KStpw™ Documentation

About KStpw™
About SplitBar Controls
Getting started
Templates
Installed files
Copyright notice
Contacts

About KStpw™ Template

KStpw™ Template gives Clarion user an easy access to the Klarisoft SplitBar Control.

SplitBar: Moveable bar that splits a window in two parts .

KStpw™ can be used in Clarion4, Clarion5 or Clarion5.5 32-bit applications. With the help of the templates you will be able to handle Klarisoft SplitBar Control in a "Clarion Way". KStpw™ Template is a pure Clarion source (no dll or lib black boxes)! Start using the templates and give you Clarion applications native MS Windows 32-bit look.

About SplitBar Control

SplitBar: Moveable bar that splits a window in two parts.

In this picture you can see three steps of the resizing process using Klarisoft SplitBar Control:

          1: Before resize
          2: Resize faze
          3: After resize

Getting started

Register the templates:

The KStpw™ Setup Program can automatically register the templates. If you do not wish to register the templates automatically you will have to register them manually.

Start Clarion, select "Template registry" from the "Setup" menu. When the "Template registry" window opens, select the "Register" button on the right. Then you are prompted for a filename. Select KStpw.tpl (for both ABC and Legacy templates). These files are located in your TEMPLATE folder.

After registering your Template Registry window will look like:

Register the templates:

To add Split Bar to your application use Control Templates.

Templates

Split Bar Control Template

This control template is used to put Split Bar control on a Window.

(The images below show the template prompts for the KStpw™ control template.
You can find the detailed description in tables below)


KStpw TAB:

Prompt	Description
Orientation	Select the orientation of the split bar control. Horizontal or Vertical.
Specify top/left margin	A value of the margin.Use Top margin for the Horizontal orientation, Left for Vertical.
Specify bot/right margin	A value of the margin. Use Bottom margin for the Horizontal orientation, Right for Vertical.
Save and Restore split bar location.	Save split bar location when window is closed and Restore after close is opened. To use this function You should enable INI File Settings at Window Behavior and at Global Properties.

Resize Manager TAB:

Prompt	Description
Use Window Resize Manager	Enable standard Window Resize Manager (ABC Template only).
Split Bar Resize	Overwrite standard Resize strategy.

Controls TAB:

Prompt	Description
Screen Controls Left/Up	Select controls at the Upper part of the window for a Horizontal Split bar. Select controls at the Left part of the window for a Vertical Split bar.
Screen Controls Right/Down	Select controls at the Lower part of the window for a Horizontal Split bar. Select controls at the Right part of window for a Vertical Split bar.

Object Name TAB:

Prompt	Description
KStpw Object Name	Name of the KStpw Control Object in source code.
KStpw Control	Name of the KStpw Control in source code.

Installed files

The following files will be copied to your hard disk during installation. All the pathnames are relative to your Clarion root directory (e.g. C:\CLARION5, C:\C55), depending on your choice during installation.

Directory	File Name	Definition
Example\KS\KStpw	Clarion.ico KSLogo.bmp	KStpw™ Demo Applications ... If you install templates for Clarion4 then Clarion4 examples are installed. If you install templates for Clarion5 then Clarion5 examples are installed. If you install templates for Clarion5.5 then Clarion5.5 examples are installed.
KS\KStpw	KStpw.htm *.gif	This documentation and images.
Libsrc	KStpw.inc KStpw.clw	KStpw™ Class Defenition
Template	KSLogo.bmp KStpw.tpl KStpw.tpw	Template and templates image files.

Copyright notice

Contacts

For support, please write to Support@klarisoft.com
For updates of this product please visit http://www.klarisoft.com regularly.