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Clarion Help
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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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