Cross-Platform – Page 51 – Xojo Programming Blog

Guest Post: Part 1, Transparent Label Tip for Windows

Published November 6, 2015 by Xojo

Wayne Golding has been a Xojo developer since 2005. He operates an IT Company Axis Direct Ltd www.axisdirect.nz which primarily develops applications using Xojo that integrate with Xero www.xero.com. Wayneâs hobby is robotics where he uses Xojo to build applications for his Pi2 often implementing IoT for remote control.

When developing for Windows, it’s not immediately clear how to set up a transparent label. If you change the background colour of your Window, you could end up with that ugly gray label. And of course I always forgot to set the transparency until after the debug run. But I’ve found a simple solution.

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Xojo Blog Now Available in Apple News App on iOS

Published November 6, 2015 by Paul Lefebvre

Introduced with iOS 9, the Apple News app is a great way to get informed about topics that interest you. And since Xojo ought to interest everybody, you can now access this blog from Apple News.

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Formatting SQL With A Web Service

Published October 28, 2015 by Paul Lefebvre

Formatting SQL for display can sometimes be a pain, particularly for the many different flavors of SQL. One easy way to do the formatting is to use a web service.

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Goodbye, Windows XP

Published October 26, 2015 by Paul Lefebvre

In case you missed the change, Xojo no longer creates apps that run on Windows XP.

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True Cross-Platform In A Single License: Xojo Pro

Published October 23, 2015 by Alyssa Foley

Serious about cross-platform development? Consider going Pro with Xojo. Whether you are new to Xojo or looking to upgrade your existing licenses, Xojo Pro is the best way to take advantage of everything Xojo has to offer.

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Your First Raspberry Pi Xojo Project

Published October 21, 2015 by Paul Lefebvre

You can develop and build console and desktop apps for Raspberry Pi 2 (and Raspberry Pi 3) using Xojo 2019r1 or later for free.

Download Xojo today and get started!

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XojoTalk 018 – Not The Pi You Eat

Published October 20, 2015 by Paul Lefebvre

Paul and special guest Geoff Perlman talk about the new features in Xojo 2015 Release 3 plus a a bonus announcement at the end.

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Why Xojo Cloud? Because Updating A Linux Server Is Complicated On Any Planet

Published October 14, 2015 by Alyssa Foley

I was up hours later than I should have been last night reading The Martian when, after discussing in detail how to hack some really old software in some really old equipment located about 54.6 million kilometers away, I read this line: “âJesus, what a complicated process,â Venkat said. âTry updating a Linux server sometime,â Jack said.”

And my first thought was, “Oh!, that’s why we offer Xojo Cloud!”

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HTMLViewer Engines on Windows

Published October 12, 2015 by Greg O'Lone

HTMLViewer on the desktop has two engines that you can select from, Native and Webkit. Native uses the built-in browser engine on each platform – Webkit on OS X, Internet Explorer on Windows, and Webkit on Linux, if it’s installed. If you select “Webkit”, the Chrome Embedded Browser libraries are included with your built app and HTMLViewer will use that instead. There are pros and cons to each, but usually the reason people choose WebKit over Native on Windows is because choosing Native gets you whatever the minimum version of Internet Explorer is for a particular OS. This means:

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