When you run your iOS projects from Xojo, they launch in the iOS Simulator. You can change which simulator starts by going to the Shared…
Comments closedAuthor: Paul Lefebvre
On the Xojo forum a user asked if there was a way to execute a formula in Xojo. As pointed out in the conversation, Xojo includes an Evaluator example that does exactly that. It uses XojoScript and I thought it might be interesting to show how it works.
3 CommentsLast year with iOS 9, Apple announced a new security requirement for your iOS and OS X apps: App Transport Security. From Apple’s docs: Starting in…
1 CommentPaul talks with Carol Keeney of BKeeney Software about databases, requirements analysis, agile/scrum and much more.
1 CommentIf you are using Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 you only have a few more days to get your free upgrade to Windows 10.…
Comments closedIn iOS, a view can contain two separate toolbar areas: a Navigation Bar, which displays at the top of the view, or a toolbar which…
Comments closedIn addition to the iOS Table Features I blogged about earlier, Xojo 2016r2 includes these additional powerful iOS features:
- Location
- Motion
- PicturePicker
- ScrollableArea
- SharingPanel
Making iOS apps just got a lot easier with the updates and enhancements to to the Table control in Xojo 2016r2. New features include:
- Scroll to a specific row in the table
- Row actions
- Row re-ordering
- Row editing
- Custom cells
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Using databases with web apps is not much different than using them with desktop apps, but there are a few things to keep in mind. The most important thing to note is that a web app allows multiple users. This means you’ll want your database connection to be unique for each user that connects to the web app, rather than global to the app itself (as is common in desktop apps). The simplest way to ensure this is to create the connection to your database in the WebSession.Open event handler, saving a reference to the connection as a property that you add to WebSession.
6 CommentsPaul talks with Tom Catchesides of Light Blue Software about how he started using Xojo, the experience of migrating a FileMaker app to Xojo, surnames and retro computers. Don’t miss this fun-filled episode!
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