.
Friday 18 May 2012 at 6:44 pm
New in this prerelease of the 12.3 plugins:
- Added drawFocusRingMask and focusRingMaskBounds events to CustomNSViewMBS class.
- Changed functions for printing htmlviewer/webview on Mac to not reset page settings too often.
- Updated DynaPDF to version 3.0.15.39.
- Modernized WinSpeechMBS class.
- Added GetDriveTypeMBS function for Windows.
- Added description method to ABMultiValueMBS, ABSearchElementMBS and ABRecordMBS classes.
- Added groupForName and peopleForEmail functions to ABAddressBookMBS class.
- Changed Length and Time properties to be Int64 in VLCMediaPlayerMBS class.
- Added VLCMediaTrackInfoMBS.CodecString.
- Added drawFocusRingMask, focusRingMaskBounds and noteFocusRingMaskChanged methods to NSViewMBS class.
- Fixed events on NSTextFieldMBS class. They now work again.
Download:
macsw.de/plugin/Prerelease
Friday 18 May 2012 at 4:45 pm
New in this prerelease of the 2.8 plugins:
- Fixed crash with Path.FilemakerPathToNativePath on Windows.
- Added Files.CopyFile, Files.MoveFile and Files.MoveToTrash.
- Fixed bug on Mac in Webviewer callback handler. Please check that your projects will work.
Download later today at
monkeybreadsoftware.de/filemaker/files/
Friday 18 May 2012 at 12:43 pm
A couple of users are receiving notifications this month about their DynaPDF license expiring. While you can continue to use old plugin with old license, we ask everyone to order an update to benefit from new features and bug fixes in the future. To give you an idea what changed over the last year in DynaPDF, here is an overview:
The rasterizer got updated regularly to better handle all the PDF features. We want to provide a robust PDF reader which can read all the broken PDF files you may find on users computers. With the addition of functions like RenderPDFFile, RenderPageToImage and AddRasImage, we made it much simpler to render directly into a jpeg, tiff or png file. This is very useful for best performance in Web Edition applications. Of course you can still render into pictures in memory or to memory blocks.
A few features have been added to the rasterizer over time to complete PDF render features. This includes soft masks, transparency groups, blend modes, axial shadings, shading and tiling patterns, vertical text writing mode and much more. Also the rasterizer engine got a couple of optimizations, especially with clipping. And you can run the raster process in a working thread and receive updates on progress to show PDF while rendering it.
DynaPDF now has Color Matching. This is used for rasterization so we can color match RGB, CMYK, Gray and Lab colors to RGB for displaying on screen.
DynaPDF got support for huge PDFs. It can read PDFs larger than 2 GB and output PDFs at a maximum size of 4 GB. Of course we have a couple of functions to keep memory usage low as such big files won't fit into memory. You can import PDF files with using proxies, so we do not load PDF data in memory until we need it. Also with using UserUnit functions you can create even larger PDFs in page size by changing pixel grid.
For the general PDF library, we got a couple of new functions like inserting bookmarks. Font handling has been improved to work with more fonts including old style resource fork Mac fonts and CID Fonts. Also there is now a JBIG Decoder, a lossless image compression standard.
Wednesday 16 May 2012 at 9:30 pm
New in this prerelease of the 12.3 plugins:
- Updated DynaPDF to version 3.0.15.38.
Download:
macsw.de/plugin/Prerelease
Wednesday 16 May 2012 at 3:24 pm
With our MBS FIlemaker plugin we have CURL functions which can do various network things. One of them is to send requests to a web service. Now it can be a little bit tricky to get this done in a Filemaker script, so we made an example for one service:
The
CDYNE Weather is a free SOAP Web Service that provides you with up to date weather information in the United States. This information is derived from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Weather service into a clean and easy to parse XML format.
The WSDL describes the functions and you can read it
here. Looking at the
GetCityWeatherByZIP function you see exactly what XML you need to send and what you receive as answer.
With MBS Plugin, we start a new CURL session. We set various options to turn it into a HTTP POST request to our web service URL. We also need to specify a few header fields for SOAP Action and content type. Than we send request. From the answer, we parse the field values and apply them to our fields.
You can see the example database here:
WeatherWebService.fp7.zip
If you have a question, please do not hesitate to ask us.
Wednesday 16 May 2012 at 12:30 pm
NICKENICH, Germany (May 16th, 2012) -- Monkeybread Software releases version 12.2 of the MBS plug-in for Real Studio.
