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The World of Xojo Open-Source Projects

Xojo thoughts, news, and tips

Issue: 23.5 (September/October 2025)
Author: Paul Lefebvre
Author Bio: Paul Lefebvre is a Xojo Software Engineer. He has been using Xojo and its prior versions since 2001.
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One of the first ways I learned to program in BASIC, way back in the Paleozoic, was by reading through, typing in, running, and modifying program listings from magazines. Although magazines such as xDev includes code snippets in articles, it doesn't really make much sense to include the code for an entire project.

So where can you get sample code to read, run, and modify to either learn from or use in your own projects? There is no shortage of available Xojo code, and a couple of great places to find code are the Xojo Examples that are accessible from the Xojo IDE itself and open-source projects that are published on the web.

Xojo Example Projects

There are a lot of sample projects included with Xojo and accessible from the Project Chooser window. A quick count of what is in the repository puts the number at 429. That's a lot!

In the Project Chooser window, these examples are organized into several folders, which you can expand as you look around (see Figure 1). To make it even easier to find what you need, you can use the search field at the top, which will show you examples that contain the text in either the name or its related metadata, such as the description (see Figure 2).

Select an example and click the Choose button to open it in Xojo. You can then run it to see how it works, review the code, and save it to a local file if you want.

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