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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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Trailing spaces in strings – Clarion vs SQL

Posted on Thursday, February 19th, 2009

This topic came up at work a while ago when trying to perform database operations on strings containing a trailing space.
The Problem: One of our stored procedures was using CHARINDEX to search for strings within [...]

#RUN parameter limits and hiding command windows

Posted on Sunday, February 8th, 2009

Recently I have been doing a fair amount of work trying to automate parts of the development process, in particular the version control aspects. I ran into what appeared to be limitations in the length [...]

Using THEN to improve IF clarity

Posted on Sunday, February 8th, 2009

Something that came up recently on CW-Talk2 which I found to be a very interesting insight.
In Clarion the help has this description for “IF”:

CWPlus Icon Set

Posted on Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

A slightly fancier set of icons for use with CWPlus . I have included new icons for all the buttons on the main clarion window and a couple of updates for the window/report formatter [...]