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Thanks for your interest in The Clarion Handy Tools, an awesome collection of productivity enhancements for Clarion developers. These tools consist of an ever-expanding set of Clarion Templates and OOP Classes that extend or complement the normal functionality of the Clarion Application Development System from SoftVelocity.

Monday, June 1, 2009

Four CHT Example Applications For You To Try

If you're a CHT subscriber, the four applications discussed here are demos provided for you in source application format as part of approximately 130 different example applications included with our tool kit.

One and all, CHT subscribers or not, you're invited to download these fully functional applications built with C7.0.0.5646. I personally use these applications on a daily basis in my day to day business affairs. You're welcome to download them and use them too, no strings attached.

The installer is packaged in a .ZIP file built with our toolkit's zip functionality. Once you have the zip, please extract the-web installer executable before attempting to run it. Since these demos use web installers - built by another CHT application also included in source with our toolkit - the actual installed application is downloaded from our website in the form of an .HZO file, a topspeed file containing a compressed and encrypted application and any related DLLs. Windows VISTA will pop up an approval dialog when the application first contacts our website. You'll need to approve that before the installer is allowed to proceed and complete the installation.

All applications are placed in an All Programs folder called "CHT" from which you can start them. An uninstall link is also provided for each application, for those of you just kicking tires.

Everything provided here, the demos, the installers, even the zips are built with Clarion 7 and The Clarion Handy Tools only. Nothing else. Remember as you read this what one of your happy users says about CHT:

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Handy Zip'N FTP


HNDZIPNFTP.APP combines CHT's zip file creation capabilities with CHT's wide-ranging FTP powers to provide a "Handy" utility that assists with backups to a virtual web space. The application can be pre-configured to back up a particular directory using a file mask and/or a CHT Query that describes the files to be backed up, resulting in a standard zip file that can include source subdirectories right inside the zip. An FTP configuration dialog lets you preconfigure one or more target FTP servers and web directories to accept your zip file. Once configured, your application can build a backup with one button click and send it to an FTP server with a second click.

Download it here: Handy Zip'N FTP

Handy Zip'N Email


HNDZIPNEMAIL.APP combines CHT's zip file creation capabilities with CHT's wide-ranging EMAIL powers to provide a "Handy" utility that assists with sending zips via SMTP email. The application can be pre-configured to back up a particular directory using a file mask and/or a CHT Query that describes the files to be backed up, resulting in a standard zip file that can include source subdirectories right inside the zip. An SMTP configuration dialog lets you preconfigure one or more target SMTP servers to accept your zip file. Once configured, your application can build a backup with one button click and send it to one or more recipients with a second click.

Download it here: Handy Zip'N Email

Handy HTTP Zip'N Post


HNDHTTPZIPNPOST.APP combines CHT's zip file creation capabilities with CHT's wide-ranging HTTP powers to provide a "Handy" utility that assists with backups to a virtual web space. The application can be pre-configured to back up a particular
directory using a file mask that describes the files to be backed up, resulting in a standard zip file that can include source subdirectories right inside the zip. An HTTP configuration dialog lets you preconfigure a target web server (IIS-type or CHT-type) and a web subdirectory to accept your zip file. Once configured, your application can build a backup with one button click and POST it to a web server with a second click.

Download it here: Handy HTTP Zip'N POST

CHT Video Education Player


While this media player is set up to stream .WMV versions of CHT educational videos from our website, it also serves as a model for developers wishing to build their own streaming video players. The player is built on CHT Template HandyComMediaControl which uses the Windows Media Player COM object based in WMP.DLL. The player is capable of playing off-line any videos which have been previously viewed to completion. On-line viewing of uncached videos begins quickly, once approximately 5 percent of the video has downloaded, and already-cached videos begin immediately since they are not downloaded again. If you plan to adapt this application to act as a video player for your own videos, a useful, accompanying application called HNDBUILDVIDEOLIST.APP can build video index files on your CHT-based video server, of the type utilized by this application and by the HNDWindowsMediaPlayer class (HNDWMP.INC, HNDWMP,CLW, HNDWMP.TLB).

Download it here: CHT Video Education Player

A summary of all currently shipping CHT Demonstration applications is available here:
CHT Applications Summary (HTML), or here CHT Applications Summary (PDF)

Cheers...
Gus Creces
The Clarion Handy Tools Page
www.cwhandy.com
support@cwhandy.com
June 1, 2009

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