What we at Icetips are doing
We will be out of the office for the next couple of weeks or so. We are helping our daughter move. We will be driving a lot and may not have a good internet connection most of the time, so please be patient with us getting back to you 🙂
If you need support, please use our support popup on the website or email us at support at icetips.com.
We are moving and our office will be closed this coming week until at least October 24th.
We are going to be on vacation from today, September 10th to Wednesday, September 21st. We are attending 50 year anniversary of friends of ours in Dublin, Ireland and are going to spend some time traveling in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
I will post photos, but meanwhile here are a couple of Creative Commons photos from Wikimedia 🙂
I will be out of the office between May 1st and May 16th, both days included. I will be connected for some part of that time, but not consistently. Orders will be processed automatically and I will do my best to check on any support issues that may come up while I'm away.
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"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --profile-directory="Default" --new-window --window-size=300,300 --app=http://prod-chrome80-player-popup.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/popup_player_v1.html?station=cbcvictoria&tenant=www.radio.net
With larger monitors and more monitors, I have found that it has become increasingly difficult for me to find the mouse cursor on the screens.
I remembered that there used to be some ways to change the cursors and set out to find it. Turns out it's pretty easy!
Start by going to the Windows Settings app by selecting it from the start menu.
From the Windows Settings app, select "Ease of Access"
On the "Ease of Access" page select the "Cursor and Pointer" option on the left and then you can change the cursor size and color and also the caret thickness.
Since most of the windows I work on have a light background, I chose to use the black cursor and set the size to 3. You can only see the number for the size when you move the slider, but I found 3 to be a good size for both my 27" 1080p monitors as well as my 32" QHD (2560x1440 pixels)
SQLite databases came up on one of the newsgroups this week. I have not used the SQLite driver in Clarion, so I don't have any experience with it - yet.
For many years I have used HeidiSQL with MySQL and MariaDB databases and it works great. But it can only work with MySQL, MariaDB and MS-SQL. So I wondered what tools there might be out there to use to browse and work with SQLite databases. Both are open source and free and both work with Windows, MacOS and Linux.
I found two that looked interesting!
This program has been around since 2003 and the last release was in April of 2019 so it's being fairly actively developed. It is available for Windows, MacOS, Linux (several variations) and FreeBSD. This tool is primarily a database browser and based on the few screenshots I've found it looks a bit limited.
This program has also been around since 2007 and the last release was in July 2018. This program looks like HeidiSQL and you can view data, enter your own queries etc. It is available for Windows, MacOS and Linux.
In my experience one of the most important tools when dealing with database is a good, solid interface to execute queries and statements.
We at Icetips wish you all Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!
We hope that 2019 will be a good and prosperous year for all of us!
It's taken a while, but all our product installs are now compatible with Clarion 11 and available for download!
This process took quite a bit longer than I expected, mostly because this required considerable amount of work for most of the templates to make them look better in Clarion 11. But I think it was definitely worth it! While I did not do a lot of design work, what needed to be done was duplicating a lot of code to make it work with both Clarion 10 and older as well as with Clarion 11.
I also took the opportunity to add more standardization to the Setup Builder install scrips as well as my Build Automator scripts to make builds easier in the future. Same applies to the templates, where for example template headers look exactly the same in all our templates now, and the support tab is now 100% identical everywhere to make it easy to access.
Another task was to change all the templates from using .hlp help files to use .chm help files. .hlp files are not really supported any more on Windows 10 and the IDE has supported .chm for a few versions now so there is no reason not to use it. So I decided to pull the plug and change all the templates that had help file access to use .chm files. This required a minor change also to every HLP link in the templates.
For the first time I did not do any testing with the old IDE, i.e. Clarion 6, apart from making sure the templates registered, since I still have a few Clarion 6 apps that I need to maintain for a while longer, so I still need them to work in the old IDE 😉 But by the end of the year, I will ONLY support the new IDE and generally just the last 3 versions. So 9.1, 10 and 11 by the end of the year. Keeping everything backward compatible has limited me in certain visual design aspects. Clarion 6 is 15 years old (2003) and Clarion 6.3 is 9 years old (2009) and it's time to let it rest 🙂
Since there have been quite a few changes in both the templates and in the build process, I would really appreciate if you would let me know as soon as possible if you have any problems with the installers - or the templates!
Enjoy 🙂
Clarion 11 testing is going well! But I'm still not done with updating to Clarion 11 compatibility - close but not quite there.
On a very positive note, I have not found any issues at all in Clarion 11! I'm running C10 and C11 side by side and both have worked without a glitch! Softvelocity is releasing Release Candidate (RC) 2 today and announced that Clarion 11 Gold is close, see their latest blog post here: http://clarionsharp.com/blog/clarion-11-rc-2-released/
I apologize how long it's taken me to get these builds out!