First of all, sorry for the long posting :-) Please try and read all the way to the bottom as we've also got news of new template products to be released.
A quick "catch up"....
Some of you may have noticed that I've been a little quiet of late, that's because I've had to "stretch" my time a little more than usual. Not only are we continuing to develop our current range of tpls (updates below), but we're also in the process of creating our own range of apps. I'm pleased to announce that after a revamp, our Display Manager product has now been released from beta and is already installed and running at a number of UK installations. Display Manager started out life as a 'Visitor Greeting' system, but has now progressed into the retail world as a multi screen solution - displaying various messages, product adverts, video feeds etc for up to 10 screens simultaneously. The next step is to provide a full SDK for Clarion developers to interact with it for use within their own applications!
Our wrapper templates....
We've been busy working on our series of wrapper tpls and are pleased to announce we've uploaded a new release of most of our wrapper templates.
At the core of each of the releases are some common modifications:-
Some wrappers however did get some extra functionality added to them and these are stated below:-
ChartPro - v1.06
* Data Source options have been added to the Series definition. Sources can be set to:-
- List Control (attach the Chart to a Clarion list and updating is automatically performed when the user navigates through the list)
- Queue (all data points can be loaded from your own queue(s) and the Chart will be automatically updated whenever a change in the queue contents are detected)
- Specified in Template (as per previous release)
* Color attribute added to Data Point definition.
* New Chart Types added:-
- Step Area
- Radar Area
- Radar Line
- Radar Point
- Radar Spline Area
- Radar Spline
- Range Spline Area
* New sample procedures added to demo app.
* New Method: 'ShowMarkers'
* New Method: 'SetSeriesDataSource'
* New Method: 'UpdateDataPoints'
* BUG FIX: Thread attribute missing from Class definition.
CommandBars v2.12 / v2.13
* 'CalcOverallHeight' method now derivable.
* BUG FIX: Bar visibility was ignored for designer bars.
* BUG FIX: Thread attribute missing from Class definition.
DockingPane v2.05
* BUG FIX: Global Window Manager Class Multi-Dll Error.
G-Calc v7.02
* Equates moved into NYSEquates.equ file.
* BUG FIX: Thread attribute missing from Class definition.
SkinFramework v2.10
* BUG FIX: Thread attribute missing from Class definition.
**** IMPORTANT ****
As all of our template series now share a common core, we strongly suggest updating ALL templates at the same time, to avoid any class method mismatches.
Other template developments
Work as continued on the ReportControl wrapper (as well as the above developments) and we hope to release in 2 stages - the first being the revamp of v1.x, and the second including functions like ADO data binding. If all goes to plan, we'll be holding our user group meeting next weekend and I'd like to show the first beta by then!
Whilst working on our various applications (including our new Display Manager), we come across certain *voids* that need to be filled - this is how the series of Codejock wrapper templates were born. I'm pleased to announce that we'll shortly be launching 2 new wrapper templates:-
G-Media : As the name suggests, its a tpl / class to perform various media activities. The approach we've taken is to provide a rich tpl / class interface that allows you to specify the media control you are using, then it will calculate the commands required to drive the backend software. Currently it supports MS Media Player, VLC Media Player and Viscom Movie Player. More can and will be added in due course.
HTTP Wrapper : This is a wrapper tpl for the CHILKAT HTTP ActiveX control (http://www.chilkatsoft.com/HttpActiveX.asp). The control itself provides a rich range of everyday HTTP communications functions. The wrapper supports these commands and puts them in an easier to use Clarion way. Instead of just focusing on the HTTP commands, we're purposely approaching this from a "job requirement" point of view. The reason I started using the control was because we needed to remotely access and update Google documents - so, as with the other wrappers, the HTTP Wrapper was born.
The Class now includes a set of methods to interrogate, analyse and update Google Spreadsheets. Other types of Google Documents will be supported as the wrapper develops.
Both G-Media and HTTP Wrapper will be released shortly. If anyone is interested in these, please feel free to drop me an email (sales at noyantis dot com)
Well, if you're still awake and have made it this far down - thanks for reading.
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