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Professional Wizards -- Special Offer 24-June-2002 -- Arnór Baldvinsson If you purchase our Professional Wizards before July 1, you will get our Icetips Magic Buttons, a $79.00 value, free of charge. This also applies if you purchase any of the Professional combos or upgrade from the Standard Wizards to the Professional before July 1. 
Do you need the Professional Wizards? Check out our Wizard Comparison page and our Professional Wizard Information pages and check this out. The Information page also has some excellent screenshots showing how the Magic Buttons spice up your application. Not convinced? Download our fully functional demo and try it out! Trip to Iceland 17-June-2002 -- Arnór Baldvinsson On May 28, Sue, Laila and I left on a trip to Iceland for two weeks. We got home last Wednesday and I spent the weekend writing up the first part of the travel story. We shot a total of 680 pictures there and we will bring them to you in weekly articles over the next month or so. The first article tells about our trip to Iceland and half way through to the East coast of Iceland. 
All the pictures on the web page are thumbnails and link to bigger images. So sit back and relax and enjoy the reading and the pictures. There are links to local sites and further information everywhere I could find something to link to. Read more about it. NEW Icetips Professional Wizards now available 23-May-2002 -- Susan Pichotta They've gone gold, and they are awesome! The Icetips Professional Wizards turbo-charge your development time, and take care of most of the tedious, painful details that are currently left for you to handle. With the Wizards, you develop apps and procedures faster and easier. One beta tester said, "I expect the Professional Wizards to cut my development time 30% to 50% for most apps." Another said, "These Wizards are what the Wizatrons should have been." For more info, please see the Icetips Pro Wizards webpage. Order before June 1 and save $79. Pro Wizards - FREE Demo 23-May-2002 -- Susan Pichotta Now you can try the Icetips Professional Wizards for free. Download the demo and see how it all works. The Icetips Professional Wizards demo is a complete, funtional copy of the Pro Wizards software. However, the demo has a limited number of times you can run it before it expires. (Just check the title bar as you run the Wizards, it will tell you the number of tries remaining.) Pro Wizards Theme Editors now complete (& awesome!) Templates and docs next 16-May-2002 -- Susan Pichotta Now you can set up and edit almost everything for forms, browses, frames and even templates using the Pro Wizards Theme Editors. The Theme Editors are more than just setup tools, they're design tools because of their WYSIWYG style. When you make a change, you can see how it looks immediately on the example window. See it yourself next week, when the Icetips Pro Wizards (and free evaluation version) are released. Free Pro Wizards eval version -- latest news 16-May-2002 -- Susan Pichotta Arnór is so close to completing the Professional Wizards that we have decided to hold off on releasing the free evaluation version until everyting is all done. When the Pro Wizards go gold, the free eval version will also be released. The free eval version will be fully functional and will include all the Pro Wizard features... but it will allow you to run it only so many times before you license it. If you'd like to receive an 
email when the eval is available, please fill out our
Notify me form.Wizards now populate third-party templates 8-May-2002 -- Susan Pichotta Now you can create procedures and apps with your favorite third-party templates already populated, and initial values already set! 
And what's more, you can save different third-party template choices into template "theme" files!
So now the Icetips Pro Wizards can auto-include different templates in different projects,
based on how you set up your template theme files.Try the Icetips Pro Wizards thru May 31 -- free 8-May-2002 -- Susan Pichotta Sometimes it's hard to buy software you've only read about, no matter how good it sounds. So next week, Arnor will release a free evaluation version of the Icetips Professional Wizards (beta). The evaluation version will be fully functional, including every feature in the Wizards to date... but the it will expire on June 1. If you'd like to be notified when the Pro Wizards are available for
a free evaluation, please fill out ourNotify me form. Pro Wizard Beta continues 2-May-2002 -- Susan Pichotta The beta for the Icetips Professional Wizards continues with new builds. The build to be released Friday, May 3, will include the first working support for third-party templates. We're starting with global template support... now you'll be able to have a global template (such as FileManager) automatically included in apps created with the Professional Wizards. Support for other types of templates, such as procedure templates, etc., is coming soon... Upgrade Standard to Pro? 2-May-2002 -- Susan Pichotta Current customers who have the Icetips Standard Wizard can upgrade to the Professional Wizards for a discounted rate, available thru May 31. Upgrade now and participate in the betas -- have YOUR voice included as the product is being completed and polished. For upgrade information, please contact susan@icetips.com. Announcing the NEW Icetips Magic Buttons 25-Apr-2002 -- Susan Pichotta Have you ever wanted buttons with more "pop"? 
