iShell
ishell is software that allows you to create media applications that can be delivered on the internet (via the iShell player), CD-ROM and Kiosks.
iShell is an object oriented environment that includes a debugger.
Some features include:
- Variable arguments
- Messages can pass parameters
- Documents can be used as custom elements
- Local variables
- Extensible data types and operators
- Drag and Drop scripting
- Enhanced logic controls
- Functions
- Template functions
- http, ftp, rtp and rtsp
- Caching
- Dynamic documents
- URL based
- CD Launcher
There are three types of project windows - Full Screen - Letterbox, Standard and Player. The player window can be any shape, is draggable and can be run in the foreground or background.
Media support includes:
- Text
- Sound
- Movie
- Table
- Quick Time (Flash, mov and avi)
- Streaming
The Tools palette allows you to manipulate elements in the layout window. The Elements window contains all the media types that you simply drag and drop in the layout window or the Outline window. The Outline window is the window on the right that you see in the above screen shot with the title main.kd#Root.
Below you can see the Events and Commands palettes.
iShell includes a debugger. The Project window gives an overview of your projects attributes.
The menus in iShell are pretty straight forward.
iShell supports the following file types:
Images
BMP, FlashPix, GIF, JPEG/JFIF, MacPaint, Macromedia Flash, Photoshop, PICS, PICT, Pictures, PNG, QuickTime Image File, SGI, Targa, TIFF, TIFF-fax
Movies
3DMF, AIFF, AU, Audio CD Data(MAC), AVI, DV, Karaoke, Macromedia Flash MPEG1, Layer3(MP3, M3U), MPEG 1(MAC), MIDI, QuickTime Movie, SMIL Sound Text, Virtual Reality (VR), Wave
Sounds
AIFF, AU, MPEG 1, Layer3(MP3, M3U), Wave
Panoramas
QuickTime VR Movies and QTVR Panoramas
Text
Simple text and RTF Text
iShell is a very powerful tool. Check it out at Tribeworks.
Pricing
iShell is available through a membership model. See their website for a full description of this model and it's options.
Gold Membership: $2,750.00(US)
Silver Membership: $975.00(US)
- Pentium class processor
- Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT
- 32 MB of RAM recommended
- QuickTime 4
Macintosh
- Macintosh PowerPC
- MacOS 8.6
- 32 MB of available RAM
- Minimum 10 MB free hard disk space
- QuickTime 4
(required for deploying a commercial application created with iShell Editor)
Windows
- Pentium class processor
- Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT
- 32 MB of RAM recommended
- QuickTime 4
Macintosh
- Macintosh PowerPC
- Apple System Software MacOS 7.5 or later
- QuickTime 4
- 16 MB of available RAM
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