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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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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#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 [...]

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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”:

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Sometimes Vista UAC doesn’t popup…

Posted on Sunday, February 8th, 2009

Having recently re-installed my main development machine with Vista Ultimate 64bit I decided to try running with UAC enabled. Previously I was using Vista Business 32 bit and I was using it as my main [...]

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Remote Desktop Manager

Posted on Thursday, July 17th, 2008

For anyone who finds themselves managing many different remote clients. Support for Microsoft Remote Desktop and VNC.
I have been using this great utility for some time now. It has become such a part of my [...]

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