The Computer Guy: DevCon 99

Here are the materials from my presentation at the 1999 TopSpeed Developer's Conference. In the process of reviewing this, I realized that the information is ten years old. Some of it is signficantly dated, but some is still quite relevant. Ten years later, I still use Catalyst SocketTools for direct access (SMTP and SFTP, most recently) from Clarion programs.

DevCon Presentation and Example Programs

PowerPoint Presentation

The PowerPoint presentation in PDF format.

CWIC Wizarded Application

This is the application that I created during the presentation. This application is a wizarded CW application. During the presentation I added Internet Connect and an email procedure using Catalyst.

Written with Clarion 5b with Internet Connect
Requires Catalyst SocketTools Library Edition (registered or demo)

If you delete the global map embed and the “send email” procedure, this application will run without SocketTools.

Internet Connect Guestbook

This is a guestbook written in Internet Connect. The application was built by hand to provide a very basic guestbook with a minimum (about ten minutes) of effort.

Written with Clarion 5b with Internet Connect

Internet Framework Templates Guestbook

This is a guestbook written using the Internet Framework Templates. It was my first attempt at an IFT program and is a little buggy, but it gives you an opportunity to see the program run and look at the embedded code I added.

Written with Clarion 5b
Requires Internet Framework Templates Server Edition

Note that this program does not unload properly. I did something when building the application and haven't had a chance to go back and find out what I did wrong. If you compile and run the application, you will need to manually kill the application after you shut it down.

Proprietary Communication Protocol

This is a pair (server and client) of hand-coded applications that demonstrate inter-application communication across a TCP/IP connection. The program uses a proprietary (translation: one that I made up myself) protocol to pass a number and a string value.

Written with Clarion 5b (will compile in any version after 5 gold)
Requires Catalyst SocketTools Library Edition (registered or demo)

Additional Resources

Catalyst SMTP Example

This is a hand-coded Clarion program that uses the Catalyst SocketTools SMTP DLL to send an email message.

Written with Clarion 5b (will compile in any version after 5 gold)
Requires Catalyst SocketTools Library Edition (registered or demo)

C55 Demo Application

This is a wizarded Clarion 5.5 beta 1 application that demonstrates using Catalyst to send an email from a Clarion web application.

Requires Clarion 5.5
Requires Catalyst SocketTools Library Edition (registered or demo)