Operator_Lookup and ParamArray are two language features that have been in Xojo for a while now, but most probably don’t know why they were originally added. The need grew out from having to support COM on Windows.
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The announcement at XDC 2015 of upcoming Xojo support for Raspberry Pi was greeted with enthusiastic applause. But after the keynote, I had several people come up to me and admit that they did not know what this Raspberry Pi is, so I thought I’d take a moment to give some background.
Xojo already creates 64-bit apps for iOS. Soon, it will also create 64-bit apps for other platforms. I, for one, welcome our new 64-bit Overlords. After all, they’ll be bringing you increased performance and increased memory! Even better, there is not much you’ll have to do to create 64-bit versions of your existing Xojo apps.
UPDATE October 2015: Xojo Builds 64-bit Apps Now
Comments closedWith Xojo 2015 Release 2, most of the new Xojo framework is available for all project types. This includes Xojo.Net.HTTPSocket, which adds support for HTTP 1.1.
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This year’s Xojo Developer Conference was in Xojo’s hometown of Austin, Texas, at the newly renovated Radisson on Lady Bird Lake in Downtown.
The LibICU library (international components for Unicode) is no longer included with your built apps starting with Xojo 2015 Release 2.
Comments closedXojo 2015 Release 2 has a couple changes to how your Windows apps are built.
Comments closedMuch of the new Xojo framework is available for all project types staring with Xojo 2015r2. The Data namespace includes two methods for dealing with JSON data: GenerateJSON and ParseJSON. This is how they are used in comparison to JSONItem in the old “Classic” framework.
Comments closedWith Xojo 2015 Release 2, much of the new Xojo framework is now available for use in all project types. Because the new Xojo framework uses namespaces, you might want to take advantage of the Using command to help make your code easier to read and write.
But first, a brief aside about namespaces. The Xojo framework uses namespaces to provide better grouping of related features and to allow for classes with the same name to co-exist (Xojo.Core.Dictionary and Dictionary, for example). In fact, you can mix classic framework code and Xojo framework code together in the same method!
Comments closedIn the ideal world when you do something, you do it right the first time. In the real world, we learn more each day and what seemed right yesterday, a month ago or a few years ago, may no longer be right today. Xojo has been around for a long time now and in all that time we have learned a thing or two. One of the things we have learned is how to deal with errors.
