Some one at Xojo could have, should have, posted about how to do this
It didnt seem to be forthcoming so I did over on INN
Just disappointed that Xojo seems to just not try & help users unless its via email
😞
You’re welcome !
Adding Event handlers
OK So now we have a control on a Window
But how do we react to events that happen to that control ?
Like KeyDown, Keyup, GotFocus, LostFocus, and TextChanged. Thats all the events there are on TextFields – for now.
In Xojo you’d just add the event handler to the control & put code in it.… Read the rest
Adding menubar & controls in C#
For all of you following along YEAH its about damned time ! 🙂
I agree
I’ve been proceeding slowly to make it so you can follow and not try to cram 10000 items in one post (we ARE trying to keep it manageable)
First Lets remove the last bits of “cruft” left in our getting starting project
Since we’re not actually using a normal macOS document application we can delete the ViewController.cs… Read the rest
Creating our Window in C#
So far when you run the project it will show a main window.
But this is because we created the kind of project we did with a main storyboard and an entry in the Info.plist that told macOS what should be the main window.
It isn’t one we created in our new framework.
Lets rectify that.… Read the rest
Getting Started with C#
Of course to follow along you’ll need to download and install VS for macOS
Once you have it you can easily start a new “solution”
This is MS’ term for what might roughly be the equivalent of a Xojo project (although its a bit more than that) But for now “Xojo project” is close enough.
Select “New”
Select Mac app in the left hand pane send select “Cocoa app” and make sure the language elector is set to C# (you can use others supported by C# but I’m going to focus on C#)
Press Continue
Give your project a name – I used getting_started
Note that in this pane you can select which version of macOS you want to deploy backwards to.… Read the rest
Adventures in C#
Yeah after all these years I’ve started writing some code in C#
Mostly as a way to work in something else
But also as a way to learn another language that I _might_ end up needing to use for client work. Thats a whole different story.
So I started just using a framework put together by Björn EirÃksson
Any first it was just learning how to write code, add event handlers, and generally just getting used to how this all worked, C# syntax (some very handy things there) and poking about.… Read the rest
Handy IDE script
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 🙂
Switching
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
Numbers after the change
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
Numbers 2022-05
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