# Favorite tools that you use in conjunction with Xojo? **URL:** \ **Category:** Extras\ **Created:** [April 4, 2014, 5:45am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/favorite-tools-that-you-use-in-conjunction-with-xojo/15474 "2014-04-04T05:45:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DaveS](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@DaveS](https://forum.xojo.com/u/DaveS)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 1:47pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/favorite-tools-that-you-use-in-conjunction-with-xojo/15474/21 "2014-04-04T13:47:38Z")
[h]OSX[/h] SQLite manager to examine local databases used with or created by Xojo apps PaintDS - a graphics editor to create icons, and other images required XJPrint - to provide consise documentation UltraEdit - to create XML and other embedded text ---
**Author:** ![scott\_boss](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@scott\_boss](https://forum.xojo.com/u/scott_boss)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 1:48pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/favorite-tools-that-you-use-in-conjunction-with-xojo/15474/22 "2014-04-04T13:48:57Z")
dash - for docs iTerm - for terminal access (mostly to find/open log/temp/misc files) textmate - for editting/viewing text/logfiles tower - git app pixelmator - image editing/resizing navicat - dbase manager sqlitedoctor - fixing sqlite files when screwing them up (or locking them) argen - creating ActiveRecord from my dbase tables now there are a bunch more than dont get used very often. the above get used at least once a week if not constantly (first 4 are used all the time). ---
**Author:** ![Underwriters\_Technologies](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/ed655f/32.png) [@Underwriters\_Technologies](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Underwriters_Technologies)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 1:54pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/favorite-tools-that-you-use-in-conjunction-with-xojo/15474/23 "2014-04-04T13:54:08Z")
FLycut. Remembers the last 20 cuts to my clipboard. ---
**Author:** ![Tomas\_J](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/tomas_j/32/311_2.png) [@Tomas\_J](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Tomas_J)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 1:55pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/favorite-tools-that-you-use-in-conjunction-with-xojo/15474/24 "2014-04-04T13:55:33Z")
Navicat Premium for all kind of databases, cross-platform Pixelmator for all Kind of Graphics FavIconIt for Icons stuff DMG Canvas for Mac Apps Coda & Transmit and Rapidweaver for Webs Inno Setup and kSign Tool for Windows Apps ---
**Author:** ![Thom\_McGrath](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/thom_mcgrath/32/192_2.png) [@Thom\_McGrath](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Thom_McGrath)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 3:31pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/favorite-tools-that-you-use-in-conjunction-with-xojo/15474/25 "2014-04-04T15:31:50Z")
I recently started using two tools, both of which have been awesome. Alfred 2, configured with a few special handlers: “xojo” will search the Xojo online docs. “feedback” searches Feedback “forums” searches the Xojo forum “pg” searches the PostgreSQL 9.2 docs (been meaning to up that to 9.3) Codebox with a few expanders. I just type ` and one of my shortcuts, and Codebox turns it into code. xrs: Creates a RecordSet While loop xoutstream: Creates a TextOutputStream for the File variable, ready to write xinstream: Creates a TextInputStream for the File variable and reads the contents into a Contents variable xdi: Creates a loop to loop through all items in a DragItem ---
**Author:** ![Andre\_Kuiper](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Andre\_Kuiper](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Andre_Kuiper)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 3:48pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/favorite-tools-that-you-use-in-conjunction-with-xojo/15474/26 "2014-04-04T15:48:41Z")
Windows: Context programmer’s editor Total Commander Irfanview VirtualBox with Mint 15 & 16 SQLDeveloper Linux: Gnome Commander Midnight Commander ---
**Author:** ![James\_Dooley](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/james_dooley/32/164_2.png) [@James\_Dooley](https://forum.xojo.com/u/James_Dooley)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 6:43pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/favorite-tools-that-you-use-in-conjunction-with-xojo/15474/27 "2014-04-04T18:43:59Z")
I like to design things up front so: - Balsamiq Mockups - SQLEdit - Excel on Mac (for creating sample data - a couple of tables and some VBA can be used to generate lots of test data) When coding: - XOJO (of course) - Cornerstone (all my code goes under SVN from the start) - SQLiteManager - cubeSQL ---
