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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Karelia Ships Watson 1.5 and Updated SDK for Groundbreaking Desktop Web Application for Mac OS X. Alameda, CA, USA, March 27, 2002 -- Karelia Software today announced the release of Watson 1.5, a significant upgrade to its pioneering desktop interface to the most popular web content and services. Along with the updated application, the company released the open architecture SDK to enable third-party developers to build plug-ins for the Mac OS X application. The update features additional utility functions and support for parsing XML-based services. "The Watson developer community has started to build some great applications that fit into the Watson vision of an elegant, time-saving interface to the Web," said Dan Wood, Karelia President and Watson creator. "This new release now enables developers to access XML services and easily manipulate them as Cocoa objects, and adds more New features in the Watson 1.5 SDK: * Tools have a new extension and file type. In your project, WRAPPER_EXTENSION = WatsonTool, type = WATt, signature = WATs * More NSString functions for searching between delimeters * Post of a block of data (not a dictionary) is possible via LOAD_OPTION_POSTSTRING option * Parsing Dictionaries can convert an element to an NSDate or NSNumber * Additional key for a tool, ToolUsesMoreButton is true if the green "More Results" button is used by the tool. * Tools no longer use ToolInstructionsFile, but can be called "instructions.html" (or .rtfd or .rtf) * In a parsing dictionary, format = XML means that a parsing dictionary is used to convert an XML structure into Cocoa classes * Change of nomenclature: "scanning dictionary" now universally changed to "parsing dictionary" for consistency. * Tools now have access to other UI features via the WToolbox, such as the status text and the progress indicator. * A number of additional classes and categories for the UI. Watson is downloadable as a fully functional, expiring demo. A single-user license costs $29 (US) and can be purchased via Kagi.com. Watson requires Mac OS X v10.1 or higher. A full-time Internet connection is recommended. More information about the Watson development kit is available at http://www.karelia.com/developer/watson/. Watson's general Home Page is http://www.karelia.com/watson/. Contact: Dan Wood Karelia Software, LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________ Please visit our sponsors: RadGad(sm): The Place for Useful Gifts & Gadgets.(sm) http://www.radgad.com/, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], or 877-5-RADGAD MacTech(r) Magazine: The journal of Macintosh technology and development http://www.mactech.com, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], or 805-494-9797 DevDepot(sm): Your Source for RAM, Technical & Developer Products http://www.devdepot.com, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or call 877-DEPOT-NOW To submit a posting to MacDev-1, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. To subscribe to MacDev-1, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the SUBJECT line reading "SUBSCRIBE MACDEV-1". To unsubscribe, the SUBJECT line should read "UNSUBSCRIBE MACDEV-1". MacTech, Developer Depot, RadGad, and Xplain Corporation are not responsible for any errors, omissions, or other inaccuracies in this message. News may be propagated freely, but please attribute your source as MacTech Magazine, <http://www.mactech.com>. --
