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Issue: 14.1 (January/February 2016)
Author: Marc Zeedar
Author Bio: Marc taught himself programming in high school when he bought his first computer but had no money for software. He's had fun learning ever since.
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If you've been hesitant about exploring Xojo's new framework (Everything's changed! Help!) then today's lesson should be helpful. We're going to look at the new Date object, which is a great way to dip our toes in the new framework without being overwhelmed.
Trust me. The water's not as cold as it looks!
The New Framework
Before we begin, you might be wondering what "the new framework" means. It can be confusing, so here's a quick explanation if you haven't read anything about it before.
The "new framework" is just a way of Xojo incorporating new commands and data types in its language. New stuff is great, but the problem is that we don't want our existing code to break. If Xojo were to say, give us a better Listbox control with new features, we'd be excited... until we found out that all our existing code doesn't work any more because the Listbox control doesn't work the same way any more.
Adding a brand new Listbox control is one solution—say
NewListBox—but boy, that gets old quickly if dozens of controls get updated.
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