New (Unplanned) Features Coming To CHT

Last week, I made a deal to buy unrestricted source code for GCal and GCalc from Dave Hlavac who purchased the rights for these products from Gitano. While this was not in our plans specifically, the opportunity came up and we made an offer which Dave accepted.

In our January forward plans I did make the following statement which underlines the intent of this code-rights purchase and will continue throughout the year. So, if you have something of worth you'd like to sell or contribute to CHT, or if you know someone who might also be interested in doing this please feel free to discuss it with me via private email (gcreces@sympatico.ca) or skype me (CHTHandyMan).

FROM OUR JANUARY 2008 WHAT'S NEW PAGE
While we've always done most of the development work in CHT ourselves, we're keenly interested in expanding CHT by incorporating classes and templates you've created or feel may make a contribution to the tool kit or to Clarion developers in general. While offering your creation freelance (free of charge or value priced) to the Clarion community may seem like a generous or perhaps lucrative thing to do, our experience is that there's more of the "generous" than of the "lucrative" to be found in most Clarion 3rdparty undertakings.

We do not have rights to the GCAL and GCALC brand names, nor are we interested in having them or maintaining them. We won't even market our code-adaptations as separate products per-se. Dave will continue to market these products under those names himself or sell them forward, however he sees fit to do.

CHT, however, has purchased unrestricted rights to incorporate and adapt the source code for these two products into the CHT tool kit and you'll get them as part of CHT at no extra charge as long as you're a paid-up subscriber. That's how CHT's all-in subscription plan works. You get everything for one low, annual subscription price.

Since both ex-Gitano products are done in a procedural style, meant to be sold as DLL's, I've begun to adapt them into source-OOP format similar to that used in our other 130 or so OOP libraries. We will, of course, be adding our own template interface to these OOP libraries when they've been adapted.

In the past week, I spent 1 1/2 days adapting just one calculator for our own use and there are 9 or 10 of them in the set. I wondered at the time, whether it might not have been just as expedient to have built them from scratch. I'll reserve judgement on that as I work through the rest of the set.

Cheers...

Gus Creces
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New Sub-Build 12A1.03 Released Today

We've just released a new sub-build numbered 12A1.03. This is the third update to our first-quarter-of-2008 build (12A1). If you're a CHT subscriber you can start your WEBUPDATER from the folder called "The Clarion Handy Tools" and update your tool kit with the latest features.

I'm just in the process of updating our CHT forum members with all that's new in this build update. On completing that I'll post some highlights here and on our March 2008 What's New page.

While there are some cool new features in this build update, there are some very extensive additions coming to CHT in the next build, 12B1.00. That build, all things being equal, will hit the streets early in April 2008.

Cheers...
Gus M. Creces
The Clarion Handy Tools Page