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Building Blocks for Beginners: Modules, Classes, Interfaces, and Delegates

Published September 24, 2025 by Gabriel Ludosanu

If terms like “Modules,” “Classes,” “Interfaces,”, “Delegates” feel new or abstract, keep this article as a map. I’ll explain what each one does, why they…

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How To Create a Custom Button Control in Xojo – Part 4: Adding Focus

Published June 23, 2025 by Gabriel Ludosanu

In part 3 of this series we made our CanvasButton inspector-friendly by exposing all our colors, corner radius and other properties. Today we’re going to wire up real…

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How To Create a Custom Button Control in Xojo – Part 3: Make Your Controls Inspector-Friendly

Published May 28, 2025 by Gabriel Ludosanu

In Part 1, we built a custom button control in Xojo by subclassing DesktopCanvas. In Part 2, we enhanced it with customizable colors, corner radius, and a disabled…

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Build Your First iOS App with Xojo: 10 Practical Steps

Published May 16, 2025 by Javier Menendez

Xojo is an extremely useful, fast and fun development environment for building your first (or next) iOS app. In this article, I offer a series of practical steps to guide you from idea to app.

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How To Create a Custom Button Control in Xojo – Part 2

Published May 14, 2025 by Gabriel Ludosanu

In the first part of this tutorial, we built a basic custom button control using the DesktopCanvas class, giving it a custom appearance and handling the basic…

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Year of Code 2025: May Project, Mobile Apps

Published May 7, 2025 by Paul Lefebvre

One of the most common things I love to use my phone for is sharing pictures of my pets with others. We have two cats…

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How To Create a Custom Button Control in Xojo

Published May 2, 2025 by Gabriel Ludosanu

This tutorial demonstrates how to create a custom button control in Xojo using the DesktopCanvas class. It covers defining properties, handling mouse events for visual feedback, and…

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Year of Code 2025: April Project, User Interface

Published April 8, 2025 by Gabriel Ludosanu

April’s Year of Code theme is all about a great User Interface, I decided to focus on refining the user experience of an existing application.…

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Handling Feature Requests

Published March 15, 2025 by Anthony Cyphers

As a developer, feature requests are a fact of life and one’s stress level may vary based on the complexity of the requests you receive.…

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5 Tips for Optimizing Your Xojo Apps for Performance

Published February 27, 2025 by Gabriel Ludosanu

Performance can be a make-or-break feature for any application, especially when users expect smooth interactions and quick results. Luckily, Xojo provides tools and techniques you…

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