VISTA Installation Double Check

I had the occasion to do a fresh VISTA installation of Clarion and CHT the other night. That gave me an opprortunity to double check that our CHT installation works 100% out of the box on a freshly configured VISTA machine.

After installing Clarion 6.3.9058 and registering only the ABCHAIN.TPL and the RTARPDF.TPL (both SV templates) and confirming that Clarion 6.3 was working correctly by compiling a few SV demo apps, I downloaded a copy of WEBUPDATER and set it with AutoContinue Checked (so I wouldn't have to click through all 6 steps manually).

That installed the CHT toolkit on the new machine. I followed this up by starting HNDCMP.EXE (the CHT Compile Manager) and told it to compile ALL 120 CHT applications listed there. The whole set compiled and ran as expected without error or intervention from me.

I normally do one of these full installs and full compiles before releasing a new version. But not always on a pristine, new machine. So there's always a margin of error if I forget something, since a file I've forgotten may already be there from a previous install, so only a new user would notice it missing.

This brand new machine plus brand new Clarion installation is a nice double-check opportunity that only comes when the VISTA HOME variant that ships with HP machines irritates me enough to completely format its hard drive, and install a standard copy of VISTA BUSINESS.

Don't know if any of you have ever purchased a machine from HP, but most of them are filled with HP crapplets that serve no purpose that I can fathom.

Cheers...
Gus Creces
The Clarion Handy Tools Page

New Video About Building Web-Based Installs

There's a new video about how to use HNDSETUP.APP and HNDSINGLESETUP.APP to build web installs for your applications.

This is a long video (too long, in fact) so I've not posted it to your CHT Video Education Players nor to your CHT Flash Help Player. But it is available in its present format at this URL: CHT Video Education

Look for the link called "How To Build Web-Based Installs With CHT Installation Containerizer".

I've decided to re-record this from scratch and make it shorter for inclusion with your Video and Flash players.

Cheers...
Gus Creces
The Clarion Handy Tools Page

Tell Your Friends. CHT $299.00 New Subscription Price Deal Ending

You'll remember that in November 2007 we set up a "New Subscribers" campaign with an objective of adding 100 new subscribers. We began offering a $299.00 price for new subscribers to our toolkit.

We've hit that 100 new subscriber target now, so that on Feb 29, 2008 Midnight (EST) the price of our toolkit to new subscribers reverts back up to $499.00 CDN. Renewal prices remain fixed at $250.00 CDN for 1 year or $375 CDN for two years. If you're presently an active subscriber and you know someone that's been thinking about getting a CHT subscription, we encourage you to remind them that this 40% discount is coming to an end. If they order because of you, and they tell us so, we'll send you the equivalent of $49.00 CDN for your effort (via Paypal) or we'll add 3 months to your current subscription, whichever you prefer.

We're not ending our use of CDN (Canadian Dollars) for pricing. Our buck is pretty much on par with the US buck these days, give or take a cent, so there's no significant price difference due to currency.

Cheers...
Gus Creces
The Clarion Handy Tools Page