or Click to download Need to know more? How Pixieweb works or Click to download
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PixieRobot™
PixiePrint™
PixieBridge™
PixieExcel™
• PixieRobot™ a robot application, which can send and receive data by email for a Pick server.
• PixieRobot™ a robot application utilising Web pages as a source of data. Intelligent and accurate browsing of HTML content on standard Web pages.• Offers complete printer independence.
• PixiePrint software is a utility that solves the problem when MV application prints PCL codes, and needs to print to wide range of printing devices.• Pixiebridge™ software is a utility that solves the problem of translation between TCP/IP socket communications and serial communications.
• Populates Excel spreadsheets with data from MV databases.
• Developed for the end-user as it provides a user-friendly interface toMV from Excel.
• Just install and run your queries.• Distinctive features of PixieRobot are:
(1) Navigation to web pages
(2) Filling in of forms and submitting them
(3) Analysis and output of the received data• PixiePrint will convert PCL codes into a generalised Windows printer instruction set. • Adds capability to connect to native MV box across a modern network and even across the internet. • Provides an easy-to-use GUI front-end to Pick.
• The connection to Pick, and the data selection and downloading processes are simple and seamless.
• By linking email folders to Pick D3 as "Super Q pointers, to Universe via Type 1/19 files, or to AP via Dos Services Gateway, Pick becomes email capable.
• PixieRobot collects and delivers messages and attachment files to "drop boxes" which are Windows file system folders.
• Additional print features (e.g. color shading) included. • PixieBridge can be placed on any PC on the LAN • Performs Access level queries (Select, List) with conversion and correlative processing rules applied.
• PICK/Universe dictionary formatting and processing codes control the width and other formatting of Excel columns.
• VB script facilities are used to make it programmable. E.G. PixieRobot runs a script whenever mail arrives & to browse a web page.
• Prints popular barcode fonts with controls embedded in PCL output from Pick.
• Positions nominated barcode font anywhere on output document as well as specify its height and width.
• Used to web enable native Pick installations • 4 simple steps to retrieve MV data:
(1) select an account
(2) select a file
(3) select a query
(4) Execute the request
• Can also perform raw data reads and writes.
Need to know more? How Pixierobot works or Click to download
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Need to know more? How PixieExcel works or Click to download
Email: sales@pixieware.com
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