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ClarionLive DevCon Rooms 80% Booked
John and Arnold are reporting that the block of rooms reserved for CLDC attendees at the end of October is now 80% taken, so if you want to be sure of getting the excellent conference room rate book now.
Posted August 27 2010 (permanent link)
Bob Foreman on ClarionLive
Bob Foreman will be presenting this Friday's ClarionLive! webinar. Here's Bob's promo from the ClarionLive! home page:
Best Development Practices in Clarion 7.2
In the past few months, we have had many long time Clarion users step up to Clarion 7.2, and on behalf of SoftVelocity we thank you for your continued support.
Many of these new users of Clarion 7.2 have been using Clarion for quite a while, and have a good familiarity with the Clarion Language and applications, but the new IDE of Clarion 7 is a major departure with regards to its flexibility and design flow.
In this webinar, I will review my best practices for application design. We'll review the application migration process and explore the many new areas of the IDE.
This session will include:
-Setting up your environment for a smooth development experience, tailored to your styles and preferences.
-General Dictionary and Application Best Design Practices and Work Flow.
-Review of the latest enhanchements to Clarion 7.2, including:
Extended Visual Styles support
Expanded Smart Formatting Options
Enhanced project support for copying multiple files
Other miscellaneous features.
As always, a Q&A will follow the presentation.
Posted August 18 2010 (permanent link)
Special RTL to track down missing menu bug
SV has released a special RTL build for C7.2 to help track down the missing menu bug. From a newsgroup post by Bob Z:
There are several reports about Menu items missing at Runtime. Restarting the program restores the missing items.
Attached to PTSS report 36756 is a special variant of the C7 RTL that outputs debug information about the Menu and its Menu items to help isolate this problem.
If you have seen this problem in your program you can help us isolate and fix the problem with the following steps:
- unzip the attached C70RUN.dll into your APP folder (_NOT_ your IDE BIN folder)
- start DbgView.exe (download DbgView.exe from
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896647.aspx )
- run your APP
- if you see Menu items are missing, exit the APP
- switch to DgView and do File->Save and then post an attachment to PTSS 36756 to this report with the DbgView log file
- when you post the DbgView log, remember to specify which Menu items were missing
- to post an attachment to the PTSS report open the PTSS report and press the hyperlink " Add additional information on this report..."
- in addition, in the attachment (if possible) please include the program your
were running. In the very least please specify what Menu Style (if any) that you were using, a copy of the WINDOW structure containing the Menu, and specify the OS you saw the problem on.
Thanks, and I hope this helps to quickly resolve this rare but very important bug.
-
Robert
Posted July 28 2010 (permanent link)
Home page fix
For the past few days the home page was showing a "your subscription is up for renewal" message if you weren't logged in. This has been corrected - my apologies for any confusion that may have caused.
Posted July 22 2010 (permanent link)
New T4 blog post by SV
There's a new post on the SoftVelocity blog that talks about the T4-based template language.
Posted July 7 2010 (permanent link)
Free articles index is back
The free articles index can now be found here. These are articles that are available without charge; some require a logon.
Posted June 30 2010 (permanent link)
New PDF format
The April/May PDF is now available for download. In the past we created PDFs using Adobe Acrobat, with less than stellar results. For the new site we've implemented PDF creation using webSupergoo's ABCpdf, which oddly enough is not a Clarion-related product. It's a .NET product, and we chose it because we needed something that would work with ASP.NET MVC.
The upshot is that our PDFs now suck a whole lot less. There's still some work to be done, but if you'd like to see the new look just download the April/May PDF (subscription required).
The upshot is that our PDFs now suck a whole lot less. There's still some work to be done, but if you'd like to see the new look just download the April/May PDF (subscription required).
Posted June 29 2010 (permanent link)
Working on PDFs
As you may have gathered if you're following ClarionMag's Twitter feed (look to the right) I'm revamping the mag's PDFs, and I'm attempting to do this with WebSuperGoo's ABCpdf product.
ABCpdf is pretty cool, and does a much, much nicer job on the PDFs than Acrobat ever did. The only issue I'm having is that not all the links are being resolved within the document. Must be some bonehead mistake on my part, but I can't see what it is. I've emailed the company, so we'll see what comes of that.
ABCpdf is pretty cool, and does a much, much nicer job on the PDFs than Acrobat ever did. The only issue I'm having is that not all the links are being resolved within the document. Must be some bonehead mistake on my part, but I can't see what it is. I've emailed the company, so we'll see what comes of that.
Posted June 25 2010 (permanent link)
Notes on reader comments and article searching
Posted June 10 2010 (permanent link)
Reader comments are back!
You can once again post reader comments! Also you can view the most recent comments here. I'll put up a link on the home page shortly, and will also set up a redirect from the old comments page.
Posted June 9 2010 (permanent link)
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Converting Your Apps To C7
12/21/2009 12:00:00 AM
Russ Eggen covers some of the more common errors you can encounter when converting applications from C6 to C7, including window structure errors and phantom templates.
A few points to keep in mind when posting reader comments:
- You need a blank line between paragraphs of text
- You can tag text as source code
- You need to add a space after any < character or it'll be taken
as a tag. And if it's not one of the allowed tags (e.g. for bold, italic, code etc) the text will be stripped out.
- Be sure to look at the preview to be sure your message is displaying
as expected.
I've also made some changes to the search page. You can now search for text containing colons, such as prop:sql. Prior to this change that search term would result in an error, and you had to use the term "prop sql" instead. That trick is no longer necessary.