MetaCard 2.5 released!

[Pierre Sahores]

Scott Raney wrote:
> 
> ------------------------- MetaCard 2.5 Released ----------------------
> 
> MetaCard 2.5, the latest release of MetaCard Corporation's
> award-winning cross-platform application development and multimedia
> authoring tool, is now available via the following links:
> http://www.metacard.com/get.html
> ftp://ftp.metacard.com/MetaCard/
> http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mcmirror/
> http://www.magix.com.my/metacard/
> 
> MetaCard 2.5 includes a wide range of new features including:
> 
> * A completely redesigned debugger, integrated with the script editor,
>   that including new variable and message watchers, and an execution
>   contexts (call stack) window.
> * Support for display and editing of Unicode text.
> * A scriptable "drag and drop" architecture including automatic drag
>   and drop of text in fields.
> * Support for cut/copy/paste of images and styled text.
> * Scriptable access to the system clipboard.
> * Support for many new OS X Aqua features including sheets, small
>   buttons and scrollbars, and pulsing buttons.
> * Improved usability and reliability for many existing features.
> 
> See the file README.2.5 in the download directories for the complete
> list of new features and important instructions for downloading and
> using this release.
> 
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I got it last night....

Congratulations and thanks very, very much Scott, for your so great and
usefull MC 2.5 issue. Do you know what : first : i will use it to build
my first professional-grade ERP product is using it on the client-side
front-end, the server-side application server and the PostgreSQL
back-end server management tool ; second : one of my Metacard's web
application server is yet in production state and will run in serving,
24/24 hours, 800 concurrent possibles connections from the next
september, 1 of 2003.

One question : Are you sure to know that Metacard is realy a best
WEB/VPN and EAI/PKI/ERP development tool than all of the J2EE or not
J2EE-based tools are, including the best ones, alike BEA WebLogic, IBM
WebSphere, Apple WebObjects, Domino/Notes or MM ColdFusion ?

About the Revolution's database-client libs (Oracle, MySQL, PostGreSQL)
: even if they are available, they are for me clearly unnidded : it's
clearly faster and more secure to link the server-side PSQL command line
PostgreSQL-client trough the firewall and root (minus 1024) sockets
redirections (from the 80 standard Apache incoming requests port). This
works fine with Oracle 8/9i too.

I just goes testing the downloaded copy of your "unlimited powered MC
2.5" to see if i had to update my lisence key to use it ! It seems that
my last updated key (renewal from the 01/31/02) stay still usable. Is
that normal after more 15 months ? Else, just say and i will send you
the needed input for a new annual renewal of my lisence.

Thanks again, Scott. We are some ones to know how much than just one
more great piece of development MC is...

Any comments or questions are welcome ;-)

--
Kind Regards, Pierre Sahores

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