Version History

September 26, 2021:

Template

Replaced Clarion REMOVE function with DeleteFileA API when removing the metafiles which is done when the Previewer closes.  This has been reported to cause noticeable delay on large reports.

August 27, 2020:

Template

The "Save buttons for Report Targets" control template had the "Save buttons..." tab duplicated.  Fixed.

October 3, 2018:

Template

Added option to set a condition around the entire generated code on ABC reports.  This is useful when using other default targets than a printer, for example PDF.

Template

Template windows updated for Clarion 11.

Intaller

Installer configured for Clarion 11.

September 18, 2018:

Template

CPCS CSV Export template caused compiler error.  Fixed.

July 9, 2016:

Template

If number of copies was specified in CPCS reports, it would cause problems if multiple copies were printed from the previewer as well.

March 31, 2016:

Classes

Mouse wheel scroll did not work properly if the pagelist had focus.  Fixed

Template

Added ITPProtoTypes.tpw include template file for install build convenience.

June 27, 2015:

Template

Page of Pages template was not compatible with Clarion/Legacy applications.  Fixed.

June 13, 2015:

Template/Classes

Under Windows 10.10130 and earlier builds, the scrolling in the previewer window was not working at all.  Fixed.

February 24, 2015:

Installer

Installer is now compatible with Clarion 10.

October 14, 2014:

Template

When printing current page to selected printer, the first page would always be printed.  Fixed.

May 15, 2014:

Template

Added option to specify CSV separator.  Defaults to comma ( , )

May 14, 2014:

Template

ITPreviewerClass.inc was not being included with the Printer Selection global extension, only with the Mouse Wheel Support extension.  This caused compile errors if the Mouse Wheel Support extension was not added.  Fixed.

May 1, 2014:

Template

By accident ,PASCAL attribute on #RUNDLL statement from testing with Clarion 9.  Fixed.  This is now checked during the build process and always changed to ,WIN32.  The installer then determines if it should rename it to ,PASCAL if Previewer is being installed with the new IDE (Clairon 7 and later)

Installer

It was not obvious when the "Clarion 6 Vista Fix" program was running that it wasn't the Previewer installer.  The installer will now prompt if you want to run the "Clarion 6 Vista Fix" only when you are installing for Clarion 6 and it hasn't been run before.

April 30, 2014:

Template/Classes

Some reports were still not printing properly.  I've added a method called SetReportImageReduce to the ITPreviewerClass (you can access it inside the Previewer procedure as Loc:PrinterClass)  It takes two parameters, first one tells the Previewer how much to scale the report image width down and the second tells it how much to scale the height down.  This is always in 1/1000" (PROP:Thous)   If you have problems with empty pages printing after moving up to Clarion 8 or Clarion 9, please try to use this method in the "Local Objects | Icetips Previewer | Set Selected Printer Properties | Top of Routine" embed, priority 5000.  The code should look something like this in the embeditor:

ITPSetSelectedPrinterProperties        ROUTINE

! Start of "Previewer - Set Selected Printer Properties - Top of Routine"

! [Priority 5000]

Loc:PrinterClass.SetReportImageReduce(5000,5000)

! End of "Previewer - Set Selected Printer Properties - Top of Routine"

Get(ITP:PageQueue,1)

ITPReport{PROP:Text}       = Clip(Loc:ReportJobName)

ITPReport{Prop:Landscape}  = Loc:Landscape

ITPReport{PropPrint:Paper} = Loc:Paper

Loc:PrinterClass.GetReportImageSize(ITP:PageQueue.ITP:PQ:WmfFile, Loc:ReportWidth, Loc:ReportHeight)

ITPReport{PROP:Width}      = Loc:ReportWidth

ITPReport{PROP:Height}     = Loc:ReportHeight
 
Note that in this case I'm reducing the size of height of with by whole five inches, 127mm, which is a bit drastic;)  Start with 10,10 and see if that fixes the problem.  If not, go to 20,20 and so forth.  I would really appreciate if you let me know what numbers you end up with and the paper size you are using.

April 25, 2014:

Template/Classes

Under certain circumstances and with certain paper types, the report pages could be slightly oversized when using the Enable Printer Selection template.  This was caused by up to 10/1000" difference in the actual size of the paper and the size reported after changing the paper size.  Fixed.

Documentation

Most screenshots updated to Clarion 9.

Documentation

Documentation about CSV export completed.

Documentation

Lots of updates to the documentation.

Documentation

PDF manual was not being generated.  Fixed.

March 26, 2014:

Template

Added option to specify number of pixels to scroll with the mouse wheel in the "Mouse Wheel Support in Previewer" extension template.