Ever wanted to have an image behind your button, but still have the regular text, icons and hot-keys
on it? Now you can!Icetips Magic Buttons lets you easily, quickly, and painlessly make your buttons look great. Just drop in a template, choose the image you 
want and BOOM! all your buttons (even toolbars) now look awesome. Your windows
will look as good as any you see.FREE IMAGE SETS You'll also get our free new image sets, designed to be interchangable and give you plenty of choices: or you can use your own images, of course! Please visit the new Magic Buttons webpage for more info and a demo. New, all-in-one Icetips Software Demo 25-Apr-2002 -- Susan Pichotta Now Icetips Software has one EXE that demonstrates ALL our products! We want to make it as easy as we can for you to see our software. You can download this new demo here. But just because we have a nice, new combined demo doesn't mean we've abandoned the individual product demos. They're all still available from our Download page. Pro Wizards now in Beta 18-Apr-2002 -- Arnór Baldvinsson The Icetips Professional Wizards have been released in beta. This first initial beta release moves the "standard" wizard environment into a completely new Wizard 
Editor, where each component of the old Wizard Editor has it's own window. It also includes the Icetips Template Registry, which is the basis for our third party support. The level of third party support in the initial release is still undecided. It will support extension templates, but as to what level that will be.... Read more about it PowerRUN now free 4-Apr-2002 -- Susan Pichotta PowerRUN's author, Greg Berthume, recently announced that the popular PowerRUN utility is now available for free. This is a wonderful tool that has been around for quite awhile. I thought it was underpriced before, but now... <g> From Greg's website: PowerRUN allows you to launch programs a number of different ways and to run DOS/Window processes in the background, waiting (or not) until termination. Includes ShellExecute Code Template for launching a user's default web browser and loading a specific website. Play wave sound files. Also included is Jeroen van Helvoort's CWPRINT template which has been modified to take advantage of PowerRUN's "Wait Until Completion" capability. PowerRUN is a better solution than Clarion's RUN() function and eliminates RUN's shortcomings. Using RUN(), the launched program is loaded as the on top and active program. What if you want to run an app in the background? What if you don't want control to return to the calling app until the launched app has completed? What if you want to set the process Priority in Win95 and WinNT? This template provides these options as well as others via the WinAPI. Download instructions |
Professional Wizards -- Build 1.001 released 24-June-2002 -- Arnór Baldvinsson We have released our second public build of our flagship product, the Icetips Professional Wizards. There is a number of new feature and fixes in this release. Among the things it can now support most of the Handy Tools templates, which we discovered that we had problems with in the initial release. There was also problem supporting templates that were dependent on the Browse box, like the XPlore templates. This has been fixed and we expect to have full dependency support in our next release. Professional Wizards -- Review 24-June-2002 -- Ed Schneider Ed Schneider has written a review of the Icetips Professional Wizards and put up on his website. Check out his review at Ed's website Softvelocity releases ASP templates 17-June-2002 -- Arnór Baldvinsson On June 6, Softvelocity released their Clarion/ASP product. This product generates everything you need to put your databases on the web using Active Server Pages. Go visit Softvelocity at www.softvelocity.com and read all about it. They have made various documents and whitepapers available for download. List Box Totals 20-June-2002 -- Dave Harms Sometimes you'll want to place total fields below list boxes, and in some cases those totals 
need to be positioned exactly below a column. This is easy if the user doesn't resize any
columns, but what if you do allow resizing? Brice Schagane shows how to align the total
fields with the columns at runtime.NEW looks for your Apps and/or Icetips Wizards 23-May-2002 -- Susan Pichotta 
WOW! That's what we said when we saw these new app themes (looks) for Clarion.
