http://www.clarionedge.com Get an Edge with Clarion! Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:13:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   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. http://www.clarionedge.com/uncategorized/tip-2-just-because-it-is-enabled.html 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 of the things I am stumbling across, your mileage may vary!   ... http://www.clarionedge.com/uncategorized/clarion7-conversion-notes-tip-1-dont-click.html 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 http://www.clarionedge.com/clarion/general/r-i-p-faq-clarionmag-com.html   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 current page instead of scrolling up/down. Kind of like Home/End for the ... http://www.clarionedge.com/clarion/general/clarion-6-editor-tip-ctrlpguppgdown.html 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, etc. I learnt a lot looking into this code a few years ago (wow, it was ... http://www.clarionedge.com/clarion/problems-with-j-blowfish.html   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