February 27, 2014:

Template

Capesoft's Office Inside "Excel Report" did not trigger detection of a target selector.  Fixed.

December 12, 2013:

Template

In Clarion 9, the GetSelected() method of the ReportTargetSelectorClass no longer exists.  Instead GetReportSelected() needs to be called.  This method is used in the "Save As Button"

October 11, 2013:

Template

Problem with CSV export.  Selecting controls from the report did not retrieve the header/format from the underlying data field.  Fixed.

September 19, 2013:

Template

In Clarion 9 the ReportTargetSelectorClass has changed considerably and a method has been renamed that the Previewer uses.  This caused compile errors in Clarion 9 applications that use the previewer and the Output Target Selector.  Fixed.

August 2, 2013:

Template

When using Previewer to print to a selected printer, the report engine in Clarion 8 removes all the windows meta files in the temp folder, regardless of if it belongs to the report being printed or not.  This update fixes this problem.

February 7, 2013:

Template

"Clarion 6 support" changed to "Report Target Support" in template prompts and check boxes.  This was confusing (to say the least!!!)

May 4, 2011:

Install

Install did not have correct folder to install Theme Editor when installing for the old IDE (Clarion 6.3 and older) causing an error during install.   Fixed.

Install

Install built for Clarion 8.0

April 30, 2011:

Install

Installer installed the ITPreviewerClass.inc and ITPreviewerClass.clw into %root%\libsrc\win under Clarion 7 instead of %root%\accessory\libsrc\win   Fixed.

December 4, 2010:

Template

Legacy code was being generated into ABC code for "Condition for use".  Fixed.

November 11, 2010:

Template

"Condition for use" did not work properly with Legacy applications.  Fixed

June 21, 2010:

Install

The ITCSVExportClass.clw file was not installed for Clarion 7.  Fixed

Template

CSV option caused code to generate unconditionally on CPCS reports and caused compiler errors.  Fixed.

Clarion 7

Bug in Clarion 7 makes it difficult to to place "Save buttons" or other control templates on the toolbar.   Solution:  Place control templates on the window and then drag them to the Toolbar.  When prompted if you want to move the controls into the Toolbar, click YES.

June 7, 2010:

Install

Support for Clarion 7.2 added to installer.

May 6, 2010:

Install

Added PreviewerTargetDemo that shows how to implement SV report output targets.

April 18, 2010:

Templates

CSV export did not work with CPCS reports.  Fixed.

March 3, 2010:

Templates

Toolbar in Previewer did not have a use variable.  Fixed.

March 2. 2010:

Templates

CSV button had the wrong icon name generated by the template.  Fixed.

Templates

CSV global class was not always exported correctly for multi-dll applications.  Fixed.

Templates

CSV global class declaration did not have the correct attributes resulting in the CSV option not to work if the previewer procedure was in a different application file than the report.  Fixed.

January 19, 2010:

Templates

Added option for 7 button in Save Buttons control template.  Note that if you get a compiler error you need to remove the Save Buttons control template and re-add it to the toolbar in the Previewer procedure.

Templates

Added 5 new embeds into the EnableC6Buttons routine.

Templates

Added support for Office Inside Excel (XLM) export.

Templates

Added support for Fomin Report Builder DOC and RTF export.

December 6, 2009:

Templates

The "Call Previewer" extension caused the Embed editor in Clarion 7 to crash.  Fixed.

August 19, 2009:

Templates

If the "Print to selected printer" template was used and a page range was specified, the page range was being reset when the printing was done.  Fixed.

August 18, 2009:

Templates

Extra END in the CONTROL section of the ITPCSVSaveButton (beta testing) template.  Fixed.

February 9, 2009:

Install

ITPrevTargetDemo.app included in the install.  This demo app is the same as the PreviewerDemo.app except it includes the PDF, HTML, TXT and XML export target templates.

January 22, 2009:

Templates

Missing setting a template symbol in ITPEXT2.TPW  Fixed.

January 1, 2009:

Templates

Missing setting a template symbol in ITPEXT.TPW  Fixed.

Templates

%ITPTemplateName was still referenced in ITPEXT.TPW.  Removed.

Templates

Redeclaration of several (new) symbols in ITPEXT.TPW.  Removed.

Templates

Missing declaration of two symbos in ITPWIZ.TPW.  Fixed

Documentation

Misc chapter added to documentation, containing the License Agreement, limitations and contact us.  Also includes this version history list and a list of installed files.

December 31, 2008:

Templates

Missing symbol declaration in ITPWIZ.TPW.  Fixed.

