An interesting question came up on the forums the other day about how to mimic “Unions” from C.
Turns out I had answered this some time ago – its close but not exactly the same as in C. But it is close enough to be functional and close enough for most uses.
And it’s not mentioned anywhere in the Xojo docs.… Read the rest
A recent feedback case made me think that there may be a real lack of information about attributes.
A lot of people believe that attributes are key value pairs that must have a valid identifier as the NAME and ALWAYS have a quoted string for a value.
This is incorrect.
Attribute name can be quoted strings – meaning you can, by using a quoted string for the name – have names that include spaces that would normally be invalid.… Read the rest