Xplore for C4/C5 Feature Set (ABC Templates only)


Click on a column header to sort in the order of that column (Win 98 Explorer style).

The end-user can apply a filter by merely right-clicking on a cell and filter is applied using the the value in that cell.

Columns can be shifted left or right by dragging their column header (Win 98 Explorer style)

A browse right-click ability to print (with preview) the current browse VIEW using the current filter; in the current order with the current column settings - the end-user can easily create their own reports.

Double-Click on column separator bar to adjust width to widest column string (Win 98 Explorer Style).

Ability to specify multiple view sort fields for each column.

Ability to specify default sort fields that will be appended to each column sort order.

Can co-exist with Sheet/Tabs each with its own format string, and the columns will inherit the range and filter settings of the active TAB.

The column header click can optionally display it own TAB.

Can hide a column by right-clicking a menu option in the popup menu.

Hot key to reset the browse back to its default setting.

Hot key to adjust the width of all columns to the widest column text.

The ability to set any color on a column without the need to specify color at design time.

Each column can have its own locator - even the new filtered locator.

A browse right-click ability to print the current browse page using the current column settings.


There is an option to use the Print Previewer from CPCS (c) copyright Creative PC Solutions or from RPM, if you possess a license for either of them.

A browse right-click ability to output the view to a CSV file using the current filter, in the current order with the current column settings, and optionally launch the Win9x application associated with the CSV file type - typically Excel.

A browse right-click ability to output the view to a HTM file using the current filter, in the current order with the current column settings, and optionally launch the Win9x application associated with the HTM file type - typically Netscape or MSIE.

A browse right-click feature to show a graph of the selections of the current column. i.e. graph a date column by Day of the Week or Month of the Year.

The standard ABC Edit-in-Place will work with Xplore even when columns have been shifted.

Xplore will also work with the FileDrop template (DROP=0) as a View/File loaded queue. It does not have update capability though.

Xplore will work with hand-coded queue-loaded LIST controls as well.

Other Browse Right-click options include the ability to modify:

Column Header Text
Header Justification
Header Offset
Data Justification
Data Offset
Toggle Column Resize Bar
Toggle Column Separator
Change Browse Font
Change Xpos/Ypos/Width/Height of Browse Box
Change Lineheight of Browse box
Add/delete column fields specified via the Clarion BrowseBox Hot Fields dialog

The right click menu and the column sort capability can now be invoked from the keyboard via hotkeys.

Most of these options can also be switched on/off at runtime.

No Black-Box; No DLLs; No LIBs - all of this with just normal Clarion source code and template code.

All English text is kept in a .TRN file for easy translation.

All of this can easily be turned off by just de-populating the Extension template and you're back to the standard browse that TopSpeed offers.

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