Month: June 2015

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It was brought to my attention today by Lee White that the manifest for Clarion 10 is set to "asInvoker" This means that the IDE is NOT elevated when it runs. This can cause problems.

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For example if you are used to seeing the  "Process Running" message if you accidentally left the program running that you are compiling, you will not see that in Clarion 10.  It will simply give you an "Access denied" error at the end of the linking process.

To fix this you need to make a small edit in the Clarion.exe.manifest file in your Clarion\Bin folder.  If you load it into an editor you will see a line that looks like this:

<requestedExecutionLevel level="asInvoker" uiAccess="false"/>

Change this line to:

<requestedExecutionLevel level="requireAdministrator" uiAccess="false"/>

save it and you are done.  Now the IDE will open elevated and the "Process Running" warning will once again work as it should.  Note that to get the warning you must turn off the "Kill running process before build" or Clarion will simply kill it without prompting.

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I have been running the Clarion IDE as elevated since Clarion 7 came out and never had issues with it.  But apparently some people have had problems so Softvelocity decided to change the manifest in Clarion 10.

Arnor Baldvinsson

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One of the very cool things in the new IDE is the support for XML help. This is the information entered into .INC files using triple exclamation mark (!!!) comments. This makes a quick help accessible right in the IDE.  I have been working on documenting the ITUtilities.inc file and I'm about half way through it.  It doesn't replace the documentation but once I have gone through and documented the ITUtilities.inc it will be much easier for me to dig through getting the full documentation done.

Below is an example from the ITImageClass in the Utilities:

!!!<summary>
!!! Sets the position of the image withing a boundary control.
!!!</summary>
!!!<param name='pImageFEQ'>The control with the image</param>
!!!<param name='pRelativeFEQ'>The relative boundary control</param>
!!!<param name='pX'>Adjust horizontal placement</param>
!!!<param name='pY'>Adjust vertical placement</param>
!!!<param name='pJust'>Justification of the image inside 
!!! the boundary control</param>
!!! <para></para>
!!! <para>The horzontal justification can be one of:</para>
!!! <para> IT_IMAGE_JUST:LEFT</para>
!!! <para> IT_IMAGE_JUST:CENTER</para>
!!! <para> IT_IMAGE_JUST:RIGHT</para>
!!! <para></para>
!!! <para>The vertical justification can be one of:</para>
!!! <para> IT_IMAGE_JUST:TOP</para>
!!! <para> IT_IMAGE_JUST:MIDDLE</para>
!!! <para> IT_IMAGE_JUST:BOTTOM</para>

In the IDE, when you are entering the name of the method in the editor it will show you a tooltip with all the information above:

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Arnor Baldvinsson

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It's been a bit of a rough ride to get the website moved. I ended up not going with my previous hosting company, rather moving the whole mess over to Hostgator.com.  That presented several challenges, but stubbornness prevailed 🙂

Reason being that Softsys Hosting did not offer a migration from one server to another so I'd have to manually move everything.  Since I was paying them almost $100/month for managed windows hosting, I felt they should be able to migrate my things from one server to another within their domain.  Well, they didn't see it that way, so I decided to save myself a bundle and go with linux hosting at Hostgator.  I'm only paying about 18% of what I was paying at Softsys Hosting.

This came with some pain and suffering though.  All my mySQL databases had to be renamed as Hostgator insists on a user prefix for all databases.  That again required changed in multiple scripts on my side.  Sessions are more sensitive on Hostgator than on previous hosting so they were causing errors all over the place.  Got that fixed.  Then had problems with my ordering process and got that going, but found out that it wasn't sending the emails it should have.  Softsys Hosting doesn't allow using the php mail() function but rather insisted on using an email class.  Worked great there, but didn't work at all on Hostgator so I had to change all my email class calls back to using mail()

After just over a week, I think everything is now back and running as it should.  If you run into any problems anywhere on the site, please let me know!

Since I was doing this, I decided to change the software I used for the Icetips blog and have started using Word Press.  The forum has also been upgraded to the latest and both have been set up to run on subdomains, so you can use blog.icetips.com to get to the blog and forum.icetips.com to get to the forum.

Arnor Baldvinsson