billj@oz.plymouth.edu (Bill K. Jackson) (11/30/90)
We are looking for good third party libraries to accomplish some additional functions for us in an already existing Clipper compiled applications. Specifically, we need to: > dial the telephone from wihtin our application > have basic word processing capabilities with mail merge > include a calendar routine We have seen advertised several libraries that perform some of these functions, but are seeking opinions on what the good packages are.
tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan) (12/02/90)
In article <1990Nov29.230411.10062@oz.plymouth.edu> billj@oz.plymouth.edu (Bill K. Jackson) writes: > > dial the telephone from wihtin our application > > have basic word processing capabilities with mail merge > > include a calendar routine There are any number of alternatives but at the moment a number of additional considerations too. I suppose that you are using Clipper S'87 at the moment but either have or plan to upgrade to 5.0 one day ? Some 3rd party library developers have yet to produce a 5.0 compatible version so that could cause an additional wrinkle. Specifically you can dial the the phone with just straight Clipper. Redirect the output to the com port and send the appropriate dialing sequence as if you were sending it to the printer. If you need to handshake and receive characters then there are simple public domain and shareware routines with C source code. If you need to do heavy duty stuff then Silvercomm (they wrote a BBS in Clipper using it), AdComm or a new player Telepathy would do the job. Re: word processing w/mail merge. Don't have an answer on that though I'm working on such an animal. Calendar routine, I published a simple one in Reference(Clipper) which is an "object-oriented" pop-up calendar which permits you to scroll backward and forward through the months and years. If you want "calendaring" like your entering appointments and such one doesn't come into mind right away but something tells me there is one. If you need a general purpose library that can help you write these things you might want to look into Funcky. I'm fairly certain that their 5.0 compatible version has been released. Let me know if you need me to run on at the mouth more. tom leylan formerly Senior Systems Analyst - Nantucket Corporation regular contributor to Reference(Clipper) "opinion" columnist for Data Based Advisor (beginning with Jan. issue) and all around reasonable person
leite@lpi.liant.com (George Leite) (04/19/91)
Has anyone used any of the add-on libraries
avaliable for Clipper (Flipper,Grumpfish ...).
Any recomendations? I am interested in all types
of libraries, communication, graphics, add-on toys,
menus.
How about some of the database tools out there
such as dBrief or Blinker? I would love to here about
what you use and how you like it.
Thanks in advance -
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