Largest Provider of Commercial Smalltalk
Cincom is one of the largest commercial providers of Smalltalk, with twice as many customers and partners as other commercial providers.
Tom Nies
Cincom Smalltalk Suite of Products
Cincom is the leading provider of commercial Smalltalk. Cincom Smalltalk adds value and simplicity to enterprise-level application development. ObjectStudio is the ideal solution for developing custom applications for Windows® while VisualWorks is the ideal solution for cross-platform applications.
Cincom Smalltalk Foundation and the core libraries are shared by ObjectStudio and VisualWorks. This means that foundation enhancements benefit both products. It is worth noting that, beginning with release 9.0, ObjectStudio and VisualWorks now share a release number. Customers and Cincom can discuss, compare, and track both products because they share a foundation of work.
Introducing Cincom Smalltalk Version 9.4.1
We are proud to introduce to you, Cincom Smalltalk Version 9.4.1.
Version 9.x began our path to move the products closer together, with the goal of a future single product and the intent to offer the best of both for our customers. This would allow, for example, VisualWorks users to use the native windows widgets and the modeling and mapping tools of ObjectStudio and would give ObjectStudio users the potential to move applications cross-platform.
Version 9.x continues to improve and enhance infrastructures, such as in GUI and TLS/Security areas, to allow continued future improvements while keeping API capability. The types of changes made to the products fall into a few categories:
- Required changes – Operating system changes, OS API changes, OS compiler changes, Modern TLS and Security standards
- Customer needs and requirements – Customer feedback may indicate a new feature or product improvement that’s beneficial to many customers.
- Infrastructure work – Enhancing current infrastructure to support new features
- New features
What’s in This Release?
The current releases of Cincom ObjectStudio 9.4.1 and Cincom VisualWorks 9.4.1 are major releases and contain fixes and improvements to the last major releases.- Store source code management system
- Advanced debugging
- Tools include source code
- Tabbed Tools for organization
- Enhanced source code editor
- MatriX multi-core framework
- Advanced Encryption Suite support
- Opentalk-STST remote object communication
- SiouX Web server with TLS secure connections
- AppeX Web development with ECMAScript 8 (JavaScript) support
- HTTP/2 support for SiouX/AppeX
- COM ActiveX
- Security protocols
- Distributed protocols
- OAuth 2.0 authorization support
- Help system
New! Next Gen UI Designer Preview
Next Generation User Interface
- Latest features of Windows native widgets
- No primitives
- All Smalltalk using FFI (DLLCC) -> Windows API
- Support for jpg, png, gif and tif
- Access to GDI+ features including gradient brushes and alpha blending
- Uses Next Generation User Interface.
- Central, convenient access to frequently used items like favorite packages and bundles, loaded controllers, open windows and breakpoints
High-Fidelity Skins (UI Skinning)
- Native rendering combined with customizable widgets
- Native rendering on Windows and MacOS
- Allows custom looks to be created.
- Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix
- See the available platforms listed below.
- Annotations
- Adornments
- Sparklines
- Lists
To learn more about these new releases, please see the product release notes. The release notes contain new feature descriptions and descriptions of the ARs and support resolutions that were addressed. If we can assist you in any way, please contact the Cincom Smalltalk Product Team here.
