[NUG] API 2.0

[Jon Ogden]

> On Mar 13, 2019, at 2:40 PM, npalardy at airenet.com wrote:
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>> On Mar 13, 2019, at 1:36 PM, Jon Ogden via Nug <nug at xojousers.com> wrote:
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>> Most of the Xojo framework will be set aside AFAIK. Auto is deprecated and Variants are back. Like you said Text is deemphasized. Xojo.Net.HttpSocket has been replaced by URLConnection. Etc. 
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> URL connection IS just Xojo.Net.HTTPSocket with  some bug fixes & tweaks
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Yes, but I idon’thave to call Xojo.Net and the Xojo.Net socket needed to read stuff from a memory block or something.  It was a pain if I remember right.


> Strings will still have the dual behaviour BUT for textual data will basically be what Text was - just accessed using "string" apis and methods
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> There are a lot of good things in the "new framework" and where possible they'll be moved to be the new underpinnings of the the framework 
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I agree.  But some things like Xojo.Timer.CallLater have some serious bugs that would suddenly pop up and cause crashes (particularly an iterating over a dictionary error).  Then other things like the Xojo.Net.TCPSockets were half developed.  Never had a .listen method.  Again had to read into a memory block.

I went and started to move things to Auto and Text and now regret it.  A pain to change it back.  I’ve been burned multiple times by the ToText method where I have data in a string that doesn’t translate to Text and an exception gets thrown.