Perpetuum Software announces the release of a new version of Instrumentation ModelKit™, the unique solution which allows .NET GUI developers to create comprehensive User Interfaces with an unparalleled multitude of custom controls.
The Instrumentation ModelKit™ software product features more than 130 ready-made instrumentation controls such as progress bars, meters, dials, sliders, gauges, odometers, thermometers, switches, and other elements as well as an extensive package of 3D skins that can make any User Interfaces look and feel touchable, just like real-life instrumentation hardware.
In addition, the product package contains a full-featured Graphics Editor which permits the designing of any common and/or industry-specific custom controls from scratch. The elements created by means of the Instrumentation ModelKit™ can arbitrarily combine drawing primitives, bitmapped images, and specialized elements (such as scales and sliders). Elaborate interactive actions of an object can be assigned without a single line of code.
The new version of Instrumentation ModelKit™ is characterized by the following features:
- The OPC DataChannel component included in the new version of Instrumentation ModelKit™ enables developers to incorporate real-time data channels with the OPC industry standard without using complicated COM interfaces. Now the data can be monitored by using the unified .NET component technology with a sophisticated design-time tuning. The advanced concept of the DataChannel component introduced within the new version allows you to not only to use the OPC industry standard, but also to create customized DataChannels using virtually any data providers.
- The vector graphics interoperability has been significantly extended; the selection of the most popular export formats supported by Instrumentation ModelKit™ such as GIF, BMP, PNG, and JPG has been enriched by SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) and Macromedia Flash.
- Video tutorials that illustrate the complicated Instrumentation ModelKit™ concept using simple samples are available. The videos represent short step-by-step presentations, each of them illustrating a single capability or a set of capabilities intrinsic to the product. Now it is easy to learn how to work with the product.
As well, minor improvements, bug-fixes and accelerations have boosted performance and productivity.
“Instrumentation ModelKit opens a new era in graphical user interface development,” summarized Mr. Eugene Akinshin, Ph.D., the head of the Perpetuum Software development department. “This new solution is far beyond the today's customary instrumentation component libraries. In addition to dozens of ready to use controls offered by our designers a developer gets power to escape the limits of scanty predesigned collections, create unique controls regardless of an industry the application is designed for and make the interface intuitively understandable for end-users”.
Availability and Pricing
Instrumentation ModelKit™ 1.5 runs under Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/NT4.x/2003. Three royalty-free licensing options are available: Windows Forms, Web Forms, and Professional (WinForms + WebForms+ Source Code in C#).
The price starts from $375 (USD).
A fully functional evaluation version is available for free download
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