Unable to load project
Hello everyone, I have one project which I’m developing in Xojo 2017r3. Until yesterday, it was working normally, but after XOJO became slow and all actions were delayed, I restarted PC, and cleared...
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Anyone else find "Edit Menu Shortcuts" customizations don't stick?
As the title suggests, I had been struggling lately with getting keyboard shortcut customizations to stick. Most changes were to just the modifier flags. To achieve one I need a character change...
View ArticleLoad > 100k elements into a HtmlViewer
I’m writing a new app to archive messages. Users have a lot of messages which usually are not paginated. And everything is loaded into a htmlviewer. Because Xojo doesn’t have a listbox with variable...
View ArticleCellTextPaint - Changing Text Colors
I have an issue with PaintCellText that I cannot resolve. I am attempting to change the color of text in a DeskTopListBox cell if certain conditions are met (i.e., if the value to be displayed in the...
View ArticleNo subfiles in Resources folder
I have dragged my resource files to the copyFiles1 page for MacOS. In both debug and compiled applications the app file has Contents/Resources folder, but none of the files I have dragged into my...
View ArticleYear of Code 2025: April Project, User Interface
Originally published at: Year of Code 2025: April Project, User Interface – Xojo Programming Blog April’s Year of Code theme is all about great a User Interface, I decided to focus on refining the...
View Article2025 Year of Code April: User Interface
Hello Everyone! April’s Year of Code theme is all about the User Interface! As you all know, creating your app’s user interface with Xojo is quick and intuitive - just drag and drop built-in controls...
View Article"Application crashed due to Access Violation"
Mac OSX My application is now bombing when I run it, reporting an access violation. All was fine, nothing changed, it just started doing it. Every time I start it asks me if I want to allow access to...
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What is "resources.pri"?
Testing 2025R1 with a Windows EXE build, and there’s a new (to me) 19MB file called “resources.pri” file. What is it? 6 posts - 3 participants Read full topic
View ArticleIcuuin.dll, icuuc.dll missing from system
I’m updating one of my programs to run on some new servers. On the older windows 2016 servers I get runtime errors: … icuin.dll, icuuc.dll is missing from your computer… I tried adding these libraries...
View Article.ssh known_hosts for Shell (SFTP) outbound from Xojo Cloud WebApp
Within a WebApp (hosted on Xojo Cloud) I have a module that uses a Shell and SFTP cmds to “reach out” to an SFTP/FTP host. My App needs to do routine things - like “get” all files from a directory at...
View ArticleChecking internet Connection using URLConnection
I’m updating some old code: to check an internet connection I used to use this snippet (posted years ago by Michael Bujardet): Dim http As New HTTPSocket http.yield = True dim ih as InternetHeaders =...
View ArticleType a date into DesktopDateTimePicker?
Any way to programatically allow the user to type a date? Day TAB month TAB Year. Most professionals want to type, not click their date. 14 posts - 6 participants Read full topic
View ArticleXojo 2025R1 hangs when opening to webpage
I just installed 2025R1 to a fresh Windows Server 2022 and I’m hitting on a weird bug. When opening my web project (made with 2024r4.2 on Server 2016), Xojo IDE hangs with “Not Responding” when the...
View ArticleDo Apple certificates and profiles need to be created for each computer used...
Hi, I’m again encountering issues with building an iOS app. This time, I’m going to wipe out all my certificates and profiles, both on my computers and Apple developper account, then starting from...
View ArticleContainerControl Activate event alternative in API2?
At the moment I’m working on the conversion of a project to API2. There is a ContainerControl that has an Activate event. Apparently API2 DesktopContainer doesn’t have that Activate event. I’ve looked...
View ArticleHas CDBL changed recently?
back in the day, I seem to recall that if you used VAL() on a number that was user-entered, you could get the wrong values when decimals were involved. eg on a UK/USA system, Val(“3.1”) = 3.1 whereas...
View ArticleRunning a Xojo Web app using a Xojo Desktop app
The goal is to run Xojo web application using a Chrome web driver. I found the example to serve a webpage but how can this work with a xojo web app? Thank you! 4 posts - 2 participants Read full topic
View ArticleFunny: a SQLite RowSet view in the debuger
The two line below are represented in the same way in the debuger. But in the former case, there are many thousands Rows, and in the later case, there is only 1 Row. rowsFound = db.SelectSQL("SELECT *...
View ArticleHow To get a reference to the current Row?
the documentation says: MoveToNextRow Moves the current row to the next row in the RowSet. Same goes for the other three MoveTo. I need a DatabaseRow to pass to my fill the UI Method. How do I get a...
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