Blog about the Xojo programming language and IDE
Did you know that you have a custom icon on folders created from your Xojo app? Read on to learn more!
Uniform Type Identifiers (UTIs) are one of the many often misunderstood parts of building native macOS apps. While they’re not just for specifying file types, that’s what I’m going to focus on today.
Comments closedEver wonder how to conditionally implement newer features in your code while keeping the ability to use older versions of Xojo at the same time?…
Comments closedOne of the fun things I get to do regularly is build animations into Xojo desktop components. While incredibly rewarding when you get it right, it can be a long road.
Comments closedThe Dictionary is a great class for managing a collection of items. A Dictionary gives you fast lookup of information which consists of two parts. The first part is a key that is a unique way to identify a value, which is the second part. These are each Variants so you can put any data type you want into the Dictionary.
Comments closedWinRT is an application framework meant as a replacement for the decades old Win32 API (at least the non-GUI parts of it). Because WinRT is COM-based, and entirely unmanaged code, accessing it directly from Xojo is possible.
Comments closedI once read that a developer who can market is unstoppable. I firmly believe this statement to be true. There are many aspects of marketing…
Comments closedIn computer programming, unit testing is a software testing method by which individual units of source code, sets of one or more computer program modules…
Comments closedHaving a blog is a great way to tell your customers what is going on, plus a very useful marketing tool..
Comments closedMonkeybread Software started with the DynaPDF plugin for Xojo about twelve years ago. As DynaPDF is a C++ library, the wrapping plugin mimics the original C API and offers it for Xojo. Over the years a lot more convenient methods have been added to make the plugin more Xojo-like. For example, newer methods can process pictures directly, take colors as Xojo color values and allow drawing of styled text directly.
Since the early days there has been the feature request to use the graphics class in Xojo to draw to a PDF document. We recently came back to this old feature request and decided to try a new way to implement it and our new code seems to work just fine. With some help from Xojo engineers, we even got the alignment right.
Comments closedHere are a couple tips you can use with computed properties.
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