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If you’ve worked with times and dates you know how much fun they can be especially when you deal with different time zones, differing Daylight savings time rules, if they observe DST and all the other intricacies tracking dates and times bring up.
And very often you need to save data to a database. So how do you store the data in your database so you can properly deal with it? And does your chosen database make that easy?
Comments closedThis came up recently on the forums and I thought it good to share. Do you see what is wrong with the following code?
Function foo() As FolderItem
try
beep
catch NilObjectException
return nil
end try
End Function
Comments closed Eric Gibbon has been a Xojo developer since 1999. When not heading up the Birmingham, UK Xojo User Group, you can find Eric at MacTasks.com where he offers consulting services and develops bespoke multi-platform multi-user databases for Mac, PC and the Web using Xojo.
Last year work wasn’t going so well, and I was feeling down. I had lost my “Xojo mojo”. As a freelance developer it can be hard to do everything you need to and it is easy to get bogged down. Sometimes you need a fresh injection of ideas and opinions, to see what other developers are doing and how they do it.
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 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 closedManaging monetary values in your applications requires some special care. Here are some tips to help out.
Comments closedWith Xojo 2014 Release 2, the Inspector has been improved to make better use of screen space.
Comments closedStarting with Xojo 2014 Release 2, you can easily specify your own custom plist settings for your OS X apps.
Comments closedXojo 2014 Release 2 includes 31 new examples, bringing the total number of examples included in Xojo to about 250.
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