Clarion Tips & Techniques Book

Clarion Tips & Techniques Book

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IMPORTANT NOTICE: One Book Becomes Two

We've re-issued the Clarion Tips & Techniques book as two books, titled Clarion 5.x Tips & Techniques Volume 1 and Volume 2. If you have the original Tips & Techniques book, you already have everything in these two new books and you do not need the new editions. Of course, if you want them anyway, we'll happily take your money.

Why make one book into two?

I can hear you asking, "If nothing's changed, why split the book up and change the title?" It's true that there's no new content. But there are several good reasons for the re-issue. One, nicer formatting, which makes the text easier to read. Two, a slimmer volume (both are 300+ pages, the original tips book is over 600 pages) is easier to handle, cheaper, and costs less to ship (okay, overall cost is pretty much the same if you want both, but this way there's a lower-cost option if you want to start with just one book). Three, we have more tips books on the way (Clarion 6 Tips & Techniques is available now), and we wanted to make it clearer which version of Clarion each book addresses. Of course, many of the techniques described in the Clarion 5.x books are applicable to Clarion 6 and beyond

The books

Clarion 5.x Tips and Techniques, Volume 1

This book is a compilation of selected articles from Clarion Magazine. The first part of the book covers a number of user interface topics such advanced browse handling, using the Windows API to enhance forms, and an extensive section on edit-in-place techniques. The second part deals with memory management and debugging, and the third covers a variety of topics such as address handling, creating multi-DLL applications, interfacing with external applications, and many other tips and techniques. Previously published as part of Clarion Tips & Techniques. ISBN: 0968955355

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You can view the Table of Contents, Index, and Author Index online. If you have difficulty downloading any of these PDFs please try right clicking on the link and choosing Save Target As (or equivalent).

Clarion 5.x Tips and Techniques, Volume 2

This book is a compilation of selected articles from Clarion Magazine. The first part of the book discusses useful techniques for getting the most out of Clarion's powerful template language, which is the heart of Clarion's ARAD capabilities. The second part of the book examines various aspects of the Clarion programming language; topics include little-known but very useful language statements, the use of advanced data structures such as queues, procedure prototyping and parameter handling, calling DLLs by address, and many other tips and techniques. Previously published as part of Clarion Tips & Techniques. ISBN: 0-9689553-6-3

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The original Clarion Tips and Techniques book (630 pages, ISBN: 0-9689553-1-2) is still available, but only by special order.

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What readers say

"I love the Tips book. It is awesome!" - Glenn Rathke

"Clarion Tips & Techniques is a wonderful addition to my library. I already found several techniques that are new to me. Nicely organized too." - John Welch

"Everyone should have this book." - Robert Wagner

"Very good job...nice book!" - Cleverson Tabajara

"[This book] should be shipped with Clarion as standard!" - Colin Wynn

"Very impressive." - Neville Dearham

"The book looks, well, great. A marvelous job. Cannot wait to start
digesting the pearls of wisdom. Make it a regular." - J André Labuschagné

"Flipping through the pages, it was soon apparent that there was a lot of meat here." - Nik Johnson, in his March 2004 article A Class Wrapper for Brice Schagane's Menu Buttons, which builds on Brice's article "Menu Buttons in Clarion," page 3 in the Tips & Techniques book.

Source code

The source code for the Clarion Tips & Techniques and Clarion 5.x Tips & Techniques Volume 1 & 2 books is contained in the following zip file:

ClarionTipsTechniquesSource.zip (3.86 MB)

Errata

Corrections to the book will be posted here as necessary. If you have found an error please report it.

BitList.zip - This file was not included in the original source zip, and is actually misnamed. The available files are bitlist-0.9912.zip, bitlist2-bl29901a.zip (version 2), and btltest2.exe (demo). The above master zip has been updated with these files.

v5n04anyascii2.zip - corrections by Kurt Pawlikowski. The master zip has been updated.

Original Tips book, page 449 ProcA prototype and declaration both have incorrect parameters. The correct syntax is:
ProcA (STRING CusName,LONG CusNum,BYTE CusAge)

Related information

In March 2004 Clarion Magazine published Nik Johnson's A Class Wrapper for Brice Schagane's Menu Buttons, which builds on the code Brice described in "Menu Buttons in Clarion," page 3.

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