This package includes
12 new looks, with icons, wallpapers, color notes,
and even Icetips Wizards Theme Files.Ready to use in any apps, they work seamlessly with the Icetips Wizards (both Standard & Professional editions). These new App Themes & Icons are FREE* when you buy the Icetips Professional Wizards before June 1. Or you can buy the App Themes & Icons direct from Gitano Software for $29.95 *Free for new Wizards customers only, does not apply to upgrades. ETC / MS Outlook 23-May-2002 First, some great reporting from that conference in Tennessee. Some pictures, too.
And for a technical article of interest, how about the subject of interfacing with MS Outlook.
Mark Riffey takes a second look at his Outlook code, and discovers unexpected help in MS Word.(Un)Availability for Icetips Tech Support 16-May-2002 -- Susan Pichotta Arnór and Sue will be unavailable on the following dates: May 17-19 Out of town on personal business (Sue's mom is worse, prayers are welcome). May 28-June 12 Iceland! Arnor's first visit home in over two years. There will be a few days at the beginning and end of the trip when we'll be out of touch; while there, we'll check our email every day or so. TPS files via ASP 15-May-2002 -- Dave Harms In this article Brian Staff provides an introduction to Active Server Pages, or ASP,
for Clarion developers. With ASP you can use the TopSpeed ODBC driver to display a TPS
file (or any ODBC compliant data) in a browser. Upgrading your Icetips Standard Wizards to the Professional version 16-May-2002 -- Susan Pichotta Emails were sent to all the Standard Wizards customers earlier today, with information on upgrading. If you didn't get your upgrade email, or need more information, please contact susan@icetips.com. Print RTF in Clarion reports 8-May-2002 -- Susan Pichotta There's a new template to print RTF in a regular Clarion report. RichReport is a small class with surrounding templates that allows you to 
print RTF text in standard Clarion reports. You can now RTF-enable your reports with 100% pure Clarion code.
Simply put a control template onto your report. For more info, click on the Solid logo.
Required Fields x Two 8-May-2002 -- Dave Harms A lot has been written lately in Clarion Magazine about validating required fields.
Carl Barnes validates the notion that there's no such thing as too
much Clarion knowledge, and lays out his approach to required field handling. Introducing Paywire 2-May-2002 -- Andy Stapleton Paywire is a subsidiary of DBWired, it allows both Internet or Program based 
processing of ACH/EFT and Credit card processing. Our costs are based on our
volume, since we have larger volume we can charge less per transaction than most companies.The program interface is a free Clarion template that allows you to integrate the CC/ACH/EFT via your software for your customers. Read more about it SoftVelocity's Upcoming Product Technology 2-May-2002 -- Dave Harms Clarion Magazine's Reviews Editor, Tom Hebenstreit, recently attended
SoftVelocity's Technology Workshop in Florida, and came away stoked about the company's
soon-to-be-released product and its future direction. This freely available abstract
outlines the topics covered in Tom's report.
New Icons XP from Gitano 25-Apr-2002 -- Jesus Moreno Gitano Software Inc. introduces Icons XP, a collection of 96 custom 
icons to jazz up your application. Each icon resource contains an XP,
True Color, and 256 color version to produce the highest impact in your
application. Preview these new icons by clicking on the icons above. Can we see that? 25-Apr-2002 -- Sue & Arnór A Clarion user posted a message about his new, good-looking Clarion windows, which he'd made using Gitano's new Icons XP and some Icetips software. We asked if we could see them, and they looked so nice, we thought we'd share. Note the new icons, and the Icetips Report Previewer in the foreground (click on the image for a larger view). 
