Today, Metrowerks began shipping CodeWarrior for Mac OS, Version 7.0, development tools. With these tools, developers can build a single application that runs on both Classic Mac OS and Mac OS X architectures. The latest version of CodeWarrior tools provides the power to develop for multiple hosts and multiple targets: Classic Mac OS, Carbon, Native Mac OS X, and Java. Version 7.0 also includes the Metrowerks PowerPlant framework, the industryis most popular object-oriented C++ framework, which allows developers to create applications faster and easier.
CodeWarrior for Mac OS, Version 7.0, is an easy-to-use tool suite that saves development time by allowing developers to create new applications using existing code. Additionally, Version 7.0 includes a sophisticated Mach-O project converter that automatically converts Carbon PEF projects to Mach-O, enabling projects to run natively on the Mac OS X platform. Among other features are a new carbonized version of the integrated development environment (IDE), Mac OS X-hosted command-line tools, the latest Altivec support (Velocity Engine), and cross-development tools to target Windows.
Metrowerks customer Alias|Wavefront licensed a beta version of CodeWarrior for Mac OS, Version 7.0, tools to create its Maya software, a tool used to create 3-D animation and effects.
Metrowerks is also shipping CodeWarrior for Windows, Version 7.0, development tools and a combined package of CodeWarrior for Mac OS and Windows, Version 7.0, tools. All of the Version 7.0 products allow developers to write C/C++ and Java applications that target Classic Mac OS, Mac OS X or Windows operating systems using a single integrated development environment.
You can find more information on CodeWarrior 7.0 at Metrowerksi Web site. The new version is priced at US$599. CodeWarrior 7.0 for Windows is US$100 less at US$499. Users can upgrade from version 6.x for US$299 for Mac or US$249 for Windows.
A combined package of CodeWarrior 7.0 for Mac and Windows is priced at US$799, with the upgrade from version 6.x being priced at US$399.