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

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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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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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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 [...]

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