Key for classifications:
IB = Interface Builder,
Proto = Prototyping Tool,
Mac = Macintosh.
PC = IBM-PC
compatible system.

NOTE: This file is no longer being maintained. Sorry.
But see a updated list from a class in 2013
.

Description
Tool Name
Company
Street
City, State,Zip
Telephone
Email
Cost
Platform/Environment
Classification
Classifications are described in the article:
Brad A. Myers.
"User Interface Software Tools,"
ACM Transactions on
Computer-Human Interaction.
vol. 2, no. 1, March, 1995. pp. 64-103.

The latest revision of this article is
available as a Postscript file

Awards:


A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A-I I-S S-Z
Action!, Macromedia,
600 Townsend St.,
San Francisco, CA 94103
415-252-2000, General Number 800-288-4797,
$100,
Multimedia Toolkit

Action!, ExperTelligence,
5638 Hollister Ave #302,
Coleta, CA, 93117,
(805) 967-1797,
$595,
Lisp builder for Mac,
IB - Mac

ActivAda for Windows,
Thomson Software Products
(formerly Alsys),
10251 Vista Sorrento Parkway, Suite 300,
San Diego, CA 92121,
800-833-0085 x244,
Fax: 619-452-2117,
Activada@thomsoft.com,
$995,
Windows GUI IB

Actor,
The Whitewater Group,
1800 Ridge Ave,
Evanston, IL, 60201,
$475,
PC/Windows, OO prog
lang, Toolkit - PC

ActiveX Components,
ProtoView
26 Offington Drive
Worthing
West Sussex, BN14 9PN
England
chris.geiger@protoview.co.uk
Windows, Component Library,
Data Explorer, DataTable, TreeViewX and WinX Component Library

Ada95 GUI Library,
Asterisk Business Solutions
11130 Kingston Pike, Suite 1-191
Knoxville, TN 37922
info@asterisksolutions.com
PC, Mac, Motif, Irix, Solaris - toolkit.

AdaSAGE,
Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL),
Lockheed Martin Idaho Technologies,
P.O. Box 1625,
Idaho Falls, ID, 83415-3779
(208) 526-0656,
tech support: hotline@sage.inel.gov,
DOS, Windows 3.1/95/NT, Unix, Sun, AT&T 3b2, IBM RS6000, IB - forms interface.

Alis Translator,
Alis Technologies Inc.
100 Alexis Nihon
Montreal, QC, H4M 2P2 CANADA
epoirier@alis.com,
Internationalisation (i18n) library
win95, win98 and NT

Alpha UIMS,
LoneWolf Systems,
P.O. Box 81188,
Pittsburgh PA 15217-0688,
(412) 242-5245,
alpha@lonewolf.com,
$7995,
X and Windows NT, (successor to Serpent), UIMS

AlphaWindow,
Cumulus Technology Corp.,
1007 Elwell Court,
Palo Alto, CA, 94303,
(415) 960-1200,
$750,
Unix, Discontinued, Alpha-numeric terminal windows, Window System

Altia Design, Altia,
5030 Corporate Plaza Dr #300, Colorado Springs, CO, 80919,
(800)653-9957 or (719)598-4299,
UNIX or Windows, IB

Amulet,
Brad Myers,
Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213,
(412) 268-5150,
Note: Currently being developed as OpenAmulet
FREE,
X, Mac, or MS Windows,
portable toolkit, UIMS

Andrew User Interface System (AUIS or ATK),
Fred Hansen,
Andrew Consortium,
Carnegie Mellon Univ,
Pittsburgh, PA, 15213,
(412) 268-6710,
wjh+@cmu.edu,
FREE,
X, UIMS

AppMaker,
Bowers Development,
P.O. Box 9,
Lincoln Center, MA, 10773,
(508) 369-8175,
$295,
Mac, IB - Mac

AppWare, Novell,
122 E. 1700 S.,
Provo, UT, 84606,
800-277-2717, postmaster@novell.com,
$199.00,
Windows & Mac, Visual Development Environment with cross-platform Win<=>Mac capability.

Aspect, Open Inc.,
655 Southpointe Ct,
Suite 200,
Colorodo Springs, CO, 80906,
(719) 527-9700,
$800-5000,
portable: Motif, OpenLook, Windows, OS2 PM, Virtual Toolkit

Authorware,
Macromedia,
600 Townsend St.,
San Francisco, CA 94103
415-252-2000,
General Number 800-288-4797,
$995,
Proto - PC Review R3

AutoCode,
Integrated Systems,
3260 Jay Street,
Santa Clara, CA, 94054-1215,
(408) 980-1500,
$20,000,
Unix, VMS. Real-time control, aeronautics, UIMS - X,VMS

Builder Xcessory,
Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc.
(ICS), 201 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA, 02139,
(617) 621-0060,
info@ics.com,
$3,200,
Unix/X/Motif, IB - Motif Review R1, Review R2, Review R11.
Some other products by ICS:

  • ViewKit - a C++ framework written by Doug Young and the standard for SGI developers
  • EnhancementPak - a collection of 27 widgets for Motif developers
  • EditTable - Table widget
  • ChartObject - 2D and 3D charting
  • View3D - a C++ 3D visualization library
  • DX - Database Xcessory. BX with database capability

CanAda,
DAINA Engineering,
4111 Central Ave. NE,
Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55421,
612-781-7600,
pukite@daina.com,
FREE,
MS-Windows/Ada, class library and Interface Builder

Case PM, Casework,
1 Durwoody Dr. Suite 130,
Atlanta, Georgia, 30338,
(404) 399-6236,
$1,995,
PC/0S2 PM, complete CASE tools, IB - PC

Chimera,
Richard Taylor,
CS, Univ. Calif.,
Irvine, CA 92717-3425,
chimera-local@ics.uci.edu,
FREE,
SunOS 4.1.X and X11R5, Ada and C clients supported, Hypermedia System

Chiron,
Richard Taylor,
CS, Univ. Calif.,
Irvine, CA 92717-3425,
arcadia-chiron@ics.uci.edu,
FREE,
X: Motif or OpenLook, UIMS.

Choreographer,
Company apparently defunct,
Guidance Tech,
800 Vinial Street,
Pittsburgh, PA, 15212,
(412) 231-1300,
$7,500,
PC/0S2 PM, UIMS - PC

CLIM,
International Lisp Associates, 114 Mount Auburn St,
4th Floor,
Cambridge, MA, 02138,
(800) 477-CLIM,
$????,
toolkit and UIMS for CommonLisp, UIMS - Lisp

COBOL sp2,
Flexus,
P.O. Box 640,
Bangor, PA 18013-0640.
rtwolfe@flexus.com,
$795.00(Win16),
$1,195.0(Win32).
User Interface Development System for COBOL programmers. Windows.

DataViews,
DataViews Corporation
(formerly VI Corp),
47 Pleasant St.,
Northampton, MA, 01006,
(413) 586-4144,
$17,700,
UNIX, VMS, IB - X

DEC Forms VDP,
Digital Equip Corp,
146 Main Street,
Maynard, MA, 01754-2571, $161-291,
DEC, ?

Delphi from Borland,,,,,

Demo-II (Dan Bricklin),
Lifeboat Publishing,
(formerly from Intersolv / Sage),
1163 Shrewsbury Ave,
Shrewsbury, NJ 07702,
800-336-1166, 908-389-9227,
$249,
PC/Char Graphics,
Proto - PC

DesignInRealTime (DIRT), University of Kent-Canterbury, UK,
rlh2@ukc.ac.uk,
FREE,
X, toolkit

DevGuide, Sun,
2550 Garcia Avenue,
Mountain View, CA, 94043, (415) 960-1300,
$250,
Open Windows Devel,
IB - OpenLook

Dialog Director,
HyLight Limited,
Christopher E.Hyde,
free,
drjekyll@hylight.demon.co.uk,
GUI toolkit for AppleScript for Mac.

Director,
Macromedia (formerly Macromind),
600 Townsend St.,
San Francisco, CA 94103 USA,
macropr@macromedia.com,
$598,
Mac, PC/Windows, Proto Review R12

Display Construction Set,
AT&T,
(614) 860-4357,
Unix, X, OpenLook, IB - OpenLook

Druid,
Gurminder Singh,
Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore,
Heng Mui Keng Terrace,
Kent Ridge, Singapore 0511,
REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE,
+65 772-3651,
FAX: +65 774-4998,
druid-info@iss.nus.sg,
$1250,
X and Motif, IB

Easel II, Easel,
25 Corporate Drive,
Burlington, MA, 01803,
(617) 221-2100,
$10,000,
DOS, 0S/2, UIMS - PC

ECANSE Environment for Computer Aided Neural Software Engineering, Siemens Austria, Gudrunstrasse 11,
A-1100 Vienna, Austria,
(+43-1)-1707-45985,
fax: (+43-1)-1707-56399,
ecanse@siemens.at,
$3500 - $21000,
visual language.

ExoCODE, EXOC,
500 Hyacinth Place,
Highland Park, Ill, 60035,
(708) 926-8500,
$1,500,
Motif or OpenLook or SunView, IB - Unix

EZX, Sunrise Software Sys,
P.O. Box 329,
Newport, RI, 02804,
(401) 847-7868,
$3,500,
Motif, IB - Motif

FaceSpan,
Digital Technology,
$200,
Interface Builder for AppleScript on Mac.

Forms, Mark H. Overmars, Department of Computer Science, Utrecht University, PO Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, the Netherlands, markov@cs.ruu.nl, ftp://ftp.cs.ruu.nl//pub/
SGI/FORMS/
FREE,
SGI GL, toolkit and IB

FormsVBT, Marc H. Brown, DEC Systems Research Center,
130 Lytton Ave.,
Palo Alto, CA 94301,
(415) 853-2152,
mhb@pa.dec.com,
FREE,
Modula-3 on either X or Windows, UIMS - Research System.

