Sunday, December 27, 2009

Stable Harbour 2.0.0 (r13372) Released

CCH : Great news for Harbour Developers !

Hi All,

Harbour 2.0.0 (r13372) source archives and Windows binary
releases are available for download on sourceforge.net;

sourceforge.net/projects/harbour-project/files/

Make sure to check INSTALL doc "QUICK START" section and visit
our user forums at;

sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/harbour-project/

Release notes;
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Unified Windows release for most supported compilers and
x86, x64, WinCE/ARM, MS-DOS, OS/2, Linux target platforms.

Installed size; 214MB (54MB - 339MB)

The default installation will install MinGW compiler + x86 static and
shared libs, MSVC and BCC x86 libs and examples.

Options; x86 shared tools, x64 shared tools, MinGW x64 and
WinCE-ARM libs, MSVC x64 libs, Open Watcom x86 libs,
shared x64/WinCE-ARM libs, MS-DOS (watcom) libs, OS/2 (watcom)
libs, Linux (watcom) libs.

Usage;
1) install/unpack to any directory (C;\hb20)
2) go to bin dir (optional if you specify path for hbmk2)
3) For x86 executable, type; ’hbmk2 ../tests/hello.prg’
4) For x64 executable, type; ’hbmk2 ../tests/hello.prg -compiler=mingw64’
[needs mingw64 to be installed in ’comp/mingw64’ dir beforehand]
5) For WinCE/ARM executable, type; ’hbmk2 ../tests/hello.prg -platform=wce’
[needs cegcc to be installed in ’comp/mingwarm’ dir beforehand]
6) For MS-DOS executable, type; ’hbmk2 ../tests/hello.prg -platform=dos’
[needs OpenWatcom to be installed in ’comp/watcom’ dir beforehand]
7) For Linux executable, type; ’hbmk2 ../tests/hello.prg -platform=linux’
[needs OpenWatcom to be installed in ’comp/watcom’ dir beforehand]

Tool/lib versions used to create this package;
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Compiler tools
--------------

MinGW GNU C 4.4.1 TDM-2 (included)
MinGW w64 GNU C 4.5.0-20091118
MinGW CEGCC 4.4.0
MSVC 2008 (version bundled with MS Windows SDK 7)
Open Watcom C 1.8
Borland C/C++ 5.5.1

External lib dependencies
-------------------------

ACE 9.10
Allegro 4.2.2
Blat 2.6.2
Cairo 1.8.8
libcurl 7.19.6
Firebird 2.1.3
FreeImage 3.13.0
GD 2.0.35
MySQL 5.1.41
OpenSSL 0.9.8k
PostgreSQL 8.4.2-1
QT 4.5.3
WATTCP 2.2.10

Changes since previous (2.0.0beta3 20090905) release;
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

