OWLNext_Application_Showcase

OWLNext Real-World Application Showcase

This is a small non-exhaustive exhibition of real-world applications that use OWLNext. Most of these applications were originally developed with OWL and have since been successfully ported to OWLNext to allow continued development and maintenance using modern development tools. Feel free to add your own success story!

• OWLNext Real-World Application Showcase
  • AE Broadcast
  • ArtiCAD-Pro
  • Audicom 8 Multicast
  • Cartezyan
  • Endicia Envelope Manager
  • Engview Package Designer
  • FRESNEL
  • Lima VVA
  • MDaemon Messaging Server
  • NPXLab Suite
  • RunScore
  • Seismic/Eruption and Seismic/Waves
  • Spirale Vision
  • Sympathy Crossword Maker
  • TestBencher Pro
  • TopoCad
  • Virtual Rack

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AE Broadcast

AE Broadcast is a financial information application developed and marketed by Agência Estado for the Brazilian financial and investor markets. It has inbuilt chat features connecting the user into the largest financial community in Brazil, allowing users to exchange messages and interact in a secure environment using encrypted protocols. It allows users to hold conferences, add several contacts and interact with everyone at the same time, all within AE Broadcast.

AE Broadcast is a 250 kloc OWLNext application, and currently has nearly 12000 users.

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ArtiCAD-Pro

Founded in 1992, ArtiCAD Ltd develops software for design and photo-realistic rendering of kitchens, bedrooms and bathrooms. The company's flagship products, ArtiCAD-Pro and BathCAD, are used by more than 7500 designers in the UK market alone, with a rapidly expanding number of users world-wide.

ArtiCAD-Pro was originally developed in Borland C++ and OWL, and has since been ported to OWLNext and Unicode.

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Audicom 8 Multicast

Audicom 8 Multicast is a complete and easy-to-use system for radio automation. It is developed by Solidyne, a pioneer in the radio automation industry with a long history of innovation within audio processing and introduction of award-winning hardware and software solutions. Audicom is the most robust solution in its class and allows continuous uninterrupted broadcasting 24 hours a day every day of the year. Audicom has more than 5000 licensees around the world.

The Audicom software was originally developed in Borland C++ and OWL 5. It has since been ported to OWLNext.

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Cartezyan

Cartezyan is an information and trading terminal application for the financial markets. It lets you receive real-time financial asset prices, keeping you informed, second by second, of all trades occurring on the stock exchanges and currency markets. At any time you can initiate trades to buy and sell assets. You also have a wide range of tools for rigorous technical analysis of market data. Equipped with quotations, news, market topology tools, search functions, prospecting and analysis, in addition to the trading tickets and tracking windows of your portfolio, Cartezyan becomes an indispensable program for the trader, the investor or the market professional.

Cartezyan was originally developed in Borland C++ and OWL in the early 1990's by Q10 Informática. It was ported to Embarcadero C++Builder and OWLNext in 2010 using a modular application design, in which the OWL-based components are encapsulated in a DLL and displayed in VCL forms using flexible MDI child windows that can be arranged on any connected display in a multi-monitor setup.

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Endicia Envelope Manager

Envelope Manager LE from Endicia is a solution for Certified Mail. It allows you to automatically print the required information on certified mail forms, and provides a mailing receipt and delivery record. There is no need to make a trip to the post office or manually fill out forms. Envelope Manager LE has a full-featured database that makes it easy to manage mailing lists. As a generalized mailing system for letters and packages, focussed on the US market, Envelope Manager has become the de facto standard of the US Postal Service.

The Envelope Manager software was originally developed in Borland C++ with the OWL framework. It has since migrated to Microsoft Visual Studio and OWLNext.

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Engview Package Designer

EngView Package Designer Suite is an integrated CAD/CAM environment for design of folding carton & corrugated packaging and related converting tools. It is structured as a set of functional modules, covering the whole process – from conceptual design to diemaking. EngView is established worldwide as easy to learn and use software, backed by reliable and responsive customer care. The award-winning parametric technology gives unique power and flexibility. It enables you to produce creative designs with high quality and impact.

The EngView Package Designer Suite software was originally developed in the 1990s using Borland C++ with the OWL framework. It since migrated to OWLNext after Borland abandoned OWL in favor of VCL. Then, as Borland C++ eventually started showing its age, development moved to Microsoft Visual C++. The software was upgraded to 64-bit OWLNext 6.44 in 2017.

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FRESNEL

The FRESNEL software is designed to model laser beam propagation and accompanying effects in various optical schemes that may comprise of hundreds of elements. It can be used either as an educational tool at colleges and universities, or as a professional research tool to simulate the most powerful lasers, such as NIF (LNLL, USA) or LMJ (Bordeaux, France). FRESNEL has an extremely user-friendly interface that makes it easy to learn, and is aimed at scientists and engineers, lecturers in laser optics, and students.

The FRESNEL project was started in 1991 based on Windows 3.1, Borland C++ 3.0, and OWL 1.0. It has since migrated to OWLNext. Nearly all the OWL classes are used to implement the user interface. The Document/View model is heavily used to implement the complex hierarchy of models. The TThread class is used to implement the interactive simulation. FRESNEL now runs in Windows 7, and a 64-bit version is planned.