This software is written by Dennis Baggott, and will be used in the real estate industry.
He said, "I am glad to attach a screen shot. I am really not good at screen captures so I doubt you would really want to include them on Icetips.com (we beg to differ, Dennis!) but you can quote me if you like: All the Icetips Wizards, Reporter and Previewer are Excellent! Note: I am still in the early stage of the pictured application. Final product will likely look quite different." We think it looks pretty good now, Dennis. Trapping File Error Codes in the ABC ErrorManager 18-Apr-2002 -- Dave Harms Faced with a need to detect at runtime when an application needed to convert a file to a newer format, Andrew Guidroz goes looking for a way to trap file error codes in ABC. And he discovers that, contrary to popular opinion, it can be done. Read more about it in ClarionMagazine. VTIS Load Balancer for ClarioNET 18-Apr-2002 -- Adrian Velcich Vision Technology Information Systems' Load Balancer is now 
available from
ClarionShop.com.
You can download a fully functional evaluation copy, which
does not expire, so in effect is free for developers, apart from a registration message!
Icetips software well-received in Oz 4-Apr-2002 -- Susan Pichotta A Clarion conference was held in Australia over the weekend of March 23-24. At the conference, Simon Brewer did a "Clarion + Third Party" presentation, which included the Icetips Wizards and Previewer. Simon said: "[I] demoed the App Wizard from go to whoa, including showing whole app generation, plus individual browse, form generation etc. Then changing style files and re-generating etc. Finally, used your Previewer demo to show that off and discuss the possibilities for the paradigm. Very well received. Few attendees had seen the products before or owned them... good job Arnor!" Two other third-party products were also demoed by Simon and were well-received: Capesoft's Insight and Gus Crece's Handy Tools. Many thanks to Simon for all his work in preparing for and giving his presentation, and congratu- lations to Chris Livingstone, who won his choice of an Icetips Software product. The Australian conference will be covered in an upcoming issue of Clarion Magazine. |
INN Bio: Pratik Patel 20-June-2002 -- Susan Pichotta After a weeks-long break, the bios are back! And we resume with a well-known Clarionite, 
usually identified on the newsgroups by his car... but the car in his bio is gold,
not purple... hmmm. Originally from India, now at home in New Jersey, he works at being a
programmer and "Mr. Mom". With one adorable son and another little one on the way, we know
he stays busy! And he's included some great photos, too. Read more about it INN Bio: Katherine DuGarm 23-May-2002 -- Susan Pichotta This week, the Icetips News Network is pleased to present the bio of a programmer who 
used to be a baker, then a librarian; now, she's working on interfacing Clarion with
an IBM AS/400. She makes an interesting comparison of SQL to mathematics, and has some fun
photos, including a great picture of cross-country ski trails.
Read more about itIcetips Tech Support Availability 23-May-2002 -- Susan Pichotta Icetips Software will be on an abbreviated support schedule from May 28-June 12. We will be in Iceland! There will be a few days at the beginning and end of the trip when we'll be out of touch; while there, we'll check our email every day or so. INN Bio: Andy Ireland 16-May-2002 -- Susan Pichotta This week, the INN Bio features the last in our series of presenters for ETC. 
Born in England but raised all around Europe, he became one of his country's last "boy soldiers".
