My question was raised by a very similar way. I also tried an MBS example (in API1, like most seem to be) that I wanted to convert to API2. I did not try searching on the Internet (I’d not expected to find documentation there).
I get your point (especially putting no plugin for launching faster). I made the mistake to buy a Mac with only 16 GB of RAM and always need to watch out for not raising virtual memory (that’s a bad thing), so launching two copies of Xojo, especially just for looking one small thing in the documentation, is something that I’d like to avoid.
Thanks for having figured out this. I’m going to try version 6. Just a minor shame that we can’t upgrade to the latest version, if I assume correctly it’s not possible to install version 6 with older Xojo docsets then upgrade to version 7 with keeping the installed sets.
Actually the docsets work fine in either version. You can only see them for install in version 6 though. So just use v6 to download them (and probably archive for future use) then move up to version 7.
This is a problem that can be solved by Xojo. In the Xojo folder, you have folders for all the versions you’ve launched (unless you’ve removed them).
In the Xojo folder, you have folders for all the versions you’ve launched (unless you’ve removed them).
Dans le dossier Xojo, vous avez des dossiers pour toutes les versions que vous avez lancées (sauf si vous les avez supprimées).
You have folders in the Xojo folder for all the versions you have launched (unless you have removed them).
Vous avez des dossiers dans le dossier Xojo pour toutes les versions que vous avez lancées (sauf si vous les avez supprimés).
These folders contain the documentation for these versions (for the most recent versions, this isn’t the case if you haven’t downloaded them). A Popup Menu in the Documentation window (or extract the code for managing this window + generate an application that allows you to select older documentation…) But, we know Xojo…
for nerds, there is also this app from Norman to open old xojo help files
it detects all xojo versions on your drive and let you open and search in the help.
it does not work with xojo that has the online help.
This looks like a nice solution. But wouldn’t it be nice if, after throwing us the API2.0 curveball, Xojo had a converter utility that did these replacements automatically?
I thought I’d spend an evening changing all my windows and controls to Desktopxxx versions and am now faced with manually correcting literally >5000 errors. This will take me weeks. And I learned the hard way that I can’t just change one or two windows over, because then the entire project fails to compile. You can’t mix API1.0 with 2.0 it seems (foobars all the menu-related stuff), and the dominos fell from there.
This will take me weeks of work, and has turned into quite the nightmare.
When I did converted a large project, I made a copy first, and worked on the copy, and did it in stages.
I did a lot of find and replace, but only on a “This Item” basis, so it would only affect the code on the item I had open, not everything in the whole project.
It took about three days, and I made new iterations of the project along the way, in case I needed to go back to an earlier version.
yes that’s what i did too, but now the next problem: this is a heavily used app in my lab that has constant updates and bug fixes, which i have to do on the api1 version to get up and running quickly, and now i have to remember to transfer all these changes to the api2 version that will take a long time to get working. And so the dominos continue to fall…
