(Rant on)
So I thought I’d try to write an app for a Pi project with Xojo.
So I looked at the Xojo website to learn about Raspi specific topics. However, practically all pages one finds on the website (basically Xojo: Program Your Raspberry Pi) just make lots of promises and then all link to the Download, which in turn doesn’t even tell you that the Linux IDE download doesn’t even run on a Pi5, even though Xojo could build for ARM for many years now. No, only after googling why it doesn’t work you’ll learn that the IDE does not work on the Pi, and there’s no pointer that you can use the Remote Debugger at least to run the apps on the Pi - you’ll only learn that if you know about it already and know where to look.
Also, no mentioning of the Pi 5.
And the app that I run, which have a Label and a Button, still cuts off (clips) the Button at the bottom, and the Pi specific docs that I eventually found (Raspberry Pi — Xojo documentation) do not provide a solution for that.
Next I wanted to use the GPIO, so I read GPIO — Xojo documentation - which says I need to install the wiringPi library - which has long gone.
What a disappointing mess. No wonder no one takes Xojo seriously if things are so hard to get going on a Pi - the promise of using Xojo for Pi development is a failed one. Sure, if you’re persistent, you can still probably solve most of these issues by going thru the forum posts that had to deal with the same issues, but if Xojo ever thought of attracting new devs this way, this is not it.
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