As a long time Xojo user, I remember the days when the examples would be file items on your disk within the Xojo folder. It was helpful to have them around, but invariably I’d often forget about them as I had to go hunting down the folder and the items within that I needed.
I don’t recall when Xojo added this to the IDE (maybe this has always been in Xojo and I’m just remembering the Real Studio/REALbasic days), but for a long time now when you create a new project, within the sidebar at the very bottom is an item for examples. These days these are fetched remotely and downloaded.
As Xojo has progressed in this manner, my own workflow didn’t. But in the last 6+ months I’ve found myself remembering the examples and using them fairly frequently whenever there’s a bit of Xojo’s technology that I either want to learn more about or get a quick jumpstart on.
So just a reminder in case folks don’t know or have forgotten, how great and easily accessible are Xojo’s examples. As a nice edition is also the ability to filter them by Kind and Platform.
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