XojoDeprecated

Search for Deprecated Commands and Their Replacements

A Tool to Find Old and New Names for Xojo Commands

API 2.0 brought changes to the names of many Xojo commands. This can cause confusion: which is the new name and which is the old name for a given command? Effective searching of the official documentation is often facilitated by knowing the correct version of a command name upfront.

XojoDeprecated is a utility that allows you to search for these recently deprecated commands using any "word" within them. Xojo commands are written in CamelCase — effectively concatenated words — and XojoDeprecated lets you search on any of those individual words.

The application opens with a window containing three list boxes. The top one shows all recently deprecated commands alongside their modern equivalents. The middle list box shows the result of filtering the upper list by the search words you type. The bottom list box contains commands that have been removed or deprecated in the more distant past without a specific replacement.

The program opens in the state shown below. No filtering words have been provided, so the middle list box is empty.

The second image shows the state after the word "handle" has been typed into the search box. The middle list box now shows all commands — old or new — that contain this word.

Update · 08/14/22

The version introduced on 08/14/22 added the ability to change the viewing window so that the bottom list box is removed and the middle one expanded. Click the Elephant button to toggle this. The application now runs on macOS Mojave as well as more recent versions. Numerous bug fixes were implemented.

That is really all there is to it. Buttons with question marks are scattered around the window; clicking them brings up relevant information and serves as a minimal manual for what is a very simple program.