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Lima VVA

Lima VVA, now free software here at SourceForge, is a lightweight Windows application for road design and earthwork calculation. It is suitable for small to medium projects, where ease-of-use, low cost and quick results are paramount. It lets the user design the road interactively, while the geometry and earthwork quantities are automatically calculated in the background. By manipulating the construction parameters, other earthworks, such as ditches, embankments, land fills, building sites — in short, anything suitable for the cross-section method — can be calculated. The program produces high quality drawings, reports, and construction data for the design. These results can be exported to other systems such as office, CAD and GIS software, surveying equipment, and systems for automated machine control.

Development on Lima VVA started in 1994 using Borland C++ with the OWL framework. Around 2000 it migrated to Microsoft Visual Studio and OWLNext, and is currently (as of 2023) based on C++20 and Owlet, an experimental minimal branch of OWLNext.

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MDaemon Messaging Server

MDaemon Messaging Server by ALT-N Technologies, email server software for Windows, is a trusted alternative to Microsoft Exchange or SBS. MDaemon mail server supports IMAP, SMTP, POP3, and ActiveSync protocols and delivers solid performance from its feature-rich and user-friendly design. The MDaemon Messaging Server is trusted by customers in over 90 countries around the world to meet the needs of their small- to medium-sized businesses. MDaemon is a reliable and secure mail server that does not require expensive administration or impose high per-user costs. It simplifies messaging and collaboration requirements with an intuitive, user-friendly design offering enterprise-class features that can be managed with minimal training and support.

The MDaemon software was originally developed with the Borland OWL framework, and it has since been ported to OWLNext.

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NPXLab Suite

The NPXLab Suite is a set of tools for the analysis of neurophysiological data (NPX stands for "Neuro Physiological data in XML"), and has been marketed by an Italian company all over the world. Some years ago, a commercial agreement allowed NPX to be released as free tools based on the same source code with some restrictions (removal of database integration and realtime data acquisition). The result is the NPXLab Suite.

The development of NPX started in the 16-bit era, before Windows 95 was released, using Borland C++ and OWL 2. Since then it has been in continuous development, going through transitions to OWL 2.5, OWL 5 and finally OWLNext. The source still relies in part on the VCL library, but the remaining dependencies are going to be completely removed in favour of OWLNext.

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RunScore

RunScore is a program for scoring running races and triathlons. It is one of the most popular programs for race managment. RunScore has been used for the Ironman competition in Hawaii for the last several years plus many of the qualifying Ironman races. It has also been used by the U. S. Marine Corps Marathon in Washington, DC and the U. S. National Collegiate Cross-Country Championships. The program takes data from many different RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) systems to provide almost instantaneous results.

RunScore was originally developed in Borland C++ with the OWL framework. It has since migrated to Microsoft Visual Studio and OWLNext.

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Seismic/Eruption and Seismic/Waves

Seismic/Eruption and Seismic/Waves are visualization tools for seismic and volcanic activity in space and time. The software illustrates where earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur with graphics and sound. In addition to map views, Seismic/Eruption shows 3-D and cross-sectional views to illustrate earthquake locations under the surface of the earth. Seismic/Waves illustrates how earthquake waves propagates from the earthquake hypocenter to seismic stations throughout the earth.

A demo video of Seismic/Eruption can be seen at YouTube.

The software is used at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC and at many other museums, schools, and universities.

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Spirale Vision

Spirale Vision is a supervision software suite for environmental chambers. SPIRALE already pilots 4000 environmental chambers and test-benches all around the world. Spirale is an accurate and reliable piloting system supporting real-time interaction with multi-sensors data and using optimized regulation algorithms. Spirale is adapted to the needs of operators and maintenance staff (programmes editor, tests archiving and exportation). Spirale is a completely open system, enabling automation and integration of external data (complementary acquisition systems), allowing the chamber to be upgraded to a real test bench.

The Spirale software was originally developed in Borland C++ and OWL 5 for Windows NT. It has since migrated to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and OWLNext.

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Sympathy Crossword Maker

Sympathy Crossword Construction helps you create professional quality crosswords for publication in print form or on the web. It has a wealth of construction and filling features to aid the compiler; its flexibility in grid drawing and puzzle layout will appeal to crossword publishers.

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TestBencher Pro

SynaptiCAD TestBencher Pro is a graphical test bench generator for electronic circuit design that dramatically reduces the time required to create and maintain test benches. One of the most time consuming tasks for users of HDL languages is coding test benches to verify the operation of their circuit designs. TestBencher Pro automates the most tedious aspects of test bench development, allowing the user to focus on the design and operation of the test bench.

SynaptiCAD has developed several commercial electronic design automation programs based on OWLNext. The first commercial application, Timing Diagrammer Pro, was developed using Borland Object Windows Library 1.0 not too long after the release of that framework (around early 1991). It has since been ported to OWLNext and is still actively developed today. The SynaptiCAD product range comprises a pretty large code base, well over a million lines of code, of which a substantial portion is OWLNext GUI code.

Along the way, the applications have been ported to HPUX, Solaris, and Linux using the Wine implementation of the Windows API. The screenshot shows TestBencher Pro running on Solaris.

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TopoCad

TopoCad (Topographie Cadastrale) is a French geographic information system (GIS) specially used for spatial data acquisition and data computing and for communications beetween GIS with EDIGEO standard and other GIS standard. TED is the TopoCad language.

The screenshot shows TopoCad release 5 running with PCI-vector module (TED language program) running on Windows.

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Virtual Rack

Virtual Rack is a software for complete control of Solidyne Audio Processors. It uses serial communication to control the hardware.

The screenshot shows Virtual Rack running on Ubuntu Linux using the Wine platform.