In the second episode of the XojoTalk podcast, Paul talks with Bob Keeney, a long-time member of the Xojo community and founder of BKeeney Software.
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As you probably know, we’re working hard on having the Xojo framework and IDE support 64bit. While this work is still in progress, there are more and more distributions mainly available as 64bit. If you can’t work and/or deploy on a 32bit distribution, you need to get the IDE or your Xojo apps working properly on a 64bit distribution.
2 CommentsYou may have seen the 2048 game running on iOS and Android. Here’s a version made with Xojo, which I call 2K that runs on Desktop, Web and iOS.
Comments closedSometimes you need a feature that is not available directly from the Xojo framework. Responding to this need is what Declares are designed for: to get access to system native APIs. On OS X, you typically look at the Cocoa APIs. On Windows, the Win32 APIs. Finally on Linux, the GTK APIs.
Comments closedFor those of you building apps for Windows and Linux, you’ll notice that each build includes a Libs folder. The name of this folder depends on the application name that you’ve set in your Build Settings. For example, if my Windows App Name is “My Application.exe” then the Libs folder would be named “My Application Libs”.
Comments closedIn the spring of 2011, we added an event to the WebApplication class called HandleSpecialURL which was intended to give developers a way to create their own API endpoints within a web app, and we mostly succeeded…
Comments closedOS X has a built-in terminal command, textutil, that can be used to convert text files to different formats. You can access it from a Shell to use in your Xojo apps.
Comments closed30 years ago this past January, Apple launched the Macintosh and with it, the first widely available computer with a Graphical User Interface or GUI. If you are less than 25 years old, there’s a very good chance you’ve never used a computer that didn’t have a graphical user interface. But at the time, it was a radical departure from the way in which most people interacted with a computer. Over the past 30 years, the GUI has evolved and in some ways has come full circle.
Comments closedOne of the most highly requested features for Xojo Cloud since its release in March 2014 has been the ability to transfer files to the server using a client other than the Xojo IDE. Now you can…and it’s really easy to use.
Comments closedThere were several improvements to web controls in Xojo 2014 Release 2. Read on to learn more:
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