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ZINC APPLICATION FRAMEWORK IS A UNIQUE DEVELOPMENT TOOL. DURING YOUR
EVALUATION, PLEASE NOTE THESE IMPORTANT DISTINCTIONS:

1.  PORTABILITY: Zinc offers the most transparent portability
available from a user interface tool. Every object is 100% portable--
just recompile to port to any supported platform. Zinc supports more
platforms than any other tool--over 20 in Zinc 4.0!

    EXCLUSIVE: Zinc's provides the industry leading user interface
    for DOS. While other companies abandon DOS, Zinc continues
    to enhance its DOS support!

    EXCLUSIVE: Zinc is the only portable tool with support for
    NEXTSTEP!

    EXCLUSIVE: Zinc is the only portable tool with support for
    international operating systems and hardware--Japanese OS/2,
    Chinese Windows, NEC PC9800 DOS, and many more.

    EXCLUSIVE: More commercial applications have been created with
    Zinc Application Framework than with any other portable user
    interface tool. Zinc is serious software!

2.  VISUAL DEVELOPMENT: Zinc Designer reduces your coding
requirements up to 50 percent. Zinc Designer supports workgroup
development (i.e., design, code, translation, and maintenance phases
of development can easily be handled by various people or groups).

    EXCLUSIVE: Zinc Designer is a completely portable--it runs on all
    platforms so you can develop wherever you choose. Why don't other
    portability vendors provide portable design tools?

    EXCLUSIVE: Zinc Designer creates persistent objects that may be
    accessed at run-time to develop user-customizable interfaces.

    EXCLUSIVE: Zinc Designer integrates all interactive aspects of
    user interface design, including: window and object layout, bitmap
    and icon design, context-sensitive help, internationalization,
    and more.

3.  C++ OBJECT ORIENTATION: Zinc is easily extensible--you can add
custom objects or enhance the objects provided by Zinc. Zinc's
architecture is easy to understand and use--you become productive
quickly. And as the first user interface tool written completely in
C++, Zinc's is robust and proven.

    EXCLUSIVE: Unlike other "object oriented" tools, Zinc is not a
    wrapper around older 'C' code--Zinc offers C++ without compromise.

    EXCLUSIVE: Organized for maximum utility, Zinc's class hierarchy
    allows objects to be used more flexibly than any other tool--
    buttons or check boxes can be placed in a combo-box, for example.

    EXCLUSIVE: Zinc's elegant object oriented architecture allows only
    125,000 lines of Zinc source code--less than half that of competing
    products--to support all platforms while providing more features.

4.  INTERNATIONALIZATION: Zinc is acknowledged as the industry
leader in software globalization. Zinc supports all European and
Asian languages transparently. Internal library strings are pre-
translated to over 14 languages.

    EXCLUSIVE: Zinc applications support multiple languages, locales,
    and interfaces with a single executable not just single source.

    EXCLUSIVE: Zinc separates development and translation processes.
    Developers need not consider globalization issues translations can
    be done later.

    EXCLUSIVE: Zinc was the first portable tool to support the emerging
    Unicode standard for international character encoding, and is the
    only tool to fully support that standard today.

5.  FLEXIBILITY: Zinc's "layered" architecture allows easy access to
native operating system APIs when desired. Zinc allows easy integration
with other libraries including databases, graphics, communications,
and more.

    EXCLUSIVE: Zinc supports more platforms, compilers, languages,
    and third-party tools than competitors so you can develop in your
    most productive environment.

    EXCLUSIVE: Zinc provides complete source code (even to Zinc
    Designer!) so you can examine real world applications and extend
    the tool at all levels.

    EXCLUSIVE: Zinc's documentation, over 2500 pages in all, provides
    more information than competitors so you can apply Zinc to your
    task.

6.  AFFORDABILITY: Zinc provides more power for less money than any
competitor. Save 50% or more! And Zinc's FREE, unlimited technical
support can save you thousands each year.

    EXCLUSIVE: All components (libraries, designer, all objects) are
    included in one package. Competitors make you buy these separately.

    EXCLUSIVE: Zinc bundles related platforms into one low-cost
    package. For example: Windows 3.1, Windows NT, Windows 95 and
    Win32s are bundled together at one low price; DOS Graphics and
    DOS Text form a similar package.

    EXCLUSIVE: Zinc's pricing rewards cross-platform developers. The
    more platforms you use, the more money you save with Zinc!
