Presents the definitive reference guide to programming in Clipper 5.0. Includes an overview of Clipper 5.0's new features and a complete command and function reference. Chapters introduce Clipper's new pre-processor as well as its customizable on-line help facilities, and more.

An advanced programming guide to Clipper 5.2, the DOS version of Clipper that includes support for user-defined objects. Straley shows how programmers can incorporate object-oriented techniques into their Clipper programs to approximate the functionality of a complete object-oriented language, and how developers can create a variety of flexible objects that are easily maintained.

This book uses the format of the Steve Straley Seminars and creates a tutorial for database development with Clipper 5.0-5.01. This step-by-step format includes a comprehensive overview of database programming and the features of Clipper. Includes information on advanced programming topics.

The definitive reference guide for Clipper 5.2, this book focuses on those innovative and advanced features of Clipper that Clipper programmers typically need additional help mastering. Covers: using the Clipper Header Files to create user-defined commands; implementing code blocks as a data type; understanding how Clipper passes parameters; and using Clipper objects.

Bestselling author Straley reveals many undocumented features of Clipper Summer '87 and shows how programs written in C can be used to enhance Clipper applications. Includes a C tutorial geared especially for Clipper programmers.