Category: Tutorials

tutorials, longer instructional posts, how to’s

Building Blocks for Beginners: Modules, Classes, Interfaces, and Delegates

Published September 24, 2025 by Gabriel Ludosanu

If terms like “Modules,” “Classes,” “Interfaces,”, “Delegates” feel new or abstract, keep this article as a map. I’ll explain what each one does, why they…

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Implementing a Non-Blocking Image Processor with Xojo Threads

Published August 28, 2025 by Gabriel Ludosanu

Have you ever written an app that needs to do some heavy lifting, like processing a big batch of files? Maybe you click a button,…

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Deploy Xojo Web Apps with Caddy Reverse Proxy

Published August 4, 2025 by Gabriel Ludosanu

Deploying Xojo web applications offers developers flexible pathways to production. For devs prioritizing minimal infrastructure management, Xojo Cloud provides a fully-managed solution with automatic scaling, SSL, and…

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How To Create a Custom Button Control in Xojo – Part 4: Adding Focus

Published June 23, 2025 by Gabriel Ludosanu

In part 3 of this series we made our CanvasButton inspector-friendly by exposing all our colors, corner radius and other properties. Today we’re going to wire up real…

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How To Create a Custom Button Control in Xojo – Part 3: Make Your Controls Inspector-Friendly

Published May 28, 2025 by Gabriel Ludosanu

In Part 1, we built a custom button control in Xojo by subclassing DesktopCanvas. In Part 2, we enhanced it with customizable colors, corner radius, and a disabled…

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How To Create a Custom Button Control in Xojo – Part 2

Published May 14, 2025 by Gabriel Ludosanu

In the first part of this tutorial, we built a basic custom button control using the DesktopCanvas class, giving it a custom appearance and handling the basic…

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How To Create a Custom Button Control in Xojo

Published May 2, 2025 by Gabriel Ludosanu

This tutorial demonstrates how to create a custom button control in Xojo using the DesktopCanvas class. It covers defining properties, handling mouse events for visual feedback, and…

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How to Publish macOS and iOS Apps to the App Store Directly from Xojo

Published March 25, 2025 by Javier Menendez

Starting with Xojo 2025r1, you can publish macOS and iOS apps to App Store Connect directly from the Xojo IDE. Keep reading to learn how!…

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A Complete Dockerfile for Web Apps

Published March 19, 2025 by Gabriel Ludosanu

For a comprehensive guide on deploying Xojo web apps to any server, please refer to the video tutorial available at: https://youtu.be/ARr7d6Z6CRY I also recommend reading…

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Customize and Extend Core Databases Functionality

Published February 5, 2025 by Gabriel Ludosanu

Have you ever debugged your Xojo database app and wondered about the SQL queries being executed and the parameters used? You are not alone. Whether…

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