A Free Programming Guide with Open Source Clipper/xBase compilers

Michele Povigna, [email protected]

1. Preface

2. Curiosities and history

3. Introduction to the Open Source world

4. Getting started

• 4.1 Getting started on Windows
• 4.2 Getting started on Linux
• 4.3 Another compiler: x2c

5. How to obtain other useful files and programs

6. A Clipper Tutorial

• 6.1 An analysis of the helloworld application
• 6.2 A small application with two files and two functions
• 6.3 Flow control
• 6.4 Data types in general
• 6.5 The tables
• 6.6 Arrays
• 6.7 Subroutines, i.e. Functions and Procedures
• 6.8 I/O and the production of a TUI
• 6.9 Managing databases

7. Making a Graphical User Interface

• 7.1 Creating a Win32 GUI with (x)Harbour using HwGUI
• 7.2 Creating a Win32 GUI with (x)Harbour using MiniGUI
• 7.3 GTK development with (x)Harbour
• 7.4 GTK development with Clip

8. More advanced topics

• 8.1 Printing reports
• 8.2 Harbour for the World Wide Web
• 8.3 Object Oriented xBase/Clipper
• 8.4 Libraries and extensions

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