- Harbour updated to r13359 (from r12422)
- MinGW CEGCC updated to 4.4.0
- upx updated to 3.04.
- MinGW 4.4.1 updated to TDM-2 release fixing a performance problem.
- MinGW w64 updated to latest binary release.
- DJGPP build in unified release replaced with OpenWatcom MS-DOS build.
- External libs updated (except OpenSSL and libcurl).
- hbwin cleanups/fixes (printer handling) and improvements (mutex, MAPI, misc)
- hbwin OLE2, ActiveX support improved and finalized.
- hbwin full UNICODE support and cleanups.
- hbwin basic win64 .dll support.
- hbtip POP3/SMTP fixes, encoding/charset support.
- Added hbmemio contrib.
- hbnetio finalized.
- hbqt cleanups and improvements, QT 4.6 support.
- hbide (early development stage).
- Documentation enhancements; INSTALL and doc/xhb-diff.txt.
- hbmk2 got support to convert xMate, hbmake and xbuild make files to .hbp
format.
- Added hbsms contrib library (to send SMS text messages in multiplatform way).
- gtwvg now builds in win64 mode.
- Rudimentary port of GTWVW (find it in examples)
- New hbcairo wrapper for cairo lib.
- Improved code portability for startup code, C++ mode and
to support for old GCC versions.
- Added public Harbour C level API to handle GC collected pure pointers.
- Added workaround fox Pelles C 6.0 bug, so now it can be used
with Harbour for win32 and wince. Win64 build still doesn’t work,
due to other POCC6 bugs.
- Fixed to support MSVC 6.0.
- dlmalloc memory allocator now also optimized for MT mode.
- DJGPP builds received support for .dxe dynamic libs.
- MS-DOS build included in unified release package is now built
with OpenWatcom rather than DJGPP.
- OpenWatcom now builds in plain C mode (instead of C++)
- Included MSVC build is now a UNICODE build.
- Changed all Harbour to use WIDE Windows API calls only in UNICODE mode.
- New Harbour C level UTF-8 and UTF-16 string handling functions.
- Rewritten internal codepage and collation support. Collations
are now ensured to be CA-Cl*pper compatible.
- HB_TRANSLATE() now supports UTF-8.
- OS/2 platform support improvements (watcom, .dll support, GCC OMF support).
- gtxwc fixes.
- General finalization to *nix Harbour dynamic library generation built into
build system.
- Generalized the way zlib and pcre embedded sources are handled.
- Finalized new pure GNU Make based build system.
- Embedded libharu made available for MS-DOS Harbour builds,
plus many other leveling of MS-DOS port.
- Added Blowfish encryption functions to core.
- Added experimental win64 binary build of GNU Make.
- Synced with some new features that appeared in xhb, plus some missing
features from past versions.
- New Harbour port to Haiku/BeOS.
- Updated embedded components.
- Cleaned all test code from Harbour -w3 level warnings.
- hbmk2 now supports the same C warning levels as build system.
- hbmk2 now supports built-in native .c / .prg dependency detection.
- hbmk2 tested/finalized for *nix systems.
- hbmk2 now supports upx on *nix systems.
- New hbdoc2 tool at development stage.
- Support for linux/open64, linux/clang compilers.
- Build system now uses automatic version detection for MSVC compilers.
- Core trace message functionality improvements (new .prg level
interface, Windows OutputDebugString support)
- New SET( _SET_DBCODEPAGE ).
- RDDADS fixes.
- Removed support for harbour.cfg and Harbour compiler -go output mode.
- New Harbour types (HB_SIZE, HB_BOOL, etc).
- Moved rddado from contrib area to examples.
- Deleted hbmake from examples.
- Many other smaller improvements, additions, fixes, cleanups.
- For 3rd party developers it’s recommended to look for the word
"incompatibility" in ChangeLog to find spots which may imply changes
on their part.

Changes since previous (2.0.0beta2 20090624) release;
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

- Harbour updated to r12422 (from r11508)
- Rewritten socket library.
- Fixed remaining Clipper compatibility issues (@.clp, SET PROC TO, DO WITH, etc)
- Added replaceable core file I/O layer.
- Reworked build system with integrated dynlib creation, cross-platform
support, compiler and external component autodetection and much more.
- MinGW updated to 4.4.1
- MinGW x64 updated to 4.5.0 (20090905)
- Finalizing ActiveX/OLE2 support.
- Timestamp/datetime support in core.
- Added MT support for dos platform.
- Added socket support for dos platform (via WATTCP lib).
- Added hbnetio lib client/server file I/O implementation.
- hbxbp lib about feature complete.
- wce/msvcarm target improvements, sunpro compiler support.
- hbssl OpenSSL wrapper lib.
- SSL support in hbtip lib.
- Serial communication fixes in hbwin/hbtpathy on win platform.
- Lots of other additions and some fixes.
- Changed default install path to be ’hb20’ rather than ’harbour20’,
to avoid long filenames.
- Replaced mingw64 built x64 shared tools with msvc64 builds, as
the former didn’t work.
- Included hbqt lib which links against static QT libs.

