>>>>>Just curious. I reviewed an application (my competition) that was very similiar to my VFP application that was written in Clarion. The screens were incredibly fast with pretty much the same controls on the forms as my VFP app (tabs, push buttons, etc.) I have heard that VFP has intensive screen I/O and OOP contributes to performance issues. Can anyone shed some light on why there is this much of a speed difference between the two.
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>>>>>Again, just curious,
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>>>>>TIA,
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>>>>>James
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>>>>>P.S. - Also, if anyone has any information on limitations regarding Clarion as it relates to VFP, this would be helpful as well. Thanks.
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>>>>Who makes Clarion?
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>>>>Joe
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>>>Topspeed Corporation. Their web-site is
www.topspeed.com>>
>>Never heard of them. I have no time to visit their Web site. Maybe it is time to switch tools?
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>>Joe
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>My intention here was to see if there was anyone who has (or had) experience with Clarion to give feed back regarding the above. I am not looking to switch tools, just searching for info regarding the product. I may add it to my toolbox later, but I have so much invested in VFP and xbase in general. It's enough for me at this point just keeping up with learning VFP.
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>So, are there any Clarion (past or present) developers out there that can shed some light on my initial request?
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>Thanks,
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>James
Clarion's speed is because it is a compiled language, unlike foxpro which is a interpreted language. That aside, imho, clarion is a bad choice for a RDBS for the following reasons:
1. Poor tech support. The tech support people usually know less than the average programmer. The answers they do give you come straight out of the same manual that you are looking at. So, if it don't work according to the manual, you are probably out of luck.
2. You'll be calling tech support a lot because the product is buggy.
3. There is no object orientation to speak of. Clarion is "object enabled". In other words, "object crippled".
4. The windows version of Clarion is even more buggy.
5. Clarion's version number went from 1.0-3.0 in one release, just so it would seem to be a more mature product. It was a minor bug-fix release.