The MBS plug-in comprises a collection of several plug-in parts which extend the Real Studio development environment with 1,500 classes featuring over 41,000 documented functions. Our plugins support all three platforms Mac OS X, Windows and Linux with all project types desktop, web and console.
Some of the highlights on the 12.2 update:
With the new VLC Plugin part, you can now use the VLC libraries from the famous VLC application and play video with them. This gives you nice cross platform video playback on Mac, Windows and Linux. Also you can use it to create thumbnails or extract frames.
For Windows we added a class WinUSBMBS to talk to the winusb.dll in order to control USB devices. For HID devices, you can still use our WinHIDMBS class, but the new USB class is more general for any kind of device.
We improved our security related functions and added new SHA-512 class.
For Mac we added more Cocoa controls like date picker and level indicator. Also we improved our NSGraphicsMBS class.
New functions on the htmlviewer help to query current html code when you turn htmlviewer into editable mode. Users can change a html document there like in an editor and you receive modified html code. Also we added support functions to apply CSS style and insert text.
Finally we updated DynaPDF to version 3.0.15.37 and libXL to version 3.2.4.
See
release notes for a complete list of changes.
If you have questions, please don't hesitate to contact us. Also you can ask questions at Real World in Orlando next week.
Tuesday 15 May 2012 at 5:58 pm
New in this prerelease of the 12.2 plugins:
- Added more NSImageMBS methods.
- Added DynaPDFMBS.GetMissingGlyphsString function.
- Fixed LineMBS control to show color on Cocoa target, too.
- Added OptionTCPKeepAlive, OptionTCPKeepIdle and OptionTCPKeepIntervalto properties to CURL classes.
- Added a lot of new methods to WebViewMBS class related to editing a webpage.
- Updated LibXl to version 3.2.4
- Added new functions AddrToRowCol, GetTopLeftView, RowColToAddr, SetTopLeftView to XLSheetMBS class.
Download:
macsw.de/plugin
Monday 14 May 2012 at 8:21 pm
Did you know that Fedex has a web service?
You can integrate your application directly with the
Fedex web services and for example register packages for pick up with them.
So the good thing is that you can take their WSDL and send it through our SOAP Kit Utility. It generates the classes required and you can easily talk to their web service by calling some new methods generated by our utility app.
You can of course do the same with building the SOAP requests and parsing the replies yourself. For sending/receiving you can use our CURL plugin functions or simply a HTTPSocket.
Sunday 13 May 2012 at 12:32 pm
I just signed up as gold sponsor for the conference. So if you come to Salzburg for this conference, it would be nice to meet you and talk about plugins with Filemaker.
For more details, please check the
filemaker-konferenz.de website.
Saturday 12 May 2012 at 11:59 am
I hope I have them all here:
Please join a group near you, so you can talk to other Real Studio developers.
Friday 11 May 2012 at 10:12 pm
We had a nice meeting here in Wiesbaden with the Rhein-Main Real Studio group. Everyone told what he does with Real Studio and also we did a little bit of coding on the big screen. Exchanging ideas and showing solutions to problems in the group is really a benefit for everyone. Next time we'll take a deep look at a few of the user solutions.
If you like to join the group, please visit the
group website and take part in the discussion.
Also check the other german groups for
Hamburg,
Munich,
Baden Wurtemberg,
Vienna,
Switzerland,
Berlin and
Leipzig.
Friday 11 May 2012 at 1:17 pm
Browsers store cookies for websites, so they identify you. Looking in a typical browser's cookie list, you see thousands of them. So either you don't care for that or you manage it. I now got the Cookies app from Mac app store. What you can do is to mark important cookies from websites where you want to have auto login enabled to be your favorites. And for all other cookies, you set: delete them on browser quit. This way all the advertisement tracking stops working.
Well, on our own website, over the years I tried clustrmap and google analytics to learn about who visits the website. I stopped clustrmap yesterday. I disabled google analytics last year, but finally I deleted last scripts from them, too. Our websites still have the website chat, which we may reduce so it does not set a cookie unless you use it. Especially as there are privacies laws coming to European union which may require us to make cookies an opt-in or opt-out thing.
Wednesday 09 May 2012 at 12:46 pm
Real Studio
6th June 2012, 19:30 o'clock, Block House Othmarschen, See
website
Filemaker
7th June 2012, 19 o'clock Block House Wandsbeck. See
website
If you are interested in an extra meeting with me, we can arrange something for 7th June.
