Panel Plus II
A screen painter originally released as "Panel" for CP/M in 1981 and the put out PL/I code targeting the Digital Research PL/I compiler. Later converted to having a C output and ported to DOS and re-released with a v1 version number in or around 1985, and in 1989 as Panel Pus II as a C library with support for OS/2 and VAX VMS and the possibility of a DLL version on systems that supported it, the company shortly after that added support for UNIX, Xenix and QNX.
By the time version 2.1 hit the market in 1991 the library not only supported the usual multiple windows and menu options but had added features such as field editing capabilities that include automatic conversion of currency and date formats to different national standards and full word-wrap text editing.
Version
- Last known version: Panel Plus II v2.1 (1991)
- First version to be CUA compatible, adds support for Microsoft C 6.0, Watcom C and Metaware C compilers with Pharlap, Eclipse and Rational Systems extenders being supported for DOS systems. The system also had on-line help database that works with Microsoft's Quick-Help utility.
Links and publications
- Ray Lance: A review of Roundhill Computer Systems PANEL - From Amazing Computing magazine Volume 2, Number 1 - January 1987
Licence and availability
Discontinued commercial software. The company changed the licensing terms and prices repeatedly during the lifetime of the product, by the time version 2.1 was released Roundhill had simplified the product offering, lowered the price and softened the terms of the licence in response to a number of competing libraries. PANEL Plus II v2.1 was available with full source code for USD495 for each platform and a self-porting version was also made available for unsupported C environments.