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Ideo is a Rapid Application Development (RAD) solution for creating object-oriented, client/server GUI applications. Ideo is intuitive, powerful, robust, flexible, open, and portable, allowing you to develop and deploy GUI applications on Windows, UNIX, and VMS platforms.
Ideo offers developers a wide variety of benefits, including:
- Rapid Application Development (RAD)
RAD methodology helps dramatically reduce the amount of time it takes to develop database applications by allowing you to execute the design, development, testing, and deployment phases all in parallel. And, the working application gives you a concrete context for feedback and analysis, facilitating better communication and allowing you to build better applications faster.
- Point-and-Click GUI Development
In addition to the visible GUI objects provided in the Window Editor palette, Ideo also provides a number of invisible objects for application control.
- Reduced Coding
With Ideo you can quickly create working prototypes that can be enhanced to create the finished application without starting over or throwing any work away. Since Ideo is object-oriented you can efficiently maintain and reuse work, as well as automatically perform multi-table inserts, updates, and deletes within a single transaction.
- Easy Cross-Platform Development
Not only will Ideo allow you to deploy GUI applications on a variety of platforms, including Windows, UNIX, and VMS platforms, it also maintains an identical look-and-feel, independent of the particular operating system, resulting in:
- Easy Client/Server Deployment
- Database Independence
- Support for Multiple Developers and Users
- Dynamic, Object-Oriented, Event-Driven Applications
Applications are flexible; the dynamic object-oriented engine is active at design time, during debugging, and while the application is running, allowing you to change attributes at any time - and implement changes immediately.
- SQL Foundation
The object methods examine the structure of the window and generate appropriate SQL statements to select, update, insert, and delete records as needed, without requiring you to write your own SQL syntax for windows. You can simply modify the default behavior by setting attributes.
- Open 3GL Access
You won't worry about losing older programs--you'll maintain access to any program you've written in the past, whether it's written in third or fourth generation languages.
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