Development of the Fortran Module Wizard within DIGITAL Visual Fortran

Vol. 9 No. 1 1997 13 DIGITAL Visual Fortran is an integrated development environment for Fortran applications. It is supported on the Windows NT version 4.0 operating system on both Alpha and Intel hardware and on the Windows 95 system. DIGITAL Visual Fortran is a combination of technologies from DIGITAL and Microsoft Corporation. The DIGITAL-supplied compiler and run-time libraries support the DIGITAL Fortran 90 language. DIGITAL Fortran 90 conforms to American National Standard Fortran 90 (ANSI X3.198-1992) and provides many extensions to the Fortran 90 standard. The Microsoftsupplied integrated development environment is the Microsoft Developer Studio, which is also used by Microsoft Visual C++, Microsoft Visual J++ (for Java), other Microsoft tools, and other companies’ development tools. Developer Studio includes a text editor, resource editors, project build facilities, an incremental linker, a source code browser, an integrated debugger, and a profiler. The operation of all these tools is controlled from a single application. Figure 1 shows an example of Microsoft Developer Studio from which two Fortran source files are being edited. DIGITAL adds a number of Fortran-specific tools to the environment, one of which is the Fortran Module Wizard.