Though the MBS Xojo Conference is still in progress, I wanted to post an update about the demo Geoff just presented on our Android progress,…
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As an Object Oriented Programming language (OOP), Xojo’s data types, especially the non-primitive ones, use or can use a Class hierarchy. This means that one class, either included by default in the Xojo Framework or created from scratch, can act as a base or root class for other classes based upon them.
Comments closedApple just released Apple Transporter to manually upload apps to the Mac and iOS App Stores.
Comments closedIn Xojo Release 2019R2 a new DateTime class was introduced. This is a Time zone aware Date Class and is immutable which is great compared to the deprecated Date class.
Comments closedThe Xojo Doc site has several thousand pages of information. To make it easier to quickly find things in the online docs, topics are categorized. You can find categories that a topic belongs to at the bottom of its page.
Comments closedAmong the many IDE improvements in 2019r2 we’ve made some improvements in how the Control Layout Locks work so even if a control is locked, it’ll still obey the left/top/right/bottom alignment locks. We are taking some hints from the way many graphic design programs approach this and we think it’ll be a big improvement to the way controls are organized on Windows and Containers.
Comments closedAt XDC 2019, I did a session called Avoiding Troubleshooting Troubles, which was essentially about ways to take advantage of the Xojo debugger. During the…
Comments closedThe New DateTime class introduced in Xojo 2019r2 is meant as a replacement for the now deprecated Date class. Let’s take a look at how…
Comments closedKeeping the IDE simple to use for new users is one of our core tenets, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t add some much needed capabilities for our long-term users.
Comments closedIf you’re starting to program with Xojo, then you’ll probably soon find yourself in a situation where you need to use one of the Container types: Array. In this case, it’s also probable that you might be confused at first as to why you don’t get what you expected when assigning the contents of a source Array to a target Array via the assignment operator (“=”).
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