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

Webupdater (C7) Change Posted

We've just posted a change to the C7 Webupdater to provide a set of menus under HELP along the lines agreed upon by 3rd party developers. We've used the naming convention suggested by Lee White which I gather is now the default for how these menus should integrate into the C7 IDE.
That is Help -> Accessory -> Clarion Handy Tools -> Various menus and sub-menus.

At the same time, we're having the installer remove all but one of our support applications from the Tools menu, leaving only the CHT backup tool under the IDE's TOOLS menu. All others have been moved under HELP as they were primarily help related.

We've also added a new submenu to the CHT section of help called "CHT Videos Direct". This is a section of short instructional videos (.SWF) that you can run as needed directly from the C7 interface. Specific videos will not stay here indefinitely as we plan to use this area to introduce new features, or to draw attention to under-utilized features in an effort to make you familiar with their use. Videos retired from here will make their way to one or the other of our video player apps, or perhaps both.

Since we don't use any other 3rd party tools at CHT, we're not able to see how this "Accessory" menu integrates with what other 3rd parties have done or may be doing. We have endeavored to follow the conventions agreed upon for integration with C7. Feel free to post suggestions (perhaps with screen snaps) if you have something constructive to add to this. Changing the menu layouts is no big deal if necessary for better overall integration.

Cheers...

Gus Creces
The Clarion Handy Tools Page
www.cwhandy.com
support@cwhandy.com
August 18, 2009

CHT Build 13C1.00 For Clarion 7 Now Available

We've just posted the Clarion 7 version of our new 13C1.00 Build. This includes the full feature set already released to Clarion 6 last week. We're now also shipping with Clarion 7, approximately 100 of the 130 demo applications available to Clarion 6, more are being converted and tested each week. Our intention is to have the full suite of demo apps available to C7 as soon as practical.

Cheers...

Gus Creces
The Clarion Handy Tools Page
www.cwhandy.com
support@cwhandy.com