GstarCAD Enhances Application Program Interface (API)

By DE Editors

GstarCAD announced an enhanced Application Program Interface (API) with improved GRX in GstarCAD 2011. The company says it is more compatible with AutoCAD up to 2011.

"GstarCAD 2011's AutoCAD-compatible GUI and data format (DWG/DXF) will ensure users design easier and faster," says Huang Meiyu, vice president of Suzhou Gstarsoft Co., Ltd. "Meanwhile sophisticated APIs, especially the improved GstarCAD Runtime eXtension (GRX), one set of source codes which can support two platforms (AutoCAD and GstarCAD), greatly boosts the compatibility with AutoCAD at application development level. We believe that GstarCAD will broaden the application range for users in various industries and fields as well as deepen the cooperation with the application developers around the world."

GRX is the latest package designed for application development and transplantation based on both AutoCAD and GstarCAD platforms. GRX provides an object-oriented development environment and application programming interface. It's the source-level compatible with ARX applications developed on the AutoCAD platform. Based on GRX technology, application developers can visit CAD database of GstarCAD, interact with CAD editor, support multiple document interface (MDI), and build complex applications, according the company.

Transplantations from ARX to GRX can carried out via configuration of compiler connector without modifying source code. One industrial CAD application developer, CADProfi, has successfully transplanted its ARX-based product line to GstarCAD via GRX. CADProfi 7.15 is now available and works with GstarCAD 2011.

In GstarCAD 2011, compatibility and reliability of Lisp and Vlisp are further strengthened. Four classes of VBA — GcadHyperlinks, GcadHyperlink, GcadPlot and GcadTable —have also been added.

For more information, visit GstarCAD.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.