Back when I was still at Xojo I wrote a blog post about what type of variable am I ?
This is a follow up on that to maybe help explain things more.
The particular difficulty is arrays. They are simple and can cause deceptive an hard to find bugs BECAUSE they are so easy to use and the Xojo language appears to do what you intend (but I don’t think it is doing the wrong thing).… Read the rest
macOS supports the notion of Alternate menus. One that even once you have opened the menu you can toggle between their textual description and short cut by pressing the Option Key or another modifier like Shift or Control.
And you can even set up several so pressing Shift is one, Shift + Ctrl is another, and Option is yet another.… Read the rest
Originally published on my old blog March 12, 2019
After Joe Ranieri quit* & moved to a new job I think everyone felt stressed. I know I did. It felt like so much more was expected of an ever smaller group of developers.
By Dec of that year I’d had enough of the forums and some of the general dumping on Xojo as a product.… Read the rest
Some times you want to make a nice generic class that a user can extend via subclassing.
However, one issue arises with this.
How can a factory method in the super class create instances of the subclasses ? This is especially troublesome if the classes you have are encrypted so you cant change the source or in a plugin.… Read the rest
Lots of time you see code like
static flag as boolean
if flag then return
flag = true
// rest of method
flag = false
In a simple method/event with only a handful of lines there’s probably nothing wrong with this
But what do you do when the method spans into hundreds or thousands of lines ?… Read the rest
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