Okay, some thoughts about Xojo 2018r2. It is first release, which allows me to compile plain new project to 64bit. Earlier versions all crashed if I wanted to build 64bit release even with plain empty window. Good, I thought.
I still use Xojo 2014r3.2 in my projects as it starts about 40 seconds with all my bought plugins, instead almost four (!) minutes with newer versions of Xojo with Xojo 2018r2 as well.
I thought that its time to move on and abandon 2014 year release, as there is one nasty TextArea StyledText RTFData bug, which takes RTF data in (probably), but not shows it. For workaround I used WinRTFDataMBS for storing RTF data to TextArea and it works, but Every time I put data in this way to TextArea and then save it with StyledText-RTFData, after reloading font size increases by two points. This is not happens, when I save RTF data with WinRTFDataMBS instead of StyleText.RTFData, but when I use WinRTFDataMBS for invoking RTF data, Xojo IDE crashes. Not compiled program, it works nicely, but IDE crashes and you can think is this way possible to work? No.
So I tried in Xojo 2018r2 TextArea StyleText works as should be, but its many times slower to work generally and produces much large final result. My largest project compiled with 2014r3.2 is approximately 100 megabytes with all bells and whistles, but compiled with 2018r2 32bit weights more than 200 megabytes! Are you serious?
And now my problem. Tried to compile some of my smaller projects to 64bit and they compiled. It takes time, but they compiled and seems to work. But, but, but With my largest project I get linking error:
[quote]Linking Executable
C:\Program Files\Xojo\Xojo 2018r2\Xojo Resources\Win32\lld.exe: error: C:\Users\Üllar\AppData\Local\Temp\xojo scratch 14952\VeeVärk.xojo_binary_project [F6B8DF4C]\Windows_x86_64\/#main.o: undefined symbol: _x_Püles.Püles.0017BA5F.109
C:\Program Files\Xojo\Xojo 2018r2\Xojo Resources\Win32\lld.exe: error: C:\Users\Üllar\AppData\Local\Temp\xojo scratch 14952\VeeVärk.xojo_binary_project [F6B8DF4C]\Windows_x86_64\/#main.o: undefined symbol: _x_kraan.kraan.0017BA6B.113[/quote]
And no I cant put it to FeedBack, as FeedBack did not work for me probably for some weird blocking reason(s) known only for Xojo smart team already for years.
I also include those two small pictures here. I removed them and placed pack. Still same error. When I removed them from project, it compiles 64bit and works. So any ideas? Same pictures works well, when compiled to 32bit
Computer world is strange and full of surprises especially if Xojo is involved. I like Xojo as it is easy to use and gives quick results, but sometimes you must bend yourself whatever type of knot to achieve something that seems so obvious but not in Xojo logic. Fortunately problems are for solving and there are mostly quite many ways to do that.