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Cityview Software Announces the Release of AppBeat� 1.2 Company Sets Sights on Apple's WWDC with the Latest Version of Its Mac Developer Tool FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DALY CITY, Calif., May 3, 2002 -- Cityview Software announces version 1.2 of AppBeat�. This version of AppBeat includes many new UI and usability features. Cityview Software is also pleased to announce the opening of its online Company Store. Cityview Software will be showing AppBeat at the WWDC Expo, May 6th through May 8th. AppBeat 1.2 is a powerful and innovative utility for Macintosh developers. It enables programmers to examine exactly what is going on inside their application as it executes. Using AppBeat's real-time profiler, programmers can see the profile results as the application runs. This lets programmers interact with the application to locate exactly where performance bottlenecks are located. In addition, AppBeat provides a real-time memory monitoring utility that allows programmers to visually inspect their application's memory usage to find functions that are allocating too much memory or to find memory leaks as they happen. In addition to performance tuning, AppBeat is a great utility for helping to understand how an application works. As programmers new to a code base use the application, they can use AppBeat's hierarchical function call display to see exactly which functions are being used and in which order. AppBeat fully utilizes the debugging data generated by the development system to provide file and line information about where functions are defined and used. AppBeat seamlessly integrates itself into any existing Carbon application by fully utilizing the power of CarbonEvents. The programmer simply links against the provided static library, calls the appropriate initialization function, and turns on the compiler switch for profiling. AppBeat installs its own menu that lets the user select the application data to be displayed. AppBeat is already being used by some of Apple's most prominent developers to tune their applications for Mac OS X. AppBeat has been tested with some of the largest Macintosh applications in existence, including an application larger then 30 megabytes with a 30 megabyte .xSYM file. The AppBeat package is freely downloadable over the Internet in a default state for evaluation use. Software license keys can be purchased at the online store, http://www.cityviewsoftware.com/files/store.php, to unlock the product. There are two versions of the software license key. The Basic key is for students and hobbyists; it allows for small-to-medium-sized applications of 500 or fewer functions. The Professional key allows for an unlimited number of functions. The default demo state used for evaluation allows 100 functions. Functions contained in PowerPlant, MSL or system runtime libraries are not counted against the function limits. About Cityview Software Founded in 2002, Cityview Software is a privately held software development house that specializes in making developer utilities to help create better and faster applications. Since leaving Bungie Software in December of 1999, founder Brent Pease has been an independent consultant for various companies including Apple Computer and Metrowerks. During that time he has also been hard at work on his own projects. AppBeat is the first product to be brought to market as a result of this work. During his career Brent has constantly wished for ever-better tools to create higher performing and more-efficient applications in less time. With the founding of Cityview Software, Brent is starting to make his vision for better development utilities a reality. __________________________ 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>. --
