It's been almost a month since the last time I posted! It took us much longer to get our office set up than we had expected. But we are back to work on our products and I'm planning a new release of our Icetips Utilities sometime in the first week of November.
Softvelocity released the Clarion 7 Application Generator to third party people about a week ago. I have worked in it just a little bit and I'm fairly impressed so far. What impresses me most is the dramatic increase in speed of loading the registry, loading the ABC classes and generating code. Compiling speed is probably about similar as it was in Clarion 6, but I haven't loaded any apps that are big enough to really be measurable:D
The new IDE will take some time to get used to and some areas definitely need some polishing, but so far so good. SV is hard at work on this and I'm looking forward to the next build:)
All the templates that I've registered - most of our product templates and several in-house templates - registered without any problems at all. The apps that I have opened so far have opened without problems. I've only tried to open some of the Clarion 6 example apps, but that's a good start.
In the coming days and weeks we will make sure that all our templates and classes compatible with Clarion 7 as well as creating new Clarion 7 compatible installs.
Dave Harms has written up a nice entry on Clarion Magazine about Clarion 7 and I suggest that you take a look at it. Dave has some nice comparison screenshots and more information so I'm not going to repeat it here. I also suggest you read the latest blogs on the Softvelocity website. I would particularly suggest that you read the blog entry about the "File Schema Pad" and watch the video about how it increases productivity. That thing alone will save hours for me every week and I'm sure I'm not alone!
-- Arnor Baldvinsson
