Publications
Converting C6 Apps to C7, Part 2
by Philip Prohm
Published in Clarion Magazine
Posted March 10 2010
Summary: Clarion 7 is without doubt one of the largest changes in the history of Clarion, thanks to its completely new IDE and a reworked code generation system that is a lot stricter about APP and DCT data. As a result, you’re likely to encounter some errors when converting your APPs to C7.x. Philip Prohm takes a detailed look at the common problems and their solutions. Part 2 of 2.
Converting C6 Apps to C7, Part 1
by Philip Prohm
Published in Clarion Magazine
Posted March 10 2010
Summary: Clarion 7 is without doubt one of the largest changes in the history of Clarion, thanks to its completely new IDE and a reworked code generation system that is a lot stricter about APP and DCT data. As a result, you’re likely to encounter some errors when converting your APPs to C7.x. Philip Prohm takes a detailed look at the common problems and their solutions. Part 1 of 2.
A Template For Coloring Reports
by Philip Prohm
Published in Clarion Magazine
Posted May 20 2008
Summary: Philip Prohm builds on his previous template for saving/restoring procedure variables with another template to let the user configure report colors.
A Template For Saving Procedure Variables
by Philip Prohm
Published in Clarion Magazine
Posted May 20 2008
Summary: Clarion provides a standard way of saving configuration information via INIClass, but you still have to write the code to use that class. Philip Prohm demonstrates an extension template that reduces saving/restoring procedure variables to a few mouse clicks.
Profiling Your Applications
by Philip Prohm
Published in Clarion Magazine
Posted July 11 2007
Summary: Your application is working, but is it working too hard? Once the code is doing what it should do, it’s time to make sure it’s not wasting your customer’s time. Philip Prohm shows how to use Clarion’s built-in profiling hooks to find bottlenecks in running code.

