With the ability to maintain multiple applications within a single solution, there are common shared elements of the applications that can be pre-processed prior to editing and source generation. This pre-processing of a
selected application is called lazy loading.

In the Clarion 7 IDE, a fully opened application is one that is loaded in the Application Editor.  However, applications can also be “lazy loaded”, meaning that the application may not be loaded in the Application Editor yet,  but the application template registry and any parsing of source libraries required by the templates has been performed. This allows for faster loading of applications into the Application Editor, and allows the project system to more efficiently build applications that are not currently opened in the Application Editor.

“Lazy opened” applications in the Applications Pad are marked with a special icon (highlighted in yellow below):

Applications not opened or “lazy loaded” are marked with a different icon (shown above not highlighted).

The Applications Pad is a powerful tool in the Clarion 7 IDE. For solutions with multiple applications, you can easily select and generate the application that you need.

If you select an application to generate, and the application is not already opened, the Generate action will “lazy load” the application as described above.