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Guest Post: Xojo Networking by Eric Gibbon

Published October 28, 2014 by Xojo

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.

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Using Declares In Your Multi-Platform Desktop Apps

Published September 15, 2014 by Xojo

Sometimes 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.

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The Libs Folder

Published August 15, 2014 by William Yu

For 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”.

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Convert Text Files to Different Formats

Published August 1, 2014 by Paul Lefebvre

OS 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.

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Storing Monetary Values in Xojo

Published July 22, 2014 by Paul Lefebvre

Managing monetary values in your applications requires some special care. Here are some tips to help out.

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Inspector Improvements

Published July 16, 2014 by Paul Lefebvre

With Xojo 2014 Release 2, the Inspector has been improved to make better use of screen space.

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Adding plist Settings To Your OS X Apps

Published July 14, 2014 by Paul Lefebvre

Starting with Xojo 2014 Release 2, you can easily specify your own custom plist settings for your OS X apps.

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31 New Examples with Xojo 2014 Release 2

Published July 7, 2014 by Paul Lefebvre

Xojo 2014 Release 2 includes 31 new examples, bringing the total number of examples included in Xojo to about 250.

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Redirect Your Domain To A Xojo Cloud Web App

Published May 22, 2014 by Paul Lefebvre

When you sign up for a Xojo Cloud account, you are assigned an IP address for your server. Pointing a domain name at it is pretty easy.

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Dynamic Controls Webinar Recap

Published May 21, 2014 by Paul Lefebvre

In this Dynamic Controls webinar, I covered how to use dynamic controls in your desktop and web apps.

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