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Taking Your App From In-House to Commercial

Published April 25, 2017 by Xojo

Server Ranger started life as a small in-house Xojo console project that I used to monitor servers for several clients. Rather than getting paged (in the very early days) or getting angry phonecalls from clients, it was much more pleasant to have my app play an alert on my Mac and send me an email to notify me of a server issue. With this heads-up, it was often possible to have the issue resolved before a client even realised there had been an issue.

Like many in-house solutions, the demand on Server Ranger increased over time and it became a more vital part of my business.

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Windows Graphics: Direct2D/DirectWrite Direction

Published April 12, 2017 by William Yu

In Xojo 2016 Release 4 we switched our main graphics rendering engine on Windows from GDI and GDI+ to Direct2D/DirectWrite. Direct2D/DirectWrite was first introduced by Microsoft in Windows 7, with support in Vista via a Platform Update. It is (or was at the time) Microsoft’s new high-performance 2D vector Graphics API.

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Controls on Layouts: Who owns what?

Published April 10, 2017 by Norman Palardy

Recently there was a question posted on the Xojo Forum about why a protected property on a control subclass could not be manipulated by an event handler in an instance event handler.

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Programming the Raspberry Pi with Xojo Book

Published April 6, 2017 by Paul Lefebvre

Just in time for Xojo 2017 Release 1 and its Remote Debugger for the Raspberry Pi, we released a new book “Programming the Raspberry Pi with Xojo”. The book contains 19 chapters that introduce you to the Raspberry Pi, take you through setting it up and covers learning about Xojo programming for the Pi. Develop and build console and desktop apps for the Pi using Xojo 2019r1 or later for free (download)!

The book includes 8 step-by-step projects for creating a variety of Xojo apps for the Raspberry Pi, including: a text adventure, a music player, a game, Internet access, a web app, plus hardware projects.

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Using Raw HTML in Xojo 2017r1

Published April 5, 2017 by Greg O'Lone

One of the most frequent requests we get about the web framework is the ability to include raw HTML code when setting text. Starting in 2017, this is now possible… and perhaps ironically, it’s activated using an html-style tag.

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Menu Shortcut Editor

Published April 5, 2017 by Paul Lefebvre

Easily assign your own shortcut keys to any menu item in the updated Xojo Menu Shortcut Editor.

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13 Tips For A Successful XDC Session Submission

Published March 31, 2017 by Dana Brown

Thinking about speaking at XDC or any conference. Here are 13 guidelines to help you craft your best possible session submission, from topic to title, abstract and speaker biography.

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64-bit: Why is it so important?

64-bit: Why is it so important?

Published March 29, 2017 by Geoff Perlman

Whether Software Developer is in your job description or not, you should understand the difference between 32-bit and 64-bit. Read on for a clear answer.

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Where is 64-Bit Debugging for Windows?

Published March 28, 2017 by Geoff Perlman

Xojo 2017 Release 1 includes support for running and debugging 64-bit apps right from the IDE for macOS and Linux. Windows support is noticeably absent. Why? The answer is a bit complicated but interesting.

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Raspberry Pi Remote Debugging

Published March 28, 2017 by Paul Lefebvre

Using the Remote Debugger means that you can run Xojo apps on the Pi for testing and development without have to first purchase a Xojo license.

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