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Android MobileScreen instance

Hi to all Could you please help me to understand if this is a bug or a feature? I have a MobileScreen (Screen2) with a string property (test as string) In Screen2 I have a method (Constructor(value as...

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Type mismatch error with colours

Sonoma 14.5, 2023r4. I have some code in the Paint event of a DesktopCanvas. If I write it as follows: if (specialColourFlg=False) then g.DrawingColor = Self.Window.BackgroundColor else g.DrawingColor...

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Progress bar for long-running dll

I have written a FORTRAN dll to perform math operations on gigabytes of data. This can take hours, so I want the dll to signal progress to the Xojo mainline and Xojo to draw a progress bar. Any...

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Application preferences location

On Windows I write these to the registry. Are there similar functions on MacOS & Linux? Or do you just write to the Shared Application Data folder? 10 posts - 7 participants Read full topic

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Alternative to GameInputManager

Hi, I’m building a 2D game engine and am working on input, specifically joypad support. I hate to be frank but Xojo’s native GameInputManager and related classes are not great (and don’t work on...

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In memory tabular data handling library

When I returned to Xojo, after on long time spent with Python and Pandas, I started to miss Pandas. Although far from perfect, the pandas library provides a convenient support for in memory storage of...

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Web page scrolling animations

Hi How can I handle the scrolling of a Xojo web page? I’d like to animate containers on the page as the user scrolls. Any suggestions or pointers? thanks for any help! 1 post - 1 participant Read full...

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Downloading via HTMLViewer

I’ve seen a few threads on this but never really found a satisfactory answer. I need to download a CSV file from a server and process it in my application. The user needs to log in via a third-party...

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Xojo says my VS2022 64-bit .lib /.dll contains an error?

I have a 64-bit .dll with its .lib compiled by Visual Studio 2022. The subroutine, called DLLTEST, adds two 4-byte integers into a third 4-byte integer. Dumpbin.exe reports that all is as expected…...

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HashtagChanged Still works?

Hello, I needed something fast for some tests and I remember that we had that HashtagChanged but apparently if I set it, it never fires, I did tried the Eddie’s Electronics web example as well and Log...

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Curl vs UrlConnection differences for HTTP requests

I am curious what the difference is between curl and URLConnection socket. I can connect to an RSS feed with the URLConnection just fine however when using curl either through the terminal or with...

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How do I create a screensaver?

I am working on a screensaver program for my mac that will play movies as a screensaver. How do I make a program that will run AS a screensaver? I know I can have a desktop that people can manually...

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Sonoma 14.6 and Issues

I just re-opened my Issue #76025, and then happened to install the latest Sonoma update (to 14.6). Now the images that I had uploaded to that Issue when I created it on 3rd April 2024, no longer...

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WebToolbar issues

It seems that there is an issue with the WebToolbar. Steps to replicate : Create a WebToolbar, add it to your page. Add 8, 10 buttons with icon and text Load that page in a browser or a tablet . If...

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Linefeeds getting stripped in Windows, MacOS is fine

I have the following code that I’m using to open up the default email client on the system and the line feeds are not making it to the email client. It’s just one long line in the body. I checked the...

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Remove dynamically created container from within container

I’m trying to make an interface that is somewhat similar to Find Any File’s. I’m doing a search window with different search fields where criteria can be added and deleted. As starting point I use...

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WebChart and MobileChart to Picture

I want to use the following cross-platform code to convert my Xojo Chart to a Picture. This works fine on Desktop, but WebChart.DrawInto(…) and MobileChart.DrawInto(…) are not available for Web/iOS....

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PDFDocument.AddChart() not available for Web?

I have cross-platform code (below) that adds my Xojo Chart to a PDFDocument. This works for Desktop and iOS, but it seems PDFDocument.AddChart(…) is missing on Web. How can I add a WebChart to a...

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Mousweel in containerControl

I like to use the mouse wheel in a container control to scroll up and down, using the same code as for the horizontal scrollbar. using the scrollbar it stops at the top but scroll down until no more...

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Calling a process in another window from a thread to update a progress bar?

I’ve been playing with this for a couple days and can’t get it to work so I’m wondering if I’m doing something wrong or if this isn’t possible. I have a main window that calls another window with a...

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