Category: Tips

A recent forum conversation asked for tips on how you might create a preference file. Here are some suggestions.

Did you know that you can use the IDE Scripting feature of Xojo to automate many tasks?

Build Automation is a feature of Xojo that allows you to automatically run “steps” before and after you build your project. Are you taking advantage of this useful feature?

As I mentioned in a previous post, beginning with Xojo 2013r4 we will no longer be localizing the IDE into any European languages. Some of our German users on OS X were surprised this morning when they launched today’s release (2013r4) expecting to get the English version of the IDE only to discover it in Japanese instead. Is this a bug?

“Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.” – Donald Knuth

When creating multi-platform apps, you are often going to be working with a variety of operating systems. Take advantage of Remote Debugging and make your life a lot easier!

Xojo does not have a built-in way to generate gradients, but you can do this yourself with some simple code.

The Xojo IDE has some really helpful features you may not even be aware of! In the Navigator there are lots of items shown- some of which you may want to see all the time, some you may not.