ViaDuct Professional & Standard Edition Features

* indicates features available with Professional Edition only.
* indicates features new to ViaDuct FX.

Terminal Emulation
Choose from over 40 terminal emulation's, which offer color capabilities, virtual windowing, and graphic file support. You can even create your own custom terminal type.

File Transfer
Transfer data from your existing database into DBF, WKS, XLS, and other popular PC file formats. Also transfer data host-to-host or PC-to-PC. MVExplorer now makes file transfer even easier.

Improved Performance
Systems resource requirements are greatly reduced. This allows you to run ViaDuct and other applications with no impact on work station performance. Already providing the fastest host to PC file transfer available, ViaDuct FX improves PC to Host file transfer speeds by a factor of up to 10.

MVExplorer
ViaDuct FX's Win 95 Explorer-like interface allows users to drag and drop files and items from a MultiValue account into the Windows environment. Menus allow the creation of files and items on the host system, the manipulation of host system items and files, and, using ViaDuct FX's file transfer mechanism, the movement of files between the host system and PC, while converting the data into friendly formats for target applications on the PC.

MVEdit
ViaDuct FX includes MVEdit, a Windows editor for host items, including normal data items, dictionary definitions and MultiValued items. Its MultiValue-aware grid lets the user visually display and edit common MultiValue items. MVEdit also assists in the development of Data/Basic pro-grams with its syntax completion feature.

Control Language
Automate any combination of ViaDuct functions, such as graphic display and mouse support, with your existing applications.

Copy & Paste
Easily copy and paste text between host screen and Windows applications using the Windows Clipboard.

Connectivity
Supports TCP/IP, Serial, and PicLan connectivity for all popular network configurations.

DDE Linking
Create "live" DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) links between your database and DDE-capable Windows applications.

Windows Compatibility
Runs on the latest versions of Windows including Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000 & XP.

Pre Registered 
New load and go registration - The product is pre-registered and does not require additional contact with Via Systems.

Active Screen Technology
The ViaDuct FX host screen, by default, can identify a user's mouse clicks, and act on them appropriately. Click on a menu number, and that response will be sent to the waiting host program. Click on a web address, and your web browser will be opened to that site. In addition, Active Screen Technology is completely programmable from within the MultiValue environment, allowing developers to include "hot spots" that activate other Windows programs, send specific instructions to the host environment, or run any of ViaDucts control language functions. Once the Active Screen definitions have been sent to ViaDuct, they can be programmatically saved and recalled during another ViaDuct FX session, or used all across your ViaDuct FX network.

TCL Wizard
The TCL Wizard is designed to provide easier data access, and point-and-click Windows integration with your multivalue data. Answer a few, non-technical questions, and the TCL Wizard will display and print reports, transfer data, or build graphs and charts. Your queries can be saved and re-executed, or modified, at any time. The full power of your MultiValue hosts inquiry language is available through the TCL Wizard, but its questions are so carefully tailored, and clearly explained, that even a novice user can quickly produce results.

FTP Support
A blazingly fast, industry-standard communication method, FTP is used to transfer data to and from Unix or Windows/NT hosts.

New User Interface 
The interface now includes a convenient toolbar which offers one button access to commonly used functions such as file transfer, Connection Wizard, MVExplorer, Capture, the Via web site, and more.

Visual Data/Basic & Auto GUI 
ViaDuct's Visual Data/Basic programming language has been a successful tool for countless developers, but ViaDuct FX makes using it even simpler. Use the AutoGUI Graphical Wizard to convert Data/Basic programs into simple Visual Data/Basic programs. Or, for finer control of your user interface, run the AutoGUI converter in "Interactive" mode, and generate a custom graphical program from your existing Data/Basic routines.

Enhanced mvExplorer and mvEdit 
The industry's premier Windows support tools have gotten even more powerful! mvExplorer now allows you to search through your data files for desired search strings, just like the regular Windows Explorer "Find" mechanism. mvEdit now supports context-sensitive help for the documents you're editing, so you can press the help key during program development for on-line syntax information on ViaDuct's control language and Visual Data/Basic extensions.