Fresco (another Fresco page),
X Consortium Inc, , , , , ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/R6untarred/
xc/doc/hardcopy/Fresco ,
FREE,
C++/X/Unix, Toolkit/Structured Graphics

Galaxy,
Ambiencia Information Systems, Inc.
Campinas, Brazil,
phone/fax: (019) 55-19-243-7328
support@ambiencia.com.
[formerly from Visix Software Inc., which has been dissolved; see Note R14.
11440 Commerce Park Drive, Reston, VA, 22091]

Mac, Windows, Motif, OpenLook; very complete,
Virtual Toolkit

Garnet, Brad Myers,
CMU, School Computer Science,
Pittsburgh, PA, 15213-3891, (412) 268-5150,
FREE,
Common Lisp, X or Mac. UIMS - Research system.

GIB, TAO Research Corp.,
39812 Mission Blvd, #205,
Freemont, CA, 94539,
(510) 770-1344,
$475,
MS Windows, IB - Windows

GINA, GMD
(German National Research Center for Computer Science),
Schloss Birlinghoven, St. Augustin, Germany, D-53754, ,
spenke@gmd.de,
FREE,
LISP / Motif, Application Framework - UIMS

Glade,
glade@glade.pn.org,
free,
Unix, GTK+, Gnome,
Interface Builder.

GMW and Guide,
ASTEC Corporation,
Nagashimo-Daiichi Bldg. 9F, Shibuya-Ku, Tokyo, Japan, 00150,
+81-3-476-0183,
UIMS

GRAMMI, SETT, Inc.,
5303 Spectrum Drive, Suite G, Frederick, MD, 21701,
(301) 695-6960 or
Jennifer Lott at (800) 877-1815;
info@evb.com,
Ada & X, IB

Groupkit, Saul Greenberg,
University of Calgary,
Dept of Computer Science, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4,
(403) 220-6087, saul@cpsc.ucalgary.ca,
FREE,
Unix, Tcl/Tk and Tcl-DP, Groupware Toolkit - Research System

Guide 2, InfoAccess Inc.
(formerly OWL International Inc.),
2800 156th Ave. SE,
Bellevue, WA, 98007,
(206) 747-3203,
$275-$300,
PC/HyperText, Cards - PC

GX Series Developer's Pak, Genus,
11315 Meadow Lake,
Houston, Texas, 77077,
(713) 870-0737,
$589,
PC/Programmer's Toolkit,
Toolkit - PC

HP Interface Architech, Hewlett Packard,
4 Choke Cherry Rd.,
Rockville, MD, 20850,
(301) 670-4300,
Unix/X - based on UIMX,
IB - X

HyperCard,
Apple Computer,
20525 Mariana Avenue,
Cupertino, CA, 95014,
(408) 996-1010,
$50,
Mac, Cards - Mac

Hyperwire, Kinetix
(formerly AutoDesk Multimedia),
$199,
Windows 95/NT (runtime Java libraries can be used on any platform, but development tool is strictly Windows), Java Development Tool

ICON Author,
AimTech Corp,
20 Trafalgar Square,
Nashua, NH, 03063-1973,
(800) 289-2884,
$995,
Windows 3.0, proto & courses, training, Proto - PC Review R12

ILOG Views, ILOG Inc.,
2005 Landings Drive,
Mountain View, CA, 94043, (415) 390 9000,
fax: (415) 390 0946,
info@ilog.com,
$5,000 to $7,500,
Unix, OS/2, Windows 3.1, Windows NT cross platform C++ library, framework Review R2 Review R10

INT Widgets, INT Corp.,
2901 Wilcrest, Suite 300,
Houston, TX 77042,
713-975-7434,
info@int.com,
$1750-$3000,
X/Motif, charting and table widgets (toolkit).

InterMAPhics,
Gallium Software Inc.
(formerly Prior Data Sciences),
4000-303 Moodie Drive,
Nepean, Ontario,
CANADA K2H 9R4;
(613) 721-0902;
$?? (formerly $45,000),
Sun, DEC, and most Unix platforms, Aeronautics, C&C, etc., UIMS - Unix

InterViews,
Stanford University,
interviews-bugs@interviews.
stanford.edu,
ftp:interviews.stanford.edu,
FREE,
C++/X/Unix, Toolkit/Structured Graphics

ISA Dialog Manager,
ISA Informationssysteme GmbH,
Azenbergstrasse 35,
D-70174 Stuttgart,
+49/711/22769-15,
Fax: +49/711/22769-19,
info-idm@isa.de,
from DEM 9,000.,
UNIX/Motif, UNIX/ASCII, VMS/Motif, VMS/ASCII, OS/2, Windows (3.1, NT, '95), Virtual Toolkit, UIMS.

ivtools
Vectaport Inc.
P.O. Box 7141
Redwood City, California, USA, 94063
650-368-8210,
info@vectaport.com,
FREE,
C++/X/Unix,
Toolkit/Application Framework: Structured Graphics, Flyweight Glyphs, Scripting Language

JAM, JYACC,
116 John Street,
New York, NY, 10038,
(800) 458-3313,
$6000+,
All; Database access & graphical UIs, UIMS

Jx, John Lindal,
jafl@cheshire-cat.wonderland.
caltech.edu,
available FREE under the SYPP license,
X windows, C++ application framework.

