EDN — 06.20.96 Computer-telephony- development tool moves to NT

Out in Front: June 20, 1996

Computer-telephony- development tool moves to NT

Brooktrout Technology has migrated its Show N Tell iconic-programming environment for computer-telephony integration to Windows NT. Brooktrout originally developed Show N Tell for the OS/2 operating system. This release, V4.0, adds features, such as ActiveX controls, a graphical management and administration facility, and the FaxVision add-on software module for advanced, interactive fax-document publishing.

The Show N Tell package employs "PowerBlock" icons as the atomic elements of the iconic-programming language. The package includes prefabricated blocks for voice, fax, data, and telephony processing. The product supports as many as 96 telephone lines per PC. Networks of PCs running Show N Tell can handle hundreds or thousands of telephone lines. The package works with the company's voice and fax hardware, as well as CTI hardware from Aculab, Dialogic, Rhetorix, Mitel, and Voice Processing Corp.

You can link code written in Visual Basic, Visual C++, PowerBuilder, and Delphi to Show N Tell applications through ActiveX controls, and the package directly supports more than 25 database programs, such as Dbase, FoxPro, Clipper, Btrieve, Sybase, SQL Server, Oracle, and DB2. Prices for the product range from $995 for a basic development kit to $6995 for Show N Tell Pro, which includes speech recognition, fax-document creation and transmission, host communications, and SQL database support.

—by Steven H Leibson

Brooktrout Technology, Needham, MA. (617) 449-4100, http:// www.brooktrout.com.