Cross-Platform – Page 49 – Xojo Programming Blog

Going Rogue with Xojo, Redux

Published February 16, 2016 by Paul Lefebvre

A couple years ago I wrote a post about Going Rogue with Xojo. It proved to be rather popular and I got some great stories back from how people were able to use Xojo in their organizations.

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Making An iOS App For The Daily WTF API

Published January 20, 2016 by Paul Lefebvre

If you work in the technologiy industry, I’m sure you’ve heard of the Daily WTF site. Their fun stories about technology gone wrong makes it one of my favorite web sites.

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Microsoft is Killing Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10

Published January 11, 2016 by Paul Lefebvre

On Tuesday, January 12th Microsoft is ending support for Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10.

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Calling FileMaker Developers

Published January 11, 2016 by Paul Lefebvre

Are you a consultant that uses FileMaker to create solutions for your clients? Do you work in an office and use FileMaker to run your company’s business?

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Use Newer Version of Internet Explorer with WebBrowser and HTMLViewer

Published January 4, 2016 by Paul Lefebvre

By default the built-in Web Browser that is used on Windows to show web pages uses the Internet Explorer 7 rendering engine. Which means the Xojo HTMLViewer and the ActiveX WebBrowser controls also use this older rendering engine.

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Speeding Up TextArea Modifications In OS X

Published December 28, 2015 by Joe Ranieri

When doing a lot of manipulation to a TextArea’s contents under Cocoa, performance can suffer due to the underlying NSTextView doing work on layout and glyph selection. This can be sped up by telling the text view that you’re going to begin editing. You can do this by using a few Cocoa Declares.

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Showing an App Icon for 64-bit Windows Apps

Published December 15, 2015 by Paul Lefebvre

Update Aug 2017: Starting with Xojo 2017 Release 2 your app icons are automatically included in 64-bit Windows apps without having to do the workarounds described in this post. Upgrade today! If you are still using older versions of Xojo, then these workarounds are still necessary.

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O Retina, Retina, wherefore art thou Retina?

Published December 8, 2015 by Geoff Perlman

During my keynote address last April at XDC, the Xojo Developer Conference, I said that we would be adding Retina support (the OS X feature that provides for ultra-high resolution displays) to the OS X framework in the 4th quarter of this year. We have been working very hard on Retina support both for the OS X framework and for the IDE itself. We didn’t want to stop there though. Windows also supports ultra-high resolution displays. For Windows, this technology is called HiDPI. Xojo is a cross-platform tool so we decided we should support both Retina and HiDPI, and do it in such a way that you don’t have to do much of anything and they just work.

UPDATE: Xojo Retina is here, April 2016

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Hour of Code: Cat Pictures

Published December 7, 2015 by Paul Lefebvre

It’s time again for Hour of Code! The Hour of Code is a global movement reaching tens of millions of students in 180+ countries. Anyone, anywhere can participate in Hour of Code, from ages 4 to 104. At Xojo, we are again participating in this wonderful way to help people learn to program.

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Deploy iOS apps to your devices without an Apple Developer Membership

Published December 3, 2015 by Paul Lefebvre

With the release of Xcode 7, Apple combined the iOS and Mac Developer programs into a single Developer Program. Previously these programs were $99/year for each and now they are $99/year for the combined Apple Developer Program which lets you create and deploy apps for iOS and OS X.

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