BCD announces the release of Presto 4.8, their rapid green screen web enablement and modernization tool. This version contains several new features, including enhancements to the Visual Editor’s Palette, which allows developers to add widgets to their screens without coding HTML.

The Palette now includes the ability to add tabs to screens. Tabs help organize data and unclutter screens, and can be used to navigate from one application to another. This gives the user the perception that the programs are on the same screen. BCD has also shipped many icons (e.g. print, help) with the Palette. Developers can drag and drop these icons onto screens, either on their own or as part of a button.

Presto 4.8 also includes the jQuery Mobile files, which reduces a step in further optimizing screens for mobile devices. This version features improved internationalization of the datepicker widget and configurable options that make it easier to globally style menus, such as the ability to select whether or not you want the menu number to appear on the screens. By default, menus are automatically transformed to clickable links.

BCD is a Quadrant Software company and one of the most successful software organizations in the IBM i marketplace. The companies have a combined 60 years in the IBM i marketplace and have successfully helped thousands of organizations worldwide modernize. Together, Quadrant and BCD help customers maximize their investment in IBM i with their industry leading web development, mobilization, spool file beautification and document distribution tools. Their customers and partners around the world are leaders in key markets such as finance, manufacturing, transportation, retail and healthcare.
Quadrant and BCD are part of the Quadrant group of companies that also includes Netlert, which develops an Avaya call center performance analysis solution, and SoftBase, which provides application testing and tuning solutions for IBM's DB2 database utilizing the OS/390 and z/OS operating systems.
For more information, please visit http://www.bcdsoftware.com and http://www.quadrantsoftware.com.