Author: Norman Palardy

The pic says it all

Suppose you want to do something like a set of preferences that are a simple key/value pairing.

A dictionary seems a great choice. Its keys can be any type and the values any type because both are variants.

So far so good.

Now you can do something like

dim i as integer = PrefsDict.Value("keyForIntegerValuedPreference")

And all seems great !… Read the rest

Xojo decided to change Feedback statuses on reports by essentially telling users less.

So instead of knowing what reports have been reviewed and found to be reproducible by their testing staff, which ones have been verified as bugs by development staff, etc everything is now just “Open” until one day it may reach some other status.… Read the rest

Suppose there is a software product that sells brand new for $99

And once you own one you can update it for 50% off

If you can attract 500 new users every year then you should go after new users since you earn more money than if 500 existing users renew. 2x as much.

Now suppose you adopt Apples full price renewal model ?… Read the rest

Over the years I’ve seen lots of people say they buy a license whether they intend to actually use it or not JUST to support Xojo.

If thats you I’d sure willingly accept what ever extra cash you have to put to things you wont use and I’m sure I can write you some in short order.… Read the rest

deltas are the change since Feb 23, 2021

Closed (Already Exists) 7 (+1 from last report)
Closed (By Design) 45 (+7)
Closed (Duplicate) 49 (+17)
Closed (Misc) 31 (+6)
Closed (No Longer Reproducible) 2 (+2)
Closed (Not Actionable) 7 (+4)
Closed (Not Reproducible) 44 (+6)
Closed (Won’t Implement) 8 (+1)
Fixed 11 (+6)
Fixed & Verified 107 (+16)
Implemented 1 (-1)
Implemented & Verified 15 (+6)
Needs Review 16 (+10)
Reproducible 174 (+33)
Resolved 2 (no change)
Reviewed 222 (+33)
Verified 34 (5)

Open 446 (+81)
Closed 329 (+70)

Some time ago I posted about making 2019r1.1 work on newer versions of macOS

And there are reports that a related technique can be used to enable older versions as well (post copied here for posterity sake)

I ran into this problem today when I wanted to use an older version of Xojo (2018 R4) on Monterey.… Read the rest

A couple years back I joined the Canadian Ski Patrol

Normally we’d have to requalify as a patroller every year. But since 2020 was deep in the pandemic at the time the CSP extended every ones qualification for a year.

So unlike most years we didnt have to do exams last year.

Which brings us to this year.… Read the rest

Many many years ago when REALbasic first wrote the IDE in REALbasic it was said

“We’re also ‘eating our own dog food,’” said Perlman. Previous releases of REALbasic were coded using the C++ language, although with REALbasic 5.5, the last significant update, the groundwork was laid to add pieces that were written in REALbasic. When REALbasic 2005 is released, the entire Integrated Development Environment (IDE) will have been recoded in REALbasic itself.

… Read the rest

As of Oct 18, 2021

Closed (Already exists) 7
Closed (By Design) 45
Closed (duplicate) 48
Closed (Misc) 31
Closed (No Longer Reproducible) 2
Closed (Not Actionable) 7
Closed (Not Reproducible) 44
Closed (Won’t Implement) 8
Fixed 8
Fixed & Verified 107
Implemented 1
Implemented & Verified 15
Needs Review 10
Reproducible 176
Resolved 2
Reviewed 217
Verified 32

Overall 435 Open cases