Author: Norman Palardy

Made a IDE Script for myself and .. well watch what it does

You do have to watch quite closely but its pretty cool if I do say so myself 🙂

I’m happy to se Xojo has decided that maintaining bug base software is not the business we are in
However, the issues that many people have complained about are not JUST about the tool

Some have characterized their feelings about Xojo as Expected behavior working is not Xojo’s strength

And thats not the result of what tool is used to track bug reports or api proposals

That is is a lack of process in how they do what they do.… Read the rest

Xojo recently shifted way from Feedback, their home grown bug tracker, to Issues from GitLab. As part of this they’ve added a number of bots that seem to automatically deal with cases.

Comparisons to my old #’s are difficult because Issues tracks multiple tags per case where Feedback basically had a single status

There are some easy comparisons

In Feedback I had 58 Archived cases, several of which I requested be reopened,
In issues there are 99, with several I’ve asked to be reopened.… Read the rest

Current count of my cases in Feedback

Archived 58
Closed (already Exists) 12
Closed (by Design) 49
Closed (Duplicate) 55
Closed (Misc) 37
Closed (No Longer Reproducible) 5
Closed (Not Actionable) 9
Closed (Not Reproducible) 48
Fixed 9
Fixed & Verified 133 (broken down as)
       Build 2
       Compiler 1
       Crashes & assertions 5
       Database Plugins 1
       Debugger 1
       Documentation 37
       Examples 2
       Framework – All 16
       Framework – Web 4
       Framework – Windows 2
       Framework – macOS 4
       IDE – Auto Complete 6
       IDE – Build Automation 2
       IDE – Code Editor 5
       IDE – Constant Editor 1
       IDE – Debugger 1
       IDE – Enum Editor 1
       Ide – Errors & Warning Panel 2
       IDE – FileIO 3
       IDE – Inspector 10
       IDE – Language Reference 1
       IDE – Layout Editor 4
       IDE – Library 1
       IDE – Menu Editor 1
       IDE – Miscellaneous 6
       IDE – Navigator 1
       IDE – Refactoring Tools 1
       IDE -Scripting 1
       IDE – UI 3
       IDE – UI – Menus 1
       IDE – UI – Tabs 1
       N/A 6
       XojoScript 1
Implemented 5
Implemented & Verified 16
Open 433
Resolved 2

An interesting question posed on TOF

is there any way to inject code into a control’s events at runtime?
Or, is there a way to create a function or sub procedure and create its methods, parameters, and insert code at runtime?

The consensus is, to alter compiled code – no. Which I agree with.

The suggestion was to investigate Xojoscript – which I also agree with.… Read the rest

There are a few Xojo coded SVG handlers

Most do a minimal level of SVG abut dont handle lots of extra fancy bits. Like proper clip path handling, defs with later uses sections, rotation, scaling, gradient fills and several others.

I’ve been lucky enough to get my hands on a VERY VERY VERY early test version of an SVG plugin.… Read the rest

Mine is easy to list. A serious noticeable regression in the debugger.

http://feedback.xojo.com/case/59520
The debugger simply doesnt work as expected and the more I work the more infuriated I get that this bug has existed for over 2 years now

Voting for it hasnt gotten it fixed. And there are other similar bugs that seem related (like step not behaving a expected (http://feedback.xojo.com/case/68263… Read the rest

Since the last numbers post Xojo has moved a lot of cases to an”archived” status which I believe is a lot like “we’re not spending time on this unless you say its still relevant”. As well they removed several “open” statuses like Reviewed.

Direct comparisons to my last numbers post are more difficult with these changes.… Read the rest

currently ranked # 36
its absolutely maddening
http://feedback.xojo.com/case/59520

In Xojo I often need to add in a comment about when I modified something or what I was working on
And the comment needs to be in a particular format – and it needs the current date & time as part of the comment
And, I want to be able to insert these EASILY into whatever code I’m working on right where the insertion point is

To do this I came up with this IDE Script that I saved in my Scripts dir next to the IDE

Dim stripped As String
stripped = DoShellCommand("echo ""// Updated `/bin/date ""+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z""` -- NJP"" | /usr/bin/tr -C -d ""[:print:]"" | /usr/bin/pbcopy -Prefer txt")

DoCommand("Paste")

this will make use of the DoShellCommand to get the unix shell to write a line with the current date in it, copy that to the clipboard, and then paste it right where the insertion point is

You can modify the unix shell commands used to do just about whatever else you want