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  • Rich Text in the Clarify Classic Client

    Someone recently asked me if the Clarify Classic Client could handle rich text in multi-line text controls - i.e. can text be made bold, italics, use different fonts/colors, etc. Out of the box - no. Clarify handles plain text only. But, we can customize Clarify. One approach to this problem is to use an ActiveX control that supports rich ...
    Posted to Gary Sherman (Weblog) by gsherman on December 18, 2008

  • Dovetail Search for Clarify

    Ever since we introduced Dovetail Seeker this summer, I was anxious to incorporate its capabilities with our applications. It is integrated within Dovetail Agent, Dovetail SelfService, and Dovetail Mobile Agent. Kevin also demonstrated how to incorporate it into your own applications (his particular example was integrating Seeker with an ASP.NET ...
    Posted to Gary Sherman (Weblog) by gsherman on November 18, 2008

  • Consuming JSON in ClearBasic

    Recently I had the need to consume JSON in ClearBasic. For example, I make a request to a web service, and the service returns a result set in JSON format. I want to display those results within Clarify. JSON JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. JSON is a pretty popular data transfer format, especially for ...
    Posted to Gary Sherman (Weblog) by gsherman on October 22, 2008

  • A few UI Editor Tips & Tricks

    Kevin walked past my laptop the other day and noticed an ugly looking hot-dog-inspired-colored window, and asked - what the hell is that? This is what it was: Ugly? Absolutely. Useful? I think so. I thought it deserved some explanation, so here goes. Colors I purposely use the bright colors to distinguish the different elements, along with ...
    Posted to Gary Sherman (Weblog) by gsherman on July 24, 2008

  • When Clarify grids go bad

    For the most part, Clarify is pretty easy to customize. Occasionally, you run into Clarify forms that just don't behave as you would expect. In particular, the "old" Clarify forms, that were all written in C, long before ClearBasic was considered - those can be problematic. ClearLogistics forms are also typically problematic - the ...
    Posted to Gary Sherman (Weblog) by gsherman on July 18, 2008

  • App.ShowSolution in ClearBasic

    I'm sure most of the ClearBasic brainiacs already know this (and I may have at one point), but the parameter to App.ShowSolution is a record of type "workaround", not a record of type "probdesc". I probably knew this at one time, but its been a long time since I've done ClearBasic coding. I'm blogging this so that I can find ...
    Posted to Gary Sherman (Weblog) by gsherman on July 7, 2008

  • Encode URLs with ClearBasic

    At Dovetail one of the things we sell is Clarify Helpdesk support. This means that customers having problems with Clarify Client can get support when they run into issues. We had an interesting case recently that I thought would be good to share with the community. Under the hood Clarify Client uses a variant of Visual Basic called ClearBasic ...
    Posted to Gary Sherman (Weblog) by gsherman on June 23, 2008