Bjarne Havnen of AdiTech as, Norway posted this review of Keystone's 3rd Party Tools for Clarion on AdiTech's web site.  The original review is written in Norwegian and can be found at www.aditech.no/produkter/Clarion/Clarionnews.htm  What follows is a translation to English by Bjarne.

Sometimes you stumble into 3rdParty Vendors that maintain an unusual high standard both on the products they deliver and on related customer treatment. Keystone by Randy Rogers entered our "hall of fame" this week.

We have joined the beta program for Classviewer. This has, during the time we have participated, become an insane strong product for finding the path through the myriad of properties and methods inside the Clarion Class Library.  In fact, it is so good that we are seriously considering to use this tool to maintain our classes instead of the tool we use today (not written, but I was talking about my heavily modified ObjectWriter which does a good job - now).  One of the features we like best is the possibility to add comments to method we tend to use, typically when does it suit to write code in the corresponding embed.  In addition it opens the Clarion help for the methods and starts an editor for the inc or clw on the correct line. It shows which class is calling what and you only need to right click a method to find all classes calling this.

Enough about that.  We thougt this was so good that we wanted to see what else Keystone had to offer, and bough the CoolTips, which simply is a wrapper to the Windows Common Controls Tip.  Here you can change the ordinary, boring ToolTip with BallonTip and put Tip on controls that usually doesn't support it.  Nice.  Now, this template wasn't too easy to implement.  You had to choose every singe control in an application and specify type of tip for these . With some thousands of controls in an application this tend to get boring.  In addition runtime translation was not supported because the code was generated to early.  Therefore we modified the template to support runtime translation and only needed to add one template to change ordinary tip with balloon tip throughout the entire application. The changes we sent back to Keystone explaining what and why and reported a couple of bugs.  Randy made some modifications, included the latest class definition and sent an upgrade to his customers. Now the template worked 100% as we wanted and we were of course satisfied.

But the history doesn't stop there.  As thanks for the "help" we got Keystone's ScreenCapture tool which is rated 5 stars on ClarionShop.  And that it is worth. Implemented in any application it can print the screen directly to printer, save windows in file and save a given selection of a window.  Suddenly our job with documenting our applications was made 25% easier and the customers no longer have to use Alt-PrtSc. Cute.

Keystone you will find on www.keystonecr.com  Products available for purchase on Clarionshop.