Compiler error on FolderItem (Xojo.IO.FolderItem)

Targets iOS
1

Hi Everyone,

Help please. Editing an iPad app in Xojo 2025 r1.1. I paste the following example code (below) directly out of the Xojo PDFDocument documentation into the iPad app, and a compiler error results on build (below). I’ve looked everywhere for a solution and tried a dozen different things… any insight would be appreciated.

Var pdf As New PDFDocument
Var g As Graphics = pdf.Graphics
g.PenSize = 1
g.DrawLine(0, 0, 0, 324)
g.DrawLine(0, 324, g.Width, 324)

Var r As New Random
Var startX As Integer = 1
Var colors() As Color
Var bars() As Integer

If colors.LastIndex = -1 Then
For n As Integer = 0 To 5
colors.Add(Color.RGB(r.InRange(0, 255), r.InRange(0, 255), r.InRange(0, 255)))
bars.Add(r.InRange(325 * 0.1, 325 - 325 * 0.2))
Next
End If

Var barWidth As Integer = g.Width / 6 * 0.8
Var spaceBetween As Integer = g.Width / 6 * 0.2
For n As Integer = 0 To 5
g.DrawingColor = colors(n)
g.FillRectangle(startX, 325 - bars(n), barWidth, bars(n) - 1)
startX = startX + barWidth + spaceBetween
Next

Var f As FolderItem = SpecialFolder.Documents.Child(“Barchart.pdf”)
pdf.Save(f)

** Build error:

Parameter “f” expects class FolderItem, but this is class Xojo.IO.FolderItem.

How do I satisfy the compiler so that it will save this pdf?

2

Do you have somewhere a Using Clause in your project with Xojo.IO?

3

Thank you. Yes, in code executed before this method, I have

Using Xojo.Math

Do you think that’s the cause?

4

Somewhere you have one for Xojo.IO. that needs to be removed. Xojo.IO.Folderitem no longer exists in iOS IIRC

5

Thank you both. I’ll rip out instances of Xojo.IO.Folderitem when I’m back programming in two days and see if it fixes it. After a quick search, it looks like I have two places that may be a problem… that make reference to Xojo.IO.FolderItem:

IN an HTTPSocket…

FileReceived(URL as Text, HTTPStatus as Integer, File As Xojo.IO.FolderItem)

and in a Try-Catch…

Catch error As Xojo.IO.IOException

Fingers crossed. :slight_smile:

6

You need to be using URLConnection instead of the namespaced HTTPSocket