MetroToolsä 2.1 API
3-Dec-93

MetroTools Application Programmer's Interface

Metrosoft has significantly enhanced its API to MetroTools and is making it available via anonymous FTP.  In addition to being a full-featured bundle of utilities, MetroTools 2.1 allows you to create commercial-grade GUI utilities with unprecedented speed.

With MetroTools and the 2.1 API, people can turn their utilities - even command-line utilities - into
commercial-grade NEXTSTEP apps with features like multi-folder drag-and-drop, error logging into scrolling text views, and more in record time. As an example, the MetroTools version of MetroSuction was created from start to finish in under two days.  

The MetroTools shell is extensible so that you can create your own tools and add them to the MetroTools panel and use the same powerful support objects that the bundled modules do. MetroTools also contains a full-featured screen saver (that can run during the Login Window) which you can write modules for using the API.  

Kit Contents

The API kit contains full documentation of the MetroTools and NiteLite screen saver APIs in RTF format,
pre-indexed for Digital Librarian. It also contains header files, and full source code for a sample MetroTools module (a MetroTools version of the MetroSuction utility for examining and manipulating fat binaries) and the NiteLite module "Eyes". 

Hilights of the source code examples

- Shows how to develop sophisticated drag-and-drop utilities extremely quickly

- Example of synchronous use of UNIX command line utilities from NEXTSTEP apps

- Example of how to use DBTableView to easily display data without using DBkit or IXkit

- Example of NXSplitView

- Shows how to examine fat binaries

- Shows use of sound capabilities in NiteLite modules

For Further Information

Metrosoft can be reached at:
Phone: 619-488-9411 or 619-488-3045 (fax)
E-mail: info@metrosoft.com
US mail: 740 13th Street, Suite 503 San Diego, CA 92101 USA

MetroTools sells for $89, $69 educational. Updates within the same version are free. We offer free technical support with a toll free 800 number

Also from Metrosoft

SimonSaysä Ð Speech recognition software for NEXTSTEP
MetroKeysä Ð A full-featured Macro Utility
Squashä Ð Compression and floppy backup software
MetroFormsä Ð The complete forms solution for NEXTSTEP (available Q1, 1994)
MetroSuctionä Ð A freeware utility for managing "Fat Binary" applications