Declined to initially update to Ventura because of my monitors flickering like mad
Installed it and tested each new update on an external and eventually YAY the flicker was gone ! Time to update
So I did – a few things broke (no surprise there)
But now the flicker is back – every time the monitor go to sleep, I sign out, the machine reboots, just about any time the monitors shut off.… Read the rest
In the increasingly badly named Enum Extender project I’ve added a way to take a bunch of text defining properties and make it possible to paste into the IDE
see this conversation for why
Now a bunch of text like
Public setting_Username As String
Public setting_Password As String
Public setting_PortNumber As Integer
Public setting_HostName As String
Public setting_MaxConnections As Integer
can be put into Enum Extender and it will set the correct pastable data onto the clipboard
See the new Property Paster window in the project
*NB : at this time the app does not accept
Public Property setting_Username As String
the PROPERTY word is NOT actually correct
An update soon will fix this
MBS released a Scintilla based text editing plugin some time ago
And I’ve been working on adding a Xojo specific Lexer to it in C++
How fast is it ?
Well dont blink or you’ll miss that I paste 19500+ lines into it and in the moment it takes to redraw its marked all the fold points, and colorizes the entire document.… Read the rest
Holy sh&^%!@&%^TTTTT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mucking about still with Ventura on an external bootable drive
And set both external monitors to mirror the main, then set them back to extended and ……..
OMG !
it stopped flickering !!!!!!!!!!
So maybe I’ll update now 😛
Just to satisfy the curiosity of a few YES you can use addhandler with MenuItems
I made a post about it
Now would I recommend this style ? In general no.
But I have used it and in some cases its very handy since you may not be altering the menu item just changing the method that gets invoked.… Read the rest
I’ve been asked why I still run Catalina on my 2019 16″ MBP
Well the updates in between then, and now ALL suffer from this particular problem. I’ve yet to find a solution.
Yeah – such fun
Appears I’m not alone and external monitors and flickering is a widely experienced issue
UPDATE : Apple released 13.4 and someone said “Hey it fixes the flicker!”… Read the rest
I like to have lots of preferences
Things that I CAN tweak to my liking IF I want to
Not that I do in every product I use for writing code. But its nice to have them. For instance in Xcode and VS Mac there are a TON of settings.
And I’ve customized very few. Why ?… Read the rest
In Xojo if you use external methods to simplify writing a declare over & the they can make your code platform specific.
How ?
In a method you can wrap the declare in a #if Target so it wont be used on targets its not intended for.
There is NO way to do this for external methods.… Read the rest
Awards are nice as recognition; but not the reason.
As part of a team of really great people doing my part to see great outcomes like this is the reason
Having once upon a time having had to use Lex & Yacc, and their eventual successors Flex & Bison, I’d been more than passingly familiar with writing and debugging grammars.
And all their weirdness like shift reduce conflicts 😛
At Xojo I’d looked through the grammar for the language to make sure various editors and parsers were conforming to the grammar especially in places like the method signature editor where you could paste in the whole thing into the method name and it would pull it apart.… Read the rest