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Raycone Web Design Software Solutions for BeOS

We are producing web-design and productivity software for BeOS. Currently we have only a Visual WebSite & documentation creator with an HTML editor - Weboardo- available for Internet fans but we are working hard on improving it and preparing extensions to make it really complex and powerful WebMaster's tool. The entire Raycone site is webmastered in Weboardo.

BeOS is an operating system for personal computers which began development by Be Inc. in 1991. It was first written to run on BeBox hardware. BeOS was optimized for digital media work and was written to take advantage of modern hardware facilities such as symmetric multiprocessing by utilizing modular I/O bandwidth, pervasive multithreading, preemptive multitasking and a custom 64-bit journaling file system known as BFS. The BeOS GUI was developed on the principles of clarity and a clean, uncluttered design. The API was written in C++ for ease of programming. It has POSIX compatibility and access to a command line interface through the bash shell, although internally it is not a Unix-derived operating system. BeOS was positioned as a platform which could be used by a substantial population of desktop users and a competitor to Microsoft Windows and Linux. However, it was ultimately unable to achieve a significant market share and proved commercially unviable for Be Inc. The company was acquired by Palm Inc. and today BeOS is mainly used and developed by a small population of enthusiasts.

Be Inc. sued Microsoft claiming that Hitachi had been pressured to dissuade them from selling PCs loaded with BeOS, and that Compaq had been pressured not to market an Internet appliance in partnership with Be. BeOS also claimed that Microsoft acted to artificially depress Be Inc's IPO. The case was eventually settled out of court with no admission of liability on Microsoft's part.

Raycone InSite Constructor

InSite Constructor is a HomeSite style HTML editor developed from scratch for BeOS/Zeta.

A new version - 1.1.5 - has been released
(If you downloaded the demo version and the 'Later' button in the demo window does not get active at times, download the new update.)

A demo version without saving capability and with some other limitations is available or you can directly buy the full version and use its full features.

New in version 1.1.5

This release brings quite a lot of important changes, eventhough a larger part of them is "under the cover". Some internal updates have been made for better support with the more up-to-date versions of BeOS and Zeta, so everyone using InSite Constructor should install this update for better results.

New features in this release include

  • improved parser and syntax highlighter
  • easy to access menu with available syntax highlighting languages to choose from for syntax highlighting a certain page
  • new color palette
  • improved Tag inspector - e. g. a color sample box for color attributes
  • new button bar and HTML validator message graphics
  • and more
Apart from these, this release brings the code base for features present in the next versions and so the full version of this release will be required for the next releases. Screenshots have been updated to reflect the new version so you can have a look at them.

New in version 1.1

  • Table wizard
  • Quick-table tool
  • Tool for converting special characters to their HTML codes
  • Improved cooperation with InSite Designer
  • various other fixes and improvements, ...
  • added French and Polish localizations
  • New in 1.1.3:
    • font settings
    • cursor position and document size displayed in status bar
    • improved handling of file types (MIME types)

A short summary of InSite Constructor features

  • Context sensitive menus that provide possible tags, attributes and values as you type
  • Tag inspector provides a quick and easy access to all possible attributes and their values for the tag you placed your cursor into. For easy modification of the values it provides
    • value selector for attributes, where the language defines a set of possible values
    • color selector for color values
    • switches for yes/no values
  • The whole system is made from scratch to support both case sensitive and case insensitive languages - it supports all HTML and X(HT)ML languages
  • Toolbar with most often used HTML tags (if you are writing an HTML document it inserts the tags in HTML style, if you are writing an XHTML document then it uses XHTML style - case sensitivity)
  • User editable tag definition files (language plug-ins) - new mark-up languages (HTML, XHTML, etc.) can be added and current modified easily
  • User editable "programming" language definition files - new programming languages can be added and current modified easily
  • Real-time parser that checks your tags as you type them
  • File managers with drag&drop support for adding images and links. (e. g. the system fills the width and height for images automatically, when you drop them to your page.)
  • HTML validator by WWW Consortium
  • Special character (entity) selector
  • Table wizard and Quick-table tool
  • Syntax highlighting, completely customizable key bindings (short-cuts), pair tag completition, unlimited undo, redo, regular expression search through documents and lots more ...
  • InSite Tag & Language Editor - editor of the mark-up and "programming" language definition files
  • Easy localization thanks to its localization layer. All texts in the program are gathered in one text file and translating the file localizes the whole program.
  • Made from scratch for BeOS/Zeta :-)
  • Supported languages - language plug-ins distributed with InSite Constructor (Others may be created easily using InSite Tag & Language Editor, see below)
  • Mark-up languages - HTML 4 (Strict, Transitional and Frameset DTD's), XHTML 1 (Strict, Transitional and Frameset DTD's)
  • "Programming" languages - ASP, AWK, Assembler, C++, Cascade Style Sheets, Clipper, Cobol, ColdFusion, Csh, C#, Eiffel, Oracle Express, Flash 5 Action Script, Fortran, Java, JavaScript, Lingo, MS SQL Server 7, MakeFile, Modula 2, MySQL, Oracle 8 SQL, PHP, PHP with Oracle extensions, PL/SQL, Pascal, Perl, PostScript, Progress 8, Python, Python 4, Rexx, SQL, SQR, Server Side Includes (SSI), Swift, Sybase SQL, TCL, TCL with Vignette StoryServer extensions, TSP, TclTk, TeX, Transact-SQL, VRML, Visual Basic, WAP phones WML 1.1

Support for other programming and mark-up languages

For quick and easy editing of the mark-up and programming language definition files (language plug-ins) we developped InSite Tag & Language editor. Using this tool anyone can create new or adjust the current definition files to add support for new languages.

Available localizations: Deutsch (German), Dutch, Eesti (Estonian), French, Italiano (Italian), Polski (Polish), Russian.

Localization

If you can speak English and another language well and don't mind spending some time translating a text file from English to your language, which could help other BeOS users that can't speak English as well, look in the 'English' localization file in the 'Languages' directory for more information on localization and if you create a localization file, mail it , so that other users may use it too (and we can keep it at least working with newer versions, eventhough we cannot provide other than English localizations of the new text strings needed by new versions of InSite Constructor).

For More Information Regarding our Products and Services Please Email us at: info@raycone.com

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