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Commercial libraries (O-Z)

Tools.h++ - Rogue Wave tools library.

Tools.h++ consists mostly of a large and rich set of concrete classes that are usable in isolation and do not depend on other classes for their implementation or semantics.

Components include Collections, String processing, Time & date handling, File space manager, B-Tree disk retrieval, bit vectors, virtual I/O streams, caching managers, virtual arrays, etc.

Added : 01/01/1995 Amended : 22/05/1996 Licensing : Commercial


Persistence - Access to a relational database from a C++ object model

Added : 01/01/1995 Amended : 01/01/1995 Licensing : Commercial


SOFTPRO TOUCH - GUI C++ class library for OS/2:

SOFTPRO GmbH has announced its new 32bit C++ class library TOUCH-GUI 2.1 for OS/2 2.x. The product contains more than 140 classes which support windows, menu bars, multi-threading, controls (including all OS/2 2.x controls: slider, value set, notebook, container), dialog boxes, graphics, printer control, MDI, DDE, Drag and Drop, loadable resources, and management of profiles (.INI files). Other features include auxiliary classes for data manipulation and storage management. Additionally, TOUCH- GUI 2.1 contains high-level classes like formatted entry fields, tables, and complete NLS. Furthermore, TOUCH-GUI 2.1 is fully integrated in STAR CASE++, an OOA/OOD case tool (method: Coad/Yourdon), and Intersolv's PVCS (a version control system).

The product includes online (.INF) and printed documentation, a demo program, and samples.

TOUCH-GUI 2.1 costs DM 1.720,00 excl. VAT (ca. US $990), the runtime DLL's may be distributed royalty free. For upgrade prices and special project licenses (including source code of TOUCH-GUI) contact the supplier. NOTE: TOUCH-GUI 2.1 single license will be available at a special price of DM 199,00 excl. VAT (ca. US $120) during 04/01/94 - 06/30/94. Printed documentation is not shipped with the special price product, it is available for another DM 99,00 excl. VAT (ca. US $60). However, full online documentation is included.

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Added : 01/01/1995 Amended : 01/01/1995 Licensing : Commercial

WinSockets++ 1.1 - A C++ class library for WinSockets.

This is more than just a wrapper for the WinSockets calls. It provides higher-level functions that make reading/writing to sockets very easy. Additionally, the Async aspect of the library makes using the asynchronous functionality of WinSockets *very* easy and your code *very* clean.

It costs $50 which includes full source.

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Added : 01/01/1995 Amended : 01/01/1995 Licensing : Commercial

ObjectBuilder - GUI library

ObjectBuilder includes the Object Interface (OI) class library which is a C++ object-oriented implementation of both Motif and Openlook interfaces. Note that interested parties can read more about the OI library in the 1300 page "OI Programmer's Guide" by Gary Aitken and Amber Bensen published by Prentice-Hall.

ObjectBuilder is a GUI that offers developers a complete C++ implementation of Motif. ObjectBuilder allows developers to rapidly design, test, modify and implement sophisticated object-oriented graphical user interfaces by using ObjectBuilder to manipulate C++ objects found in its Object Interface (OI) C++ class library.

ObjectBuilder features a drag-and-drop user interface that allows developers to immediately visualize the results of their user interface design.

ObjectBuilder is owned and supported by Openware Technologies, Inc.. Formerly owned by ParcPlace Systems, Openware recently acquired ObjectBuilder.

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Added : 01/01/1995 Amended : 01/01/1995 Licensing : Commercial

ORION/ITASCA - Object Oriented Database

Added : 01/01/1995 Amended : 01/01/1995 Licensing : Commercial


XVT Portability Toolkit

This is a C-language library of functions (although, you can pay extra for C++). They have a WYSIWYG GUI builder, but they charge for that, too.

OPTIONS:

Added : 01/01/1995 Amended : 01/01/1995 Licensing : Commercial


ViewKit ObjectPak - application framework for developing OSF/Motif and CDE applications using C++

ViewKit includes generic application classes, menu, dialog, and preference classes; as well as ToolTalk and UNIX process control systems.

ViewKit ObjectPak builds on the C++/Motif programming methods established by Doug Young in his book "Object-Oriented Programming with C++ and OSF/Motif". ViewKit ObjectPak provides a variety of ready-to use components and enables developers to easily extend ViewKit by creating new component classes. With these high-level components, ViewKit ensures consistency throughout a family of applications, and promotes enterprise-wide software reuse. In addition, ViewKit supports easy and effective communication between applications by using ToolTalk(tm), the CDE standard for inter-application messaging.

