Introducing Objo Studio

No. Not at the moment. I want to make the desktop experience first class before even considering other platforms.

Any plan to support calling activex files in Windows

You might may want to make X, Mastodon and Bluesky, social media thingies and give people the handle.

And then when you release updates announce it there (in addition to wherever you already announce) and when people put likes on it then that helps spread the word.

@Garry Congratulations! Downloaded Objo and took a brief walk around. Wow! Incredible effort.

Kind regards, Andrew

I’ve seen Einhugur, jleroy Richard and Trisha, Antony… and many more.
Just wanted to mention this. It feels good, kinda lost family members, seen a long time ago, coming together again :wink:

Will add to the website.

X: @ObjoStudio
Mastodon: ObjoStudio@mastodon.social

Can certainly add an entire category here for Objo too

That would be great Norman! A dedicated categorie for Objo will make it easier when having a problem or being stuck.

I downloaded Objo Studio also and it looks promising for the first version.

Thank you for the idea.

why not make it a bit more generic? ā€œAlternative IDE/GUI buildersā€ or some such… Objo could go there, updates on your project, and mine when I get it along more (mine is the least ambitious of them I believe, but still)

Theres no limit on categories & segmenting to be more topic specific would probably be useful

In much the same way Java C# Swift & PHO are separate
No point discussing Swift on the Java category etc

EDIT : - and there it is
New category just for Objo Studio

While Objo is looking like the only alternative to the XoJo stuff there is no way to have this discussion not on it’s own thread in tithes forum. ObJo is looking as it could be the way out of the problems for many users. There are a few CoolAid drinkers which don’t want not native. But for the rest it is no question one of the best alternatives. I hope that the programmers which are bit switching to anything else will start wird objo and stop buying XoJo. Only that will be a solution.

Yes there is NO way to have this discussion on the Xojo forums

Its why these forums were even started so many years ago

That’s what I tried to say. It needs it’s own thread. Beside that while it is not xojo language it is needed that it is for it’s own

Objo could also have a Wikipedia page.

Not a bad idea…

This looks awesome, thank you, Garry!
What is the plan of using version control with something like Git? Can i save in a text format with the full version?

best, Thomas

First I have not done anything beyond starting it up and looking around so i could be missing some things… plus of course I am steeped in the (API 1) Xojo way of doing things.

I can see that is there is a lot here and well done! It’s certainly capable of a lot… though does not have a number of the Xojo niceties (yet) that makes me more efficient, and coding less of a chore for me.

First there does not seem to me a property inspector for controls. One certainly can set them in code in the open event but for me the xojo way is more productive.

I use list boxes a lot in Xojo and very often they are hierarchical. It looks like Objo does not support hierarchical list boxes directly at this time… and if not, will it?

On listboxes in Xojo I tend to use Row and Cell Tags a lot… Particularly for hierarchical listboxes. I know that can be handled other ways but they are very convenient .

I also use the CellBackgoundPaint and CellTextPaint a lot in Xojo And I don’t see them in the list of events. That makes it possible to do a lot of in the Xojo Listbox that would not be possible otherwise.

On Listbox sorting I think the Xojo CompareRows is nicer than handling everything in header pressed and custom sorting… Less work and more approachable for someone new to coding IMO.

BTW besides sorting, in xojo I sometime use the CompareRows event to freeze one or more rows at the top when sorting and it is quick and easy to do that.

I won’t ask for the Objo listbox to support merging cells across rows and columns! :wink:

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He does have TreeView example project.

Ah I did not realize it was it’s own control.

Also are there plans to support any other databases besides SQLite eventually? PostgreSQL would be nice for anything needing to be multiuser, but that might be too big a project to be practical any time soon.