State-of-the-Art Development Product
Designed specifically for the MultiValue marketplace!

This exciting new technology demonstrates our commitment to TigerLogic customers as well as the entire MultiValue community. If you are one of the thousands of developers who have created an application with world-class functionality, but one that needs a more contemporary look and feel, then mvDesigner is the right tool for you!

mvDesigner is the most comprehensive Rapid Application Development environment specifically designed for use with MultiValue databases. This sophisticated, but simple to use RAD tool has been carefully designed to minimize the MultiValue developer's learning curve, while it maximizes efficiency during the RAD development process.

No compromises!

Only a few development tools in the MultiValue market have been able to achieve any success bringing a GUI front end to traditional character based applications. Since the early days, a variety of solutions have been tried:

  • Terminal emulation
  • Screen scraping
  • Client/Server
  • 4GL Tools

Most of the above solutions increased the overall level of complexity, added processing overhead, extended the re-engineering effort, and forced compromises into a closed-end solution that restricted functionality due to character-based dependencies.

Tightly integrated with your MultiValue environment, you will find that mvDesigner allows you to always be in control. User interactions, backend processing, and real-time event reporting are readily available at your fingertips.

With mvDesigner, TigerLogic offers a unique technology which allows developers to deploy elegant GUI front end applications as thick (client/server) or thin (web) clients while fully utilizing existing MultiValue business rules and file structures. No need to flatten your files or wrap your code with unnecessary subroutines.

This simple, direct interface to your application provided by mvDesigner allows you to preserve the power of business rules written in MultiValue BASIC, and drive the front-end the way you want it, when you want it. All of this allows your application to easily take action on the client event when you need it. We do the hard work behind the scenes, allowing you to concentrate on your business solution.

Database Versatility: Out of the Box

Applications today are required to run in multiple client platforms, operating systems and inter-operate with other applications, all of which frequently run on disparate database management systems. With mvDesigner, your software application can access other RDBMS via mvDesigner's native Data Access Module (DAM) built-in architecture.

Whether you are required to read or write via ODBC or through more native interfaces, the capability is readily available for your convenience.


The mvDesigner environment makes extensive use of GUI drag and drop facilities to build the industry's most sophisticated feature-rich front ends. The built-in component store provides all the controls you will ever need to build thick and thin client applications. And if this is not enough, mvDesigner's component-based architecture allows you to interface natively with any external component you desire, exposing its methods and properties for easy integration.

A sophisticated SQL browser and multithreaded session manager makes data movement a snap.

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