Using the Cross-Export facility built into our Compile Manager I exported the following apps from C6 to C7 with no code changes. These C7 (precompiled) versions can be downloaded and installed from here if you'd like to take a look.
CHT Handy Zip'n Email: HNDZIPNEMAIL.APP
CHT Handy Zip'n FTP: HNDZIPNFTP.APP
CHT Handy Zip'n HTTP Post: HNDHTTPZIPNPOST.APP
CHT Video Education Player: HNDVIDEOEDUCATION
Our next challenge: to build the same apps with Clarion #. ;-)
A C7 Appraisal (Win32 Version)
• In my view C7 menus, while an improvement from ordinary C6 menus, are a step down from the menus that CHT has been able to give you in C6, for the last 4 or 5 years.
• The window editor in C7 works, kind of, but in my view it sucks in many ways compared to the one in C6. Fine movements and accurate placement is not as good. You also cant size a window upward, which means if you need to make room at the top of a window, you need to move all the controls down. In C6 you can size the window upward making room at the top without moving any controls. This is progress?
• The C7 compiler and editor work well, and code completion is now pretty solid.
• Text box controls in C7 are not as controllable as they are in C6. Hiding the line around a flat, transparent text control in C7 is not possible unless you set its RTF property to true.
• Font rendering is considerably better in C7 than in C6.
All in all, definitely C7 (Win32) is presently not worth the long wait, so the final product had better be good.
Tell me what you think. Are these C7 versions of the Utilities all that much "prettier" or more functional in C7 than in C6?
Cheers...
Gus Creces
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