Obsydian Release 3.0 Highlights

Obsydian 3.0 contains extensive functionality born from input gathered from both customers and leading industry experts. The combination of new technology coupled with feature rich productivity enhancements, make Obsydian 3.0 Synon’s most ambitious and powerful release yet.
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User Interface

• Native, dockable toolbars
  • With flyover hint text
  • Redesigned for improved ease-of-learning, ease-of-use, consistency
  • Ability to show and hide

• Improved right-mouse button support
• Access from Model Editor, Inheritance path browser, etc.
• Easier to learn,use and more consistent
• Easier-to-use, Explorer-style treeboxes

 The New and improved Object Browser

• Save & restore Object Browser location
• New, simpler tool configuration options
• New, simpler model configuration

• Drop-down boxes show the available options for selection

Diagrammer

• Improved viewing and printing
• WYSIWYG improvements
• Print Colors and fonts as well as pure black and white printing

- Improved Auto-layout

• Show scoped objects as sub-nodes as well as inherited nodes and links
• Show/Hide resolved keys and virtual fields
• Zoom capability range from 10 to 200 percent
• Overlapping of Nodes (including comments) and auto layout of Sub-Nodes

Action Diagrammer

• Collection points

- Allows for easier specialization of inherited functions

• Parameter mapping improvements

Panel Designer

• ActiveX controls for 32-bit panels
  • Embed state-of-the-art 3^rd party controls into your applications
  • Ability to dynamically test controls from within panel designer
  • Support for manipulation of ActiveX controls using VBScript and/or JScript

• 16 & 32-bit panel design modes
• Improved default layout

Gen & Build

• Filtering of objects by implementation language.
• Will automatically call MS Developer Studio for 32-bit apps

• No more DOS box!
• Support for Long Directory names and Universal Naming Convention names

Deployment

• Runtime column sorting in grids via APIs

TCP/IP support for the AS/400

• Both for the tool and for generated applications
• Eliminates the need for AS/400 middleware (e.g. N/S Router)

Window NT/BackOffice

• Multithreading of NT Server functions

Debugger

• Now includes 32-bit version and NT Server debugging

Group Model

• UI Improvements
• Extract-All option for collective class libraries from a single tool bar button. Simplifies and speeds local model extracts

Class library licensing

• Flexible, low overhead
• Class library vendors can license their libraries

Java Generator Available

• Extend applications to the Internet/Intranet

- Deploy servers on any platform running a Java Virtual Machine (Mainframes, Solaris etc.)

• N-tier support
• Servers accessed via 16 & 32-bit Win C++ clients …all from the same design!

ODBC Import Available

• Import definitions from databases supporting ODBC such as SQL Server and Oracle