Clarion Tips & Techniques Volume 4

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At over 650 pages, Clarion Tips & Techniques Volume 4 is another blockbuster brimming with terrific articles from Clarion Magazine. ISBN: 978-0-9784034-0-9

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Topics covered in this book include:

• Browses & Forms
  • Internationalization standards
  • Dynamic listbox formatting
  • Edit-In-Place
  • Hot fields
  • Recursive inserts and updates
  • Beautifying Clarion apps
  • Automatically closing windows
  • Commonly used Clarion embeds
• Templates
  • Multiple lookups
  • Record status controls
  • A template debugger
  • Class wrappers
• Threading
  • Global variables
  • Critical sections
  • Background processes
  • Controlling START
• Reports
  • Sending printer codes
  • Page loaded trees
  • Printing unknown queue fields
  • Printing directly to the printer
  • Printing directly to USB printers
  • Printing a "No records" report
• Databases
  • Mimer
  • The SQL Advanced settings
  • Creating SQL from XML with XSLT
  • External business rules
  • The in-memory driver
  • Using SQLIdentity
  • Multi-user primary keys
  • Embedded SQLite
  • PROP:SQL
• Windows Vista
  • Encryption and application signing
  • Manifests
  • Getting ahead with Vista and Office 2007
  • Vista-compliant INI files
  • Running C6 on Vista
• Version Control
  • CVS and WinCVS
  • Using CVS/WinCVS with Clarion 6.x
  • Understanding the C6 version control interface
  • Using MS Visual Source Safe with Clarion
• DLLs
  • Eliminating circular DLL calls
  • Smart DLL loading
  • DLLs and reusable code
  • Generic DLLs
  • Hand coding export files
• Tips & Techniques
  • Encrypting data
  • App shutdown options
  • Accessing private class data
  • Sorting queues
  • Displaying queues
  • Date calculations
  • Adding arrays to generic queues
  • Customizing deep assigns
  • Using finite state machines
  • Using metadata
  • Providing good customer service

Source code

ClarionTipsTechniquesVolume4Source.zip (8.62 MB)

Errata

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