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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Finally 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 [...]

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Translating Clarion7 Addins

Posted on Monday, June 1st, 2009

A quick follow up to my previous article on creating a Clarion7 addin this is an example of how to provide translations of your own addins (based on the example provided I think by Lee [...]

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Clarion7 3rdParty Addin!

Posted on Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

This is a very simple example of using the new Clarion7 IDE addin system to put a new item into the help menu.

Download the addin file – Clarion3rdParty.sdaddin
Start the Clarion 7 IDE:

Go to the Tools [...]

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APPCRASH fun with WslDebug$NameMessage

Posted on Saturday, April 25th, 2009

At work the other day we had a report from a client that the latest version of our software was not working on new Vista machines. Ingeniously, the customer managed to discover that if they [...]

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Vista File Associations – Follow up

Posted on Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Early last year I posted an article about changing icons and file associations in Vista. The bad news is that nothing seems to have changed natively in this regard for Vista. Perhaps things will be [...]

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Embedding Mozilla in a Clarion Window

Posted on Sunday, March 15th, 2009

Here is a very quick and dirty example of embedding a web browser control in a clarion window.
To use the Mozilla example you will need to download and install the Mozilla ActiveX Control from here:
http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/control.htm#download
Enjoy!

Download:
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