CLIP is a Clipper/XBase compatible compiler with initial support other xBase dialects. CLIP project features support for international languages and character sets.

It also features OOP, a multiplatform GUI based on GTK/GTKextra, all SIX/Comix features (including hypertext indexing), SQL and ODBC drivers, a C-API for third-party developers, a few wrappers for popular libraries (such as BZIP, GZIP, GD, Crypto, and Fcgi), a multitasking client and application server based on TCP/IP sockets, object data base utilities, and a functions library.

Features On ClLIP

·Preprocessor

·Fully compatible CA-Clipper with with some new possibilities.

·Compiler

·slight incompability with CA-Clipper, which may be resolved easily, using the "search and replace" method. In addition it can compile to C program, byte-code, dynamic library and mixed C+byte-code.

·Very fast and efficient OO-model

·Difference from CA-Clipper reveals itself in part of descriptions and making an object, but in part of using the ready objects syntax and logic of functioning is completely the same.

·It is possible to write programs on CLIP, without using other syntax excepting OOP.

· Initial support syntax from FS,CAVO,FoxPro.

· C-API

· has much more possibilities than CA-Clipper.

· Full international support

· Including adjustment on any code page of any language on any keyboard (with stelnet emulator only or on consoles), substitution of string constants during execution and changing a logic of functioning with strings, given for functions alpha, digit, lower, upper, subscripted weight factors etc.

Download here.
ftp://ftp.itk.ru/pub/clip/clip-prg-1.2.0-0.tgz