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Generic Calculator Template 6.0 |
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Usage |
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Introduction |
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Generic Calculator
6.0 for Clarion 5~5.5~6 Legacy/ABC.
White box Procedure Template to add Calculator functionality to your
application. In a matter of seconds you can add the
Calculator procedure in your application and customize it visually just as
normal Clarion window. Usually you will probably use it as a standalone
calculator, but it can be used as a lookup procedure or as a part of a
complex window as well. Download demo.
No template settings - no learning!
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The Generic Calculator Template is a twin brother of our Calendar template | |
So Calculator is a white box as well - you'll get template which does the job. | |
No foreign DLLs to ship whatsoever. It means that this Calculator can be made | |
absolutely indistinguishable from all other windows of yours. | |
To do that you do not need to learn template language or read our boring instructions. | |
Just generate a Calculator procedure and it is yours. You can open Calculator | |
window in the window editor and you are free to do absolutely everything. | |
Change font size to make your Calculator microscopically small of barely fitting the screen. | |
Play with different fonts, colours, images etc. etc. In a matter of seconds change button layout | |
Just by stretching - shrinking the button browse box | |
Download the demo program to see the Generic Calculator template in action | |
Main advantages: | |
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Installation |
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Run the installation wizard. It will guide you through a few simple steps. | |
IMPORTANT: If you are using Clarion 5 or 5.5, after selecting Clarion5 or C55 directory wizard | |
will offer you to install it into C:\Clarion5\Clarion6 or C:\C55\Clarion6 directory respectively. | |
So do not forget to get rid of last \Clarion6. But even if you do - it is not a problem. | |
Just uninstall template and run installation once again. | |
To start using template you have to manually register it. | |
offer you to install it into C:\C55\Clarion5 directory. Change it to C:\C55 | |
That is basically it. To start using template you have to manually register it. | |
If you do not know how to do that - VIEW ANIMATED HELP | |
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Animated Help Builder. To run it you need a JAVA enabled browser. Both MS Internet | |
and Netscape Navigator support JAVA, but in earlier versions of IE and in the 6th version | |
of NS you need explicitly say during installation that you need MS virtual machine or | |
Java support correspondently. If you have it installed without this support yet it | |
does not hurt to run installation again and install those components required. | |
This will allow you not only watch our help, but will help you to discover | |
amazing world of Java on the Net. So all of a sudden you will be | |
able to see millions of wonderful effects instead of ugly rectangles | |
which you used to see instead. Try it and you will not be disappointed... | |
Just in case you could not get your browser to be Java enabled or you just do not | |
want to bother here is the verbal instruction: Open Clarion (no application must be open). | |
Go to menu Setup -> Template Registry ->Register. Select two new templates | |
abcalc.tpl and legcalc.tpl and then hit Open button | |
Using Template |
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Tree Generic Calculator Template is a Procedure template | |
So use it as any other procedure template, say, Browse one. | |
If you do not like our default Calculator style you have got two options: | |
First, you can generate our Calculator in your main DLL where you define all dictionary files, | |
customize it anyway you want and then call it as external procedure in all other DLLs/EXE | |
You can go even further and open your customized Calculator window definition (property -> | |
Window -> ... button). Copy it and paste on top of template window definition | |
You will easily find it in either abcalc.tpl or legcalc.tpl in the beginning of those files | |
In this case template will generate your window instead of ours every time you use the template | |
To get started, just open an application and ADD Calculator TEMPLATE PROCEDURE | |
We installed an example into your Clarion (Clarion5 or C55) Examples/VHCalcul | |
directory so to get some ideas how to use template you can investigate the source | |
By default Calculator template generates 4-column button layout. You can easily change | |
it to 3-, 6-, and 8-column predefined layouts just by stretching-shrinking the browse control. | |
You can see all of them on the top of this page | |
Percent Calculations | |
New present button (%) has very much the same functionality as does respective button | |
in Windows standard calculator. See picture below for details: | |
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You should read the rest of this instruction only if you are not happy with any of those | |
predefined layouts | |
To change order of buttons, | |
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To change text of buttons, | |
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It goes without saying that you can combine those 2 routines to change both order of buttons | |
and their text. Investigate example code for further details. You can find it | |
in you Clarion Examples/VHCalcul directory | |
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