December 10, 2008 - December 31, 2008:

  All template and source code now has version information in it

   Bug tracking set up at http://icetips.fogbugz.com

   Install is now compatible with Clarion 7.

April 30, 2007:

Templates

5th button in Save As Button template did not have any code on it.  Fixed.

November 9, 2007:

Classes

OMIT() in ITPreviewerClass.INC caused problems in Clarion 6.3 build 9057.  Fixed.

Templates

Page of Pages template had an Include() statement for the Icetips Utilities.  Removed.

Templates

Page of Pages template needs to have the Icetips Utilities Global template added.  Currently this is just documented as a note on the template.  In next build I will make the utilities template required by the Page of Pages template since it is absolutely dependent.

Install

New install built for version 2.60.100

October 2, 2007:

Demo app

The demo app was using CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA\Icetips Creative\Previewer Demo\Data as data path.  Changed to use CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA\Icetips Creative\Previewer Demo

Install

Data path changed.  Added code to remove files from original placement.

Demo app

Added Video window for training videos (upcoming).

Install

Added Video path (upcoming).

Install

Closed at version 2.60.000

September 27, 2007:

Templates

The ITPReportWriterReports,'Icetips Previewer - Report Writer support' template used the same embed symbol for before and after calling the previewer causing the same embed to appear in both places.  Fixed.

September 13, 2007:

Templates

Added option to Global cascading template to check for embedded code in the AskPreview method.  If there is embedded code there, such as code to print final totals or grandtotals, this code will most likely be omitted by the previewer code and never execute.  This option exports each report to TXA and searches through the TXA for embeds in AskPreview and then writes all the procedure names that do have code to a text file and opens in with whatever program is associated with .txt files.

September 12, 2007:

Classes

Omitted class code in ITPreviewerClass.inc was being exported since the ABCReader does not obey OMITted statements in the .inc header files.  Fixed

August 31, 2007:

Template

Include('PRNPROP.CLW') statement was missing the ONCE attribute which could cause duplicate warnings.  Fixed.

August 27, 2007:

   There have been multiple changes to the product in the past year or so. 

November 16, 2006:

Template

Wizard did not generate correct code for "Print" and "Print One" buttons when using the "Printer Selection" template.

October 25, 2006:

Template

Wizard template changed to make most selections available on the first window.

Template

Changed images on wizard.

Help	Finished help with updated screenshots.

Documentation

Updated documentation to reflect changes.

October 18, 2006:

Template

Added ITPSetSelectedPrinterProperties routine to set printer/report properties for selected printers.  Two embeds before and after the code allow for easy customization of properties.

Template

Added ITPReport{PropPrint:Paper} = Loc:Paper to selected printer setup.

Template

Support for ReportDAT reports.  This has been in the template for about a  year but never documented.

Template

Added help IDs to all extension, control and wizard templates.

Template

Modification to wizard.

DLL	Added UsingLargeFonts function to ITrun32.dll to detect large/small fonts and select appropriate image for wizard based on font resolution.

Template

Implemented addition of MouseWheel and Printer Selection when creating the previewer procedure using the wizard.

Template

TXA generation of MouseWheel support could cause problems due to hard coded INSTANCE number.  Fixed both for global and procedure level.

Template

Added ITPSetSelectedPrinterProperties routine to set printer/report properties for selected printers.  Two embeds before and after the code allow for easy customization of properties.

October 17, 2006:

Source

Added to Subversion version control.

Template

Added support to directly change orientation and report jobname when using the Print to Selected Printer template.

Template

Added TREE attribute to all embeds in the extension template.  All Previewer embeds are now under "Local Objects | Icetips Previewer"

May 6, 2006:

Template

Added support for j-FAX from Strategy Online (http://www.strategyonline.co.za/)

May 3, 2006:

Template

Fix from May 1 would generate compile warning.  Fixed.

May 1, 2006:

Template

If the Break Manager is used in Clarion 6 it requires a call to SELF.EndReport instead of the traditional EndPage(Report) as otherwise the last footer(s) in  the Break manager aren't printed.  Fixed.

April 13, 2006:

Classes

The ITPreviewer.inc was missing the !ABCIncludeFile at the top so it did not export from exporting dlls.  Fixed.

April 11, 2006:

Template

Template symbol, %ITPGenerateShellExecuteCall, was not declared in the ITPSaveAsButton extension template.

March 20, 2006:

Classes

Added the ITPreviewerClass which adds Mouse Wheel support to the Icetips Previewer.  The support is done with a class that subclasses the main window as well as the pagelist listbox.

Template

Added support for Mouse Wheel class.

