LINUX developers now have a Visual Development Environment

BX/CIK integrates the industry´ s leading GUI Builder, Builder Xcessory PRO(tm) (BX PRO[tm]), into the Code Fusion(tm) Interactive Development Environment (IDE) from Red Hat. The integration of these two industry leading products provides LINUX developers with the first commercial IDE with graphical user interface (GUI) builder development capabilities. The completeness and breadth of this integrated development environment offers developers the potential for significant boosts in their productivity.

Although long available for Microsoft Windows 9x/NT environments, commercial quality IDEs with GUI builder development capabilities have not been available for LINUX. As a result, each developer or project team has had to build their own development environment out of basic building blocks provided by the operating system and perhaps acquired from third party software suppliers. The support and extension of these development environments can waste precious engineering resources.

With the integration of Code Fusion and BX PRO, developers can more quickly proceed through the development cycle from prototyping to debugging and testing. They never have to leave their development environment, or spend time making the tools work together. With BX PRO, Code Fusion, and the integration kit available from ICS, LINUX developers have an industry leading development environment that rivals existing Windows based tools.

Key Features:

• New icon added Code Fusion makes launching BX PRO quick and easy
• BX PRO included on the ´ Tools´ menu of Code Fusion provides consistent access with other tools provided by Code Fusion
• Project directory currently being used by Code Fusion is automatically selected by BX PRO as target for saving user interface definition, and generated code eliminates unproductive directory structure navigation
• New predefined search rules simplify connecting user interface to application backend

Availability:
BX/CIK is available immediately for download from ICS´ LINUX Web site at http://linux.ics.com. Since the functionality of BK/CIK is continually enhancing, users are urged to reference this Web site frequently for the latest versions of the software.

Red Hat and GNUPro are registered trademarks, and Code Fusion, Cygwin, Insight, eCos and EL/IX are trademarks of Red Hat, Inc.
Builder Xcessory, BX PRO, ViewKit ObjectPak and EnhancementPak are trademarks of Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc.
LINUX is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.
UNIX and Motif are registered trademarks of The Open Group.