Way back when, when Apple still permitted 32 bit compiles, the landscape for what you had to do to build an app that would work on macOS was a lot simpler.
Now, not only do you have to build the right kind of executable you need to also do code signing, even if only ad-hoc signing, to run even a debug app on the very latest versions of macOS.… Read the rest
In Xojo an array is limited to being no more than 2 billion entries (2,147,483,646 )
But arrays are documented as using integers which, in a 64 bit world, should be a LOT more entries than this.
When this post was written the documentation isnt clear about what the maximum size of an array IS.… Read the rest
Some changes wont be a big deal
If you happened to use the style REALbasic.function name then some of those will need fixing as they have moved from the REALbasic framework into different ones. IF you need to prefix things with the right namespace you’ll have to sort out which one it got moved to but its USUALLY one named the same as the data type.… Read the rest
Sent directly to Dana Brown Thur Nov 19, 2020 @2:01 PM (typos and all)
No I’m not writing to appeal being suspended
What I am wondering is if you would alter this to be “silenced” instead of “suspended”
Functionally silenced has the effect of making it so I cannot post – but it does allow me to log in an access things like the testers forum to be able to download new builds
In the long run the effect is stil lthat I’m not an actuve particpating member since I cannot post in any way
see – https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-moderation-guide/63116… Read the rest
Something I’d never really given a thought to but then I was asked if there was an RSS feed
Yes there is
Subscribe at https://www.great-white-software.com/blog/feed
Is up and running again at Xojo.io
If you find any others let the site admin know or post it in a comment here and I’ll see they get notified
Folks come to expect that if I press run and the code compiles that when I press build it will still compile.
And realistically why shouldn’t it ?
Run builds an actual application and, for the most part, the only difference was that now in a Xojo debug run the debug app has a bit of code in it for the IDE to talk to and control and query back and forth.… Read the rest
From Xojo’s forums where no one has bothered to answer that _could_ answer
Container Control Init
Should Container Controls be receiving set calls on computed properties before the open event fires?
Yes. When Xojo creates the layout that contains the container it effectively sets EVERY property regardless. Its as if you wrote :
dim c as new ContainerControl
c.propertyXojo has a pretty handy language feature called “extension methods”
They can be used by anyone to add functionality to any existing class. And they cane/have been used by Xojo to do exactly this.
For instance, the currency class has no built in functions to convert itself to a string, from a string, etc. Yet when you enter code like
Dim c As Currency
s = Currency.On the forum theres a long thread about altering how the points in Feedback work and how they can be assigned.
I have to admit that from my perspective, and seemingly from others, the issue is not so much with gathering reports, but the “processes” that occur after gathering reports.
Currently we can assign points to reports by making them favourites.… Read the rest