Q:  What did you use to write ForScore?

A:  The development language used for ForScore is Clarion.   This is a database/program development language I first came across in the 1980s, when they ran full-page ads in Infoworld.  At that time, they competed against dBase, FoxPro (pre-Microsoft), Clipper, etc.  They were poorly marketed, and eventually merged with the British company Topspeed, itself an offshoot of Borland.  Clarion is now back in America and developed and supported by SoftVelocity.

A number of third-party tools are used to add functionality to ForScore, among them:

• Setupbuilder 7 Developer by Lindersoft is used for the installation program and patches
• A customized version of the Icetips Previewer is used to preview printouts.
• PDF-format match scores are produced by the PDF Tools SDK for Clarion
• Documentation (both online and PDF manual) was created using Help & Manual 5 Professional.
• Documentation screenshots were captured and marked up with TNT. and Snagit.
• Documentation screenshots also processed with Photoshop 7.0
• Context-sensitive (right-click) help was created using Capesoft's EZhelp.
• LSZip is the compression library used to create data file archives
• Barcodes are created in software (not as fonts) using the Taboga library
• Automatic updating of data file formats is performed on-the-fly for new ForScore versions by Capesoft's File Manager 3
• DLL maintenance and rebasing performed by Capesoft's Multi-Proj
• Various low-level machine and Windows API calls are assisted by Valutilities' vuFiletools
• Various other Windows API calls are assisted by Capesoft's WinEvent
• Checking for and downloading updates and patches is done with Capesoft's NetTalk
• 'Click' functionality - for sending e-mails and for opening a website - uses Capesoft's HyperActive
• Checking for memory leaks is done with PlugIt
• The cool multi-color progress bars are created using Capesoft's Draw and Progress
• The ability to tag-select multiple records in certain procedures is derived from the the Clarion Handy Tools
• The custom menu toolbar function comes from Capesoft's Tearoff
• Postnet codes from Lodestar
• Instructional videos created with Camtasia

There are probably some others that I'm forgetting at the moment....