ViewKit ObjectPak is available in binary and source form. Originally developed by Silicon Graphics, ViewKit is now available through ICS for most UNIX platforms.

ICS has distributors in the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Israel, Korea, Japan, and Australia.

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Added : 01/01/1995 Amended : 01/01/1995 Licensing : Commercial

Objective Grid - Visual C++/MFC grid control

Stingray Software offers two Visual C++/Microsoft Foundation Class extensions: Objective Grid and SEC++.

Objective Grid is a full-featured grid control that can be used as a CView or CWnd derivative.

All products include source code and are royalty free. Objective Grid is $395. There is a bundle with SEC++ available for $795.

Compuserve: GO STINGRAY

Added : 01/01/1995 Amended : 01/01/1995 Licensing : Commercial


Warne's Garbage Collector (WGC)

WGC is a full-featured high-performance C++ memory manager that includes: WGC's fast explicit memory manager provides a drop-in accelerated new/delete. Using a multi-tiered parallel algorithm with the first tier inline, WGC can allocate most objects inline in less than 10 instructions! To enhance space efficiency WGC uses address-aligned storage algorithms with no per-object overhead (no linked lists!). To reduce fragmentation, WGC maintains a single process free store for all threads, modules, and DLLs.

WGC's collector implements both conservative and accurate scanning and fully supports C++ code. Classes, arrays, scalars, interior pointers, unions, cross-heap pointers, anonymous unions (really!), large objects, library code you have no control over, etc. are all supported. Plus, you can incrementally deploy automatic memory management in existing or new applications, making some classes or objects collected and some not.

WGC's just-in-time heap-checker stays active during the entire development cycle, transparently checking every new and delete. If a check fails, WGC will spawn your debugger and take you live to the line in question. To complement the live access to the line that failed a delete check, WGC provides detailed pointer/object info (allocating thread/line/file/pass count, object allocation time in microseconds, etc.) Debugging extensions allow interactive display/logging of object/pointer status and process stats.

WGC is currently available for all major C++ compilers under Windows NT, Windows 95, and OS/2. WGC is priced at $895 per developer for all platforms, with no royalties. Team & Volume discounts apply. Source available. Ports to other platforms in progress.

Hans Boehm tells me that this is no longer available.

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Added : 01/01/1995 Amended : 04/12/1997 Licensing : Commercial

USL C++ Standard Components

Formerly developed and marketed by AT&T Bell Laboratories and UNIX System Laboratories, these are now developed and licensed by SCO.

C++ Standard Components include :

Also included are the following tools :

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Added : 01/01/1995 Amended : 22/05/1996 Licensing : Commercial

OpenUI - Another GUI builder

This interface supports C, Pascal, and (ish) COBOL.

Added : 01/01/1995 Amended : 01/01/1995 Licensing : Commercial


Open Dialogue

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Added : 01/01/1995 Amended : 01/01/1995 Licensing : Commercial

ObjectViews

I believe this is a commercial version of InterViews.

Quest Systems

Added : 01/01/1995 Amended : 19/03/1997 Licensing : Commercial


Open Interface Version 3.0

This is a C-based UI library, but type-safe for C++ compatibility. The software also comes with a WYSIWYG GUI builder.

They include tons of extra widgets like business graphics (bar, pie, and line charts), images (all standard formats), and hypertext help.

Other software in Open Interface includes international character support, multi-font support, full printer support, memory management, file I/O support as well as Windows DDE support (the latter is, of course, non- portable).

They also have a product called Nexpertobject, which is an expert systems tool intended for GUI development.

Added : 01/01/1995 Amended : 01/01/1995 Licensing : Commercial


Zinc V4.1

This is a full C++ class library that comes with the Zinc Designer (a WYSIWYG GUI builder). Their classes include some graphic capabilities, a rather nice error system, and a portable, if rudimentary, help system. Also included is the source for the library (and for the Designer!).

