XDC2022 Open Conversation - Day 1

[KarenA]

4 Questions about the Grid control:

1. Can it be hierarchical
2. Can rows be different heights
3. Are there any restrictions on which controls can go into a row
4. Do all cells in each row have to be the same width

-Karen

[KarenA]

@anon20074439

Is that 2 weeks per major release? So 2 weeks every 4-6 months at the current release schedule?

I would like it to be half the cycle at least for a couple of years…

-Karen

[Thom_McGrath]

We were talking about Git integration when I was working there, so don’t hold your breath. I’d love to see progress on this front though.

[Torsten_Bernhard]

In the keynote there wasn’t mentioning of the new documentation and issues users are having with it. Any chance this will be addressed in a session?

[Rick_Araujo]

@Kem_Tekinay

For example, “Cario/Pango” on Linux for graphics.

Cairo and Pango

Cairo is a Vector Graphics Library, and Pango is a Text drawing/render and layout lib that can use Cairo as its render backend.

[Kem_Tekinay]

A “cycle” is a major release. So 2022r1 is one cycle, 2022r2 is the next cycle.

[Kem_Tekinay]

@Jim_Meyer has started his talk on machine learning.

[Kem_Tekinay]

I’ll be skipping the next sessions to prepare for my own presentation, so hopefully someone else will be able to post updates.

[Kem_Tekinay]

Those upcoming sessions:

• ABCs of Android and Xojo - Travis Hill
• PowerXS - Marc Zeedar

[Kem_Tekinay]

Jim is wrapping up with questions now.

[Christian_Schmitz]

Travis talks about Android.

[Christian_Schmitz]

lists framework classes supported (but there are more, which are not listed)

[Christian_Schmitz]

already 50 examples

Now Travis shows how to use the same Xojo code in Desktop, Web, iOS and Android to work with folderitem, create a SQLite database, inserts a record and queries it back to show the text in a label.

No release date. Still fixing bugs, before releasing.
And initial no plugins.

[Kem_Tekinay]

I just finished my presentation which, it goes without saying, was the best one anyone’s seen in the last 5 years and, modestly, probably in the top three of all time.

I mean, MemoryBlocks, how could it not be?!?

Moving on, Geoff is now talking about Building Data Processing Tools while @Ricardo_Cruz discusses WedSDK next door.

[Christian_Schmitz]

Some pictures

and

[Bob_Keeney3 (Bob Keeney)]

@KarenA

4 Questions about the Grid control:

1. Can it be hierarchical
2. Can rows be different heights
3. Are there any restrictions on which controls can go into a row
4. Do all cells in each row have to be the same width

-Karen

5. How is performance for 100, 1k,10k, and 100k rows?
6. Can individual rows have a different container? In the example all cells in the grid have the exact same layout.

[Kem_Tekinay]

The answer to the last, at least, is yes.

[Geoff_H1 (Geoff H)]

Thank you so much for taking the time to post all these pictures today!

[Thom_McGrath]

@Kem_Tekinay

New UI controls: Eg., Popover, Sidebar

Can somebody ask about cross platform support for these? Obviously there isn’t a native popover for Windows and Linux, but what happens on those platforms?

[Martin_T]

@Thom_McGrath

Can somebody ask about cross platform support for these? Obviously there isn’t a native popover for Windows and Linux, but what happens on those platforms?

Linux has Popover Support (Gtk.Popover).