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Clarion Help | 1991-07-24 | 12.2 KB | 220 lines |
- Designer
- Helper
- Editor
- Compiler
- Compiler &
- Processor
- Processor
- Translator
- Director
- F1 displays a help window. Clarion
- help windows are context sensitive,
- that is, they try to explain options
- appropriate for the current process.
- Some help windows display a menu of
- help topics. Select a help topic
- and press Enter to display its help
- window. Esc removes a help window.
- F2 displays the Clarion menu. The
- menu is required because there are
- more Clarion utility programs than
- function keys.
- The menu is part of each program,
- so it is displayed immediately when
- F2 is pressed.
- The function keys can also be used
- to execute Clarion utility programs.
- The remaining function keys execute
- the programs listed--exactly as if
- they were executed from the Clarion
- menu.
- F7 is the "compile and test" key.
- It executes Compiler and then, if
- there are no errors, Processor.
- Clarion "remembers" what it worked
- on last--even between sessions. So
- when you execute Editor, the input
- file is already set to the file you
- edited last.
- Compiler defaults to the program you
- edited last. Processor defaults to
- the program you compiled last. And
- Filer, Scanner, and Sorter default
- to the file you used last.
- These function keys work with the
- Shift key to provide "immediate"
- execution.
- For example, F6 displays the base
- page of Compiler with the default
- input file filled in. Shift-F6
- compiles the default input file
- without stopping at the base page.
- The CLARION Professional Developer
- Directory Manager
- Editor
- Compiler
- Filer
- Helper
- Processor
- Sorter
- Designer
- Translator
- Scanner
- Tailor
- Crossrefer
- Converter
- Director
- Compiler compiles Clarion source code into Clarion
- processor code. Clarion processor code is executed
- by Processor (without a link step) and is converted
- by Translator into standard object code.
- Converter imports Clarion files from and exports
- Clarion files to: Dbase II and Dbase
- , DIF,
- and BASIC (comma delimited) files.
- Designer generates source code for entire applications
- by combining screens and reports painted on the video
- monitor with a complete data dictionary.
- Director is a DOS shell that accepts DOS commands and
- displays the sub-directories and files in the current
- directory. Control keys can be used to manipulate
- these directory entries.
- Editor is used to create and change source program
- files. Editor knows the Clarion language and also
- supports keyboard macros, search and replace with
- wildcards, line or character blocks, zone insert,
- and multiple windows.
- Filer creates an empty Clarion file from a
- source file layout. If a file layout changes,
- Filer rearranges each record from the old file
- to match the new record layout.
- Helper creates help files from windows painted on
- the video monitor. Help windows are displayed by
- a Clarion program whenever the F1 key is pressed.
- Processor executes Clarion processor code without linking.
- A debugging window can be displayed by pressing the Ctrl
- and Break keys at the same time (Ctrl-Break). This window
- watches variables, sets resume and break points, traces,
- single cycles, and scrolls source code.
- Scanner displays a Clarion file like a spread-sheet
- (each record in a row and each field in a column).
- Records can be added, changed, and deleted. Column
- sequence and format can be customized and saved.
- Sorter sorts, combines, backs up, restores,
- compresses, and reorganizes Clarion files.
- Tailor customizes the Clarion utility programs
- for colors, keyboard options (such as beep and
- video timeout), source code column conventions
- and print options.
- Translator creates standard object (.OBJ) files from processor
- code created by Compiler. Translator also asks permission to
- create an auto response file and execute LINK or PLINK in order
- to create a standard executable (.EXE) file.
- This is the Clarion menu. Each of the Clarion
- utility programs can be executed from this menu.
- Crossrefer builds a cross-reference listing of the global
- data in an application. The listing shows where a label
- is declared and every place it is used.
- For more information about the Clarion
- Professional Developer and how to order, or
- for the name of the dealer nearest you,
- please contact:
- Clarion Software
- 150 East Sample Road
- Pompano Beach, FL 33064
- 1-800-354-5
- With the Clarion Personal Developer an individual is able to produce
- customized application programs that would normally require the skills
- of an experienced programmer.
- Applications may:
- Relate data from multiple files on screens and reports.
- Read and update data from and to multiple files on data entry screen forms.
- Include colorful menus, scrolling file tables, data entry screens, and
- scrolling "look-ups."
- Incorporate "locate" and "filter" functions, computed fields, "Hot Key"
- procedures, and memory variables.
- Produce customized reports that may include memo text fields and generated
- forms.
- Programs may be copied and distributed; there is no run-time fee.
- The Clarion Personal Developer includes pre-designed
- applications that may be used "as is" or that may be
- modified and/or expanded by the user.
- The Clarion Personal Developer is a complete, stand-alone
- product and has all design, compile and execute functions
- included.
- The Personal Developer and the Professional Developer:
- "The Perfect Team"
- Personal Developer applications can be extended or modified
- by the Clarion Professional Developer.
- Clarion Software provides totally "open-ended" solutions for
- your data processing needs. The program design features of
- the Personal Developer are essentially those of the Designer
- utility in the Professional Developer.
- Personal Developer produces an .APP file that is used to
- generate Clarion source code. Copies of .APP files produced
- by Personal Developer may be used by Designer in the
- Professional Developer.
- Enhancing Personal Developer Applications with the
- Professional Developer
- .APP File from Personal Developer
- CLARION
- Professional Developer:
- Add menu-driven help screens
- Add detailed logic
- Include routines written in Clarion source
- code, "C", and Assembler
- Encrypt file structures and data
- Modify for use with DOS or dBase
- files
- Use network or customized model program
- in Designer
- Create .EXE programs
- After hundreds of hours testing the industry's foremost relational databases
- -- scoring them on fourteen criteria -- and comparing them head to head, the
- editors of InfoWorld emerged with an undisputed winner.
- Clarion's Professional Developer.
- The first programming environment to integrate the simplicity of a database
- product with the robust characteristics of a true programming language in
- one affordable package.
- A programming environment so powerful it caused InfoWorld editors to
- comment: "No other product's language comes close to Clarion's degree of
- functionality."
- CLARION
- PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPER
- T U T O R I A L
- Copyright 1988 by
- CLARION Software Corporation
- All rights reserved
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