Here’s a riddle for you! Suppose you are in the habit of using “function chaining” like this to reduce your lines of code: path2 =…
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In 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.
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I’m sure you’ve all seen the iOS Mail app, which displays the number of unread messages in a small red badge in the top right of the app icon. You can do this too with your Xojo app and the magic of the Declare command.
Comments closedXojo is a popular way to create cross-platform apps for Windows, OS X, Linux, Raspberry Pi, web and iOS. I’m not surprised because Xojo makes creating software fast and fun! Xojo really is the best way to create cross-platform software.
Comments closedIn this episode of XojoTalk, Paul talks with Jim Meyer, who uses Xojo for NCAA stat tracking, home automation, workflow automation and much more.
Comments closedAnyone who has built an app in Xojo has used the Listbox method AddRow to create new rows. The iOSTable control in Xojo also has an AddRow method. However, unlike building a desktop app, AddRow is not always appropriate for iOS apps.
Comments closedMicrosoft refactored their core app runtimes in 2015. They have made what they call a “Universal C Runtime” which has been distributed via Windows Update to all supported versions of Windows that stay up-to-date (which is the default behavior for Windows Update).
Starting with Xojo 2016r1, the Xojo Windows framework has been updated to use the latest Microsoft tools. This allows Xojo to stay up to date and allows the Windows support to be improved in future releases. This means that Xojo itself now uses the new Universal Runtime and your built apps now require it.
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