KEE, Intelli Corp,
(apparently defunct?),
125 Cambridge Park,
Cambridge, MA, 02140,
(617) 868-5611,
$5,000,
LISP for PC, UNIX, toolkit

Knowledge Pro,
Knowledge Garden, Inc.,
12-8 Technology Drive,
Setauket, NY 11733,
jslade@kgarden.com,
516-862-0600,
FAX 516-862-0644,
$449,
PC Cards + AI expert system, Cards - PC
Review R3

LabVIEW and LabWindows,
National Instruments,
6504 Bridge Point Parkway,
Austin, TX, 78730-5039,
(512)794-1000,
newsletter@natinst.com,
DOS/Windows/Mac, Virtual Instrument IDT

Layout, Objects, Inc.,
99 Rosewood Drive,
Danvers, MA, 01923,
(800) 424-6644,
$300,
Windows, Visual Language

Loox, Xanth Informatique,
4 boulevard des iles
32137 Issy les moulineaux Cedex
France
(33) 01 41 90 65 00 from France
info@loox.com
Unix, Windows, Java; C, C++, Java;
A vector object library and editor for 2D and 3D animation and graphs.

LUIS, Lockhead,
Austin Div.,
6800 Berlusen Road,
Austin, TX,,
(512) 386-4171,
$50,000,
research system by Steve Heichen, ?

Lxb
bruce.parkin-1@umn.edu,
FREE,
Unix/X/Motif, GUI Builder

MacA&D and WinA&D,
Excel Software,
P.O. Box 1414,
Marshalltown, IA 50158,
515-752-5359,
info@excelsoftware.com,
MacAnalyst at $995,
MacA&D at $1995,
MacTranslator at $495
QuickCRC Macintosh at $395
(above run on Macintosh, HP-UX and Sun Solaris.)
WinA&D at $1995,
WinTranslator at $495
QuickCRC Windows at $395
(above run on Windows 95 and Windows NT);
client server, CASE, Analysis, Design, Modeling

Macintosh Toolbox, Apple,
20525 Mariani Ave.,
Cupertino, CA, 95014,
(408) 996-1010,
bundled, standard Macintosh toolkit, toolkit

Menuet/CX, Atumn Hill Software,
1145 Ithaca Drive,
Boulder, CO, 80303,
(303) 494-8865,
BBS (303) 494-8868,
$400-$800,
C++ framework

MetaCard, MetaCard Corporation,
4710 Shoup Pl,
Boulder, CO, 80303,
303-447-3936,
FAX: 303-499-9855,
info@metacard.com,
$995,
14 UNIX/X11 platforms; multimedia/hypermedia, Cards - Unix, Windows NT, Windows 95.

Motif, Open Software Foundation,,,,
(617) 621-8700,
$500,
Unix, X/11. Usually FREE with Workstations, toolkit.

MotifGUIDE,
OlafBecker
8503 Timber Court,
Burnaby, BC V5A 4B6
CANADA,
free,
Unix, IB.

MrEd, Matthew Flatt,
Department of Computer Science -
MS 132, Rice University,
6100 Main Street,
Houston, TX 77005-1892,
(713)527-8101,
mflatt@cs.rice.edu,
FREE,
Motif; XView; MSWindows; Mac, toolkit

New Wave, Hewlett Packard,
19310 Pruneridge Avenue,
Cupertino, CA, 95014,
(800) 554-1305 or
(800) 752-0900,
$195,
Window Environments, Toolkit - PC

Next Interface Builder, Next, Inc.,
900 Chesapeake Drive,
Redwood City, CA, 94063,
(800) 848-NEXT, bundled, UNIX/NeXT, IB - NeXT

Next Step, Next, Inc.,
900 Chesapeake Drive,
Redwood City, CA, 94063,
(800) 848-NEXT, bundled, UNIX/NeXT, Toolkit

ObjectBuilder, (formerly from ParcPlace Systems Inc.),
Openware Technologies,
8000 Arlington Expressway,
Suite 600,
Jacksonville, Florida, 32211,
(904) 725-7187 (X212),
tom@Jax.openware.com,
$5,400,
Sun O/S, Solaris, HP, IBM, SCO, SGI, DEC, (future: NT & Windows95)

ObjectVision, Borland,
1800 Green Hills Road,
Scotts Valley, CA, 95067-0001,
Sales: (800) 331-0877,
Support: (408) 438-5300,
Fax: (800) 408-0001,
$64,
Windows, Visual Language

OI, (formerly from Solbourne and then ParcPlace Systems Inc.),
Openware Technologies,
8000 Arlington Expressway,
Suite 600,
Jacksonville, Florida, 32211,
(904) 725-7187 (X212),
tlovegr@jax.gttw.com or
tom@jax.openware.com,
$5,400,
Sun O/S, Solaris, HP, IBM, SCO, SGI, DEC, (future: NT & Windows95), toolkit