**Author:** ![Michel\_Bujardet](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/michel_bujardet/32/252_2.png) [@Michel\_Bujardet](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Michel_Bujardet)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 6:46pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/favorite-tools-that-you-use-in-conjunction-with-xojo/15474/28 "2014-04-04T18:46:08Z")
On Mac Photoshop Elements 12 (for all graphic things) Eddie 2.2 (to edit text files) App Wrapper Mini LibreOffice spreadsheet (for coma separated files) On PC Paint .NET (for all graphic things) Programmer’s Editor (to edit text files) ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Arends](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/dale_arends/32/442_2.png) [@Dale\_Arends](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Dale_Arends)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 6:49pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/favorite-tools-that-you-use-in-conjunction-with-xojo/15474/29 "2014-04-04T18:49:07Z")
On Windows: [Paint.net](http://Paint.net) for graphics SQLite Database Browser for editing databases Other: Door Frame when I write stupid code. ![](http://i1055.photobucket.com/albums/s502/thelizard1/Cartoons/brick-10_zps5023e612.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_Budd](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/paul_budd/32/799_2.png) [@Paul\_Budd](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Paul_Budd)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 7:06pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/favorite-tools-that-you-use-in-conjunction-with-xojo/15474/30 "2014-04-04T19:06:17Z")
Windows XJPrint CodeVue Valentina Studio & Reports Navicat Premium Notepad++ Powerbasic InnoSetup Oracle Virtual Box running Ubuntu for Xojo Linux Mac Navicat Essentials ---
**Author:** ![scott\_boss](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@scott\_boss](https://forum.xojo.com/u/scott_boss)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 7:42pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/favorite-tools-that-you-use-in-conjunction-with-xojo/15474/31 "2014-04-04T19:42:21Z")
[quote=76927:@Dale Arends]Other: Door Frame when I write stupid code. -image-[/quote] that is in every developers toolbox. ---
**Author:** ![DaveS](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@DaveS](https://forum.xojo.com/u/DaveS)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 7:55pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/favorite-tools-that-you-use-in-conjunction-with-xojo/15474/32 "2014-04-04T19:55:42Z")
> [@76952:@scott boss](#): > > that is in every developers toolbox. I carry a brick… more portable… same effect 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kem\_Tekinay](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/kem_tekinay/32/154_2.png) [@Kem\_Tekinay](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Kem_Tekinay)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 7:59pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/favorite-tools-that-you-use-in-conjunction-with-xojo/15474/33 "2014-04-04T19:59:03Z")
BBEdit PCalc Script Debugger (AppleScript) Valentina Studio RegExRX For Windows deployment, InnoSetup. And, naturally, this forum. ---
**Author:** ![Oliver\_Osswald](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/oliver_osswald/32/6972_2.png) [@Oliver\_Osswald](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Oliver_Osswald)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 8:11pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/favorite-tools-that-you-use-in-conjunction-with-xojo/15474/34 "2014-04-04T20:11:04Z")
App Wrapper Dash SQLiteManager cubeSQLAdmin Navicat Premium DBVisualizer InsightDev for Oracle MySQLWorkbench Arbed Script Debugger SmartgitHG 5 Lingua Language Switcher Find Any File FreeWay Pro RapidWeaver Camtasia 2 MP4 Converter FireWorks Balsamiq Mockups TextWrangler Stuffit Destinations Transmit DMG Canvas xScope Safari VMWare Fusion … … and, did I mention: App Wrapper! Love it! ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Rowlands](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/sam_rowlands/32/265_2.png) [@Sam\_Rowlands](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Sam_Rowlands)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 3:41am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/favorite-tools-that-you-use-in-conjunction-with-xojo/15474/35 "2014-04-05T03:41:54Z")
- App Wrapper (why of course I eat my own dog food). - Clipboard History. - Moom (quickly laying out windows side by side). - SQLiteManager. - Xcode (tend to use for prototyping Objective-C code, before conversion to Xojo, also for browsing Apple APIs). - Safari. - Arbed. - Find Any File. - Photoshop CC (for icon and app graphics creation). - A sleuth of unreleased custom built tools. - Quartz Debug. - Quartz Composer (for rapid prototyping of CIKernel code). - Activity Monitor & Console. - Cornerstone (for SVN projects). - Coda 2 (for HTML/PHP work). - TextWrangler (for Markdown work). - PNG Mini (A must have for compressing PNG files in the resources folder). - iTunes and Noise canceling headphones (for blocking out the real world). - Preview (for image format conversion). - AppCleaner (for resetting an application’s settings). - RB App Checker Lite (for detailed checking on App Wrapper’s own code sign engine). - Document Icon Maker (for making…). ---
