Zim IDE Features

General Features

✓ Local and remote application development;

✓ Multiuser application development;

✓ Design and edit forms and displays in both GUI and TUI applications;

✓ Design and edit graphical report templates (under development);

✓ Supports all Zim 7.12 and Zim 9.00 platforms (Windows, Linux, etc.);

✓ Connect to multiple databases simultaneously;

✓ Browse the entire data dictionary through the Tree View Tab Page.

✓ New user interface objects for Zim 9.00:

✓ Grid Control

✓ Tab Control and Tab Page, managed automatically by the client (does not require extra Zim code)

✓ Tool Strip

✓ New attributes for form fields:

✓ Anchoring

✓ Docking

✓ The Attributes Tab Page can be configured to be always visible;

✓ Create and edit multiple objects simultaneously;

✓ Modern tabbed development interface:

✓ Each Form, Display, Window, Menu, and Document stays open in its own tab page.

✓ Designed as an embedded specialized editor for Zim application programs and other documents;

✓ Syntax highlighting customized for the Zim language;

✓ Region expanding and contracting;

✓ Simultaneously browse every database currently connected to the development environment in a single tab page.

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