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What exactly is Xojo rewriting? I’ve heard it’s the framework and the compiler. Is this correct?
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Will Xojo ever fix the control alignment bugs that plague the OS X version of the IDE?
[quote=104077:@Shane Gibbs]1) What exactly is Xojo rewriting? I’ve heard it’s the framework and the compiler. Is this correct?
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Basically yes… As i understand it, The a writing a new more modern framework, and will be using open source complier (and linker) technology adapted to this purpose
I don’t experience any issues with that.
- Karen
Me neither??
- for iOS its a brand new framework - since the platform never existed before and “porting” the existing framework simply won’t work
- a new compiler (required for iOS and long term to support 64 bit) - we can do bits of this incrementally
- new linkers for all targets - esp for 64 bit since our current linker is not 64 bit capable
- the IDE support for iOS (which is in itself a big job)
- the debugger (since with a new compiler we’ll need a new one that is also 64 bit aware etc)
longer term - the web framework will get a big overhaul
As for the alignment bugs if you drag controls close to each other & tweak the individual left properties OR simple select a bunch and then use the alignment tools that does the same thing. They will be aligned.
The blue guides are guides but not precision tools.
For some controls we rely on the OS telling us framing rects & in some cases thats not available so we’ve done some digging into headers to try & get the information but some is just not documented so we’re guessing (really)