Clarion Tips & Techniques Book

Clarion Tips and Techniques is a 630 page softcover book, containing selected articles from Clarion Magazine's first five years in publication, as well as a small number of articles originally published in Clarion Online. These articles were written for Clarion 5.0 and 5.5, but many are just as applicable to Clarion 6.
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You can view the Table of Contents (PDF, 70 KB), Index (PDF, 118K), and Author Index (PDF, 101KB) online. If you have difficulty downloading any of these PDFs please try right clicking on the link and choosing Save Target As (or equivalent).

What readers say

"I love the Tips book. It is awesome!" - Glenn Rathke

"Clarion Tips & Techniques is a wonderful addition to my library. I already found several techniques that are new to me. Nicely organized too." - John Welch

"Everyone should have this book." - Robert Wagner

"Very good job...nice book!" - Cleverson Tabajara

"[This book] should be shipped with Clarion as standard!" - Colin Wynn

"Very impressive." - Neville Dearham

"The book looks, well, great. A marvelous job. Cannot wait to start
digesting the pearls of wisdom. Make it a regular." - J André Labuschagné

"Flipping through the pages, it was soon apparent that there was a lot of meat here." - Nik Johnson, in his March 2004 article A Class Wrapper for Brice Schagane's Menu Buttons, which builds on Brice's article "Menu Buttons in Clarion," page 3 in the Tips & Techniques book.

"Read my article, it's the last one in the book." - Mark Riffey

Source code

The source code for the Clarion Tips & Techniques book is contained in the following zip file:

ClarionTipsTechniquesSource.zip (3.86 MB)

Errata

Corrections to the book will be posted here as necessary. If you have found an error please report it.

BitList.zip - This file was not included in the original source zip, and is actually misnamed. The available files are bitlist-0.9912.zip, bitlist2-bl29901a.zip (version 2), and btltest2.exe (demo). The above master zip has been updated with these files.

v5n04anyascii2.zip - corrections by Kurt Pawlikowski. The master zip has been updated.

Page 449 ProcA prototype and declaration both have incorrect parameters. The correct syntax is:
ProcA (STRING CusName,LONG CusNum,BYTE CusAge)

Related information

In March 2004 Clarion Magazine published Nik Johnson's A Class Wrapper for Brice Schagane's Menu Buttons, which builds on the code Brice described in "Menu Buttons in Clarion," page 3.