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A-Flow is an easy-to-use and powerful general-purpose software development and authoring tool suitable for creating a wide range of Windows applications, which comprises, but is not confined to:

Presentation and multimedia applications.
Computer-based training and testing applications.
Dynamic gaming applications (such as "brick" game).
Interactive database applications.
System utilities, shells and integrated end-user environments.
And many others...

A-Flow completely visualizes applications under development. You do not write application code but rather draw it by using a point-and-click approach.

A-Flow is an open tool. Developers who also domain other tools may easily extend A-Flow capabilities by adding more foreign components to the core environment, thus using A-Flow for software integration purposes.

The result from using A-Flow are freely distributable standalone Windows applications (*.exe files), which may run outside the A-Flow development environment.

Supported Interfaces and Standards

Supported interfaces and standards include:

Microsoft MCI. A simple, but quite flexible support for multimedia applications is provided.
ODBC. An industry-strength standard Application Programming Interface (API) suitable for accessing relational databases.
WinSock 1.1. A support for managing client-side sockets is provided.
Ole Automation. A modern comprehensive industry standard for software integration based on COM (Component Object Model).

System Requirements

An Intel x86-based (IA-32) personal computer running Microsoft® Windows 95 (or higher) or Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (or higher), including Microsoft Windows ME/2000/XP (or higher).
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher (already included with Windows 98/ME and Windows 2000/XP).
3 to 5 Mbytes of available hard disk space.
A mouse or other pointing device.
High-color 800x600 graphic display or better and appropriate graphic adapter are recommended.

Installation and Launching

Run the setup application (usually named af350.exe) and follow the instructions. The setup application will extract all the files, which make up A-Flow, to a folder of your hard disk, register several file types and create the A-Flow program group. Launch "A-Flow Designer".

Trademarks

Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.