Clarion is a Rapid Application Development tool (RAD) with a 4th Generation language.
The language was create by Bruce Barrington back in the early 1980 and operated
in DOS until Clarion for Windows came out in 1994. It was first published by Clarion
Software but in 1992 Clarion Software and Topspeed merged. Topspeed developed
Clarion until 2000 when
SoftVelocity took over the development of the product.
Clarion is a database language and the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is
tightly integrated with databases. The IDE has a powerful Dictionary Editor where
tables are set up or imported from external sources such as ODBC or SQL databases.
Wizards can be used to create applications based on the information in the data
dictionary, or the developer can optionally create completely hand coded
source projects but the dictionary is only available to the application generator.
Clarion has a very powerful template driven code generator that pulls in information
from the data dictionary to generate appropriate code. Templates are used to
instruct the generator what code to generate. The templates are text based script
files that generate code in exactly the way that the developer wants it to be.
Templates can be used to generate other languages than Clarion if wanted, but only Clarion
based templates come with the product. There are templates available to generate
ASP and ASP.NET and also to generate perl programs, but only the ASP templates are
available from
SoftVelocity at the time of writing. SoftVelocity also sells ClarioNet
which is a thin client for internet and intranet applications.
Icetips Software has been supplying high quality tools for Clarion dvelopers
since September 2001. Check out our other website,
www.clarionforwindows.com
for more information about the Clarion development tool.
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