What we at Icetips are doing
Today is the last chance to use the icetips discount for the ISV Conference 2012 in Reno on July 13-15.
Use:
icetips2012
to register with 10% discount.
Today is also the last day to register for the conference for lower prices.
Today is also the last chance to reserve rooms at the hotel at about 50% discount from current rates!!!
Arnor Baldvinsson
The Icetips Utilities build that was supposed to go out last Tuesday will not go out until tomorrow. I got on a really good roll with the documentation and decided to keep going while it lasts:)
While you wait, you may want to check out this link to Free Books at Microsoft press. They are all available as PDFs and some are also available as XPS, .mobi (Kindle) and .epub.
If you have a Kindle or Kindle Fire and you would like to convert the PDFs to .mobi for your Kindle, then download the MobiPocket Creator Publisher Edition from MobiPocket.com It will convert your PDF files to .mobi and in my experience they work much better than the free Kindle conversion at amazon.com. The MobiPocket Creator Publisher Edition is free and simply installs on your PC.
Arnor Baldvinsson
I have made a quick update to PowerToolbar by releasing build 2.0.165. I got a report this morning that a message window was showing up when selecting an item from a DropButton. I checked and indeed there was a Message() statment in a method there that I had used for temporary debugging and not removed when I was done:( I very rarely use Message() but rather use OutputDebugString, which I use in a method that's called ODS in all my classes. So I routinely do a search for any uncommented ODS statements but I missed that Message() statement!
Arnor Baldvinsson
I am very pleased to be able to give you a 10% discount coupon to the Independent Software Vendor Conference (ISVCon - http://www.isvcon.org) 2012 in Reno, Nevada. The conference will be held on July 13 - July 15 at the Atlantis Casino Resort. No time to waste, register now at http://www.isvcon.org/register.php
Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity to learn about marketing and new exciting things for software vendors. Mix and mingle with the people in the industry and create new relationships for your business.
When registering please use the following coupon code:
icetips2012
Don't wait - register now at http://www.isvcon.org/register.php The coupon code is valid thru June 30.
My wife, Susan Pichotta, is the event manager for this conference and she is doing a terrific job at securing high profile speakers to come to the ISVCon. This includes people from Microsoft, MyCommerce (Digital River), BitsDuJour, Help+Manual, Avangate and several more. To review the sessions please check out the ISVCon Sessions at http://www.isvcon.org/sessions.php
The conference is held at the 4 star, newly renovated, Atlantis Casino Resort in Reno, Nevada.
The full conference with post conference "Monday meetup" session with other ISVs is only $475 until the end of June, then it goes up to $699, so register as soon as you can. There are two other options for the full conference without the "Monday meetup" for $425 and also just the weekend (Saturday and Sunday) for $375. Remember that you get 10% discount from those prices.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or contact Sue directly
"I go to a lot of conferences and I have to say that the ISVCon (old SIC) really is my favorite. I look forward to it every year and it's hands-down the friendliest and most productive conference that I attend... I really got so much from the first SIC that I can't begin to list the ways that it helped my business."
-- Nico Westerdale - BitsDuJour
We have made PowerToolbar build 2.0.163 available for download at http://www.icetips.com/downloadfile.php?FileID=190 For detailed information about changes in this build, please see the version history in the on-line documentation.
You need to have a valid Gold subscription or a valid PowerToolbar Solo subscription and be logged into your Icetips account to be able to download the new install. To purchase a Gold Subscription please go to http://www.icetips.com/subscribe-gold.php and to renew, please go to http://www.icetips.com/renewsubscription.php
The main update in this build is support for menu theming in Clarion 8. Clarion 7 changed the way Clarion constructs the menus which completely broke the menu theming in PowerToolbar. Fixing this was a major undertaking which among other things required us to re-construct the standard Windows menu since Clarion creates it dynamically so PowerToolbar does not have access to the Window menu item information at runtime. This has been in testing for several months and everything appears to work.
Another change is that now there is an option on the Advanced tab to delay the initialization of the PowerToolbar class. This was required in Clarion 7/8 to fix a problem where both Clarion and PowerToolbar drew the menu bar, resulting in two menu bars being drawn! If you check the "Delay Initialization" the initialization is moved to the OpenWindow event handler. Note that this CAN cause GPFs IF you have embedded code accessing the PowerToolbar class that executes before the PowerToolbar Init method.
While not directly related to PowerToolbar, the PowerToolbar on-line help now has an option for you to like and comment on each topic using a Facebook plug-in. This allows you and other users to comment on each topic if you have questions or tips! I will be adding this option to the documentation for our other tools as well in upcoming releases and probably on Icetips pages in general, particularly the article pages.