I have gone through the Tutorial 5 time starting from the beginning. thinking I must have done something wrong .
Every time at the point it say to run the program, it come up with 30 to 40 errors .. so I try again … same thing !
I think there must be changes with 2026.1.1 ??
both the youtube video and the turorial are several years old … or am I just doing something wrong?
You shouldn’t be having so much trouble.
XOJO is very stable, and most of the time, you can see why errors occur.
Start by posting the error(s) so the forum can see them and suggest changes.
You probably need to add some database plugins.
Also: no. These days it’s way easier to let Codex/Claude Code have a go at that. Ask for explanations and understand the code. I’m a hobbyist gardener and need to plan propagation for a lot of plants this year. I got a nice little app in about a day with Codex. Even if you are not into AI writing some SQL on your own isn’t that hard.
You seem to have duplicated some things from dbkit ! Could you share something ?
It is not worth continuing the thread …. after starting from scratch 4 to 5 time, I have given up in using dbKit …. it is a lost cause !
I don’t know if it that I am using linux or the 26.1.1 has change things so it does not work.
I will just Write the code myself …. I do like Xojo and will continue with It.
I haven’t used dbkit, but from what I read from time to time, it is a beta software that sometimes a new version of Xojo is needed to use the latest features.
Not sure what is the last available version but there was a plan to have a big upgrade after beta 19:
Maybe you can’t follow old tutorials/videos with the latest version available and that may be the problem, but I’m not sure.
I think your are correct … the first thing I encountered … I was unable to copy dbKit from the demo app and paste it into my program program, I had to export it and then import it into my program.
I am NOW watching a video from the latest conference in Europe and he is announcing DBKit version 2…. but it will be a long time before I try it again, after spending a week trying to use it/
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In a short test on linux ubuntu arm vm on macOS with latest xojo using DBKit-Desktop-Sample, i see issues with ODBCDatabase. Looks like the plugin is not loaded correctly. Even after installing ODBC-libraries on Linux with
sudo apt install libodbc2
But i do not see the errors you posted, may try the DBKit-Sample Apps first.
the sample app works just fine …. it seems to be the tutorials that do not match the current version
Looks like DBKit is conflicting with something in your project.
What do you mean? Could you clarify? What differences are you seeing in the tutorial versus the current version?
I really think that DBKit is conflicting with something in your project. That’s the issue. I can help you figure that out if you’d like.
I do not have a project … just going through the demo .. both from the manual and your viedo
First problem I had was that the DBKit would not copy and paste into the NEW project, as described in the demo video and manual demo. I had to export dbKit from the program in the examples and import it into the NEW Program then I preceded through the demo till it said to run … that is when the error list came up.
Linux LMDE , Gnome ,Wayland . I could try it with Xorg it you think that would make a difference, or with XFCE , or Mate .
I just tryed it with Cinniman and I was able to drag both dbKit and icons to a new app and will proced with the demo and see if that makes a differance
it seems that since the tutorials were made several of the names of the methods have been changed
Connection I think has changed to “TableConnection” … and several others .
I am trying to learn enough to figure out the others … but not having much success 
Maybe you can help with that …
I’m message you privately so we can discuss this further.
I finally got dbKit working … so to answer my original question … Yes it is worth learning.
do not use the video on youtube … it is out of date … use the written tutorial in the manual.
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Xojo should take the video down and replacement with a current one.
I’m glad that you are happy with it but I don’t think many new users will spend all the time you took figuring out what was wrong, and give up on it.
The information available, including official YouTube video, should make it easy for new users to test dbkit.
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I did give up several times, But I went back because I wanted to learn how to use it.
I really is not that difficult, once you get a few of the concepts. I believe the the next release will be much better … According to Geoff Perlman in the video above.