OLIT, Sun,,,,
(800) 872-4786,,
Unix, X, OpenLook, toolkit

Omnis7,
Blyth Software, Incorporated, 989 East Hillsdale Blvd., Suite 400,
Foster City, California, 94404,
415-571-0222 ,
postmaster@blyth.com,
$500+ ,
Mac or PC, IB & DB
front end

OpenAmulet,
(new version of Amulet). FREE,
X, Mac, or MS Windows,
portable toolkit, UIMS

Open Dialoque,
HP/Apollo Computer,
330 Billerica Road,
Chelmsford, MA, 01824,
(800) 752-0900,
$2,020,
UIMS - declarative language, UIMS - X

Open Interface,
Neuron Data,
1310 Villa Street,
Mountain View, CA 94041,
1-800-876-4900,
sales@neurondata.com,
$10,000,
portable: Motif, OpenLook, PM, Windows, Mac, Virtual Toolkit, IB Review R2 Review R10

OpenUI, Open Software Associates Inc.,
20 Trafalgar Square,
Nashua, NH 03063,
(603) 886 4330,
$5,000,
Windows (3.1, '95, NT), MAC, Presentation Manager, Motif (12 flavors of UNIX plus VMS), UIMS for INTERNET and distributed applications.

Oracle Tools,
Oracle Corporation,
500 Oracle Parkway,
Redwood Shores, CA, 94065,
(800) 633-0583,
$6,000,
Database front ends for any platform, UIMS

PLUS, Spinnaker,
201 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA, 02139,
(617) 494-1200,
$495,
Mac (HyperCard), Cards - PC

PowerCharger for MFC,
ViewSoft Inc.,
250 W. Center,
Provo, UT 84601,
(801) 377-0787,
FAX (801) 377-0788,
info@viewsoft.com,
$199,
Visual C++/MFC, IB.

PowerPlant,
Metrowerks, Inc.
2201 Donley Drive,
Suite 310,
Austin, TX 78758,
800.377.5416,
fax: 512.873.4900, sales@metrowerks.com,
Mac, C++ Application Framework

PowerBuilder, Powersoft
561 Virginia Road,
Concord, MA 01742, USA,
1-800-395-3525 or
1-508-287-1500,
Fax 1-508-287-1600,
PC, Unix and Mac, Interface Builder and Database front end.

POWERMEDIA, OmniSoft,
1723 Westbrook Avenue,
Los Altos, CA, 94024,
415-917-1395,
bchandra@omnisoft.com,
US$79,
MS-Windows Window-NT, MMtools; Toolkit for Multimedia

Presentation Manager, Microsoft,
One Microsoft Way,
Redmond, WA, 98052-6399,
(800) 426-9400,
OS/2 toolkit, toolkit

Prograph,
Pictorius Incorporated,
(Formerly Prograph Inc. Before that: TGSSystems, )
2745 Dutch Village Road, Suite 200,
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3L 4G7,
Canada, (902) 455-4446,
FAX: (902) 455-2246,
Sales: (800) 927-4847,
info@prograph.com
or sales@prograph.com,
Newsgroup: comp.lang.prograph
Sales Office: Suite 300, 447 Battery St., San Francisco, CA U.S.A. 94111, (415) 773-8234;
Fax: (415) 391-3942,
$695,
Macintosh, visual language.

Progress Version 7,
Progress Software Corporation,
14 Oak Park,
Bedford, MA, 01730,
(617) 280-4000,
$300+,
Windows & Motif & DOS, IB/4GL.

Proteus 5.0, Genus,
11315 Meadow Lake,
Houston, Texas, 77077,
(713) 870-0737,
$249,
PC/Programmer's Toolkit,
Cards - PC

Protofinish,
Genesis Data Systems,
8415 Washington Place,
Albuquerque, NM, 87113, defunct?,
$300,
PC/Char Graphics,
Proto - PC

Protoscreens,
Balley & Bailey,
859 East 2850 North,
Ogden, UT, 84414,
(801) 782-2345,
$225,
PC/Char Graphics,
Proto - PC

Qt, Troll Tech AS,
Postboks 6133 Etterstad,
N-0602 Oslo, Norway,
http://www.troll.no,
fax +47 22646949,
sales@troll.no,
FREE or expensive depending on application,
Windows 95, NT, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Digital UNIX, IRIX, FreeBSD, BSDI, more Unixes - C++ GUI toolkit.

Rapid Design,
Emultek Inc,
42 Farview Road,
Hopewell Jct., NY 12533,
914-226-4090,
Fax: 914-227-6369,
103113.3204@compuserve.com,
$6,000,
MS Windows, Windows 95, and NT, visual language.