In addition to the usual GUI stuff, Zinc also provides international character support (an extended version, for extra bux, is in the works), some container classes, and filesystem portability. They also allow you to incorporate platform-specific stuff (e.g., system messages) into their API; but, of course, you're on your own when it comes to porting any additions. The main new feature for 4.1 is object persistence. , (800) 638 8665, (801) 785-8900, (801) 785-8996 (fax), (801) 785-8997 (bbs)

, tech@zinc.com

Added : 01/01/1995 Amended : 01/01/1995 Licensing : Commercial


WNDX - Graphical User Interface development environment

WNDX was a set of C libraries, NOT (never) C++. The WNDX domain has NOT disappeared. It redirects to the current owner's web site. WNDX has not been actively under development since 2000, however, numerous companies are still using the product to develop and deploy solutions currently. Inquiries can still be sent to info@wndx.com

Added : 01/01/1995 Amended : 31/10/2005 Licensing : Commercial


zApp Developer's Suite V2.2

The zApp Developer's Suite is a set of libraries and a designer containing over 300 object classes that provide GUI and other capabilities. It is the single solution to the problem of quickly writing commercial quality applications that run on multiple platforms. The zApp Developer's Suite consists of: The software comes with about 2500 pages of documentation and complete on-line help. It costs between $1,000 and $5,000 per developer, depending on the platforms needed.

Inmark has now apparently been acquired Inmark.

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Added : 01/01/1995 Amended : 27/11/1997 Licensing : Commercial

Octo+ - Extenstion library to MFC

The Octo+ MFC class library is an extenstion library to MFC. Subscription entitles you to the use of all the classes developed for the duration of a year. There is a commitment to issue a new class every two weeks. De facto at least one new class is added every week. You could compare it to the subscription to an online MFC source magazine. The class library is accessible at : www.periphere.be where you can get all the latest information up-to-date. New classes issued are eMailed to registered users.

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Added : 01/01/1995 Amended : 01/01/1995 Licensing : Commercial

Objectivity/DB - Object Oriented Database

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Added : 01/01/1995 Amended : 01/01/1995 Licensing : Commercial

Wind/U-MFC

A Unix version of the popular Microsoft Foundation Classes shipped with Visual C++ (a 16-bit MFC 2.5 and a 32-bit MFC 2.1).

Operating Systems

Added : 01/01/1995 Amended : 01/01/1995 Licensing : Commercial

ZGRAF - C++ Multi-Platform Graph Toolkit

The ZGRAF C++ Multi-Platform Graph Toolkit is a library for generating and printing tech. and business graphs in a number of environments. Graph styles include X/Y, Bar, Pie, Area, Scatter, Polar, Log, 3-D Surface, Contour, Smith Chart, and more. Support for X-Windows soon.Full C++ source code is included. Price: $30 - $99, with no royalties.

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Added : 05/02/1996 Amended : 05/02/1996 Licensing : Commercial

STL<ToolKit> - ANSI/ISO compliant cross-platform toolkit

STL<ToolKit> is an ANSI/ISO compliant cross-platform toolkit that includes: STL<ToolKit> comes with a 350+ page user guide, full source code, 250+ examples, and absolutely no royalties.

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Added : 22/05/1996 Amended : 22/05/1996 Licensing : Commercial

POET - Object Oriented Database

Pricing starts at about $500. 00 for the DOS version, to a little over $1000.00 for the Unix versions.

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Added : 01/01/1995 Amended : 01/01/1995 Licensing : Commercial

Thames Calendar Suite - Collection of functions for the modern calendar

This provides a complete collection of functions for the modern calendar.

How many days between dates?, What is 3rd Tuesday of month, How many business days in period?

Short list of features:

Inclusive Price around 215 UK pounds ie around 340 US dollars.

C++ code is fully standard - verified by PC-lint [tm] version 7.0

Licence contains normal range of conditions - software may be used in customers own products subject to number of straightforward conditions.

Added : 13/11/1996 Amended : 13/11/1996 Licensing : Commercial


OS Object Oriented Database

Added : 01/01/1995 Amended : 01/01/1995 Licensing : Commercial


OBJECTSTORE - Object Oriented Database

Added : 01/01/1995 Amended : 01/01/1995 Licensing : Commercial


VERSANT - Object Oriented Database

Versant markets a full-function OODBMS together with associated DBA and application developer tools. Other platforms will be announced soon. A Windows/NT port is in progress.

Interfaces to 'C', 'C++' and Smalltalk-80 are supported.

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Added : 01/01/1995 Amended : 01/01/1995 Licensing : Commercial

Visibility for C++ - Create Windows GUI's without using any UI code

Visibility for C++ is a revolutionary new product for creating user interfaces. It enables object systems written in C++ to be visualized and interacted with via a state of the art GUI on the Windows platform and it accomplishes this without requiring any UI code to be written, generated or otherwise created. User Intefaces that would normally take weeks or even months to create, can be created in no time at all.

