Five-Script is a powerful scripting language which opens a lot of new
possibilities to al CA-Clipper developers.

Five-Script let's you create standard Clipper source code that can be
evaluated in run-time without the need of Clipper itself or any linker.

This new tool takes the 'Macro' capabilities of CA-Clipper to the highest
level.

With Five-Script you can create applications that can modify their behavior
and interface in run-time.

Five-Script is just a small library than can be linked to any of your
applications, to give them all the power of the scripting.

Only three steps are needed to run any function script, which are:

oScript := TScript():New(cText)
oScript:Compile()
oScript:Run()
That's all!!

A script file can have more than one function at a time and you can even
make scripts to more than one file and all the functions compiled will be
accessible to any of the rest functions, even if they are not in the same
script.

Five-Script detects syntax errors on the compile process, but does not
execute any code at all in this stage.

You can create global (public) variables just as you do in Clipper and local
scope variables with the LOCAL or STATIC statement when declared inside a
function.

You can even include your own comments on your script, as you do in Clipper
you only need to put '//' before the comment.

All the Arithmetic and logical Operators of CA-Clipper are supported.

The following statements are supported and can be nested to any deep:

IF, ELSEIF, ELSE, ENDIF
DO CASE, CASE, OTHERWISE, ENDCASE
DO WHILE, END WHILE
FOR, NEXT
LOOP, EXIT
RETURN
You can call any Clipper function from your script file that is linked with
the application.

FiveScript is a new FiveTech product.
FiveTech: FiveWin developers, the CA-Clipper for Windows Library.

Info and details at www.fivetech.com

So far I never met a problem I could not solve with my
fw18e - since it was easy to make new api-wrappers from
the many examples that followed with fw18e.
It was also easy to change the classes or
inherit to new classes with slitly different behavior.

I take it we still get source code when updating.
What are the prices when updating from fw18e bought
from Softsol Gmbh (ser nr 9517d0018) ?
I like to support the eforts done to make Clipper
live on.

Specialy I like fivewin because it so easy to make
programs which automaticaly change old clipper applications
into windows applications.

Fivewin is very Clipper like and the way the objects
vere made is very clever indeed.

Cheers
Knut

Anyone have any better luck?

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Dave,

When did you try it last time ? Nobody have complain about it.

regards,

Antonio Linares
www.fivetech.com

Knut,

Thanks for your kind words about FiveWin. You are very welcome.

regards,

Antonio Linares
www.fivetech.com

Andi,

Thanks for your kind words.

Clipper is my life :-) I have been working with Clipper since early Autum 86
(I think so :-) ), and it is the greatest tool I have ever used. All the
commercial products we have ever developed have been specifically designed
for Clipper: FivePro, Objects, Dialog, Images, FiveMenu, FiveDos, FiveOS2,
FiveWin, Five and now FiveScript :-)

FiveWin is the best proof of the real CA-Clipper power and possibilities :-)
Long life the King.

best regards,

Antonio Linares
www.fivetech.com

After a fair bit of mucking around I finally managed to get a full copy of
the EXE. However, running the EXE still results in nothing happening. I did
manage to extract the contents of the archive by running it thru Info Zip's
UnZip but nothing I did would get it to self extract.

FWIW the downloaded file has the date and time stamp of:

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-rw-r--r--   1 davep    users      388056 Apr  1 12:18 script.exe
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

BTW, while I've got you here, the docs on the site and in the archive are
not very clear as to how this library can be used. Is it stand alone? That
is, can it only be used in a FiveWin built application or can it be used in
a non-FiveWin DOS only app?

My main interest is to see how well FiveScript compares against a very
similar free tool for doing the same thing that can be found on The Oasis
(can't remember the name of it off hand but I had a play with it some time
ago).

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Dave,

Well, we have learned to wait and make announcements only when the product
is 100% finished.

So I just may tell you that something really powerfull and Clipper market
shocking is coming, but we do not want to talk about it yet :-)

regards,

Antonio Linares
www.fivetech.com

However, your web site still contains the "first part" of the "white paper"
on Five, plus the demo programs that were anounced here last summer. Doesn't
this kind of go against the idea of "wait until 100%"?

I only ask this because Five sounded interesting and since the fanfare,
promises and predictions of last year we've not had a word about it since.

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On 4/22/98 2:58PM, in message

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On 4/23/98 10:35AM, in message

Glad i could help  <G>

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