We know him as an ex-TopSpeed employee and Clarion's guru on COM.... and as a "piper". Someday we'd
love to hear him play the bagpipes (great photo of his former band).Read more about it Cool Tools Corner: KbStart 16-May-2002 -- Susan Pichotta I came across this one on my internet travels... and it's free (more or less). KbStart gives you fast keyboard access to many Windows resources just by entering short abbreviations. Type "OE" to launch Outlook Express; type "MJ" to send an email to Mike Jones. KbStart uses a powerful, adaptive, abbreviation search algorithm that allows you to enter any imaginable abbreviation to find the item you're looking for. www.KbStart.com INN Bio: Bob Foreman 8-May-2002 -- Susan Pichotta While this week's INN Bio continues with our series of presenters at ETC, 
it is also a first: the first bio of a SoftVelocity employee! Instructor, coder, tech support,
documentation... it seems he's done it all. And it all started in the Navy, as a "cryptologic technician". See him skiing, visiting with his dad, and well-dressed in his role as a "finatic" in this week's INN bio. Read more about it Registry First Aid 8-May-2002 -- Susan Pichotta I received an email recently from a software reviewer, Paul Mayer. He recommended I try a utility called "Registry First Aid". I did, and man, was my registry a mess! (Not any more!) This is a nice little piece of software, and I recommend it, too: rosecitysoftware.com/reg1aid INN Bio: Andy Stapleton 2-May-2002 -- Susan Pichotta This week's bio features the quintessential Texan, Clarion's own Cowboy. 
An expert in SQL, he's branched out into web work, including co-owning a web hosting company
and a new business, "Paywire". A man with quite a diverse past, he now stays busy with his ranch,
his family, and his work with technology... and his Harley, of course. Read more about it Previous INN Bios Missed the previous bios? You can read them in our Archives. Bar Code information 2-May-2002 -- Susan Pichotta Need information about different kinds of bar codes, what they're for, how they're used, etc.? Or do you need a certain bar code font? Check out this website: www.barcodingfonts.com INN Bio: Bruce Johnson 25-Apr-2002 -- Susan Pichotta This week, the Icetips News Network is pleased to present another first, a bio from South Africa! He's rather well-known, and has written/been 
involved with some of the most popular third-party tools.
He regularly attends and presents at conferences around the world, and we'll see him leading a class
on ABC at
ETC.
For now, see what he says on programming, templates, and being a witness to his country's
recent history. Read more about it It's an XML World! 25-Apr-2002 -- Dave Harms XML is everywhere, as Jim Kane is beginning to see.
In this article, Jim shows how to use the
MS DOM XML parser to manage XML documents.ExpressFlash 2.1 25-Apr-2002 Now there is a template that will allow you to import all fields from the Outlook contacts 
address book. ExpressFlash 2.1 will also
read messages from email & newsgroups in
Outlook Express & Outlook 2002/2002.
Click on the Sterling Data image for details and demo.INN Bio: Mike Pickus 17-Apr-2002 -- Susan Pichotta This week's INN Bio features a guy who has been around the Clarion community for awhile. 
He lives in the same city as CIA Headquarters, but originally was from one of the less
populated states in the U.S. In the past, he's done asphalt paving. Now, he presents us with
a new idea for the browse-form paradigm, complete with screen shots.
Read more about itNew SQL browse 18-Apr-2002 RADVenture, the Clarion Distributor in the Netherlands, has released an SQL browse. This special browse for SQL engines optimizes SQL access. For full documentation, click here. The new SQL Browse is sold via ClarionShop.. INN Bio: Ville Vahtera 4-Apr-2002 -- Susan Pichotta The Icetips News Network is pleased to present our first bio from Finland! 
An expert in HVAC and SCADA (read the bio to find out what those are), he also loves "gizmos"
and has made the coolest birdhouse, complete with automation and camera. Lots of other pictures, too,
showing his beautiful family and country. (No snow, though... I've heard it snows in Finland... )
Read more about itPrevious INN Bios Missed the previous bios? You can read them in our Archives. New Report Templates 4-Apr-2002 -- Susan Pichotta Taboga Software has announced the first beta release of their new Taboga Report Templates. 
They are a set of extension templates to improve the functionality of the standard Clarion reports.Included are templates for: grand totals, child details, hide details, hide bands, clip band height, print boxes around bands, page length adjuster, sort report, newspaper columns, and more. For more information, please visit www.tabogasoftware.com |
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