We've added two new advertising packages to Clarion Desktop.  The new price structure can be viewed here.

Clarion Desktop 4.20 is available for download.

This build includes several improvements, including an updated Custom Search field, which now searches 50 Clarion-related websites!

We're also glad to welcome our latest supplier, Noyantis Software.  Great to have you on board!

Clarion Desktop 4.12 is available for download!

Some 3rdParty suppliers have included their Clarion 7 builds in their regular installers, so JCalSetup.exe (for example) includes builds for Clarion 5.5, Clarion 6.x, and Clarion 7.

But other 3rdParty suppliers have chosen to rather release separate installers for C7.  So FM3Setup.exe includes builds for Clarion 5, 5.5, and 6, but you need to download FM3Setup7.exe (for example) if you want to install the C7 version.

When suppliers login to the Clarion Desktop admin area, they will now see a new field called C7 Download URL.  This field is optional.  If you're providing separate downloads for Clarion 7, simply enter your C7 download link into this field.

Clarion Desktop will notify your users of new 3rdParty releases in the usual way, but it will first check whether the user is downloading for Clarion 7, and whether or not you have entered a separate C7 download link.  If there is not a separate C7 download, then Clarion Desktop simply downloads and runs the usual installer.

Please shout if this doesn't make sense.

Clarion Desktop 4.11 has just been released.

Instead of adding new features into this build, I decided to remove some!

Firstly, I've removed the "Groups" and "Blogs" menus.  Blogs are now displayed on the main page, and the User Groups menu has contained a total of 4 groups for the past year, so I've taken it out (for now).

I also decided to remove the Instant Messenger, which I added just over two months ago.  I still think this is a nice idea, but it needs to be rebuilt.  Watch this space.

Last night I released Clarion Desktop version 4.10.

This build includes a significant fix (relating to the ajax code that I added to 4.09), and is also the first version of Clarion Desktop to be compiled using Clarion 6.3.9058 - I've been using 9056 for the past couple of months.

If you find any regressions please let me know asap.  Thanks!

Three things surprised me at last night's local Clarion User Group meeting.

First, 18 Clarion programmers attended!!!  I had no idea there were so many of us in a single country.

Second, of those 18 developers only 5 had heard of Clarion Desktop! That's 27.8%!

Considering that there are currently 762 Clarion developers who use Clarion Desktop, does this mean that perhaps 762 is only 27.8% of the total number of Clarion programmers on earth?  Could there in fact be 2,744 of us!?

But the third surprise was the real shocker..

How daft is this?!

Clarion Desktop can detect which 3rdParty products you own, it can notify you when new updates are available for those products, it can download, archive and install those updates for you, it can even enter the installer passwords for you! But..

When suppliers login to the ClarionDesktop.com website they have to enter their login passwords manually!

I finally corrected that this morning.  From now on Firefox will enter your login password for you.

I spent some time this weekend building an Instant Messenger module for Clarion Desktop!

It's still rough around the edges, but it's working quite nicely.  I'll be releasing it later in the week.

I'm also going to make some changes to the "Clarion Bloggers" module to indicate more clearly which blogs the various headlines are coming from.

Clarion Desktop 4.09 is available for download!

I've created a new section to display the latest posts from a variety of Clarion bloggers!

To kick things off, this new area will display posts from ClarionFolk, as well as Clarion-related posts from StrategyOnline.