This article is written in in response to a comment left on Clipper. Clipper by Terry Carrol on 3rd July 2011 who asked I’d like to know if there is an easy migration from Clipper to something else that I could make my Clipper program work on a 64-bit machine.' As you are probably aware, Clipper apps being 16-bits cannot run on 64-bits Windows 7.
Clipper will not execute in 64-bit operating Systems like Windows 7 64-bit. Convert to xBase++ Now!!! XBase++ allows you to make your Clipper applications web base, GUI, or into a 32-bit Application that will look and behave exactly like your Clipper application. XBase++ is as robust and stable as Clipper 5.2e.
For it to do so, it must be converted to 32-bits by using the Harbour or xHarbour. I had previously show how to do so in3-part series. In 1997, then using 3, I had already created 32-bits Windows applications for HRIS, ERP and CRM. In 2007, using 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 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:-). 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 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 of Clipper 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 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?