There are a wide variety of fonts that work great with the Xojo code editor. All are much better choices than using System or Courier! For best results, you are going to want to use a monospaced font. Read on for some of my favorites.
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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.
Comments closedEverybody is taking about multi-platform software development these days. From a desktop to a laptop to a tablet to a phone, people and companies want their software to run on whatever device they are using.
Comments closedDid you know that the Xojo Navigator has a custom tooltip for most of the items you see? For Instance:
Comments closedWant a quick and easy way to add capabilities to bulit-in classes and types without subclassing? Try extension methods.
Comments closedSometimes you need a property that does more than simply store a value. It may also need to calculate a value or perform some other action to lookup a value. You can do this using a Computed Property or an Assignment Method. Read on to learn how these work and when to use them.
Comments closedYou may have seen text that has strange diamond characters in it. If so, you likely have an encoding problem.
Comments closedXojo web apps work very similarly to desktop apps. In fact, they are so much like desktop apps that you may want to make them their own “app”. There are a couple ways you can do this.
Comments closedDumb Ways to Code
By Geoff Perlman
Sung to the tune of “Dumb Ways to Die” by Tangerine Kitty
Use an object that's out of scope
Don't escape your SQL quotes
Ship without a beta test
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Nearly all CPUs used by your devices, from computers to tablets to phones, now contain multiple CPU cores. With a multi-core CPU, your computer can literally do multiple things at one time, which is called multiprocessing. And with a little careful planning, your Xojo apps can use multiprocessing for significant performance improvements in your apps.
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