Changes since previous (2.0.0beta1 20090609) release;
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Harbour updated to r11508 (from r11287)
- New User’s Forum linked
- upx compressor included in install package
- DOS cross build libs included in install package
- preparation to host 3rd party packages inside Harbour directory tree
- new "zero-conf" library install system in preparation
- hbmk2; lots of minor refinements, support for all free compilers
in embedded form, support spaces in filenames/paths, all Harbour
supported C compilers have now complete support in hbmk2
- DOS support tested and required fixes applied
- embedded compilers moved to ’comp’ subdir
- support for latest MinGW x64 and MSVS 2010 compilers
- extended INSTALL with new examples and app build quick guide
- icon for installer and hbrun tool
- hbxbp and hbqt enhancements
- hbwin refinements and better compatibility
- new uhttpd2 sessioned HTTP server
- C++ build support for all compilers, new HB_WAEVAL() function,
new xpp (Xbase++ compatibility) lib, .hrb loading enhancements
- DBU, RL, SuperLib fixes.
- MinGW64 updated to 4.4.1
- There were a few changes in this release which may require updating
your source code (hb_par*()/hb_stor*() in .c files and GTWVG WIN_*()
function in .prg files). Search for ’incompatible’ word in ChangeLog
for more.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Changes since previous (1.1.0dev 20090602) release;
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Harbour updated to r11287 (from r11179)
- all contrib tests included in install package
- All 3rd party packages upgraded to latest version.
- hbmk2; project support, new file extensions, fixes, Harbour 1.0.x
support.
- further simplified/updated build process and instructions
- hbqt many enhancements
- almost full xhb compatibility
- ’terminal’ fixed in examples
- source formatter, Cl*pper RL tool, legacy hbmake added
- MT Xbase++ compatibility
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Changes since previous (1.1.0dev 20090408) release;
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Harbour updated to r11179 (from r10819)
- Updated hbmk2 (filter issues + experimental Harbour 1.0.x support)
- Included contrib tests/utils
- Full and now standalone ’examples’
- ’tests’ with subdirs included.
- No longer included pocc/pocc64/poccarm libs.
- QT updated to 4.5.1
- MinGW updated to 4.4.0

--
Brgds,
Viktor Szakats

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Harbour MiniGUI 1.7 Extended Edition (Build 78a) Released on 15 December 2009

CCH: From the HMG Extended Forum

Hi All,

The Harbour MiniGUI 1.7 Extended Edition (Build 78a) setup is published at the following URL:

http://hmgextended.com/files/CONTRIB/hmg-1.7-78a-setup.zip

and the Lite build 78a at the following URL:

http://hmgextended.com/files/CONTRIB/hmg-1.7-78a-setup-lite.zip

There is the following changelog for this build below:

2009/12/15: Build 78a Christmas Edition (HMG 1.7 Extended Edition) Published.
* Fixed: The wrong keeping of the Justify array in the Browse control (introduced in the build 10).
Bug was reported by Constantin Rusu <crusuc@yahoo.com>.
Contributed by Grigory Filatov <gfilatov@freemail.ru>

This release of MiniGUI is considered stable and ready for production use.

Sorry for any inconvenience!

--
Best Regards,
Grigory Filatov
[MiniGUI Team]

P.S. I've dedicated this build to my wife's birthday. She is .. years today ;-)

Monday, December 14, 2009

Harbour MiniGUI 1.7 Extended Edition (Build 78) Released

CCH: From the HMG Extended Forum

Hi All,

The Harbour MiniGUI 1.7 Extended Edition (Build 78) setup is published at the following URL:

http://hmgextended.com/files/CONTRIB/hmg-1.7-78-setup.zip

and the Lite build 78 at the following URL:

http://hmgextended.com/files/CONTRIB/hmg-1.7-78-setup-lite.zip

There is the following changelog for this build below:

