C12 - FM3: cannot enter table version number in table properties

[Rene]

Hi,
I have installed FM3 (5.64) and with a new dictionary, I cannot enter a new file version number.
This is independent of the file driver I use.
The Option Properties - Predefined - Label droplist only shows:
Softvelocity
ABC and Clarion
Edit inplace
Emulate Auto Num key
File Declaration Mode

I have tried to reinstall the FM3 template but that doesn’t help.
Is there anyone else with a similar issue?

Regards,
René

[donridley]

You can select the String option type. Then enter “Version” and then 1 for the value.

This is the manual way to setup the table to use FM3.

[Rene]

Thans Don.
That is a nice workaround. But it remains a strange phenomenon.

[Nardus_Swanevelder]

See this topic:

Clarion 10 + FM3 + Windows 11 doesn't work?

I found the folder "D:\Clarion10\data\DictionaryOptions for clarion ", which has the file “SoftVelocity.dctopt”, but the “capesoft.dctopt” does not exist in it! Can you find capesoft.dctopt in your old (Windows 10) installation? If so, copy that into the same folder that has SoftVelocity.dctopt. If not, perhaps Bruce can just send it to you or, if he’s OK with my doing so, I’ll send you a copy of what’s in my folder.

[Rene]

Hi Nardus,

The earliest version of Clarion on my computer is C11.
That worked fine but without capesoft.dctopt.
capesoft.dctopt is not found on my computer.
Is that really the solution for this?
Maybe Bruce steps in and knows what’s going on.

kind regards,
Rene

[Nardus_Swanevelder]

I just tested it on my Clarion 12. Opened a dictionary and added File Options, but I didn’t have the CapeSoft Options.

Then I copied the folder “DictionaryOptions” from
c:\users\yourname\AppData\Roaming\SoftVelocity\Clarion11.1\ to
c:\users\yourname\AppData\Roaming\SoftVelocity\Clarion12.0\

I closed and reopened Clarion 12 and then reopened the dictionary and now I see:

[Bruce]

I’ll check the install.

[Rene]

This remedy does not work for me.
I think I need a different dctopt file.

[Bruce]

For now just use String Type.
Set name to
VERSION
and the number as normal.

[Terry_Ho]

Thanks god. I think this is only happen to me. So I can’t find any help in past. I had face this before, it may be the corrupt of the dictionary xml format, sometime it happen of change table structure and etc.

Before that I had try to delete the affect table, but it seem that it can not delete the table.
I can not find any way to solve it. Except to re-create the dictionary again.

I think it is clarion xml structure problem. So keep every version your dictionary txd file. You may need it once it has problem.

[Bruce]

It has nothing to do with your dictionary. It is the dictopt file that is missing.