Xojo · macOS

VDS Tools

Give your Xojo apps the native macOS window chrome, toolbar and controls — in pure Xojo, with no plugin and no external framework.

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Complete documentation

A developer reference in French and English, with 58 documented pitfalls: symptom, cause, fix.
A living demo

34 example pages with the code shown in the inspector, plus a window dedicated to the 28 placeable controls.
Free inside the IDE

No licence check while debugging. An app built without a licence still works, with a watermark.

101 classes, one goal

Xojo gives you no access to NSToolbar, NSSplitViewController, the source-list sidebar, rich-cell tables or window tabs. VDS Tools fills that gap with plain Declare statements: no plugin, no compiled Objective-C.

3 classes

Window

NSSplitViewController window chrome, tabs, window behavior

3 classes

Sidebar

Flat or hierarchical sidebar, source-list style

7 classes

Toolbar

NSToolbar and all its item types, customization included

27 classes

Controls

One AppKit control per class, from buttons to the rich-text editor

28 classes

GUI Elements

Controls you drop in the Xojo IDE

9 classes

Surfaces

Popover, alert, rich menus, vibrancy, frames, 3D

2 classes

Layout

NSGridView and NSStackView: no more coordinates

17 classes

System

Menu bar, file panels, QuickLook, Dock, haptics, Finder

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Complete documentation

A developer reference in French and English, with 58 documented pitfalls: symptom, cause, fix.

A living demo

34 example pages with the code shown in the inspector, plus a window dedicated to the 28 placeable controls.

Free inside the IDE

No licence check while debugging. An app built without a licence still works, with a watermark.

Requirements and licence

macOS — macOS 15 and later
Xojo — Xojo 2026r2 project; minimum IDE 2021r3
Licence — Two options: the library alone, or source-code access

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