It’s to avoid having them mechanically stressing because of sleeps/wakes. Many times a day, everyday, that’s no good either.
This setting is always discussed at various places and I’ve never seen a definitive answer. My “answer” is that I prefer them to keep running while they’re turned on.
I can’t wait… 
Xojo: API2
Apple: ChatGPT2
Excellently executed on every level, I’d say.
Personal peeve (on every software product): The subscription model. Even though you make it clear that the product will still work after a year, I hate the idea. It’s why I jumped from LiveCode to Xojo, from QT to WX Widgets, from Adobe to Affinity.
It sounds like a very comprehensive, but necessarily narrow, product. For relatively little effort,(compared to what you put into it so far) you could throw in other system diagnostics like the usual CPU utilization, memory, hard drive space remaining, network connections, etc. I know Activity Monitor covers a lot of that, but the idea would be to expand its target demographic. It’s a great idea but it’s on the geeky end. The trouble is, the Mac handles these issues better by itself than Windows. If you could fix power and sleep management issues on the Windows side, I bet that would fill a bigger perceived need.
Speaking of perceived need, I would expand the scope to make it a power management solution rather than just a sleep app. I doesn’t sound like a Herculean effort (again, in comparison with what you’ve done so far), but it adds to the target demographic.
What you said about airportd sucking as much as 30% of the CPU during sleep was a real revelation to me. That might be worth highlighting. Maybe that means a lot to me because I’m a geek, but it was worth reading your initial message just to learn that.
The Mac market for system utilities is different than on Windows (where there is much more of a perceived need because it behaves so inconsistently.
I would echo most of what the other contributors have said, except on the language translation side–as you pointed out about KIA–just about everything we write can mean something else in a different language that may be inappropriate or contain negative connotations. When we meet the Martians, nuclear war could start just because the wrapper on their first Big Mac looks exactly like their one-finger salute.
Good luck with this. It looks like a great app and your site is beautiful, the endless scroll aside (which, as has already been pointed out, is the convention these days).
fritz
Though Xojo is nothing but a disguised subscription model, as they won’t patch the smallest security issues 
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True enough. But Livecode is not Johnny-On-The-Spot in terms of fixes and updates either. And their multi-tiered subscription model makes Oracle’s look elementary. Overall, much greater cost, no performance benefits and they will upcharge you big time for a platform switch Xojo throws in for free (if you have the full package). Granted there are difficulties, but going from Python or Node between platforms is no walk in the part either, especially with database drivers involved. This is where Xojo offers an often large advantage.
Granted I don’t have a lot of Xojo experience, and judging by this forum I will run into roadblocks down the road, but for the simple stuff I’m doing it works well enough for most things and often shines in terms of simplicity of implementation. Besides, I miss VB6 so much this is just the shot of nostalgia I need sometimes.
Please let us know how you’re gonna faire with it.
I know the feeling. I fell for xojo just for that reason. It is a shame that Xojo fail miserably on offering a better product for the millions that liked the VB6 paradigm. And even worse, looking how they want to distance themselves from it with idiotic changes like Var instead of Dim
Yeah. No lie. Fortunately, I use Var in every other language, so what the heck, you get used to it.
Xojo is ‘better’ than VB6 in that I can create a product on Mac and Linux (theoretically on the web, but that seems not to be worth doing). On Windows, I would have rather just used VB6, but of course there is no more VB6, there’s only VB.Net, which, to my mind, is more of a divergence from VB6 (and common sense) than Xojo.
So it’s the better of both worlds, since the other world doesn’t actually exist any more.
I will. Despite the many drawbacks and false moves, it has a lot of potential.
If they would do the needed changes it could be much more successful and not only as VB6 Replacement but as an independent language for cross platform programming. But they dicided not to do that. And there ends it up. All the potential is worthless when you have no chance for reliability in your work.
I certainly think they could improve things immensely with a few changes–especially on the web side where they have real competition. When I think of the limitations, however, I also have to consider how long it’s taken Python to come up with a real compiler, how long it’s taken Electron to ditch the Chromium baggage (ditto NW,js). Imagine having a team of engineers who can easily fill a small room and just having to deal with the IOS changes for one year. That’s a career by itself. So I try to look at it from that side. I’ve only had a license for a year (I’m not renewing this year) so my perspective is not vast. Obviously, some of you guys are better able to judge how short the Xojo team has fallen over the last five or ten years.
Thank you.
I’m not particularly keen on that model either, but need to adapt or die. In reality the Mac software industry has tanked massively under Cook’s guidance. 50% of Mac users won’t download apps from outside the Mac App Store. To make it worse, is you need to use outside promotion to drive traffic to the App Store, and that’s if they’ll let your in. Neither App Wrapper or Sleep Aid are permitted in the App Store because they both require functionality that Apple prohibit. Not to mention that people expect App Store apps to be dirt cheap, and Apple push for actual subscriptions.
Simply focusing on improving Mac sleep, still has a long way to go. The process is undocumented, and TBH I’m considering re-writing my whole tracker as I can see flaws in my current design.
As for competing with other apps that do entire system management, there’s a couple of problems I have with that direction. The least is that I worked with a couple of developers who build apps to do this, to help refine some of the stuff in Sleep Aid. So I feel if I now compete with them, it feels wrong. However I do appreciate the suggestion to open it up to a wider audience.
Funny you should say this as Microsoft have a sleep diagnosis tool already, yeah, it’s just not well known at all. Apple on the other hand, keep the whole process a black box.
Thank you.
I might consider options for breaking it into multiple pages, but we’ll see. I am hoping to make it public this coming week.
That is part of the problem, they’ve pretty much ignored the macOS changes for the last decade (in some aspects two decades), iOS, Windows changes as well. It’s frustrating because it feels like they didn’t even try to keep up. There are so many things in their Mac framework which don’t work correctly anymore, the longer they leave it, the more it becomes useless.
Yes, and because they’re hiding these facts, they’re now saying they’re doing “low code”. Their strategy is so obvious, but doesn’t make it any cleverer .
They’ve redefined “RAD” as “low code”, just to be buzzword-compliant. 
How ever they try to define what Xojo is: xojo is an ibject oriented programming language and IDE and not NoCode, not LowCode and not RAD. That all Xojo is only when people try to define it so but not while it is so. Xojo is what it is. Not what they want that it is.
Would “not to code with” be an acceptable compromise?
Not a compromise but an appropriate warning.
True, one can even buy Pro for that feature w/o any risk, other than screwing up their budget.
I agree that it’s not NoCode or LowCode, but I’m pretty sure it falls into the RAD category. Well it does for me, anyway.
I don’t know. I’ll give it RAD, but it’s definitely not Low-Code with the amount of #if TargetPlatform I have to do to make a decent xplat app.
Yes Timmi, that’s definitely true. Looking from Java the amount of work on the Xojo Code to get a decent Xplat is…