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Quickly Add Items to a Dictionary

Published July 16, 2019 by Paul Lefebvre

The Dictionary is a great class for managing a collection of items. A Dictionary gives you fast lookup of information which consists of two parts. The first part is a key that is a unique way to identify a value, which is the second part. These are each Variants so you can put any data type you want into the Dictionary.

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Accessing Windows Runtime (WinRT)

Published July 2, 2019 by William Yu

WinRT is an application framework meant as a replacement for the decades old Win32 API (at least the non-GUI parts of it). Because WinRT is COM-based, and entirely unmanaged code, accessing it directly from Xojo is possible.

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XojoUnit: Open-source unit testing library for Xojo

Published June 25, 2019 by Paul Lefebvre

In computer programming, unit testing is a software testing method by which individual units of source code, sets of one or more computer program modules…

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I’m a developer, why should I blog?

I’m a developer, why should I blog?

Published June 20, 2019 by Dana Brown

Having a blog is a great way to tell your customers what is going on, plus a very useful marketing tool..

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macOS Catalina: 32-bit is Dead!

Published June 7, 2019 by Paul Lefebvre

At WWDC 2019, Apple announced macOS Catalina (10.15). They didn’t specifically mention it during the keynote, but the writing has been on the wall for…

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XojoTalk 034 – Back in Black

Published June 5, 2019 by Paul Lefebvre

XojoTalk is back with a super-sized episode! Paul and Geoff talk about announcements from WWDC 2019 and more. Download mp3. Show Notes tvOS 13 iOS…

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Dark Mode Support in iOS 13

Published June 4, 2019 by Geoff Perlman

Every year we watch Apple’s WWDC keynote address to see what new features are coming in macOS and iOS that we’ll want or need to…

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Guest Post: Using the Graphics Class to Create PDF Documents

Published May 23, 2019 by Xojo

Monkeybread Software started with the DynaPDF plugin for Xojo about twelve years ago. As DynaPDF is a C++ library, the wrapping plugin mimics the original C API and offers it for Xojo. Over the years a lot more convenient methods have been added to make the plugin more Xojo-like. For example, newer methods can process pictures directly, take colors as Xojo color values and allow drawing of styled text directly.

Since the early days there has been the feature request to use the graphics class in Xojo to draw to a PDF document. We recently came back to this old feature request and decided to try a new way to implement it and our new code seems to work just fine. With some help from Xojo engineers, we even got the alignment right.

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