2009/12/14: Build 78 Christmas Edition (HMG 1.7 Extended Edition) Published.
* Fixed: The correction of return default value in the registry class (introduced in the build 64).
Bug was reported by Roberto Lopez <harbourminigui@gmail.com>.
Contributed by Grigory Filatov <gfilatov@freemail.ru>
* Fixed: Problem with right/left column aligning at the HeaderImage clause in the Browse/Grid.
Contributed by Grigory Filatov <gfilatov@freemail.ru>
(see demo in folder \samples\Basic\DirList)
* Changed: The function C_GetDllSpecialFolder() is guarded by constant __WIN98__ in the sources.
You may comment the constant #define __WIN98__ in c_winapimisc.c and h_winapimisc.prg
if you have a problem in the Windows 9X. Requested by Rossine <qiinfo@ig.com.br>.
Contributed by Grigory Filatov <gfilatov@freemail.ru>
* Changed: The Harbour Tget class is moved into the Minigui core for GETBOX control support.
The Harbour RTL library uses the original Tget class from Harbour SVN now.
Suggested by Viktor Szakats (harbour.01 syenar.hu).
Contributed by Grigory Filatov <gfilatov@freemail.ru>
* Updated: HbSQLite3 library source code (see in folder \Source\HbSQLite3):
- updated for using SQLITE3 version 3.6.21
Contributed by Grigory Filatov <gfilatov@freemail.ru>
(see demos in folders \samples\Advanced\SQLITE and \samples\Advanced\SQLITE_2)
* Updated: Harbour Compiler 2.0.0beta3 (SVN 2009-12-10 16:10):
* Updated: HbSqlDD library source code (see in folder \Source\HbSqlDD);
* Updated: Harbour license (see COPYING in folder \harbour);
Requested by Viktor Szakats (harbour.01 syenar.hu).
* New: HBMK2 utility source code (see in folder \Utils\hbmk2).
Requested by Viktor Szakats (harbour.01 syenar.hu).
Contributed by Grigory Filatov <gfilatov@freemail.ru>
(look at ReadMe.txt in folder \harbour and WhatsNew.txt in folder \harbour\doc)
* Updated: HMGS-IDE v.0.9.7. Project Manager and Two-Way Visual Form Designer.
Contributed by Walter Formigoni <walter.formigoni@uol.com.br>
(look at changelog.txt in folder \Ide)
* New: 'Custom progress bar' sample. Contributed by S.Rathinagiri <srgiri@dataone.in>.
Adapted for Minigui Extended by Grigory Filatov <gfilatov@freemail.ru>
(see in folder \samples\Basic\PROGRESSBAR_2)
* Updated: 'ActiveX Flash' sample is based upon the Shockwave FlashPlayer ActiveX.
Contributed by Grigory Filatov <gfilatov@freemail.ru>
(see demo3.prg in folder \samples\Basic\ActiveX)
* Updated: 'My Dbf Browse' sample. Based upon a contribution by MigSoft yahoo.com>.
Contributed by Grigory Filatov <gfilatov@freemail.ru>
(see in folder \samples\Basic\BROWSE_8)
* Updated: 'Monthcal control' sample supports navigation with the arrow keys.
Requested by Rossine <qiinfo@ig.com.br>.
Contributed by Grigory Filatov <gfilatov@freemail.ru>
(see month.prg in folder \samples\Basic\Monthcal)
* Updated: 'XMas Lights' sample. Contributed by Grigory Filatov <gfilatov@freemail.ru>
(see in folder \samples\Applications\

XMasLights)
* Changed: The folder \samples\Basic\TextBtn was renamed to \samples\Basic\BTNTEXTBOX_2.
Requested by Walter <walhug@yahoo.com.ar>.
* Removed: 'PDF Reader' sample not working on current Harbour release.
Look at demo4.prg in folder \samples\Basic\ActiveX instead.

This release of MiniGUI is considered stable and ready for production use.

Your comments/feedback are welcome!

--
Best Regards,
Grigory Filatov
[MiniGUI Team]

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Latest HMGS-IDE 0.9.6 Released

CCH : From the HMG Extended Forum

Hi All,

The updated HMGS-IDE 0.9.6 binary and sources are published
at the following URL:
http://www.hmgextended.com/files/HMGS-IDE/ide.zip

There is the following changelog for this version by Walter Formigoni:

2009-12-09: VERSION 0.9.6
*New : Option in menu Project->Build (With HBMK2) for BCC.
*Fixed : in definecolor.fmg missing default value 1 in controls radiogroup. reported by Marcelo Brigatti <sistemasies@gmail.com>
*Fixed : when load uci control inside tab not connect control with tab
*Fixed : when click in uci control saved from form not show control in object inspector.
*Fixed : when select empty combo item of uci control and click in form. Reported by Sudip <sudipb001@gmail.com>

It will be included at the next Minigui EE build (coming soon).

