Rogue Wave Stingray®
Quickly Build Professional Windows GUIs
Rogue Wave Stingray® delivers integrated and reusable GUI components with a familiar Microsoft look-and-feel that are designed to handle the low-level details of user-interface application development. The components are proven, easy to use, shorten development time and make it easier to maintain and evolve GUI applications.
Overview
Comprehensive GUI Development Solutions
Rogue Wave solidifies its leadership in Enterprise C++ with Stingray®. The Stingray product line was built by GUI application development experts to provide a broad set of flexible, comprehensive components. These components handle the details of GUI functionality and allow developers to focus on end-user requirements and the business logic of an application.
Advanced Look and Feel
Stingray components provide rich interfaces that can be used to mimic the look and feel of Microsoft applications such as Excel®, Chart®, Visio®, Visual Studio® and Outlook®. Stingray's libraries of MFC extension classes work seamlessly with other technologies, like ActiveX® and the Microsoft .NET® framework, in both 32-bit and 64-bit environments.
Faster Time-to-Market
Stingray's highly reusable user interface components provide advanced functionality that integrates with existing code. It increases developer productivity and accelerates time-to-market resulting in a reduction of costs, schedule risk, and reliability issues.
Features and Benefits
Rogue Wave Stingray® is loaded with features that allow developers to deliver advanced applications that emulate Microsoft's look and feel.
| Features | Benefits |
| A spreadsheet with many of the same features as Microsoft Excel® including database connectivity. | Development managers and ISVs choose Rogue Wave Stingray for these benefits: |
| A docking window architecture that provides a modern look and feel that emulates Microsoft Visual Studio®. | Create uniform and consistent GUI applications. |
| An advanced text editor for source code editing with syntax highlighting and viewing similar to Microsoft Visual Studio. | Avoid low-level details of implementing an IDE interface. |
| Over 30 graph types with support for legends, titles, labels and curve fitting. | Reduce customer learning curve with its consistent Microsoft look and feel. |
| A drag-and-drop drawing canvas used to draw and manipulate symbols and graphics comparable to Microsoft Visio. | Maximize customizability by including full source code. |
| An embeddable shortcut bar that closely mimics Microsoft Outlook®. | Shorten time-to-market with reusable components. |
How it Works
All Stingray® Studio components are available in demonstration application form. Visit Rogue Wave's Website to download a demonstration.
Objective Toolkit *
A library of controls and utilities for enhancing the GUI of custom applications.
Objective Grid
An advanced grid component that mimics Microsoft Excel® features, including an advanced formula engine, hierarchical Grids, embedded custom controls and database connectivity.
Objective Edit
Offers an advanced text editor component useful for implementing an interactive environment, similar to the Microsoft Visual C++® editor, for viewing and editing source code, scripts and mark-up languages including C++, JavaScript, VBScript, and HTML.
Objective Chart
Delivers high-performance, advanced charting capabilities, including a variety of two-dimensional chart types.
Objective Views
Components for building drag-and-drop graphical interfaces that are comparable to Microsoft Visio in functionality and for incorporating custom graphical objects and enhanced drawing capabilities.
* These components also available separately
What's New
Stingray® Studio Edition 10.1
Stingray Studio Edition 10.1 is the successor to Stingray® Studio Edition 10.0. The primary enhancements for this version are:
- Support for the Microsoft Windows Server 2008* operating system
- The Stingray Studio 10.1 Microsoft Foundation Class libraries have been updated to run on the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 operating system.
- Support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008** Service Pack 1
- The Stingray Studio 10.1 Microsoft Foundation Class libraries have been updated to support Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1.
Additional Product Enhancements:
- Unified output directories for dependent RWUXTheme libraries, allowing integrated compilation with the rest of the Stingray Studio suite of products across multiple compilers and multiple architectures.
- Improved build processes for ease of use and compilation of all products from within a single IDE solution file, importing/exporting library symbols, manifest file generation, and platform targeting.
- Improved Readme documentation. Readme documents now contain more readable and easier to understand Change History information, i.e. versioned bug fix and enhancement lists, for each product.
- Rebuilt Demobrowsers to include bug fixes and enhancements as listed below.
- Additional Bug fixes and enhancements for the product versions listed below. Please review each Product's Readme file for detailed information.
- Objective Chart (OC) 10.0.1
- Objective Edit (OE) 10.0.1
- Stingray Foundation Library (SFL) 5.0.1
- Objective Grid (OG) 12.0.1
- Objective Toolkit (OT) 11.0.1
- Objective Views (OV) 11.0.1
64-bit support
Stingray is now available in two versions: 32-bit and 32/64-bit. 64-bit support provides increased performance. Please see the Stingray support matrix for the most up-to-date support.
Streamlined Visual Studio integration in the Installer
No need for a separate Wizard to integrate to Visual Studio, Stingray products now provide full integration of the development environment as part of the install process.