Every few weeks my son Lucas gets together with his friends for board game day. Last week’s game was Twilight Imperium. One part of the game includes rolling a 10-sided die to calculate whether one of your ships successfully registers a hit on your opponent. Apparently this is something that can take a while to do as each player amasses more and more ships. This was ripe for automation!
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Xojo Mobile and Web project controls don’t raise the TextChanged Event like Desktop controls do. But I want my code to be as similar as possible across all project types so I’ve created some custom controls. In this blog post I’ll walk you through the process of creating a Custom Desktop TextField control.
Comments closedSometimes you want to display a message on your mobile screen, but also want it to disappear after a short period of time. A great way to do that is to use the MobilePopupMessage class.
Comments closedOur vision for Xojo has always been to make it fast and easy for people of varying programming skill levels to create applications. The primary…
Comments closedThis tutorial will show you how to deploy your SQLite based projects so they behave right on Desktop, Web and iOS, copying the database file to the right place on every target.
Comments closed…why (does) this process seems so complicated in the first place? What Apple is trying to do is to provide operational security…
Comments closedEarlier this year ago I wrote a post about using the SF Font symbols on macOS Picture.SystemImagein iOS apps. However that technique has some downsides. For one, the symbol glyphs are hardcoded, which means that it’s not possible to access the new symbols added to the SF Font by Apple. In addition, it isn’t possible to set the font weight and scale for the glyph. In this new post, I’ll show a more flexible way to work with these symbols on macOS 11+.
MacRumors reported that Google’s design chief for Apple platforms, Jeff Verkoeyen, announced that Google is switching from using a lot of custom controls in its iOS apps. this same device. You only get that if you use native user interface controls. That’s why Xojo has always provided native user interface controls, high-level access to native system functionality and compiled to native code.
Comments closedSomeone asked in the Xojo Forum if it was possible to create thumbnails (Xojo Picture objects) from a page of a PDF in order to display it in an iOS app. Sure it is! Continue reading to learn how in this step-by-step tutorial.
Comments closedStarting in Xojo 2021r2, users with a Xojo Cloud server can deploy web apps which can hook into the Apple Push Notification service directly with a user friendly Xojo API.
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