In his own words: "Our vision is a totally integrated tool kit that extends the Clarion Development System naturally and keeps pace with the latest Clarion versions as SoftVelocity develops them. Further, we want to provide an affordable, all-in-one toolkit that is not sold piecemeal so that it costs you thousands to buy all the pieces. Our subscription model spreads your cost over time, provides on-going support and continuity with Clarion and makes initial entry affordable. Best of all, we provide source code if you're not comfortable with black boxes that are always going out of date each time a new version of Clarion appears. "The Clarion Handy Tools developed out of a need to push the boundaries of the Clarion Development System beyond the default behaviours built into the ABC Templates and Classes that ship with the product. We found ourselves constantly revising the 'look and feel' of browses, for instance, to make them look more like Microsoft Windows applications. Out of that came a series of browse enhancement templates like Explorer Browse and Handy Marker Browse. "And since Clarion has few native Internet connectivity features and our customers were asking for this capability in their applications we developed a series of FTP,HTTP,SMTP,MAPI,CDO templates and classes that provide a full set of Internet services, natively from Clarion by communicating with the Internet API's already resident in the Windows operating system. "With the rapid advancement of the internet and the need to deliver data easily and securely to users via this powerful, but often confusing medium, we've invested many hours in developing templates and classes that integrate internet capabilites into the Clarion IDE in a way that lets you develop internet applications just like you develop desktop applications. We've even added a user console right inside your Clarion applications that has the capability of instantly connecting you with web-base code changes, a user support forum, product downloads, on-line examples and and across-the-web training; all at the click of a button. In fact, all of this internet connectivity is our own code, available to you as a subscriber, running inside the Clarion IDE environment. "Our tool set has grown tremendously over the last fifteen years. In 2011 we celebrated the 15th year of commercial availability for The Clarion Handy Tools. We estimate the total development time that we currently have invested in our tools is well over 20,000 hours. Where else but here can you buy that much development time, source code and all, for an annual renewal fee of $250.00 per year, keep up with new Clarion versions, and get new features at the same time?"
