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Visual Eiffel Lite

Targets Windows 95/NT.
Version 2.6 - 12 November 1998.
Lite edition is free.

http://www.object-tools.com/visual/download.htm (for downloads)
http://www.object-tools.com/visual/ (Visual Eiffel home page)
http://www.object-tools.com/ (Object Tools' home page)

Visual Eiffel Lite

This fast native-code Eiffel compiler for Windows 95/NT includes an integrated IDE, syntax-highlighting editor, graphical diagramming tool, visual debugger and drag-and-drop browser.

The free Lite edition includes most of the functionality of other versions of Visual Eiffel, except that:

Finalization and optimization is not enabled
Garbage collection is not enabled
Graphical diagrams cannot be saved
Printing is disabled
Some size limits apply
Some libraries and advanced functionality are not supplied

However, it can be used for the production of non-trivial GUI or command-line applications. There is no time limit to the use of the free version.

Features

These features are present in the Lite version.

Integrated Development Environment:

syntax highlighting
debugger
textual browser based on Eiffel short and flat forms
graphical browser based on the BON notation
GUI interface builder
Direct generation of 32-bit native code for 32 Bit Intel processors, with no need for a C compiler. (No more configuration hassles with back-end C compilers.)
Direct access to the Windows API in Eiffel - no need to write C wrappers.
High performance - Visual Eiffel is FAST!
Generation of GUI applications and genuine Win32 console-mode applications
The ability to produce precompiled sourceless libraries that can be freely mixed and matched
The Display Machine Application generator for Eiffel - allowing you to combine Object Oriented Design and Rapid prototyping.

Libraries:

The Eiffel Library Standard Kernel classes
WINLIB, an Eiffel encapsulation of the Windows API
GRAPE, the high level GUI library
Object Tools own Container, Time/Date and Formatter clusters
ISE's EiffelBase and WEL clusters
JNI (Java Native Interface) Library allows calls to Java objects
many more assorted small libraries

Visual Eiffel Lite can be upgraded to the personal or professional version with a software key sent by email.

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