Here’s the problem.. Customers don’t phone their friends to brag about how optimized their software is. They don’t care about how you managed to reduce 30 lines of code down to 16.
They do care about how software feels when you use it. Is it logical? Is it easy to use? Does it look pretty? Are there any spelling mistakes?
Customers assume that if there are spelling miztakes in yourr softwear, then ther ar probly otha serias bugz as well. Think about that.. You can spend hundreds of hours building a product, and potential customers could be put off because of a spelling mistake!
The Solution…
While preparing for a big meeting with a potential client, I was working my way through my APP looking for spelling mistakes. This was a pretty big APP, and it was taking a long time to check all the screens, controls, tooltips, etc. So I stopped. And I built a tool that could do this for me!
Tell me more, tell me more!
Simply export your APP to a TXA file, then import that TXA file into Clarion AppStats. AppStats will then analyze your APP, identifying all of the words within the APP – your window titles, your controls, your tooltips, status bar messages, even your source code, including all of your messages!!
AppStats then spell checks all of these words for you, and presents you with a list of all the potential problem words. You then skim through these potential problems, and simply select the ones that you think may be real problems. AppStats will then tell you exactly where each word is located in your APP, and even provides a list of suggestions for how the word can be fixed! Check this out…!
What does it cost?
I called this “Clarion AppStats” because I have plans to add more functionality in the future, other than spell-checking. I will be increasing the price as the software evolves.
So get it now while it’s cheap!
Useful Links
- Download AppStats
- View Online Documentation
- View Video Tutorials
- Other products by StrategyOnline
- The Blog
Frequently Asked Questions
AppStats
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Clarion
From Windows Vista, you may experience problems running certain Clarion accessory installers, whereby they will not be able to detect your installed versions of Clarion. Please see the following link for more information, as well as a workaround:
If you are experiencing problems compiling our example applications using Clarion 5.5.h, please take a look at the following article:
DebugView is a free application that you can download from Microsoft, which enables you to view debug output from our products. This can be very helpful in tracking down problems.
By default, our products do not generate debug messages, so you will not see anything in DebugView. To enable debug messages, simpy tick the “Send messages to DebugView” option found on each of products’ Global Extension Templates, as shown below.
Once you have turned on the “Send messages to DebugView” option, recompile and run your APP. You should then see messages appearing in DebugView.
Our 3rdParty documentation is now available from within the Clarion 7 IDE.
After installing any of our Clarion 3rdParty products, you can now access our help system as follows…
From within the Clarion 7 IDE, simply click on the “Help” menu, then click on “Accessory”, then “StrategyOnline”. Then click on “Online Product Documentation”.
