For the past 2 weeks I have been working on getting out new releases that are compatible with Clarion 9.

There are currently three new builds available, Icetips Utilities, Icetips Previewer and Icetips PowerToolbar. There are minimal updates to those products and as far as I have tested they seem to work fine with Clarion 9.The only major change in PowerToolbar is that the install now includes the required files from XPTheme to support additional themes in PowerToolbar.

For the past week I have been working on Outlookbar. I had started work on it in January before the car accident so I decided to finish it. The main new features are a wizard to create the Outlookbar side window and a global class that controls the height. Another feature is the ability to set font information for both headers and tasks. that includes font, font size, font color and font style.

In addition to this I'm also working on technology to use external theme files for Outlookbar, Taskpanel and PowerToolbar. This will make it possible to create and distribute themes with programs and full control over the visual presentation. The idea is to create a theme designer where you (or your users) can create their own themes or modify existing themes.

I had originally planned to have all my installs done today, but that is not going to happen because of the extra work on Outlookbar. Right now I'm aiming for next Friday, the 31st.

Finally I want to mention our Icetips support portal where you can post support requests and check our Tips and Tricks forum, which has some interesting articles about our products, Windows and SQL.

Arnor Baldvinsson