ObjectVision

An earlier development package from Borland for creating Windows and OS/2 applications. It used "stacks of forms" as user interface building blocks and "graphical trees" for describing processing. ObjectVision read and wrote ASCII, dBASE, Paradox and Btrieve files.

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The underlying database program for MINLOG is Borland International's ObjectVision. You do not get full access to Object Vision by buying MINLOG, but you do get to use some of Object Vision's functions.

Minlog

The pieces include an object-oriented language standard, a "scalable architecture" that will encompass both single- and multi-processor systems, graphical front ends like ObjectVision for higher-level applications development, a rich networking environment (based on shared technology with Novell), and server-based systems for "complex transaction processing" tasks that demand more power than current PC platforms can deliver.

Borland: into the fast lane

Some have products (like Borland's ObjectVision) that will compete head-to-head with Visual Basic; others (notably Lotus) see their native macro languages as a unique competitive feature.

Visual Basic: A standard for graphical scripting?

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