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Xojo MVP Anthony Cyphers has been using Xojo for nearly 20 years and is currently building a User Interface framework for a project he is working on. This project needs to have the ability to tweak colors as needed and have those changes applied across every element of that framework. Read on Anthony’s blog about the way he solved this problem.
Comments closedOne of the PDFDocument features added in Xojo 2022r2 is the ability to encrypt PDF files created with Xojo. Continue reading and I will show you how.
Comments closedStarting in Xojo 2022r2 you have the option to generate Program Database (PDB) files with your 64-bit Windows builds. If you’re unfamiliar with what PDB…
Comments closedThe annotations feature on PDFDocument has been significantly extended in the release of Xojo 2022r2. Continue reading to learn about the new annotation types. Currently,…
Comments closedI recently wrote a big data processing app that was going to run for a while dealing with data that was occasionally inconsistent in ways…
Comments closedWhen we create a PDF document is impossible (in most of the cases) to anticipate how many pages it will have. And yet, that is something that we are going to need if, for example, we want to add a footer reflecting the current page number over the total of pages in the document. The solution is using the PageCount and CurrentPage properties in the PDFDocument class.
Comments closedHow to download and preview PDFs in Xojo Web apps may be one of the most asked questions involving PDFDocument (font handling is a close second) I get. If you are interested in finding the best, and simplest, way to do this, continue reading.
Comments closedWith the added functionality of the Brush property and the ClipToPath, Clip and DrawObject methods, Xojo 2022r1 completes the practical PDFGraphics class support for all the methods and properties that makes sense (or are applicable) from Xojo’s Graphics class.
Comments closedWith Xojo 2022 Release 1, you can use XojoScript to create Code Assistants for use with selected text in the Code Editor. Here’s a quick example of one that swaps the prefix of a comment:
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