**Author:** ![Tomas\_J](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/tomas_j/32/311_2.png) [@Tomas\_J](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Tomas_J)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 6:31am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/favorite-tools-that-you-use-in-conjunction-with-xojo/15474/36 "2014-04-05T06:31:20Z")
@Paul Budd: Did I read Powerbasic? Used it decades ago too for DOS. The predecessor Turbo BASIC, was my very 1st Basic Language. I liked it so much cause IDE felt like Turbo Pascal and the Code was much more powerful and readable than Quick Basic in those days 🙂 ahh… drifting away in memories… ---
**Author:** ![Alain\_Bailleul](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/alain_bailleul/32/1370_2.png) [@Alain\_Bailleul](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Alain_Bailleul)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 7:15am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/favorite-tools-that-you-use-in-conjunction-with-xojo/15474/37 "2014-04-05T07:15:38Z")
> [@77029:@Tomas Jakobs](#): > > The predecessor Turbo BASIC, was my very 1st Basic Language. I liked it so much cause IDE felt like Turbo Pascal and the Code was much more powerful and readable than Quick Basic in those days Oh NO, @Tomas Jakobs what have you done? I feel like this could start another war topic on this forum 🙂 My first language was QuickBasic and I loved it! I Programmed a long time in QuickBasic… (as a teenager) _drifting away on memory lane…_ ---
**Author:** ![Vidal\_van\_Bergen](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/vidal_van_bergen/32/594_2.png) [@Vidal\_van\_Bergen](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Vidal_van_Bergen)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 9:34am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/favorite-tools-that-you-use-in-conjunction-with-xojo/15474/38 "2014-04-05T09:34:37Z")
So many interesting tools, i’ll be trying some of them out. 😉 As for some of the tools that I use: The very simple/light-weight color picker for developers called [Colors](http://mattpatenaude.com). [JPEGMini](http://www.jpegmini.com) to compress JPEG files even more then ImageOptim. Thomas’s [Prefs Editor](http://www.tempel.org/PrefsEditor) to securely reset my app’s settings to factory mode while testing. [Dash](http://kapeli.com/dash) for a better Xojo language manual using the docset from [this forum post](https://forum.xojo.com/2812-announcement-offline-xojo-docset-for-dash-mac-only/0). DMG Canvas to package up the app at the end. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_Budd](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/paul_budd/32/799_2.png) [@Paul\_Budd](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Paul_Budd)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 2:10pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/favorite-tools-that-you-use-in-conjunction-with-xojo/15474/39 "2014-04-05T14:10:37Z")
[quote=77029:@Tomas Jakobs]@Paul Budd: Did I read Powerbasic? Used it decades ago too for DOS. The predecessor Turbo BASIC, was my very 1st Basic Language. I liked it so much cause IDE felt like Turbo Pascal and the Code was much more powerful and readable than Quick Basic in those days 🙂 ahh… drifting away in memories…[/quote] You did indeed read correctly. I find it useful for building the odd DLL and specific windows functionality and the like as I predominantly use Windows, but I find XOJO easier to use. The founder of Powerbasic died last year so its been a bit of a transition but its a great compiler. Quickbasic was my first PC based BASIC, still have it around here somewhere. Times have changed so much processor wise that I could probably run it in DoxBox on my android tablet 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Alexander\_van\_der\_Linden](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/alexander_van_der_linden/32/323_2.png) [@Alexander\_van\_der\_Linden](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Alexander_van_der_Linden)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 5:03pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/favorite-tools-that-you-use-in-conjunction-with-xojo/15474/40 "2014-04-05T17:03:33Z")
Well, nobody seems to remember but in those days Nantucket’s Clipper was a landmark. Clipper and the Norton Guides. Ahhhh… Fun. [Previous page](https://forum.xojo.com/t/favorite-tools-that-you-use-in-conjunction-with-xojo/15474.md?page=1) [Next page](https://forum.xojo.com/t/favorite-tools-that-you-use-in-conjunction-with-xojo/15474.md?page=3)