Lots of time I see people say they hack and hack at code until it “works”
But those accumulated hacks and patches can be troublesome down the road as you may not remember why you did something that way
And comments are, for the most part, obsolete the moment you write them.
And, unless you have some kind of enforced policy, either personally or corporately, they probably do not get maintained as code gets updated.… Read the rest
Had reports that the workaround I posted a while back to make 2019r1.1 work on Big Sur ALSO works on Big Sur on M1 macs
Covid is running rampant again in the province
Some random guy writes he thinks it is. Whatever.
Build me an app in HTML.
NO CSS, NO JS. Those aren’t HTML
Plain jane old pure and simple HTML.
Oh but you say I can submit forms and – yeah to the SERVER that is served from. But then what ? The server won’t DO anything with that form or the data on it unless its running PHP or Java or something that can DO something with the data (even just stuff it in a file !)… Read the rest
Not the app. Just the crazy numbers of covid infections and such we’re seeing here.
I’ve been keeping track of the numbers on my own as the published numbers on the AHS site are spread around in a way they dont present a clear picture.
This is my graph lately
NOT GOOD
Been getting weird reports from friends that Xojo 2021r1 isnt quite as “native” on M1’s as expected
If you do NOT install Rosetta the IDE runs – but you cannot debug or build anything
Poking around it appears the linkers, ld, ldarm and lld are all only built as x86_64 binaries meaning that you MUST install Rosetta for Xojo to be able to debug or build
EDIT : I wrote Geoff after I heard of this and said “someone should look into this ASAP”.… Read the rest
This thread illustrates some of the confusion people have with API 2
The documentation doesn’t help clear it up either since it says, quite clearly, that there seems to be a Boolean.ToString method.
I know this isn’t whats meant, but the writer of that thread obviously doesn’t.
Right now code has to look like
dim b as boolean = Boolean.FromString("true)A long while back I wrote a quick post about “if you need to crash your app” and how to
Perhaps you need to test some code that reports crashes back to you
Exceptions are easier to catch. crashes a bit harder but they happen
So I had posted a couple lines I got from Joe a zillion years ago
Dunno if anyone ever used them or needed them until recently.… Read the rest
Xojo has no “friend” scope (see https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.cbclx01/cplr044.htm)
In other words there is no way to indicate that one class or method can call the protected / private methods of another class. Either the methods are public, and any other code can use them, or they are protected so only the class & subclasses can use them, or private and then only that class can access them.… Read the rest
Took a few minutes last night and helped out another member of the Xojo world.
Seemed like he was a bit stuck and what I pointed out got them back on track.
And then I got several messages :
Norman, you are a FUCKING treasure to this community.
… Read the restNobody tries to help as much as you do.