--
Kind Regards,
Grigory Filatov
[MiniGUI Team]

Welcome to Clipper... Clipper... Clipper


In 1997, then using Delphi 3, I had already created 32-bits Windows applications for HRIS, ERP and CRM. In 2007, using Ruby on Rails, an AJAX powered CRM site running on Apache & MySQL was created and I am now using Visual Studio .Net 2008 to create web-based projects and Delphi 7 for Win32 applications using SQL2005 & DBFCDX.

So, why then am I reviving the Original Clipper... Clipper... Clipper via a Blog as CA-Clipper is a programming language for the DOS world ? Believe it or not, there are still some clients using my mission-critical CA-Clipper applications for DOS installed in the late 80's and up to the mid 90's. This is testimony to CA-Clipper's robustness as a language :-)

With the widespread introduction of Windows 7 64-bits as the standard O/S for new Windows based PCs & Notebooks, CA-Clipper EXE simply will not work and it has become imperative for Clipper programmers to migrate immediately to Harbour to build 32/64 bits EXEs

Since 28th January 2009, this blog has been read by 134,389 (10/3/11 - 39,277) unique visitors (of which 45,151 (10/3/11 - 13,929) are returning visitors) from 103 countries and 1,574 cities & towns in Europe (37; 764 cities), North America (3; 373 cities) , Central America & Caribeans (6; 13 cities), South America(10; 226 cities), Africa & Middle-East (12; 44 cities) , Asia-Pacific (21; 175 cities). So, obviously Clipper is Alive & Well : -)


TIA & Enjoy ! (10th October 2012, 11:05; 13th November 2015)


Original Welcome Page for Clipper... Clipper... Clipper

This is the original Welcome Page for Clipper... Clipper... Clipper, which I am republishing for historical and sentimental reasons. The only changes that I have made was to fix all the broken links. BTW, the counter from counter.digits.com is still working :-)

Welcome to Chee Chong Hwa's Malaysian WWW web site which is dedicated to Clipperheads throughout the world.

This site started out as a teeny-weeny section of Who the heck is Chee Chong Hwa ? and has graduated into a full blown web site of more than 140 pages (actually hundreds of A4 size pages) ! This is due to its growing popularity and tremendous encouragements from visiting Clipperheads from 100 countries worldwide, from North America, Central America, Caribbean, South America, Europe, Middle-East, Africa and Asia-Pacific. Thanx Clipperheads, you all made this happen !


What is Clipper ?

You may ask, what is this Clipper stuff ? Could Clipper be something to do with sailing as it is the name of a very fast sailing American ship in the 19th century ?

Well, Clipper or to be precise, CA-Clipper is the premier PC-Software development tool for DOS. It was first developed by Nantucket Corporation initially as a compiler for dBase3+ programs. Since then, CA-Clipper has evolved away from its x-base roots with the introduction of lexical scoping & pre-defined objects like TBrowse. As at today, the most stable version ofClipper is 5.2e while the latest version, 5.3a was introduced on 21 May 1996.

As at 11th November, 1996, an unofficial 5.3a fixes file was made available by Jo French. See the About CA-Clipper 5.3a section for more details. BTW, Jo French uploaded the revised 5.3a fixes file on 20th November, 1996.

Latest News

The latest news is that CA has finally released the long-awaited 5.3b patch on 21 May, 1997.

For 5.3b users, you must a take a look at Jo French's comments on unfixed bugs in 5.3b.

BTW, have you used Click ? If you're a serious Clipperprogrammer and need an excellent code formatter, Click is a natural choice. How to get it ? Simple, access Phil Barnett's site via my Cool Clipper Sites.

32-bits Clipper for Windows ?

Have you tried Xbase ++ ? Well, I have and compared to Delphi (my current Windows programming tool of choice), I'm still sticking to Delphi.

Anyway, you should visit the Alaska Home Page. Give it a chance and then draw your own conclusions !.

The Harbour Project

Is this the future of Xbase ? Take a look at at the Harbour Project

You are Visitor # ...

According to counter.digits.com, you are visitor since 3 June 1996.

If you like or dislike what you see on this website, please drop me a line by clicking the email button at the bottom of this page or better still, by filling out the form in my guest book. If you are not sure what to write,click here to take a look at what other Clipperheads have to say.