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PasswordTool 1.1.4

PasswordTool is a simple application that quickly and easily generates random passwords. Also you can doubleclick a password to show the MD5, SHA1, SHA256 and SHA512 hashes.



New: Improves compatibility with the current operating system version.
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Practicum 1.6.0 released

New
  • Tidier user interface (navigation menu, system settings, action buttons, list navigation, file upload)
  • Possibility to reset the password via email (if an SMTP server has been configured)
  • Better performance of the program with many parallel accesses
  • Improved information when filtering inventory items by status
  • English localization of the program
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Tutorial: Controlling RGB LED with Arduino and Xojo

Today we control an RGB-LED with Arduino and Xojo:

- First, you need to build the circuitry as shown in the picture below.
Sketch_RGB_LED_bb

- Donwload the required Arduino and Xojo project files here (https://no516.com/dl/Control_RGB_Led.zip).
- Unzip the donwloaded project files.
- Connect the Arduino to your computer using an USB cable.
- Open the Arduino project file in the Arduino IDE and upload the project to the Arduino board.
- Open the Xojo project file and run the project in the Xojo IDE.
- When the application starts, you have to connect to correct the serial port (select the port from the popup menu and press the „Connect“ button)
- Now you can control the different colors of the RGB-LED with the three silders.

Screenshot_Control_RGB_LED
To control the RGB-LED we simply call the folowing code whenever one of the three sliders gets moved:

SerialController.Write("<"+ Str(Slider_Red.Value) + "," + Str(Slider_Green.Value) + "," + Str(Slider_Blue.Value) + ">")

Note that we use the “<“ and “>” symbols as start an end markers for the command that we send to the Arduino board. This is how the Arduino will know where a command begins and ends. The values of the sliders are separated by commas. On the Arduino board we use special code to parse the received message.

Tutorial: Controlling LED with Arduino and Xojo

It is quite easy to contral 3 LEDs with Arduino and Xojo:

- First, you need to build the circuitry as shown in the picture below.
Sketch_Arduino_3_LED_bb
- Donwload the required Arduino and Xojo project files here (https://no516.com/dl/Control_Led.zip).
- Unzip the donwloaded project files.
- Connect the Arduino to your computer using an USB cable.
- Open the Arduino project file in the Arduino IDE and upload the project to the Arduino board.
- Open the Xojo project file and run the project in the Xojo IDE.
- When the application starts, you have to connect to correct the serial port (select the port from the popup menu and press the „Connect“ button)
- Now you can enable the red, yellow and green LED (or turn them all off) by pressing the corresponding button.
Screenshot_Control_LED
To enable the red LED we simply need to put this code in the „Action“-event of the button with caption „RED“:

SerialController.Write("r")

This command will send a single character through the serial port to the Arduino board.

To enable the yellow or green LED we use:

SerialController.Write(“y”)
or
SerialController.Write(“g”)

To turn all three LEDs off, we send the chracter „o“:

SerialController.Write(“o”)


Just Code Challenge winner!

This year I took part in the „Just Code Challenge“ organized by Xojo (https://www.xojo.com) and won :-)

More information about the challenge here:
https://blog.xojo.com/2018/06/18/jump-right-in-just-code-challenge/

and the winners here:
https://forum.xojo.com/50192-just-code-challenge-winners

Thanks to the Xojo-team for the great opportunity and the great prices!