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The Problem
	Problem: You have a handful of menu items you often call up, but which are scattered and buried all over the place!

The Solution
	Tearoff! Derek kept moaning about a feature he saw on an Apple Mac 15 years ago. In those days you were able to 'tear off' a menu item and add it to a hot list. This was useful when you had a handful of menu items you often called, but which were scattered and buried all over the place. We couldn't add this feature to existing Windows programs, but at least it's now available in his, and our, past, current and future Clarion applications. One good thing leads to another, and after using it in-house for a couple of months we've refined the idea a bit, and added a couple of minor features. The challenge was to make it trivial to implement (it takes about 30 seconds), and easy to use - and we think we succeeded on both counts. It's a simple feature - but try it in a program you actually use, it really does save a lot of effort...

Features
	Simple to add to your program (literally takes 30 seconds or less) User holds down the Control Key and Clicks a menu item. That item is added as a button to the Tearoff toolbox. Right-click the button to remove it from the toolbox. Tearoff Toolbox window is Dockable All f settings are persistent from one session to the next Full support for Icons. Takes the icons from the menu item and also allows you to set icons for each menu item which display on the button, but not the menu item (all versions). Allows you to set button tips for the menu items, or uses the MSG attribute, or uses the button text. User has control over button width, and the format of the button (view text only, icon only or both)

Cost & Availability

Tearoff costs $69. This price includes releases for Clarion 5, Clarion 5.5, Clarion 6 and Clarion 7.  It supports both ABC and Legacy templates and 32-bit. It is shipped as a template and does not have any DLL's. Examples for ABC and Legacy are also included. To order On-Line visit www.clarionshop.com.

For more information contact or fax +27 21 715 2535. A working demo version can be downloaded from our website - www.capesoft.com/ftp/public/teardem.exe