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Detecting UI Compatibility Mode in macOS Apps with Xojo

As you may already know, starting with Xojo 2025r3, macOS apps can be developed and compiled with UI Compatibility Mode either enabled or disabled. Now imagine you are creating a Library intended for use in other projects and, as part of its UI-related functionality, the Library needs to determine whether the host application is running with UI Compatibility Mode enabled. How...


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Optimizing Xojo Code, Part 3: Programmatic Timers and AddHandler

In Part 1 of this Optimizing Xojo Code series, we looked at a working but discouraged approach using a tight loop with DoEvents to keep the UI from freezing. In 


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When Doing More Is Faster: A Curious Xojo Performance Test

I ran across something recently that had me truly scratching my head. My goal was to measure how much extra time it would take for some additional functionality I wished to add to a project. The initial code was performing a query on a table in a database and then looping through the RowSet returned to populate five columns of a DesktopListBox with each row from the RowSet. I...


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Community Contributions to the Xojo Blog: Spotlight On & Guest Posts in 2025

Besides being a great resource for everything from Xojo code tips and snippets to videos that show you cool things, plus news and announcements, the Xojo Blog also strives to build community among the wide range of people who use Xojo around the world. We welcome guest bloggers from the Xojo community and highlight the many different ways people use Xojo through our Spotlight...


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Tip: Customize Toolbars on macOS apps

Starting with Xojo 2025r3, macOS apps are built using macOS SDK 26. One benefit of this is that your apps automatically gain access to newer native macOS features with little or no extra work. In some cases, these features are available immediately; in others, they can be enabled with a simple Declare. One such example is allowing users to customize an app’s toolbar.

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