[quote=89083:@Wayne Golding]Quite by accident today I discovered + M extends the current line to a new line in the code editor. Is this a windows only shortcut?
BTW not mentioned at http://documentation.xojo.com/index.php/Keyboard_Shortcuts [/quote]
Certainly because cmd-m is taken by OS X.
Ctrl-M is chr(13) : Return 
Yes but neither the Enter Or Return key do this only + M. In RS the enter key on the numeric keypad would do this.
The mysteries of the IDE…
Never upload your freshly build web app with an FTP client set to transfer in ASCII mode only. Your hair doesn’t deserve it…
Thanks. This works on my Windows system and it should come in handy at some point.
Time to revive this conversation 
Today I learnt after years of Xojo that the position inputs in the inspector are calculators. To calculate the top of the next row on the screen you can enter the top of the previous row, the height of the control and the gap e.g.
145+22+5. After tabbing off or pressing enter the new top is visible and set.
Thanks Xojo
That’s at least half a dozen years old if not more. Very practical.
Where is it in the documentation ?
@Beatrix Willius if you knew this one for years already, can you give us some more ?
Ah, the joy of undocumented features …
@Joost Rongen: I’d do that if I knew what you don’t know.
On page 77 from the Realbasic User’s Guide of Februari 2004 you can find the following explanation:
Numeric
Properties
If the property you want to set is numeric such as the Left, Top, Width, or
Height properties or the number of columns in a ListBox you can either enter a
number or an expression that evaluates to a number.
If you want to enter an expression, your available operators are: +, -, , /, \ (integer
division), % (mod), and ^ (power). You can also use parentheses to control the order
in which subexpressions are evaluated. You can also use references to property values
by name, allowing you to write expressions such as Top2 or Width+Left.
If an expression is invalid on its own, the current value of that property will be
prepended; this allows you to (for example) enter *2 as a handy shortcut for
doubling the current value when multiple objects are selected. To add a value to the
current value, use + +value. For example, to add 10 use + + 10, since +10 will
be treated as 10.
And the same text you can find on page 127 of the REALbasic Users Guide of februari 2010.
I am pretty sure that this option was already available in older versions of REALbasic.
Nothing newer like 2015 releases ?
I have tried in the new usersguide, but as usual i couldn’t find anything about this subject although i searched much longer in the new one than in both old userguides together. And the oldest from 2004 was a paper one, so no assistence from the computer.
Personally i never use the new ones, they are too cumbersome to search/find anything and the format in landscape prohibits the use next to the IDE. Besides that you always have to search 4 books.
There is a single PDF version of the User Guide you can download from here: Single PDF User Guide
I was not aware of this feature Wayne just described, so I don’t suspect it’s in the User Guide. I also have the relevant text on page 126 of my printed 2010 REALbasic User’s Guide, so I’ll get it added.
Hi Paul,
If you are working on the Userguide, please add a table of content and an index table, otherwise searching will still be horrible.
And if possible abondon that landscape format, it’s unusable in printed form and on the screen. I had printed them all but threw them all away because using them i needed an extra meter desk and a bike to move along it otherwise i couldn’t read it.
BTW, if you need the 2010 Userguide in pdf-form i could mail it to you if you want.
Alas, the landscape format is forced by iBooks Author.
However, I am moving the User Guide over to the Dev Center. This will allow the searching to be integrated into the main Dev Center search and will allow for standard portrait PDFs that are printable. There will also be other layout and content updates.
I was able to find a PDF copy in an archive folder, but thanks.
Thanks Paul, i cann’t wait to see the new Userguide.
And if you add this option to the Userguide i think you should emphasize that it is a single pre-compile time evaluation of the expression. That remark i was missing in the old Userguide.
Paul, I noticed today that searching a class with its namespace does not work in the Dev Center. Should not “Xojo.Core.Timer” lead directly to the new framework timer page, instead of release notes ?