Interactive Images Inc, Woburn, Massachusetts has a new software development tool that enables programmers to create MS-DOS applications that use some of the OS/2 graphical features. Called Layout/CUA for MS-DOS, it creates applications that automatically conform to IBM’s Common User Access guidelines from Systems Application Architecture. In effect, it knows the CUA rules and generates applications to take advantage of features such as action bars, pull-down menus, secondary windows and scroll bars. Programmers can create dialogue boxes that use assorted graphical controls, including radio buttons, pushbuttons, entry fields, check boxes, list boxes and group boxes. It runs as an application under OS/2 with the Presentation Manager, and once the interface has been defined, Layout/CUA for MS-DOS automatically generates EASEL/DOS code. It will be available later this month at $1,900.
