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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.

Friday, August 21, 2009

Automatically Compress Your EXE's When Compiling

A global template we haven't yet told you about called, HandyExecutableCompressor can be attached to your application as a child of our master global template AACHTControlPanel.

When enabled, this template generates and executes (after compile has completed) a batch file which invokes a shareware executable compressor now included with CHT. Your executable file (.EXE) is compressed by 2/3 without affecting it's performance.

This has some obvious benefits, especially for security in making your .EXEs more secure against hackers looking for embedded strings such as passwords. If you're providing direct-downloadable executables it saves you having to first ZIP the exe while still reducing web-transport overhead by 2/3.

Click this link to view a short video that illustrates the compressor in action:
HandyExecutableCompressor Video

Cheers...

Gus Creces
The Clarion Handy Tools Page
www.cwhandy.com
support@cwhandy.com
August 21, 2009

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