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Guest Post: Part 1, Transparent Label Tip for Windows

Published November 6, 2015 by Xojo

Wayne Golding has been a Xojo developer since 2005. He operates an IT Company Axis Direct Ltd www.axisdirect.nz which primarily develops applications using Xojo that integrate with Xero www.xero.com.  Wayne’s hobby is robotics where he uses Xojo to build applications for his Pi2 often implementing IoT for remote control.

When developing for Windows, it’s not immediately clear how to set up a transparent label. If you change the background colour of your Window, you could end up with that ugly gray label. And of course I always forgot to set the transparency until after the debug run. But I’ve found a simple solution.

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64-bit Apps Are Here!

Published October 20, 2015 by Paul Lefebvre

Earlier this year, Xojo added the ability to create 64-bit iOS apps. And now with Xojo 2015 Release 3, you can create 64-bit apps for your Desktop, Web and Console apps.

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Why Xojo Cloud? Because Updating A Linux Server Is Complicated On Any Planet

Published October 14, 2015 by Alyssa Foley

I was up hours later than I should have been last night reading The Martian when, after discussing in detail how to hack some really old software in some really old equipment located about 54.6 million kilometers away, I read this line: ““Jesus, what a complicated process,” Venkat said. “Try updating a Linux server sometime,” Jack said.”

And my first thought was, “Oh!, that’s why we offer Xojo Cloud!”

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