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We have made a minor update to our Icetips Previeweravailable for download as build 2.7.349.  There was a problem with the Previewer and CPCS reports that could cause invalid code to be generated for the CSV export class. 

Important information for Clarion 7 users:
Yesterday I discovered a problem in Clarion 7 that affects our Previewer.  I have reported this to Softvelocity and hope they will resolve this quickly.

The problem comes up if you drag control templates, such as the "Save As Buttons" or "Save Button", to the toolbar.  Because there is a panel control on the toolbar, the IDE places the controls belonging to the control template on the window under the toolbar rather than on the toolbar.  This means the controls will never be visible as they will always stay underneath the toolbar.

The work around is to drag the control template to the window first and then drag the control(s) to the toolbar and when prompted if you want to move the controls in to the toolbar, you click on the YES button.  This moves the controls correctly to the toolbar and everything works correctly.

You need a valid subscription to be able to download the Icetips Previewer.  To purchase a subscription please go to http://www.icetips.com/subscribe.php

To renew your subscription, please go to http://www.icetips.com/renewsubscriptions.php 

Icetips Previewer:
  Build 2.7.349 released on July 01, 2010:      
http://www.icetips.com/downloadfile.php?FileID=149

• CSV option caused code to generate unconditionally on CPCS reports and caused compiler errors.
• ITCSVExportClass.clw file was not installed for Clarion 7. 
• Issue discovered with Clarion 7 toolbar and control templates, see above.

If you have any more suggestions or questions, please don't hesitate to drop
me an e-mail

Arnor Baldvinsson

In the past couple of days we have been getting spam from... well... us... Not really, but someone out there is sending spam with the support@icetips.com in the From header, like:

From: "icetips.com" <support@icetips.com>

The real sender is from industryd0463@resaleworld.com or some other name at resaleworld.com, but even this is bogus. I have been in touch with them and they assured me that this email address does not exist on their servers and has nothing to do with them. In my case the URL in the email is pointing to http://www.bims.web.tr/index2.html which can't be resolved, and pinging it says it can't be found, but the .tr country extension belongs to Turkey.

The content of the email is text indicating that your account needs to be attended to with a link, something like this:

"REFERENCE: Your Email to .

You recently sent email to a mailbox that requires authentication of the sender to reduce spam. Before your message can be delivered you must confirm that you are the sender by clicking on the link below and then clicking on the "Deliver" button that will be displayed. Once you have completed this step, no further authorization will be required for future emails that you send to this address.

Please confirm your email by visiting the URL

Thank you for your cooperation in helping us to fight spam.

Regards,
icetips.com Account Services
-------------------------"

So if you get an email like this, you can be absolutely sure that it has nothing to do with us and did not come from us!

Arnor Baldvinsson

I will be out of the office today, Wednesday June 23, 2010. I will not be able to answer emails until tomorrow morning.

Arnor Baldvinsson

We have made Clarion 7.2 compatible builds of all our products available for download from our website. You can now go ahead and download the new installs. All subscribers should have received an email from us with the download links. If you haven't please check your spam filter and if you still haven't received it check the email address in your Icetips account or drop me an email to let me know

You need to have a valid subscription to be able to download the installs. If you need to renew your subscription, please go to http://www.icetips.com/renewsubscriptions.php and purchase a renewal. If you do not have an Icetips Subscription, please go to http://www.icetips.com/subscribe.php to purchase.

Arnor Baldvinsson

Softvelocity released Clarion 7.2 yesterday (Friday, June 4, 2010). As I started testing with it this morning, I immediately ran into an old problem with the #RUNDLL template statement which I use in various places in our templates. This was fixed in 7.1 (or around 7.1 somewhere) but before that it would show a harmless GPF message in the output window but would not cause any issues. Well, that was not the case now as it would make the IDE become unresponsive and it had to be killed with the task manager. So this had to be fixed or worked around one way or the other!

After messing with this for a while and not getting anywhere with it, I decided to bite the bullet and reconstruct my old Borland C++ dll in Visual C++ as I have suspected that there are some incompatibility issues between Clarion 7 and the DLLs created by my old Borland C++ compiler. And lo and behold it fixed the problem! Now the new clean installs work perfectly!

I am currently rebuilding all the installs with the new dll and will finish that tonight and will resume testing in the morning. All new builds of our products will be available some time tomorrow!

Arnor Baldvinsson