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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The C7\u00a0 Window Designer does a remarkably good job of rendering a window as it will appear at runtime; including rendering controls with manifest styles applied (something the C6 preview could never do).\u00a0 But Clarion developers have proven to us that for complex windows it just cannot match the runtime presentation.\u00a0 Enter the new Window Previewer functionality in 7.1 — the new previewer beats the old C6 preview hands down, it does that by compiling the window into a tiny program and executing that program, which means no matter what OS you are running, you’ll see the exact same representation for the window as you would if you had compiled the entire application.\u00a0 But because this is just a tiny program, it runs instantly (just as fast as in C6)!\u00a0 It also displays user-defined data within the controls (another bonus over C6).<\/p>\n
Here is a quick screen shot of the previewer in action:<\/p>\n
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