Tip# 2 – Just because it is enabled…
Posted on Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Just because a menu is enabled doesn’t mean you should expect it to work. E.g. You cannot use import from TXA if you are currently editing a procedure.
Clarion7 conversion notes – Tip# 1 – Don’t click…
Posted on Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Having recently begun a project to convert a large system from C6.3 to Clarion7 I thought it might be good to share a few of my experiences along the way
These are just some [...]
R.I.P. faq.clarionmag.com
Posted on Thursday, July 29th, 2010
I know it was a while ago now but I still feel the loss. Apparently the good folk at StackExchange decided there was not enough traffic.
More info http://www.clarionmag.com/cmag/faq.html
Clarion 6 Editor Tip – Ctrl+PgUp/PgDown
Posted on Friday, May 7th, 2010
This is something I hadn’t noticed before today. It may be common knowledge to others
When editing an embed, if you hold down control key then PageUp and PageDown are restricted to the [...]
Problems with J-Blowfish
Posted on Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
From http://www.strategyonline.co.za/accessories/jblowfish/
J-Blowfish is a Clarion wrapper (pure Clarion source, no black boxes) for the Blowfish encryption algorithm. Most of this code was written by Andy Ireland – we have added a helper class, examples, templates, [...]
Fun windows trick #42
Posted on Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
This is something I discovered by accident a while ago, maybe you already know about it…
Use the mouse to move a window around and then, while you still have the left mouse button held [...]
Changing Clarion6 IDE Fonts
Posted on Saturday, December 12th, 2009
The inspiration for this post came from a newsgroup message I read yesterday by JP.
Clarion IDE Fonts & save your eyes ? 17/12/2005 3:44:38 PM
I found that by careful tweaking of the registry values it [...]
A clarion version of System.AddMonths
Posted on Friday, November 20th, 2009
Today at work I needed some code to Add “x” months to a given date. System.AddMonths looked like the kind of thing I was after but I needed it implemented in clarion code.
Not hard but [...]
v5.3.1 of Textpad is out
Posted on Friday, October 16th, 2009
This is just an incremental update on v5.3.0 but if you are not already on v5.3 then I think it is worth upgrading. Having the option to substitute TextPad for Notepad baked into the program [...]
continue readingFinally a decent looking clipboard manager
Posted on Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
It has been ages since I have had a chance to post here so lets start of with a quick one.
I have just started using this and so far it looks really good and appears [...]