>>>>Has anybody heard about this "Clarion" RAD tool, I have searched information on the net but I can't find anything similar to this thead and I need to have access to those databases. The company that needs the development needs an interface between the original application and FOX, and they are not wiling to re-do the app in FOX
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>>>>I have Fox Pro for Windows 2.6, Visual Fox Pro 5.0, and the client's environtment is Windows 95
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>>>>Can anybody give me a clue of how to open them?
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>>>>TIA
>>>You'll have to check with TopSpeed corp. for an ODBC driver. I don't think you can open Clarion tables with Fox.
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>>you can't open clarion tables w/ fox. why don't they want to convert the app?
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>I will check with TopSpeed about an ODBC driver, an ansewring to the second reply, the company just paid $5,000.00 for the application, and the last developer doesn't know how to establish a DDE connection bettween the Clarion app and MS Office app's.
>To this point the last developer has finished his work and already spent the money on the check so these guys are stuck in the middle of a huge problem ($$$$).
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>I think that I'll have to buy the Clarion software and learn how to use the power tools, I think this last developer it's just a good seller but a terrible programmer.
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>Thank you for your replies!

Clarion is a poor product. Their windows version is one big kludge. As of yet, they haven't bothered to develop an ODBC driver, which goes to show just how much of a joke their product is. As for the programmer not being able to establish a DDE connection, that is probably because Clarion's DDE isn't fully implimented yet.

IMHO, you are asking for trouble trying to continue the windows app in clarion. You're better off recreating the tables in fox and just converting it.