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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

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

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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

We are doing some redesign work on the website and with some database updates last week I managed to break some parts of the login/product download process!!! It should all be back up and running now and we apologize for the inconvenience.

Arnor Baldvinsson

The past couple of weeks have been on the difficult side for me as I had a bit of a cold and as sometimes happens to me I ended up with an eye infection for most of last week, which does not help with productivity in front of a computer screen! I got a good rest this last weekend and fortunately this nasty infection seems to be completely gone now!

On March 15, we released new builds of all of our products, mainly maintenance for Clarion 7.1 support. We also released a new build of our Runtime which is used by our templates. Unfortunately some of our installs that we released on the 15 had the wrong runtime DLLs, so I suggest that you download the latest build to make sure that you have the correct DLLs. Nothing serious is going to happen if you have the wrong ones and they will be replaced with new builds soon. Note that those runtimes are only used in the templates in the Clarion IDE and have nothing at all to do with what you need to distribute with your applications.

I have been working on further documenting the Utilities and there will be a release early next week with more updates. Currently I'm working on the Controls Class and the File Search Class. I have also been working on research and alpha testing on a new Utilities product, but it has been slower than I had hoped so I'm not planning on a beta release until around the middle of April.

Arnor Baldvinsson