
#Xojo folderitem mac os
But this is only available on Mac OS X.įor professional PDF handling on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux, I recommend the MBS Xojo DynaPDF Plugin. The MBS Xojo MacOSX Plugin gives you CoreGraphics PDF classes for displaying, creating and modifying PDF files. Creating PDFīest you check the article Creating PDF files in the Xojo Developer Magazine. For example you can specify the resolution and the color profile. Also the JPEGExporterMBS class has many more options to save a jpg file. So you can save your JPEG files on Mac, Windows and Linux with any compression level you like. The MBS Xojo JPEG Plugin has a folderitem.SaveAsJPEGMBS function which takes as a parameter the compression quality in percent. Solutions with the MBS Plugins.įor the points above you find below the solutions: Saving JPEG After compiling you can look into the application (on Mac OS X) or into the Libs folder (on Windows) to see which plugins are used. Xojo will only link the plugin code into your application which is needed by your code. You can easily fill your plugins folder with 200 MB of plugin files. With CMYK colors, special compression settings, multiple pictures, custom data fields, color profiles and XMP meta data. A plugin is a code library which gives you new classes, methods and controls in Xojo.įor example the MBS Xojo TIFF Plugin gives you a new TiffPictureMBS class which has all the little options you may need to process tiff files of any kind. To extend Xojo with new features, you can use plugins. How do you render a chart without drawing everything yourself?.How do you get an icon from your application in the top right of the menu bar on Mac OS X?.
#Xojo folderitem movie
Using the Movie class you may want to know the duration of that movie or get a picture at a given position?.But what if you want to do this directly? And use existing PDFs as template? How do you create a PDF? Your user can install on Windows some PDF print driver or on Mac the user can save prints to PDF in the print dialog.What do you do if you need 75% cross platform? The folderitem.SaveAsJPEG method can save you a JPEG, but it will always use 50% for the quality.
#Xojo folderitem how to
Once you learned how to get the code written, you will soon hit some limits. Get the back issues and you have a huge library of articles, tutorials and example code to learn. And you should subscribe to the Xojo Developer Magazine. Next I recommend you check for some books about Xojo. First you may want to learn Xojo by doing the tutorial coming with the Xojo download.