Visibility for C++ is the first in a series of products that utilize a new technology called Outerfacing. This new technology embodies a powerful new paradigm for creating User Interfaces for object systems called Object Visualization. This paradigm replaces the Model-View-Controller (MVC) paradigm on which almost all current UI technology is based. By utilizing the inherent structure found in an object system, it eliminates the need for the View and Controller portions of the MVC paradigm and all its attendant code requirements. In their place Object Visualization gives the objects in the object system the inherent ability to be visualized and interacted with directly.

Instead of having to write large amounts of UI code to implement the view and controller as is required with the MVC, Object Visualization places an outer face of UI elements over the object system structure and utilizes the internal state of the objects to control their appearance and behavior. This enables the entire UI for an object system to be created interactively while the program is executing without having to write any code.

Since creating the UI often accounts for over half of the entire programming effort, we firmly believe that this new paradigm is going to revolutionize the way that User Interfaces are developed.

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Added : 20/09/2002 Amended : 20/09/2002 Licensing : Commercial

StarView - A Portable C++ Class Library for Graphical User Interfaces

StarView is a portable C++ Class Library for Graphical User Interfaces. StarView is one of the major parts of our total Object Oriented programming environment (we call it SOLAR system).

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Added : 01/01/1995 Amended : 01/01/1995 Licensing : Commercial

Presentation Services Manager UI library

No WYSIWYG GUI builder exists, but they do include a script language.

Added : 01/01/1995 Amended : 01/01/1995 Licensing : Commercial


Systems<ToolKit> - ANSI/ISO compliant cross-platform toolkit

Systems<ToolKit> is an ANSI/ISO compliant cross-platform toolkit that includes: Systems<ToolKit> comes with over 700 pages of documentation, full source code, 400+ examples, and absolutely no royalties.

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Added : 22/05/1996 Amended : 22/05/1996 Licensing : Commercial

Rhine collection - C++ functions for Name Matching

To provide a computer name matching system where the strings are not identical eg to match "The Megaland (USA) Corp" with "Megaland USA Corporation"

short list of features:

C++ code is fully standard - verified by PC-lint [tm] version 7.0

Licence contains normal range of conditions - software may be used in customers own products subject to number of straightforward conditions.

Added : 13/11/1996 Amended : 13/11/1996 Licensing : Commercial


Undoable C++ Object Library - multi-level undo and transaction rollback

The Undoable C++ Object Library by Notation Software, Inc. supports multiple level undo and transaction rollback.

This C++ library implements an object-oriented approach for reversing transactions at the C++ object level. A transaction consists of a series of three types of operations on objects: creation, modification, and deletion. The reversal (undo) of the transaction is implemented by effectively deleting the originally created objects, restoring the state of the modified objects, and effectively re-creating the deleted objects. References between objects are properly restored. This approach can significantly reduce the cost of implementing multiple level undo in an application, compared to a ! procedural "reverse transaction" approach. Object level undo also supports transaction rollback in other scenarios such as caught C++ exceptions.

The $495 product includes a 100-page tutorial and over 300 pages of documentation in helpfile and printed format. A free demonstration version of the library can be downloaded from the Web site listed below.

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Added : 27/11/1997 Amended : 27/11/1997 Licensing : Commercial

Wind/U - Cross platform Windows environment

Wind/U lets you port existing Windows applications to UNIX, OpenVMS, OS/390, or create new applications for Windows 95, Windows NT, and UNIX environments efficiently and cost effectively. It provides the standard Win32 API and MFC 4 on UNIX, allowing a single set of source code across all platforms. Wind/U applications maintain identical functionality between Windows and non-Windows versions. Features include ActiveX controls, OLE, COM, multithreading, Windows 95 common controls and common dialogs, WinInet, Service APIs, OpenGL, online help, and printing.

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Added : 27/11/1997 Amended : 27/11/1997 Licensing : Commercial

Performance Plus for C/C++ - Optimized and parallelized math library for Windows NT, Windows 95, and Solaris

Performance Plus for C/C++ is a native C and C++ implementation of the LAPACK, levels 1-3 of BLAS, FFTPACK, VFFTPACK, and LINPACK math libraries. It is highly optimized and parallelized to take advantage of multiple CPUs when they are available. It includes modules to accelerate programs that use Rogue Wave's Math.h++ and LAPACK.h++ so that Rogue Wave users can get the optimization and parallelization benefits of Performance Plus for C/C++ without making any source code changes.

