TipLink was originally developed internally by LANSRAD to solve the problems of synchronizing tooltips in our applications.
The initial template was a set of related single templates and worked well.
When a decision was made to commercialize it and make it available to the Clarion development community, the template was already at version 2.5.
Realizing that developers who had dozens or perhaps hundreds of windows would not want to add the individual PowerOffice templates one at a time, a decision was made to rewrite the template so it could automatically detect instances of the PowerOffice controls and generate code to them as needed.
This required about an 80% rewrite and bumped the code to version 3.0.
In order to provide the best service for Clarion developers, a decision was made to adapt the template to work with all known tooltip controllers as well as the Clarion native controller.
Development efforts expanded to include cooperative work between LANSRAD, PowerOffice, SealSoft and Keystone computing.
At the time of release to the public, the template version is 3.55.
First pre-release: 9-13-2005 ......... Version 3.54
First public release: 9-14-2005 ......... Version 3.55
Update: 9-15-2005.......... Version 3.56
Update: 9-21-2005.......... Version 3.57 - Better detection of templates
Update: 10-1-2005.......... Version 3.58 - Added TipLink Reporter!
Update: 10-23-2005........ Version 3.59 - Added Ezhelp Support to the TipLink Reporter - no template changes