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Introducing Jade, the Xojo AI Assistant

Published December 9, 2025 by Paul Lefebvre

With Xojo 2025 Release 3, we are introducing Jade, an AI assistant for Xojo. This initial version is primarily for asking general Xojo-related questions and…

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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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