The GO++ Evaluation kit has been updated to support Visual Studio 6 and Visual Studio.NET.

GO++^TM  is an MFC extension library for Windows that lets programmers easily create graphical objects and network or diagram editors.

The key strengths of GO++ are:

• Usable Classes -- GO++ was designed from the start to be a reusable class library
• Power -- easy definition of specialized graphical objects containing other objects
• Flexibility -- any client application can implement its own visual syntax and semantics
• Performance -- can handle thousands of nodes and arcs
• Ease of Use -- supports object selection, drag-and-drop, auto-scrolling, zooming into diagrams, arbitrary scaling of individual nodes, assisted drawing of arcs
• Feel -- users can do in-place text editing, drag and drop, resize all using the "expected" user interface
• Smooth -- supports double-buffering, real-time dragging, and Windows metafiles for full-resolution printing

Based on Microsoft Foundation Classes, GO++ provides full support for COLEServerDoc and CScrollView. The class structure provides an easy to use, yet high performance framework to build your graphical applications.

A free evaluation kit is available for download. The evaluation kit gives you the header files, and object library (.LIB), samples and documentation.  This is a real try-before-you-buy kit that none of our competition offers.

Our Customer Gallery: see the diverse set of  applications our customers are building.

GO++ was reviewed by Brian Noyes for DevX.com.  You can read the review online.

GO++ is written entirely in the C++ language.

Licensing Terms

• No Runtime Royalty
• Complete Source

Current Status

Northwoods is currently investing primarily in our GoDiagram for .NET product rather than Go++. Microsoft has made it clear that .NET is the future direction for Windows development, so Northwoods, like Microsoft, is continuing to maintain our MFC based products but are investing for the future in .NET. We do not plan to produce any new releases of Go++ unless they are required for maintenance purposes. Northwoods is also no longer offering technical support for Go++.

Customer Comments

GO++ gives you a set of well written classes that makes it possible to use Windows Metafiles in graphical applications. GO++ lets you move and size images without any flickering, and the classes can easy be extended to provide animations and whatever need you might have since you are provided
with all the source code.

Northwoods provides great support, and the classes are well documented. The GO++ package comes with samples that helps understand how to use the complex classes.

GO++ also has a lot of functionality other than the metafile support that can be included or left out, depending on your needs, without any problems.

With GO++ we did not have to worry about how to handle metafiles in an MFC application, we could start right away programming for the special needs of our application, which saved many hours of development time.

Thomas Balle
Big Dutchman (Skandinavien) A/S