EPTools.Object v2.0 Product Announcement
EPTools.Object(tm) Release 2.0
Product Announcement
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Electric People International of Markham, Ontario (Canada) is pleased to
announce EPTools.Object(tm), Release 2.0, an Active-X Tool Kit for Delphi,
Visual Basic, Visual Foxpro, MS/Active Server pages, MS/Office and other
development environments.
EPTools.ObjectT is an Active-X in-process server application that
encapsulates hundreds of methods and properties designed to help you become
more productive and develop better programs. When you instantiate
EPTools.ObjectT you are provided with a "root" object which implements over
560 methods and properties. Associated with this root object are 24 child
objects which provide a variety of specialized services.
Instantiated EPTools.Object is simple and straight-forward. For example, in
Visual Basic you would instantiate EPTools.Object like this:
DIM oObj AS OBJECT
Set oObj = CreateObject("EPTools.Object")
Once you have created this object you can use it to perform a wide variety
of tasks. For example, to obtain and display the URL name of an Internet IP
address, you would code:
Print oObj.GetHostNameByIPAddress("209.50.66.37")
Result: "www.electricpeople.com"
Or, to display the hexidecimal value of a string value, you would code:
Print oObj.AsHexString("ABCDEF")
Result: "41 42 43 44 45 46"
These are just a two of the hundreds of methods of associated with the
EPTools.Object "root" object. In addition to this root object there are 24
child objects that you can use to help perform specific actions or control
the operation of specific components.
For example, if you need to obtain information about a specific disk drive
or UNC sharename, you can instantiate an instance of EPDriveSpec, ie:
Set oDS = oObj.DriveSpec("G:")
or Set oDS = oObj.DriveSpec("\\MyServer\ShareName")
Print oDS.IsNetworkDrive Result: TRUE
Print oDS.IsNTFS Result: TRUE
Print oDS.UniversalName Result: \\MyServer\ShareName
etc.
Likewise objects such as EPSysInfo can be used to provide you with useful
operating system information.
Some objects are designed to help you control the behaviour of other
EPTools.ObjectT components. For example:
- LanguageInfo can be used to tell EPTools.ObjectT various conversion rules
associated with such languages such as German, French, Spanish, Italian or
pretty much any other spoken language.
- FiscalCalendar can be used to identify the rules associated with the
calculation of specific fiscal years, trimesters, quarters, etc.
- ManufacturingCalendar and various variations such as
ManufacturingCalendar_12LDOM or ManufacturingCalendar_13MSD can be used to
describe the rules ascociated with calculating various reporting periods,
dramatically simplifying the development of programs that must work, for
example, with 13 month years.
Other objects such as NameMaker and PhoneMaker can simplify data conversion
or can help you implement data entry screens that provide free form entry of
names and telephone numbers.
We're confident that you will find EPTools.ObjectT one of the most useful
libraries you've ever seen.
For more information, or to download a FREE 14 day evaluation version of
EPTools.Object(tm) just visit our Internet web site at
http://www.*-*-*.com/ .
You'll be glad you did!
