Clarion 11 builds are getting closer and I hope to have them all sorted this weekend and push them out next week, starting Monday, October 1st.
One of the changes in Clarion 11 is in the template interface. After many years it has finally happened - the template window has been widened! That presented a bit of a problem with the presentation as now we have two distinct visual designs - one for Clarion 11 and later and one for Clarion 10 and older. The old format we have grown accustomed to over the past 25 years without much change still looks like it always has.
The new template window is considerably wider and fits much better with today's large and high resolution monitors.
Some of our template windows will be updated to take advantage of the added real estate, but I'm not sure if that will all be included in the initial builds for Clarion 11.
One change that will be across all our products - the version number will change to be year.month.build. That will help immediately identify the release time of the template to help with support. As always the version numbers and support information will keep being included on every template window.
Another change that is coming is that by the end of this year we will no longer test or support backward compatibility with the old 16bit Clarion IDE. I have to maintain several 32bit Windows virtual machines, which gets to be quite expensive and the 3GB memory limitation in 32bit operating systems doesn't leave much room for the new IDE along with other development tools. So after January 1st, 2019 we hope to have all demo apps etc. upgraded to Clarion 9 or 10 only and the last builds of 2018 will be the last builds that support Clarion 6 and older. We may leave the installers to support the older IDE for now, but we will no longer support the old IDE. Clarion 6.3.9059 was released in early 2009 and I think 10 years is a pretty good run for a development environment. Time to move on 🙂
