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Secrets of the Enumeration Editor

Published May 14, 2020 by Robin Lauryssen-Mitchell

Depending on your style of coding the Enumeration Editor might be used regularly or not a lot. But, either way it probably contains a secret or two waiting for you.

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Lazy Loading Data with ListBox

Published April 17, 2020 by Paul Lefebvre

The ListBox is a great control for showing users lists of data, even data with lots and lots of rows. But the ListBox, being a…

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Var, Dim or both?

Published April 2, 2020 by Wayne Golding

API 2.0 added Var as an alias for Dim. Var is more recognized by coders from other languages and that’s great. Easily readable code is the goal, so I use both.

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Doing Progress Right

Published February 27, 2020 by Paul Lefebvre

The ProgressBar control and loops go hand-in-hand. If there is a ProgressBar on a Window, you can bet a For loop is close by. But there are right and wrong ways to do this, and most of the time I see progress code, I see the wrong way.

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Default Values Tip

Published February 20, 2020 by Wayne Golding

Often when debugging an application, you’ll need to enter the same data in the same fields over & over. There is a temptation to set the value of the field to the test data. The downside of this is that you need to remove all those defaults before deploying your application.

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Detecting Modifier Keys

Published February 19, 2020 by Paul Lefebvre

Sometimes it is necessary, or at least user-friendly, to adjust your interface when the user holds down modifier keys.

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Non-Visible Characters in Strings

Published February 13, 2020 by Paul Lefebvre

As a follow-up to our post on Escaping Quotes in Strings, someone asked how they might deal with something such as the tab character in a String. Unlike with a quote, dealing with a non-visual character (such as a tab or end-of-line) in a String is trickier because you can’t actually type those characters. So instead you have to refer to the character another way.

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Escaping Quotes in Strings

Published February 12, 2020 by Paul Lefebvre

Here’s a quick tip about embedding quotes in your string literals. Let’s say you need to put quotes inside a string. The most common way…

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Xojo and JavaScript – A Perfect Combination

Published February 3, 2020 by Stefanie Juchmes

In the newest version of the MBS Xojo Plugin 10.0 we offer functions for the use of JavaScript in your Xojo solutions. If you have a problem that you want to solve, you don’t have to reinvent the wheel again and again.

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JetBrains Mono Programmer Font

Published January 30, 2020 by Paul Lefebvre

There’s a new programming font that was just released and since I like to look at programming fonts, I thought I’d give this one a try with Xojo.

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