ObjectWare offerings cover the bases

San Francisco Ð NeXT's new ObjectWare catalog rolled off the presses at Object World in late July, providing NeXT users and developers with descriptions of more than 120 commercial and public-domain objects.

Some objects provide additional support for Application Kit classes, while others are full kits and palettes of their own. What they all do is allow developers to increase the functionality of custom or commercial applications without increasing the headaches.

• Singular Solutions has solved the limitation of Matrix cells. The inability to set cell heights and widths for grids of buttons has left developers pasting in custom buttons one at a time. SUMatrix allows arbitrary heights and widths for cells in columns and rows. 514/849-3631.
• Digital Composition Systems has attacked the problem of creating multiple text objects in a grid. As a subclass of View, SpreadsheetVue cells are all independently editable and suitable for spreadsheets and databases. 415/673-5322.
• Digital Tool Works is marketing the central object of its EquationBuilder typesetting program. The Equation object handles 19 element types and has 30 adjustable parameters for typesetting and kerning, displaying mathematical expressions intelligibly in any document, sending faxes, or outputting EPS and TeX files. 617/742-4057 or equation_object@dtw.com.
• Frontier offers two palettes to customize your output. The Graphical Control Palette adds dials and gauges to your measurement repertoire; use included styles or create your own. TextField Palette contains three inspector-based objects: DateField allows custom formatting of date and time output, including custom clock displays for those who are tired of the current selection; Number Field similarly allows you to set your favorite number of decimal places or indicate that a figure is in dollars, not cents; and Validate TextField provides for the generic formatting of any character-based string. 800/448-6398 or frontinc!john@uunet.uu.net.
• Hot Software is following up its BarCodeKit with the SerialPortKit. The kit supports input and output to generic serial-port devices and includes objects for specific label printers, bar-code readers, magnetic-stripe-card readers, and modems. 617/252-0088, or info@hot.com.
• Insight Software has broken out the Scanner palette from its acclaimed ElectroFile data organizer. Three subclasses support HSD ScanX, HSD DP-20, and the ultra-fast Fujitsu M3096. 503/222-2425, info@insight.com.
• BenaTong steps up connectivity with its Wizard Works Library. Individual objects handle each function of Sharp Electronics's Wizard organizers, allowing developers to include support and data sharing in their applications. 614/276-7859.
• Doberman Systems is speeding up analysis of complex situations with SimulationKit. Objects can be organized in the same fashion as mathematical block diagrams, allowing rapid development and modification. 801/944-4329.
• Dr. Michael J. Mezzino, Jr., proves that education is not all theory. MathGraph is an object class for graphical-mathematics display. Users can control and display graphical models using fixed or variable data in two or three dimensions. Data scaling, axes control, data plotting, and limited animation are included. 713/331-6624, mezzino@gauss.cl.uh.edu.