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A range of new development tools for the Macintosh platform, including two bedrock offerings from Apple Computer itself, should provide quite a boon for developers gearing new products to the Mac market. These products include Apple's own Apple Media Tool, Apple Media Tool Programming Environment, and Release 19 of its subscription-based Essential*Tools*Objects toolset line. They also include a new edition of Kaleida Labs' ScriptX programming language and Interactive Media Corp.'s Getting Started 2.1.
Apple Computer, Inc. opened 1996 by announcing updates to two of its key developers' aids, the Apple Media Tool and the companion Apple Media Tool Programming Environment, and a new release in its growing Essential*Tools*Objects (E.T.O.) toolset line. Version 2.0 of Apple Media Tool, an objectbased, cross-platform multimedia authoring tool, is designed to enable users to create interactive titles without programming or scripting. The new version of Apple Media Tool can be used to develop projects that will run fully native on Power Macintosh systems and incorporates new features such as support for QuickTime VR, custom color palettes, AppleScript, hypertext links, and more. Other new features include an improved user-interface browser, drag and drop capability for media elements from anywhere on the desktop, feature extensibility, continuous cross-screen sound,...