Mountain View, California, January 8, 2008 - Imperial Software Technology (IST) today announced the availability of X-Designer Release 8, underscoring its long-term commitment to the ongoing enhancement and maintenance of the classic UNIX GUI builder. X-Designer 8 has extensive new productivity aids and enhanced XML generation to aid portability of Motif interfaces to other GUI environments. Now software engineers building Motif interfaces can do so more rapidly than ever before, with confidence that they can port designs to other environments via XML.

"We've developed this new release, X-Designer 8, as our customers continue to request new features and developers continue to deploy X-Designer and Motif for new projects. The longevity of the combination of X–Designer and Motif is due to the maturity, sophistication and reliability of the tool and the toolkit itself" said Derek Lambert, president and CEO of Imperial Software Technology.

Antony Fountain, principal software engineer at IST and lead author of the O'Reilly standard books on Motif, said, "Motif is the industry standard GUI toolkit for the X Window System. While newer, alternative, GUI toolkits have appeared for X, none has had the durability and appeal of Motif.  Where stability, compatibility, robustness and professional support are required, Motif remains the first choice of software engineers in defense, aerospace, telecoms and other mission-critical applications." Fountain is also the editor of the popular Motif community web site, www.motifdeveloper.com, where he regularly publishes answers to technical queries raised by the site's readership.

Major New Features of X-Designer 8
X-Designer 8 is an evolutionary release with additions, enhancements and improvements to a wide range of features in the product.  A brief summary follows:

• Box Layout and Spring Layout Java-compatible widgets added
• Design time support of Custom Hierarchies, with Custom and Global  Attributes
• Usability and functionality enhancements, including:
  • Smart Form Layout added to Form Layout Editor
  • Pixmap Editor now supports JPEG import, rotation and dithering
  • Outliner Widget (convenience widget for XmContainer)
  • Widget Transformations (assists in mapping Motif geometry management widgets to others better suited to migration to other GUI toolkits
  • Reset from Top (assists when modifying geometry management in widget     hierarchies
• Features to support user documentation in design and source files at module and widget levels
• Support for Java 1.6 code generation with additional widgets
• Java and Microsoft Windows mappings for the new widgets
• Support for the X11R6 Hook object (runtime monitoring and debugging of Xt events)
• Improved support for OpenGL ('Generate OpenGL Visuals')
• Improved XML savefile handling and direct import of XML and UIL design files
• Bug fixes from earlier releases

Pricing and Availability
X-Designer 8 costs $4,500 for the first license, including all features listed and a year of support and all upgrades. X-Designer 8 is shipping now and is initially available for Sun SPARC Solaris and Linux. For availability on other platforms, contact IST. The price above in US dollars applies only in the United States and Canada.

About Imperial Software Technology
Imperial Software Technology (IST) is a world-leading software engineering company specializing in software engineering tools and mobile systems. IST brings technological competence and 25 years of experience and skills in the software engineering arena to provide its customers with a unique competitive edge in the critical, highly demanding world of financial data. Founded in 1982 as a spin-out from Imperial College of Science and Technology in London, a singular vision of 'Excellence in Software Engineering' has enabled IST to become a technology leader in the mobile software market and to dominate the world market in graphical user interface tools for high performance workstations. IST ranks major corporations in finance, technology, aerospace, telecommunications, defense and government in a prestigious customer and client list. The company is privately held and is based in Mountain View, California, and Reading, United Kingdom.

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