Rogue Wave Stingray® Studio

Comprehensive GUI Development Solutions

Rogue Wave solidifies its leadership in Enterprise C++ with Stingray®. The Stingray product line was built by GUI application development experts to provide a broad set of flexible, comprehensive components. These components handle the details of GUI functionality and allow developers to focus on end-user requirements and the business logic of an application.

Advanced Look and Feel

Stingray components provide rich interfaces that can be used to mimic the look and feel of Microsoft applications such as Excel®, Chart®, Visio®, Visual Studio® and Outlook®. Stingray's libraries of MFC extension classes work with other technologies, like ActiveX® and the Microsoft .NET® framework, in both 32-bit and 64-bit environments.

Faster Time-to-Market

Stingray's highly reusable user interface components provide advanced functionality that integrates with existing code. It increases developer productivity and accelerates time-to-market resulting in a reduction of costs, schedule risk, and reliability issues.

Rogue Wave Stingray® is loaded with features that allow developers to deliver advanced applications that emulate Microsoft's look and feel.

All Stingray® Studio components are available in demonstration application form.

Objective Chart

Objective Chart is a complete library of MFC (Microsoft® Foundation Class) extension classes that you can use to add efficient and complex charting capabilities to Windows applications.

Objective Chart supports a large variety of chart types and style settings that define the appearance of the chart elements. Through its class-based architecture, you can easily extend and enhance these basic capabilities by using the chart extension system.

Objective Grid

Objective Grid is a full-featured grid control built completely from object-oriented technology. It can be extended quickly and easily, and it provides support for embedding grid objects virtually anywhere that a window can be embedded. It includes a comprehensive set of controls to embed in cells and provides the ability to add your own. Using Objective Grid, you can bind to any data source, including ODBC, DAO and OLE/DB.

Objective Edit

Objective Edit provides a complete source code syntax highlighting class library that you can integrate into applications in a matter of hours.

Objective Toolkit

Objective Toolkit is a set of MFC extension classes that enhance your current Visual C++/Microsoft Foundation Class programs. Objective Toolkit provides support for a variety of graphical user interface controls, views, and utilities. You can extend its object-oriented classes quickly and easily.

Unlike other C++ class libraries, Objective Toolkit classes are completely compatible with the Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) classes. The Objective Toolkit classes work seamlessly with the MFC classes and, in many cases, inherit from existing classes such as CView or CWnd.

Objective Views

Objective Views is a comprehensive set of Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) C++ classes for creating symbols that you can manipulate on a diagram. Objective Views provides a drawing surface abstraction, also known as the canvas, onto which you can draw and manipulate symbols and graphics. Objects on the canvas encapsulate graphical elements that the user or application can move, scale, rotate, connect, or animate.

In addition to extending the functionality of Microsoft Foundation Classes, Objective Views also acts as a layer of abstraction for the Windows GDI. This layer shields you from low-level GDI details so you can concentrate on creating an application design. Because the Objective Views classes extend MFC classes, you can seamlessly integrate an existing application into Objective Views. However, this does not prevent you from customizing the behavior of any of the Objective Views classes.

Stingray Studio 10.4 Features:

• Supports Visual Studio 2010
• Windows 7 Jump Lists: provide improved functionality for your taskbar and start menu shortcuts. With jump lists, users can go directly to documents, common functions, recently visited reports or web sites.
• Restart Manager: offers users recovery options in the event of an application crash.

Ease of Migration to MFC 9 Feature Pack and higher

The Microsoft MFC 9 Feature Pack is not built on top of MFC; it is a separate package. As a result, there is some migration effort for existing MFC and Stingray developers who want to use it directly. The Stingray FoundationEx classes are designed to support these new capabilities and make this migration easier than using MFC with the MFC Feature Pack. Keep the same intuitive API while taking advantage of new MFC9 Feature Pack functionality.

FoundationEx: Support for MFC 9 Feature Pack and higher

• Load Ribbon Bars created with Microsoft's Ribbon Designer
• New Frame classes for:
  • Single Document Interface (SDI)
    • Includes new Multiple View classes.
  • Multiple Document Interface (MDI)
  • Floating Document Interface (FDI)
  • Multiple Top Level Documents (MTL)
• New Menu and Toolbar classes
  • Docking to panes supported
• New Docking Window classes
  • Embedded controls
  • Allows old and new controls to be used within docking window architecture
• New Dialog classes
• Standard dialogs
• Pane dialogs
• New Application classes
  • Application initialization
  • Theme
• Updated Stingray Studio MFC AppWizards

GridEx: Objective Grid extensions based on MFC Feature Pack

• Enhanced Excel 2007 functionality
  • Alpha-blending selection: Change color and transparency values
  • New Row and column header color schemes:
    • Excel Blue, Excel Black, Excel Silver styles
    • Gradient drawing
    • Color change on mouse-over
• Excel filling: Expanded selection dragging marker for rows and columns
• Entire grid selection
• New color picker button
• New context menus
• New tooltips

Stingray Studio 10 feature release history

10.3:

• All libraries and samples are supported on Windows 7.
• Windows 7 look -and-feel available when using the VisualC++ 10.0 Beta 2 Preview (see below).
• Work is underway to support Visual Studio 2010

10.2:

• Support for Windows Vista SP1 and Windows 2008 Server
• Updated support for User Account Control and updated manifest files.

10.1:

• Manifest Embedding
• Windows Vista Classic Look and Feel