Tuesday 08 May 2012 at 9:14 pm
Check this cool example from David Della Rocca with a nice toolbar made in Real Studio with our plugins:
It supports toolbar items with segmented buttons, normal buttons, buttons with menu and search fields. Also you can have flexible space and show the standard customization dialog.
The project will be included in future plugin downloads and you can get a copy here:
toolbar.zip
Tuesday 08 May 2012 at 3:04 pm
Nickenich, Germany - MonkeyBread Software today is pleased to announce MBS FileMaker Plugin 2.7 for Mac OS X or Windows, the latest update to their product that is easily the most powerful plugin currently available for FileMaker Pro. As the leading database management solution for Windows, Mac, and the web, the FileMaker Pro Integrated Development Environment supports a plugin architecture that can easily extend the feature set of the application. MBS FileMaker Plugin 2.7 has been updated for Filemaker 12 and now includes 1000 different functions, and the versatile plugin has gained new features:
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Tuesday 08 May 2012 at 1:21 pm
For your convenience, here the release notes:
- Added FileDialog functions.
- Added JSON functions.
- Added CoreLocation functions to query location of a Mac.
- Added Encryption.DecryptBlowfish and Encryption.EncryptBlowfish.
- Added Encryption.DecryptAES and Encryption.EncryptAES.
- Added Hash.MD5 and Hash.SHA512 functions to get hashes of UTF-8 text.
- Added WebPolicyDelegate functions to decide which files should be downloaded.
- Added WebDownloadDelegate functions so you can get downloads from WebViewer on Mac.
- Added functions Files.AppPath, Files.Launch, Files.LaunchFile and Files.RevealFile.
- Added duration parameter for Mac OS X to Window.Resize and Window.Move.
- Added WebView.EstimatedProgress.
- Added Icon.SetIcon and Icon.ClearIcon for Mac to set/remove file icons.
- Added new CURL functions: CURL.AddInputFile, CURL.AddInputJPEG, CURL.AddInputPNG and CURL.AddInputText.
- Added Files.FileSize function.
- Added more parameter for Mac to Webview.LoadURL function.
- Added Window.ScrollbarsVisible function.
- Added Window.GetAlpha.
- Added Preferences.SetValue and Preferences.SetValue functions.
- Added Files.DirectoryExists, Files.FileExists and Files.ItemExists functions.
- Added PDFKit.Watermark function.
- Added PDFKit.GetPDFPageFormattedText function.
- Fixed crash on Windows with CURL options using lists.
- Fixed Window.HideScrollbar function for Filemaker 12 on Mac and Windows.
- Fixed GraphicsMagick functions to no longer crash if you call them with Destroyed image reference.
- Changed CURL.SetUpdateProgressDialog to now also work for uploads.
- Changed CURL debug output to no longer contain SSL raw data of transfer.
- Changed Webview and Window functions on Mac so they better check if a handle is no longer valid. We now track which windows are closed and invalid window references so they can't be used.
- Changed plugin to use more Unicode APIs for better file name handling.
- Improved Drag and Drop. You can now specify email and receive email drags from Apple Mail.
- Improved hidden scrollbars on Mac for Filemaker 12 so they stay hidden even with resizing window.
- Implemented Path.NativePathToFilemakerPath and Path.FilemakerPathToNativePath for Windows.
Tuesday 08 May 2012 at 12:37 pm
New in this prerelease of the 12.2 plugins:
- Added EventCode parameter to EdsObjectEventHandlerMBS ObjectChanged.
- Added pipe policy methods to WinUSBMBS class.
- Added HTMLViewer.IEDrawToHDC function.
- Improved WMI security functions for remote connections.
- Changed OverlayMBS class to show window even if you forgot the mask on Windows.
Download:
macsw.de/plugin/Prerelease
Tuesday 08 May 2012 at 11:37 am
If you have a few extra days and you want to spend some time beside the conference and Disney parks, you could go here:
Maybe worth a visit? See you at
Real World!
It's still time to sign up and plan your trip.
Tuesday 08 May 2012 at 10:28 am
New in this prerelease of the 2.7 plugins:
- Added duration parameter for Mac OS X to Window.Resize and Window.Move.
- Added WebView.EstimatedProgress.
Download later today at
monkeybreadsoftware.de/filemaker/files/
Monday 07 May 2012 at 11:47 am
Today our podcast has its forth birthday.
I hope you enjoy our videos at
mbsplugins.com.
And you can subscribe to our podcast on iTunes:
iPhone/iPod or
High Resolution.
Do not hesitate to send us suggestions and wishes for new videos.