RIPL,
Computer Technology Assoc,
5670 Greenwood Plaza Blvd., Suite 200, Englewood, Colorado, 80111,
(303) 889-1200,
not for sale,
VAXStation, VMS, UIMS - C&C

Sammi, Kinesix,
9800 Richmond Ave, Suite 750,
Houston TX 77042;
713 953 8300;
Fax: 713 953 8306; sammi@kinesix.com;
UNIX(HPUX, IBM AIX, SCO, SunOS, Solaris, OSF/1, Ultrix, IRIX, REAL/IX, UnixWare, QNX, Lynx, Venix, VxWorks) and VMS; for real-time systems; IB and Data Visualization Tool. Review R4

Serpent,
Carnegie Mellon Univ./SEI,
5000 Forbes Avenue,
Pittsburgh, PA, 15213-3890, (412) 268-6763,
ftp://ftp.sei.cmu.edu/pub/serpent/,
FREE,
X, research system by the Software Engineering Institute, UIMS - X

SET, Caset Corp.,
33751 Connemara Dr.,
San Juan, Capistr, 92693,
(714) 496-8670,
$5,000,
UIMS - state transition models, X, UIMS - X

SL-GMS, SL Corp.,
Suite 110 Hunt Plaza,
240 Tamal Vista Blvd.,
Corte Madera, CA, 94925,
(415) 927-1724,
$12,500,
X, VMS, UIMS for real-time control, UIMS - X,VMS

StarView,
Reportedly DISCONTINUED as of 12/97
Star Division Corp.,
2180 Sand Hill Rd #320,
Menlo Park, CA 94025,
(800) 888-8527,
svinfo@stardiv.de,
$495,
MS-Windows 3.1, OS/2 2.1, Mac, Motif, Virtual Toolkit

SUIT, formerly: Randy Pausch,
UVA, Dept. Comp. Sci, Thornton Hall, Charlottesville, VA, 22903,
suit-admin@virginia.edu,
FREE,
portable, used for teaching, contains an IB, UIMS

SuperCard, Allegiant Technologies, Inc., 6496 Weathers Place, Suite 100, San Diego, CA, 92121,
(619) 587-0500;
Fax (619) 587-1314,
$299,
(Formerly from Aldus, 9770 Carroll Center, San Diego, CA, 92126, (206) 628-2330),
(HyperCard-like), Cards -
PC or Mac

TAE Plus,
Century Computing,
8101 Sandy Spring Rd.,
Laurel, MD, 20707,
(301) 953-3330 or
800-823-3228,
tae-info@cen.com,
v5.3 site license $1,995,
v5.3 & v6.0 Beta source code site license $9,495,
X. IB. FREE to NASA users (also Chimes HCI evaluation system).

TCL/TK (see TK/TCL)

Teleuse,
(formerly from Thomson Software Products,
before that: Alsys,
before that: Telesoft),

Aonix,
595 Market Street, 12th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
Phone: 415-543-0900
Fax: 415-543-0145
$7,500,
Motif, IB - Motif
Review R1

Theseus++,
Computer Graphics Center ZGDV,
Wilhelminenstrasse 7,
64283 Darmstadt, Germany,
Phone +49-6151-155-112,
Fax +49-6151-155-450,
theseus-support@igd.fhg.de,
FREE,
X, Motif, C++, High Level Toolkit

Thistle,
Language Technology Group,
University of Edinburgh
2 Buccleuch Place
Edinburgh Scotland EH8 9LW,
+44 131 650 4656,
J.Calder@ed.ac.uk,
Free for non-commercial purposes,
Java (web browser or standalone),
Grammar-driven UIMS and UI specification system

TIGERS, (part of "ROSE"),
CAE Electronics,
CP 1800 St.
Laurent, Quebec, CAN, H4L4X4,
(514) 341-6780,
$2,500,
Silicon Graphics, ?

Tigre Interface Designer,
Tigre Object Systems,
3004 Mission Street,
Santa Cruz, CA, 95060,
(408) 427-4900,
$1,500,
Smalltalk; MS windows, Mac, Unix, IB, Apparently Discontinued

Tilcon Real-Time Developer
Tilcon Software Ltd.
20 Gurdwara Road, Unit #1
Nepean, Ontario, K2E 8B3, Canada
(613) 226-3917, (800) 665-5928
infonews@tilcon.com
Unix: QNX, Linux; Windows 95/98/NT, Windows CE
toolkit for real-time systems

Tk/Tcl,
Scriptics Corporation
2593 Coast Ave.
Mountain View, CA 94043
650-210-0100
650-210-0101 (fax)
info@scriptics.com
FREE,
(IB $1200)
formerly: SunScript, Sun Microsystems, and
J. Ousterhout, UC Berkeley.
X/11, PC, Mac;
scripting language & toolkit
IB costs extra
also see Python's Tkinter

Tool Book,
Asymetrix Corp.,
100 100th Ave., NE,
Bellevue, Washington, 98004,
(206) 637-1500,
$395,
Hypercard for Windows 3.0, Cards - PC Review R3

UIM/X,
Visual Edge Software,
LTD, 3950 Cote Vertu,
Montreal, Quebec, CAN, H4R 1V4,
(514) 332-6430,
(NOTE: Visual Edge develops UIM/X but the next entries are the distributors),
IB for Motif, IB - Motif Review R2

UIM/X, Bluestone, Inc.,
1000 Briggs Road,
Mt. Laurel, NJ, 08054,
(609)727-4600,
$5,000,
sells UIM/X for all platforms except HP (mostly in the East), IB - Motif. Also available are db-UIM/X and dbViewer for relational databases, UIM/Export for Windows, and many other widgets and tools.