Performance Plus for C/C++ is available for Windows NT, Windows 95, Solaris/SPARC, and Solaris/x86. It is compatible with Borland C++, Microsoft Visua!l C++, and Absoft C++ on Windows, and with Apogee and SunSoft C++ on Solaris.

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Added : 24/02/1998 Amended : 24/02/1998 Licensing : Commercial

SCSI++ Class Library - SCSI++ is a C++ OO library which simplifies access to SCSI peripherals

The SCSI++ version 2.5 SDK is now available. Quickly and easily develop SCSI control applications for Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, or Windows 9X using an Object Oriented Interface.

No more messing around with ASPI32 and IOCTL interfaces. No more deciphering the SCSI specification. An application can execute SCSI commands on any Windows system using the same binary. Use High Level C++ classes and methods to control any SCSI Devices. Roll your own commands easily. Update mode page data easily. Version 2.5 has the capability to control ATAPI CD-ROM and CD-R devices.

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Added : 18/05/2000 Amended : 18/05/2000 Licensing : Commercial

rxstring - Regular expression library.

The rxstring library is an extension of the C++ stdlib string class. The rxstring class is a powerful alternative to traditional regular expression libraries. Because the syntax used by traditional regular expression packages is difficult to learn, rxstring uses a alternative notational system that is much easier to learn to read and write. Because indirection is a fundamental programming technique, rxstring regular expressions can be nested within each other using labels. Also the regular expressions can be self referential, this makes it possible to write very powerful regular expressions that can validate input just as a recursive descent parser does, but without the hassle of hand coding or resorting to a tool like yacc or bison. rxstring has much more than the usual search and match functions, There are a large number of functions that aid in validating, parsing, and modifying text. In spite of the number of functions, there is an underlying system that makes it easy to recall the entire library off the top of your head without much effort.

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Added : 18/10/2001 Amended : 01/11/2001 Licensing : Commercial

Valentina - Fast, Cross-platform, Object-Relational SQL database

Valentina C++ SDK allows embedding of Valentina database into your C++ applications.

Valentina is an extremely fast and powerful cross-platform, cross-application, Object-Relational SQL database. It executes operations in hundreds and sometimes 1000 times faster than other databases. Valentina has all types of fields from Bit to BLOB and Picture (i.e. allows you easy create multi-media dbs). Valentina provides reach set of features: SQL, full text indexing, RegEx search, encryption, compression, and calculation fields. It can be used with a lot of APIs: C/C++, Java, COM, Director, REALbasic, PHP, Objective-C, AppleScript, xCards, WebSiphon.

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Added : 29/12/2003 18:42:39 Amended : 29/12/2003 Licensing : Commercial

SEC++ - Visual C++/MFC controls

SEC++ includes: CView derivatives for panning and zooming, image classes (DIB/GIF/JPG/PCX/TGA/TIFF), MDI alternatives, Win32 classes and control classes (maskedit, splash screen, tip of the day).

All products include source code and are royalty free. SEC++ is $395. There is a bundle with Objective Grid available for $795.

Compuserve: GO STINGRAY

Added : 01/01/1995 Amended : 01/01/1995 Licensing : Commercial


ONTOS - Object Oriented Database

Added : 01/01/1995 Amended : 01/01/1995 Licensing : Commercial



Other commercial sources of C++ code

ISCL CD ROM from ImageSoft

Checkout the ISCL CD ROM from ImageSoft, it contains the largest collection of C++ source code ever compiled in one place. It's available from ImageSoft

Added : 01/01/1995 Amended : 01/01/1995 Licensing : Not known


USL UNIX Toolchest - An electronic catalog for browsing and ordering source software

This catalog provides unsupported software products, developed within AT&T, for the commercial UNIX world. As you browse through the online catalog, you'll find descriptions of all the tools, complete with information on memory and disk requirements, documentation, and license fees.

United States and Canada, may access the Toolchest by dialing 1-908-522- 6900(e-7-1) and logging in as "guest".

Note : The USL UNIX Toolchest is no longer marketed by USL or Novell; it has reverted back to AT&T. The only contact info I have for it is the US number 800-462-8146, option #2.

Added : 01/01/1995 Amended : 01/01/1995 Licensing : Not known


EMS CD

This is not a code CD but it has many libraries & some code (all msdos) brought together into a CD.

Added : 01/01/1995 Amended : 01/01/1995 Licensing : Not known


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