Comments closed“Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.” – Donald Knuth
Year: 2013
When creating multi-platform apps, you are often going to be working with a variety of operating systems. Take advantage of Remote Debugging and make your life a lot easier!
Comments closedThe SQLite ALTER TABLE command is somewhat limited. For one thing, it cannot be used to rename an existing column on a table. But there is a workaround.
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Since about 2000, the IDE has been mostly localized into a variety of languages including German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese. I say “mostly” localized because property names that appear in the Inspector, for example, have never been localized as this would create confusion when you go to use them in your code. However, a mostly but not completely localized product is not very helpful especially when the documentation itself is not localized.
Comments closedXojo does not have a built-in way to generate gradients, but you can do this yourself with some simple code.
Comments closedThere are a wide variety of fonts that work great with the Xojo code editor. All are much better choices than using System or Courier! For best results, you are going to want to use a monospaced font. Read on for some of my favorites.
Comments closedWe have discovered what we believe to be a bug in OS X Mavericks specifically on newer Macs. Apple started using Intel’s new Haswell processor in the MacBook Air in June, the iMac in September and the MacBook Pro in October. When you build for either Windows or Linux from OS X, any images you dragged into your project are converted to BMP format. The bug we discovered (which we have reported to Apple – RADAR case 15546907) results in a banding of the converted graphic.
Today’s laptops and monitors support high resolution displays which allow you to pack more information and content on the screen. Although one common complaint is that people find the text to be too small at the maximum resolution, Windows’ solution to this is the ability for the user to adjust the DPI setting.
The Xojo IDE has some really helpful features you may not even be aware of! In the Navigator there are lots of items shown- some of which you may want to see all the time, some you may not.
Comments closedXojo ships with 5 database plugins in the Plugins folder. These plugins are what you use to connect to the following database servers and ODBC:
- Microsoft SQL Server
- MySQL
- Oracle
- PostgreSQL
The ODBC database plugin allows you to connect to any database engine that supports ODBC connections.
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