Two New Clarions Today

We received notification today of the release of Clarion 7.0.0.4790 as well as Clarion.Net 7.0.0.4769 and have done re-installs and brief checks of both.
Clarion 7 checks out ok with a dozen or so CHT demo applications I tested. No exhaustive testing done but another of my reported bugs is fixed in this release.

RE: CLARION 7
Here is a list of the latest changes and additions Clarion 7.0.0.4790:

• FEATURE: Clarion Template Code Editor supporting code folding and drop list for type of templates and names and parameters.

• FEATURE: #HELP, #RUN and #RUNDLL use the redirection file to try and find the necessary file.

• FEATURE: When you install a version of Clarion into the C7 IDE the base redirection file for that version will automatically be upgraded so that #HELP, #RUN and #RUNDLL can use the redirection file

• CHANGE: Better error message when a key cannot be found for a relationship when upgrading a dictionary

• CHANGE: Clarion Templates highlighting was not allowing to comment template code

• CHANGE: Warning message changed from "Option text is too long" to "The option was truncated by a prior version of Clarion"

• CHANGE: add data pictures and scrollbar to the LISTBox formatter

• FIX: Clarion template chain was referencing C60HELP.HLP

• FIX: Help was unavailable from some Help buttons inside generator

• FIX: Win32 redirection system did not support include directives with quotes surrounding the file name

• FIX: %Procedure must be re-fixed to complete re-synchronization of dependent symbols

• FIX: Command line passed to RUN could be parsed incorrectly

• FIX: Some memory was not being garbage collected from the data pad

• FIX: adding/editing of nested GROUP and QUEUE structures to applications as well as groups or queues after other groups and queues

• PTSS 31947: Wrong error could be reported on parsing #WINDOWS/#ENDWINDOWS and #REPORTS/#ENDREPORTS blocks

Don't forget that once you've installed this latest C7 version to at least open and then close WEBUPDATER or the HNDC7INSTALL application. If you don't do this after re-installing C7 classes you'll get a "PRIVATE" error on compiling any of our demo apps. Don't report that please, just rerun either installer.

Just a quick reminder not to run the CHT Installation Tuner for either C6 or C7 until we give notice of it's completion. The introduction of special .APP and .DCT containers for C7 require some changes to this application which we've not yet completed. They'll be along early next week.


RE: CLARION.NET
The Clarion.NET 4769 update was a welcome surprise. We've been so pre-occupied with C7 we haven't had much time to experiment with this Clarion in the last couple of months. However, we did dig out a CHT demo app created for Clarion.NET in the previous version and it compiled and ran OK in the latest Clarion.NET, so there have been at least no compiler changes since the last release. If you don't have that Clarion.NET demo app, we're happy to supply you with a copy if you'd like it. Post your request as a reply to this message on the CHT forum.
That's all for now.

Cheers...

Gus Creces
The Clarion Handy Tools Page
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January 30, 2009