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Windows ICU Changes

For many years, Xojo included prebuilt ICU libraries (International Components for Unicode) on Windows to ensure consistent Unicode behavior across platforms. However, maintaining and updating…

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Using a Property as a Constant

Wikipedia says:

In computer programming, a constant is a value that cannot be altered by the program during normal execution, i.e., the value is constant.

In Xojo we have constants that can be defined in code or added to modules, classes, etc. What you’ll notice about Wikipedia’s definition of “constant” is that it’s a behavior, not a specific type.

There is another way to define a “constant” or “a value that doesn’t change throughout the run of your application”.

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