macOS adopted an interesting behaviour some time ago where when you opened a new window in an application. It would default to opening a new tab in the window instead of opening a new window.
If your application could not deal with this and the user had the preference in System Preferences > Dock > Prefer Tabs when opening documents set to Always then it could cause your app issues.… Read the rest
I’ve seen this question come up a couple times recently. And while it would be nice to do you cant.
The frame type is required to be set when the window is constructed. And there’s no constructor on a window that allows you to do something like
dim w as new Window(frametype)So how can you have something like a document window on macOS and a movable modal on Windows ?… Read the rest
No. Not IE.
// there are issues with this style
// 1. you can only select one file
// 2. If folder is already opened, it doesn't select the file
Declare Function ShellExecuteW lib "shell32" (hwnd as Integer, lpOperation as WString, lpFile as WString, lpParameters as WString, lpDirectory as Integer, nShowCmnd as Integer) as Integer
Dim err as Integer
Dim param As String
param = "/select, """ + f.AbsolutePathThis has probably been posted in the forums. Its just not always easy to find.
Declare Function NSClassFromString Lib "Cocoa" (name As CFStringRef) As Ptr
Declare Function sharedWorkspace Lib "AppKit" selector "sharedWorkspace" ( obj As ptr ) As ptr
Declare Function selectFile Lib "AppKit" selector "selectFile:inFileViewerRootedAtPath:" ( obj As ptr, fPath As CFStringRef, rootFullPath As CFStringRef ) As Boolean
Dim workspace As ptr = sharedWorkspace( NSClassFromString( "NSWorkspace" ) )
Call selectFile( workspace, f.NativePath,Sometime when you’re debugging your application you run into a situation where you get funky behaviour.
You might do something like Javier mentioned in his recent blog post on Xojo’s blog :
Dim ASource() As Integer = Array(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)
Dim ATarget() As Integer
ATarget = ASourceAnd, as he noted, you cant figure out why when you change one array you also appear to alter the other.… Read the rest
A question I was asked recently posed an interesting question about exceptions and the cost of using them as a general error handling mechanism.
Xojo uses whats know as “zero cost exception handling”. Essentially at runtime there is no penalty for having exception handling in place. It imposes no runtime overhead when NO exceptions are encountered.… Read the rest
On the forum there was a suggestion that a person should use a container control that had a few controls embedded in it at design time. And then when using that container control that they should skip providing an API that the container presented and just reach inside the container and manipulate the controls it contain directly.… Read the rest
Windows have two sets of properties that all relate to positioning a window.
However, they are not all quite created equally.
There are, of course, the typical top, left, width and height properties. And also the “bounds” property which is a Rect.
If you examine the bounds property for a Document window, and the top, left, width and height you will find that the Bounds.top… Read the rest
Suppose you have the need to create a custom control like I did recently
One of the things that you should do so people do not get confused about using your control is to “implement” any events in whatever you use as your base class that should not be exposed to end users of your control.… Read the rest
If you’ve ever used a container control on a layout and then tried to manipulate the controls at runtime with code like
For i As Integer = 0 To Self.ControlCount - 1
Dim ctrl As Control = Self.Control(i)
// now manipulate this control or call its methods
Nextyou’ve probably run into the EmbeddedWindowControl
Its what you get when you use a Container Control on a layout either by placing one at design time or dynamically adding one at runtime.… Read the rest