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Quick Tip: Opening, Shown, Closing and Closed

Knowing the firing order of the Opening event in Xojo Desktop and Mobile apps, and the Shown event for Xojo Web apps, is important to using these correctly for a control’s initialization. The same can be said for Closing and Closed events. Read on for a breakdown of this order for Desktop, Web and Mobile apps developed in Xojo.

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London is always a good idea.

There is no shortage of things to see, do, eat, drink and experience in London. There is something to appease every interest – from history to food, fashion, music, the arts and everything in between. Having so much extracurricular options makes London the ideal city to host the Xojo Developer Conference.

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Rate Limiting a Web Application

In this blog post I’ll show how to add rate limiting to your web application.  Rate limiting is used to frustrate abuse of your application by limiting access. The same technique can be used to limit access to your API server by recording the user’s ID instead of IP Address.

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Linux Joins the Dark Side

While we’ve been hard at working getting Linux ARM 64 support ready for Xojo 2022r4, released earlier today, we also updated Xojo’s Linux support for Dark Mode. Color.IsDarkMode now functions properly and our Linux IDE has now officially joined the dark side.

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PDFDocument: Margins, Merging in a Table and the new Completed method

Xojo 2022r3 included the ability to easily add tables to PDF documents created with Xojo. Now, starting with Xojo 2022r4, this feature has been improved so you can to merge the cells in table’s row! Additionally, you can now set a page’s upper and lower margins and get informed when the table has finished drawing itself. Continue reading to learn how to do all these things!

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