IMO a session to catch live will be “Future Features of Clarion” by Robert Zaunere the President of SoftVelocity. It’s on Saturday 9/24. Will Bob announce the 64-bit compiler?
3:30 PM in Cape Town
9:30 AM in New York
8:30 AM in Chicago
7:30 AM in Denver
6:30 AM in Los Angeles
11:30 PM in Sydney AUS
Attached are the Excel sheets for the above schedule (and next post) you can adjust to your own time zone.
The above schedule is kind of terse without the tool tips and popup windows that appear on the website. Below I made more detailed Excel sheets. These XLS are in the CIDC_2020_Schedule2.zip attached to the prior post. You can use them adjust to your time zone, highlight important sessions, keep notes, etc.
yes, but it won’r be live.
The live-stream is a single all-day stream, so it’s not so easy to cut into that and make a bit public.
So we’ll separate out all the day’s sessions and post them as individual sessions after-the-face. Probably within a few days, but possible after a couple of weeks - it all depends on the work-load.
Once we have separated that one out, then we’ll make it free to view.
I just noticed that CIDC 2020 Registrations close tomorrow Tuesday September 20.
Price is $300 which gets about 50 hours of Clarion content
Here’s Bruce’s post on 9/5 from Discuss.SV
Hi All,
So CIDC 2020 finally happens this month on September 22-25.
Onsite registrations will close this week - but online registrations will be available up to the 20th.
If you aren’t already registered (for online, or onsite) then see https://cidc2020.com - Online registrations are especially good value this time at $300, for all sessions (2 days of training, 2 days of conference sessions) and include 12 interim-online sessions we did during lockdown.
All sessions are streamed live, and recorded, so you can join us live, delayed, or watch the recordings after the fact.
For those who are already registered please take a moment to test your login this week. You will need to login to watch the streams, so having that all in place now will save some panic on the 22nd.
native support of new types (USTRING, 64-bit signed and unsigned integers), completing of support of VARIANT and BSTRING types, preliminary support of GUID and DATETIME types
new implementation of the internationalization stuff based on codepage and LCID
new implementation of the memory manager
new implementation of UFOs and “values-on-the-string-stack”
almost all text operation in the RTL were re-implemented to use Unicode strings, new implementation of string functions like LEFT, ALL, etc.
new implementation of functions to work with OS file APIs
implementation of new hierarchy of internal classes (properties, controls, hooks, dynamic strings, etc.)
new implementation of pictures (FORMAT, DEFORMAT, MASKed input to ENTRYs)
new implementation of TOOLBARs and menus (for example, to make possible to CREATE menubars with the NOMERGE attribute at run time)
new implementation of WINDOWs to solve all the problems with MDI in Windows
new implementation of REPORTs including switching to EMF,
Probably, I forgot something.
It was the huge work by itself and it had to be done in complex. That’s why there were not sufficient changes since original C10.
On the late phase it was decided to add support of AnyScreen to the C10 codebase. Supporting of AnyScreen required the sufficient re-organization of the RTL sources to minimize the stuff which is not needed if the program does not use AnyScreen. As result almost nothing from the list above was included to C11.
The difference between C10 codebase and the new one is highly large. Therefore porting changes for AnyScreen to the proposed C12 run into sufficient problems. Therefore it was decided to not include (10) and (11) to C12 because they were not implemented completely yet.
IIRC in Clarion 11 putting a BSTRING in a GROUP or QUEUE did Not work in various ways and crashed. It was not initialized properly or cleared. Do you know if that was done for BSTRING?
It would be convenient to have multiple BSTRING fields inside a GROUP and be able to CLEAR(Group), same with QUEUE similar to ANY.
Can a BSTRING be used on a WINDOW in ENTRY() USE() so dynamically allocated to the size entered? That would be very handy.
If I wanted to assign the BSTRING Pointer to a &USTRING is there some easy way? I know that there are some risks with writing past the end of the BSTR. Are there some PROPs or way to get to the BSTR Address and Length?
Bs1 BSTRING
Bs1Pointer LONG,OVER(Bs1)
UStr &STRING
CODE
Bs1=' {40}' !Allocate 40 + the <0> all x 2 so 84 bytes
UStr &= (Bs1Pointer) ! ???&':'& LEN(Bs1)+1
! Simpler way ?
UStr &= Bs1 !Would this assign Pointer and Length?
Disclaimer: RZ stated about plans to change compilers in his abstracts for CIDC2020. Thereby, everything I’m saying regarding the future CW version can become discarded.
Variables of the BSTRING types are initialized with the NULL reference even if the AUTO attribute presents. Ditto for variables of the ANY type. Compound structures (GROUP, QUEUE, CLASS) having fields of the BSTRING type must be declared without the AUTO attribute.
Variables of the BSTRING type are intended to be used for the interfacing with the OLE API only, Therefore any changes of the BSTRING variable’s value destroy its old value. This is true for usage of CLEAR too. So, usage of fields of the BSTRING type in QUEUEs very problematic. The only way is to have them OVERed for another field of the LONG type:
Q QUEUE
BZ LONG
BS BSTRING,OVER(BZ)
...
END
Variables of the BSTRING type can be used as parameters of controls’ USE attribute. Size of value can be entered to an ENTRY control is determined by control’s picture.
It is strongly discouraged to have extra references to the value of the BSTRING variable.
ADDRESS(BS) returns address of current string pointed by BS.
LEN(BS) returns the length (in wide chars) of current string pointed by BS. SIZE(BS) returns the size (in bytes) allocated for the current value of BS.
