Mountain View, California, February 26, 2010 - IST today announced the availability of X-Designer Release 9, underscoring its long-term commitment to the ongoing enhancement and maintenance of the classic UNIX and Linux GUI builder. X-Designer 9 is an evolutionary release with several additions, enhancements and improvements to the product. Software engineers building Motif interfaces can continue to do so rapidly with confidence that they are using a well proven product that continues to be supported and enhanced.

"We've developed this new release, X-Designer 9, in direct response to our customers' requests as they actively deploy X-Designer and Motif on new projects in addition to upgrading and enhancing existing systems. 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, CEO of IST.

New Features of X-Designer 9
X-Designer 9 is an evolutionary release with several additions, enhancements and improvements to the product. A brief summary follows:

• A new option allows you to include extra variables that you may need for your application in X-Designer generated data structures and classes.
• There is a convenient mechanism for launching one or more terminal sessions, to facilitate tasks such as compiling code.
• A record of previously accessed design files is now kept and listed for convenient access within the File -> Recent Open menu option.
• Widgets can be reset (whereby the widgets are destroyed and recreated to correct possible anomalies in the Motif toolkit) both from the currently selected widget in the hierarchy downwards or from the top.
• Switching between widgets in different hierarchies is now much simpler and easier.
• Truecolor visuals are now fully supported.
• UIL code generation now generates create callbacks for Scrolled Lists and Scrolled Text.
• It is now even easier to migrate UIM/X code into X-Designer - you don't have to reorganize your projects and application structure.

Pricing and Availability
X-Designer 9 costs $4,950 for the first license, including all features listed, complete with one year of IST's highly-regarded support and all upgrades. X-Designer 9 is shipping now and is initially available for Sun Solaris (SPARC and X86) and Linux. For availability on other platforms, contact IST.

The price above in US dollars applies only in the United States and Canada.

About IST
IST is a world-leading software engineering company specializing in software engineering tools and mobile systems. IST brings technological competence and over 25 years of experience and skills in the software engineering arena to provide its customers with a unique competitive edge in the, highly demanding world of mission-critical systems. 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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