Month: July 2020

I’m taking a break from posting.
Disillusioned am I.

So what the heck is Norm on about NOW ?

Properties. Specifically computed properties.

Normally you dont want to be shadowing properties and if you do you need to be careful about how you do it so it doesn’t muck up everything. But even when you DO shadow “right” there can still be issues.

And the reason this comes up is because the DECLARED type of an item may be REALLY relevant.… Read the rest

I’ve had several people tell me they are “stepping away from Xojo” at the moment.

Most are users with many years experience in Xojo.

It’s disappointing that its come to this.

Anyone else had this said to them or doing this ?

In the IDE you can create constants.

And if you create them as string constants you can set them to be “localized” or not.

This gives you the ability to support multiple different languages in a single build as the localized language files will be saved and used by your application.

But what happens to other kinds of constants if you add different instance values to ?… Read the rest

And how they work …..

In a bug report I made I posted a tiny sample of code

Dim tokens() As String

Select Case True
  
Case tokens.ubound < 0
  
Case tokens(0) = "End"
  
Case  "Dim"
  break
  
End Select

(Not this code has a known bug in it – Case “Dim” is wrong but it illustrated the bug I was reporting) I’ve used this style for very long sections of code esp where I dont want to clutter it up with extraneous “if then” or “elseif”

But it gathered a curious comment that convinced me the writer of that comment isnt certain how SELECT CASE works.… Read the rest

Should be a great WWE match up

Really the question was “should I use a class or a module?”

There’s not really global “Oh always use X” answer here.

But usually if you find yourself wiring code that passed data to a method and you have a group of methods that collectively define a “data type” then you probably want a class.… Read the rest