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by sdawilson
Thu Feb 09, 2023 10:05 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Xojo Developers
Replies: 18
Views: 5302

Re: Xojo Developers

Our team is migrating old MS Access / Excel apps for UK government departments (too many to mention), we tried XOJO for a while (the last version was 2021r1) and on the whole, we liked it. Coming from VB6 and VBA, it wasn't too hard to transition. XOJO has pretty slick database handling and tight ...
by sdawilson
Mon Aug 08, 2022 8:51 am
Forum: Feature Requests and Wishlists
Topic: ODBC dsn-less connection
Replies: 0
Views: 1019

ODBC dsn-less connection

Hi,

Would it be possible to create a "connection" object, similar to DAO and ADO for ODBC connections? I've found code the provides something similar, but it falls over more often than it succeeds. I'm currently porting old VB code to PB and this has become a nightmare. Slick database handling is ...
by sdawilson
Mon Nov 15, 2021 6:52 pm
Forum: Coding Questions
Topic: Horizontal Alignment in StringGadget
Replies: 13
Views: 3040

Re: Horizontal Alignment in StringGadget

Thank you to you all on helping me on this topic. It's very generous of you all to spare the time. This is really useful.
by sdawilson
Sat Nov 13, 2021 8:25 pm
Forum: Coding Questions
Topic: Horizontal Alignment in StringGadget
Replies: 13
Views: 3040

Re: Horizontal Alignment in StringGadget

Thank you so much... That works perfectly. Out of curiosity, why isn't it official? It seems to be a fairly basic property.
by sdawilson
Sat Nov 13, 2021 6:34 pm
Forum: Coding Questions
Topic: Horizontal Alignment in StringGadget
Replies: 13
Views: 3040

Horizontal Alignment in StringGadget

I've been searching the forum for how to do this (sorry I'm still learning PB). I've come from VBA, so I'm used to simply setting the textalign property of a textbox to left , centre , right or justify . I can't find how to do this in PB. Have I missed something? Any help would be greatly ...