March 03, 2006:

Template

Added support for Fomin Report Builder in Legacy.

March 01, 2006:

Template

Assignment to PRINTER{PROP:Device} caused problems in Print to Selected printer.

Template

%ITPGenerateShellExecuteCall was not set to %False in SaveAsClarion6.

January 14, 2006:

Template

Fix to Copies to Print and page selection when printing to selected printer. Both settings were being ignored.

January 26, 2005:

Template

Added global template to add the previewer to all report procedure in the app.

October 28, 2004:

Template

If conditional use was set when using Fomin reports, it would add invalid additional condition if it was also using Clarion version 6.000 or higher. Should be fixed now.

October 19, 2004:

Template

Implemented target classes in Clarion 6 with Fomin Report Builder.

September 18, 2004:

Template

If applied to CPCS reports with Target template, an assert was thrown by the ABC classes.  Fixed.

Template

Somewhere along the line the fixes on April-07-2004, for CPCS Excel Export got removed.  Added back in.

August 16, 2004:

Install

New install built with a dll that will work with 6.1.  Version updated to 2.101

June 2, 2004:

Template

Added option to wizard template to export previewer procedure to TXA, import a previewer procedure or create a new procedure.  This is useful when moving a previewer procedure from one application to another.  Not yet documented.

April 7, 2004:

Template

Re-activated Theme file selection option in Wizard.  Need to change dlls to 32 bit and recompile but currently they are just 16bit.  They work fine though.

April 7, 2004:

Template

Added control template for CPCS Excel/Ascii export.  Tested in C6 and C5.

Install

Added icon for CPCS Excel/Ascii export.

March 29, 2004:

Template

Regression in fix 1 from March 23: caused problems with C5.5 and Fomin.  Fixed

Template

Wizard would not enable the finish button properly in C5.5.  Fixed.

March 25, 2004:

Template

Conditionally using previewer also put the same condition on the actual printing.  Fixed

Install

ITLOGO.GIF was not distributed with the install.  Added.

March 23, 2004:

Template

An END statement was not being generated correctly when using Fomin Report Builder.  Fixed.

Install

An older version of ITPEXT.TPW was accidentally distributed in build 2.000. Fixed.

March 18, 2004:

Template

Added option to all templates to not generate code.  This comes in handy when debugging applications.  Simply turn off the generation for the templates you don't want to generate.

March 10, 2004:

Template

Added several embed points to the PrinterSelection routines.  This allows  to set report properties before the report is printed.

Template

Added option to set the Target() to the report just before calling the previewer.  This allows you to reference the report inside the previewer.  A ReportRef reference variable is also added when using the Printer Selection templates.  Loc:ReportJobName variable added that contains the jobname of the original report.

March 3, 2004:

Template

Verified that it works with Vivid-Help Email Report after the last changes.

February 27, 2004:

Template

Previewer extension was not using the C6 SkipPreview option.  Fixed in ABC

Template

Previewer Export was not using the tagging in the previewer, i.e. it exported all pages, not just tagged pages.

February 24, 2004:

Documentation

Have cleaned up the new features and made some additions to the documentation.  Most of the documentation work still not done.

Demo	Demo added to show the new features.

February 23, 2004:

New feature

Previewer can now execute the generated target file to open it in the associated program.

December 4, 2003:

New feature

Previewer now fully supports Report Targets in both Clarion and ABC templates under Clarion 6.

New feature

Clarion6 Support extension template.  Only available in Clarion 6.  Sets up support for exporting reports to PDF, HTML, XML and Text

New feature

"Save buttons for Clarion 6" control template.  Populates 4 buttons to be target buttons.  The buttons are unhidden based on how many targets are available.

New feature

"Save As button for Clarion 6" control template.  Populates ONE button that pops up the standard target selection window the same way as the standard previewer does.

November 25, 2003:

Fix	Install now has a C6 dll.

Fix	When using with Fomin, it would generate an omit statement twice.  Fixed.

February 18, 2003:

Fix	PDF-Tools button:  If filedialog was cancelled it would still write the pdf file.  Fixed.

Fix	PDF-Tools button:  If the global template was not found it would still generate code.  Fixed.

Fix	PDF-Tools button:  No tooltip specified.  Fixed.

February 17, 2003:

New feature

Added support for PDF-Tools 2.5 as previewer

New feature

Added control template that prints to PDF from the previewer

Fix	Changed template code to use Self.PreviewQueue instead of SELF.Preview.ImageQueue.  This eliminates the need to change the abreport.inc file.

Fix	Changed install procedure to remove program to change abreport.inc (see above)