UIM/X, Black & White Software,
2155 S. Bascom Ave.,
Campbell, CA, 95008,
408-369-7400,
$5000,
Unix, GUI builder. (sells UIM/X mostly in the west.) Also available are: UIM/XMove: $7700, Unix/Windows, Interactive graphics/animation builder. UIM/Orbix: $TBD, Unix, CORBA-based GUI builder. UIM/Ada: $4000, Unix, Ada-based GUI builder. Integration Manager: $250, Unix, GUI integration tool. Visual Action Toolset: $2500, Unix, Live docs builder using Display PostScript. XRT widgets: $1495-2495, Unix, Widgets (graph, 3D, table). View.h++: $795, Unix/Windows, C++ class lib for Motif. RWCGEN: $695, Unix, UIM/X C++ code generator for View.h++.

UTAH, apparently, no longer available. See PowerCharger or ViewSoft. Review R4

V, Bruce E. Wampler,
Department of Computer Science,
University of New Mexico,
bruce@objectcentral.com,
FREE,
X Windows using the Athena widgets and Microsoft Windows 3.1, C++ toolkit.

VAPS, Virtual Prototypes,
4700 de la Savane, Suite 300,
Montreal, Quebec,
Canada, H4P 1T7,
(514) 341-3874,
bennett@VirtualPrototypes.CA,
$10,000 to $41,500,
builder, SGI, SUN, and HP, UIMS

Vermont Views with Designer,
Vermont Creative Software,
P.O. Box 250, 140 Main St., Richford, VT 05476,
Sales & Cust Svc 802-848-7731,
Tech. suppt 802-848-7571,
fax 802-848-3502,
info@vtsoft.com,
DOS or Unix (or OVMS),
database access, IB.

ViewSoft Internet, ViewSoft Inc.,
250 W. Center, Provo, UT 84601,
(801) 377-0787,
FAX (801) 377-0788,
info@viewsoft.com,
$2,995,
Internet RAD tool for developing thin-client Internet applications. Develop in Visual C++, deploy user interface remotely as Java applet or ActiveX control. Product handles all network connections visually. Review R15

Visaj,
Imperial Software Technology,
Berkshire House, 252 Kings Road Reading,
Berkshire RG1 4HP, United Kingdom,
+44 118 958 7055,
fax: +44 118 958 9005;
USA Address: Imperial Software Technology,
120 Hawthorne Ave, Suite 101,
Palo Alto, CA 94301,
(650) 688 0200,
Fax: (650) 688 1054,
Java, IB
Review R17

VISION, Unify Corporation, 181 Metro Drive 3rd Floor,
San Jose, CA, 95110,
408-467-4500,
customers@unify.com,
US$4,995.00,
HP-UX Sun Solaris Dec Unix IBM AIX MS-Windows Window-NT, Macintosh, virtual toolkit for database & client server

Visual Basic, Microsoft,
10700 Northup Way,
Bellevue, Washington 98004, (800) 426-9400,
MS-Windows only, Proto or UIMS Review R3 Review R12

Visual C++, Microsoft,
10700 Northup Way,
Bellevue, Washington 98004,
(800) 426-9400,
MS-Windows only, IB + programming environment

Visual Designer,
Intelligent Instrumentation,
6550 S. Bay Colony Drive,
Tucson AZ 85706,
1-800-685-9911,
sales@instrument.com,
PC/WINDOWS, signal-processing application generator.

Visual Object Manager,
ViVi Software Srl, corso Dogali 10/15, Genova, Italy, 16136,
+39 10 213 513,
sales@vivi.dsnet.it,
$1600,
WIndows NT/ObjectStore 3.0.x 4.0, Windows GUI OODBMS

Visual/Recital,
Recital Corporation,
85 Constitution Lane,
Danvers, MA 01923
800-USE-R4GE,
Headquarters 508-750-1066,
sales@recital.com,
$4000,
Motif/X11, IB & DBMS.

Visual Tcl, SCO,
400 Encinal St.,
Santa Cruz, CA 95061,
1-800-SCO-UNIX,
info@sco.com,
FREE,
UNIX, Motif Scripting Language

Vsystem,
Vista Control Systems,
134B Eastgate Dr,
Los Alamos, NM, 87544,
(505) 662-2484,
FAX (505) 662-3956,
sales@vistanm.com,,
X/Motif, DEC VMS, Vaxeln, OSF/1, IB - Vdraw, Vscript

VUIT, DEC,
330 Billerica,
Chelmsford, MA, 01824,
(508) 256-6600,
(UIMS) Workstations,
IB - X

Windowcraft,
WindowCraft Corp.,
6 New England Executive Park,
Burlington, MA, 01803,
(617) 272-0999,
$295,
PC/Hypercard, Cards - PC
?Out of business?

