http://www.clarionedge.com Get an Edge with Clarion! Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:19:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   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 down, press the escape key. The window will be returned to ... http://www.clarionedge.com/windows/fun-windows-trick-42.html 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 was possible to alter the fonts used by the Clarion IDE! HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes It’s not quite as ... http://www.clarionedge.com/clarion/changing-clarion6-ide-fonts.html 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 nice to have. Thanks Mark for the assistance! Some examples: 05-Oct-2009 + 1 Month = 05-Nov-2009 31-Oct-2990 + 1 ... http://www.clarionedge.com/clarion/a-clarion-version-of-systemaddmonths.html 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 alone is worth it! Textpad, a great general purpose editor - http://www.textpad.com/download/index.html http://www.clarionedge.com/windows/tools/v531-of-textpad-is-out.html 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 to still be in active dev - http://ditto-cp.sourceforge.net/ Yay! http://www.clarionedge.com/windows/development/finally-a-decent-looking-clipboard-manager.html 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 and Charles on the newsgroups, thanks!). The magic line to add to your addin file is ... http://www.clarionedge.com/clarion/translating-clarion7-addins.html 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 - [drain file 28 url] Start the Clarion 7 IDE: Go to the Tools menu and select the Addin Manager: Click the Install Addin button: Find the Addin ... http://www.clarionedge.com/clarion/clarion7-3rdparty-addin.html 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 initially launched the program with elevated (administrator) access then subsequent executions of  the program would ... http://www.clarionedge.com/clarion/general/appcrash-fun-with-wsldebugnamemessage.html 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 different in Window7... who knows. The good news though is that I have since found a ... http://www.clarionedge.com/windows/vista/vista-file-associations-follow-up.html 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: [drain file 26 icon] [drain file 26 url] Version: [drain file 26 version] Updated: [drain file 26 updated] Size: [drain file 26 ... http://www.clarionedge.com/clarion/examples/embedding-mozilla.html