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David Cox

Creating a Picture Grid Control for Desktop and Web

Displaying data in Xojo is easy with built-in features such as TextField, TextArea and ListBox. Pictures are often a more attractive and intuitive way to present information, but the built-in controls cannot easily display a grid of pictures similar to how you might see with Finder (Mac) or Explorer (Windows). Watch David show you how to build a flexible custom control that can display a selectable grid of images with many other features such as text titles, scrolling, resizing, fit and flow.

About David
David Cox was born in Melbourne, Australia, but grew up in Sydney. As the earth was tilting dangerously on its axis due to an excess of poms moving to Oz, in his forties he moved his wife and three children to the UK midlands. He has been using Xojo since the early 2000s. While originally used to develop tools to clean data before importing into a desktop CRM, this has expanded to around 20 submissions to the MAS and Windows Store. Often working in solutions that involve both desktop and web components, he loves the challenge that Xojo provides.

An interesting fact/hobby/interest that others may not know about you.
I used to collect matchboxes/matchbooks from around the world. I had to dispose of the matches since they took up too much space.

Favorite TV show, band, and/or movie?
The Grinch (Jim Carrey) is vastly underrated in terms of quotable movie lines for life’s situations.

If you could survive on only one food or meal for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Beef Carbonara with flat pasta noodles. Pineapple donuts for dessert.