SATGUI Beta1 is now released and available from SATiSOFT.

SATGUI (A component of SAT - the Small Application Toolkit) is a framework in which (Microsoft -or- X) Windows Client / Unix Server applications can be developed.

There is a companion utility SATMYSQL, which provides a basic interface to MySQL databases.

Information and download from: www.satisoft.com/satgui

The SATiSOFT website has been updated with a "New Look" and contains more examples of how to use the SAT components.

NEW AT BETA1:-

* Server Administration/Monitor/Control GUI. * Toolbar support (With balloon help). * Pop-up action confirmation dialog support. * New inverse/bold/title/green/yellow options for addLabel. * New green/yellow options for setMessage. * Facility to pass specified column of MultiList as parameter. * Connection failure tidied up. * Bug fixes.

============(Small Application Toolkit)============

SAT is a collection of utilities intended to simplify the development of small, multi-user, GUI based applications in a (Microsoft -or- X) Windows Client / Unix Server environment.

There are many existing methods for creating this type of application; Oracle/Forms, Ingres/OpenRoad, VisualBasic/ODBC, HTML/CGI etc, all of which have their place, but for many small applications these can be expensive/bloated/complex.

With this in mind SAT was developed using the following guidelines:-

*Small (single file) client. *All Application code stored on server. *Simple window layout language. *Low network bandwidth requirements. *Print "word processor" quality letters/reports. *Schedule batch job sequences.

No PC/Windows development skills are required. Any programmer with a reasonable grasp of Unix shell script can produce useful applications with the minimum of fuss. Take a look at the demo application to see just how easy SAT is!

SAT applications can be written in most Unix character based languages; C, Shell script, Perl etc. To produce SQL based database applications the SAT package includes a filter to simplify interfacing SAT with the MySQL database system.

Although the SAT components are designed to work together, most of them can be used stand-alone or incorporated into other applications.

All Unix components are implemented as scripts for easy portability.

Regards, =Adrian=