WindowsMAKER,
Blue Sky Software,
2375 E. Tropicana Ave. # 320,
Las Vegas,NV, 89119,
(702) 456-6365,
$795,
Windows 3.0, IB - Windows

Windows Develop. Kit, Microsoft,
One Microsoft Way,
Redmond, WA, 98052-6399,
(800) 426-9400,
Windows toolkit, toolkit

VXP -- Visual X windows Programming Interface,
Yong Chen,
210 Wells Fargo Dr. #216,
Houston, TX 77090,
(713) 586-9089,
stdyxc05@pip.shsu.edu,
FREE,
X: Motif, GUI Builder. Review R13

WINTERP
Niels P. Mayer
5214-F Diamond Heights Blvd., #635
San Fransisco, CA 94131
winterp-request@netcom.com,
FREE,
Unix/X/Motif, UIMS

wxWindows,
Julian Smart,
12 North Street West
Uppingham, Rutland
LE15 9SG, UK
julian.smart@ukonline.co.uk,
FREE,
Windows, UNIX (Motif & GTK), virtual toolkit

X-In-Ada, Top Graph'X, 10 Allee de la Mare Jacob,
91290, La Norville, FRANCE,
(33) 1 69 26 97 88,
Fax: (33) 1 69 26 97 89,
E-Mail: 100071,45@compuserve.com,
X, PEX and Motif in Ada

Xbuild, Siemens Nixdorf,
4 Cambridge Center,
Cambridge, MA, 02142,
(617) 864-0066,
$1,895,
Unix/X/Motif, IB - Motif,
apparently defunct

X-Designer,
Imperial Software Technology,
Berkshire House, 252 Kings Road Reading,
Berkshire RG1 4HP, United Kingdom,
+44 118 958 7055,
fax: +44 118 958 9005;
USA Address: Imperial Software Technology,
120 Hawthorne Ave, Suite 101,
Palo Alto, CA 94301,
(650) 688 0200,
Fax: (650) 688 1054,
$3,500,
X Windows, Java, IB
Review R1
Review R10
Review R16

XFaceMaker,
Nova Software Labs
(formerly Non Standard Logics),
57-59 rue Lhomond,
75005 Paris, FRANCE,
(33-1) 44 08 70 80,
info@nsl.fr,
UNIX X/Motif, includes 2D and 3D graphics widgets, IB, Review R1 Review R10

XMove, Siemens AG,
Gudrunstrasse 11,
Vienna, A-1101,
+43 1 1707-45432,
xmove@ws2302.gud.
siemens.co.at,
$10,000,
Unix, dynamic application defined graphics.

XPCE, SWI,
University of Amsterdam,
Roetersstraat 15,
1018 WB Amsterdam,
The Netherlands,
+31 20 5256121, xpce-request@swi.psy.uva.nl,
500 ECU (academic),
2000 ECU (commercial)
(1 ECU ~ $1.3 US),
Unix/X11 and Win32, Portable GUI for dynamically typed and strongly typed languages (Prolog, Lisp and C++)

XRT, KL Group Inc.
260 King Street East, Third Floor, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
(416)594-1026,
info@klg.com,
$995,
Motif, Widget Libraries including 2D and 3D graphing widgets, table widget, field widget, tab widget, enhanced toggle, button, label widgets, toolbar widget, aligner widget, widget tips utility, widget snapshot utility, icon collection. Also components for Windows and Java. Review R2 Review R5 Review R6 Review R7 Review R8 Review R9 Review R10

XView, Sun,,,,
(800) 872-4786,
FREE,
Unix/X OpenLook, Toolkit

XVT, XVT Software Inc.,
4900 Pearl East Circle,
Boulder, CO, 80301, USA,
1-800-678-7988 or
(303) 443-4223,
FAX: (303) 443-0969,
info@xvt.com,
$1950-$6300,
MS Windows, Windows NT, OS/2, Macintosh, OSF/Motif, OPEN LOOK, Character systems for DOS, UNIX, and VMS, Virtual Toolkit and IB.

YACL, M. A. Sridhar,
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208,
803-777-2840
Fax: 803-777-3767,
sridhar@cs.sc.edu,
FREE,
Windows, OS/2, X/Motif, Virtual Toolkit, GUI C++ Class Library.

zApp, (formerly from Inmark Development Corporation), Rogue Wave Software, Inc.,
850 SW 35th St.,
Corvallis, OR 97333,
(541) 754-3010 or
(800) 487-3217,
Fax: (541) 757-6650,
zappsupport@roguewave.com,
DOS Text, DOS Graphics, Windows(16-bit), Windows NT, Windows 95, OS/2, Warp, HP-UX, IBM AIX, SCO UNIX, SunOS, Solaris, UnixWare, SGI IRIX, Virtual Toolkit, GUI C++ Class Library and IB. Review R4

Zinc, Zinc Software Inc.,
405 South 100 East,
2nd Floor,
Pleasant Grove, UT, 84062,
(801) 785-8900,
info@zinc.com or
europe@zinc.com
$500+$300,
DOS, MS Win, OS/2, Mac, Motif, C++ class lib, Virtual Toolkit, IB, also ZAF--Zinc Application Framework, Review R4

 


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