Adding Academic License for the MBS REALbasic ChartDirector

NICKENICH, Germany (May 19th, 2008) -- Monkeybread Software is proud to announce that a the MBS REALBasic ChartDirector plug-in is now available with an Academic license. All pupils, students and teachers can now start adding professional charts to their applications made with REALbasic.

With the ChartDirector plug-in, you can create professional charts in your application.

* Synthesize Charts using Layers:
Layering architecture enables you to synthesize the charts you want using standard chart layers.

* Comprehensive Chart Types:
Pie, donut, bar, line, spline, step, trend, curve-fitting, area, scatter, bubble, box-whisker, finance, gantt, vector, polar, radar, rose ... Even includes meters and gauges.

* Unparalleled Customizability:
Object oriented API allows you to customize every chart details.

* Markup Text Support:
Embed icons and use multiple fonts and colors in the same piece of text. Decorate your charts with professionally looking text and labels.

* Full Unicode support
* No external DLLs
* Per developer royalty free license for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux

More features will come. All plugins can be freely tested in the REALbasic IDE while compiled applications require a valid licence.

Licenses for the ChartDirector plug-in are available for 200 Euro (commercial) and 100 Euro (academic) per developer (plus VAT). This plug-in part is sold separately. Orders before end of May 2008 will qualify for a free 6 months subscription on the RB Developer Magazine.

Details on the ChartDirector plug-in:
http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/realbasic/plugin-chartdirector.shtml

Visit the chart gallery:
http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/realbasic/chartdirector/

Download the latest prerelease of the plugins here:
http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/realbasic/plugin/

Please contact us if you have questions or problems with the plug-ins.