We recently got the 60th live stream on
FMTraining.tv with Christian Schmitz talking about MBS Plugin for FileMaker. Richard and his team even prepared a cake for this event. 60 sessions in about 3 years is a lot and we like to have more in the future.
Regularly we make new live streams talking about new MBS Plugin versions and Q&A sessions. But we like to get ideas for new topics to make separate special live streams. These can show examples and do live coding, which also shows how we debug issues on the way.
Please let us know what topics you like to see coming up!
Wer hat Interesse an einem Xojo Entwicklertreffen im September in Wien?
Einfach in gemütlicher Runde treffen in einem netten Restaurant und beim Abendessen was über Xojo reden. Vielleicht habt ihr ja auch Fragen und Probleme, wo ich helfen kann?
Zeit wäre ca. 18 bis 21 Uhr, so dass man auch später kommen oder früher gehen kann.
Termin:
23., 24. oder 26. September Termin Umfrage
Bei Interesse bitte bei uns melden.
Falls sonst noch Bedarf an Schulung, vor Ort Entwicklung oder FileMaker/Xojo Hilfe besteht, bitte wegen Terminfindung bald melden.
Claris Inc. announced that the registration is open for the annual Claris Engage developer conference. Once again they do a conference in Austin, Texas from 25th to 26th March 2025 with an optional training day on 27th March. Please join the biggest FileMaker developer conference of the year:
Tickets are from $1099 USD for very early bird tickets to later $1850 USD for the full price ticket with training. Be sure to arrive 24th, so you can join others for a dinner meet-up on the conference eve. If Claris doesn't organize something, we and others may step in and make a reservation.
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We had zxing classes in our plugins to recognize barcodes for many years. The older zxing library we used got outdated, but there is a successor. The zxing library got branched and we can use the newer versions with a different interface to make new classes and a module for Xojo:
The new module has two methods to take a picture and find barcodes:
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Vom 1. bis 4. Oktober 2024 findet die nächste deutschsprachige FileMaker Konferenz in Malbun, Liechtenstein statt. Einige Tickets für die Konferenz sind noch zu haben.
Monkeybread Software ist als Sponsor mit Stand und Session vor Ort. Bitte kommen Sie mit Ihren Fragen vorbei!
Wir planen für den 1. Oktober einen Wandertag ein (Anmeldung bei uns). Wer mit möchte, kann dann bei hoffentlich schönem Wetter mit uns durch die Berge wandern. z.B. von Malbun auf den Sareis zum Bergrestaurant. Der genaue Weg wird kurzfristig je nach Wetter und Öffnungszeiten vom Ziel entschieden.
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Claris Inc. is looking for a new product manager:
Senior Product Manager – Claris
While it is fascinating to get a look into the job definition, salary, benefits and responsibilities of this job, I wonder what is going on at Claris?
In the last years we saw quite a bit of change at Claris with people leaving and new people arriving. But with everyone going or retiring, there is a brain drain. It seems to be difficult to retain people in Silicon Valley and keep them for more than a few years. But to execute on a strategy in the long run, you need to keep people for a decade or longer.
For this job offer, I wonder whether this is a new position for something new at Claris or if they replace someone, who may have or need to leave. Maybe someone can share?
Reading the job offer, I wonder if people could do this remotely, since Silicon Valley is an expensive place to live. The job offer doesn't specify where you work, just Sunnyvale on the top, where Claris Inc. has their office. If I remember correctly Apple asks for 3 days per week in the office, but not sure whether this applies here.
Claris has some more job offers, if you like to work there:
jobs.apple.com
New in this prerelease of the 24.4 plugins:
- Fixed problem with ReadBarcodes function in ZxingBarcodeMBS module.
- Updated LibXL to version 4.4.0.
- Fixed thread naming to avoid renaming main thread.
- Updated SQLAPI to version 5.3.4 with DuckDB 1.0 support.
- Improved CURLSMultiMBS class to clear cancel flag for CURLSMBS objects.
- Fixed NSFileCoordinatorMBS constructor to accept nil parameter.
- Added DidMove and DidResize events for NSStatusItemMBS class.
- Added DidChangeOcclusionState event for NSStatusItemMBS class to detect if your item is not shown.
- Changed captureStillImageAsynchronouslyCompleted event in AVFoundationMBS class, so it prepares CMSampleBufferMBS with Picture when set PrepareCIImage, PrepareNSImage and PrepareJPEGData is set in AVCaptureVideoDataOutputMBS class.
- Added shaderModifiers and handle properties for SCNMaterialMBS class.
- Added shaderModifiers for SCNGeometryMBS class.
- Updated CURL to version 8.10.0.
Download:
monkeybreadsoftware.de/xojo/download/plugin/Prerelease/.
Or ask us to be added to our shared DropBox folder.
You can subscribe to our Xojo mailing list to get notified for new pre-release and release versions.
New in this prerelease of version 14.4 of the
MBS FileMaker Plugin:
Download at
monkeybreadsoftware.com/filemaker/files/Prerelease/
You can subscribe to our FileMaker mailing list to get notified for new pre-release and release versions.
Anyone still needs TLS 1.0 and 1.1 when working with MBS Plugins?
OpenSSL plans to disable them by default. We should do the same.
Everyone moved to TLS 1.2 and 1.3 as far as we know, so nobody should need the older one. The version 1.2 was published in 2008 and most browser already removed support for the older ones.
The older versions had weak ciphers and digest algorithms which shouldn't be used anymore. It's too easy to attack such connections and be the man in the middle, who could decipher the content.
Let us know if you still need older versions. Otherwise they will get disabled in future plugins, probably next year.
Today eighteen years ago we released the MBS FileMaker Plugin in Version 1.0.
Here the original announcement:
[ANN] MBS Plug-in For FileMaker
Make FileMaker Windows Semi Transparent!
Take Screenshots from FileMaker
Run an Applescript on field exit
and more...
Monkey Bread Software, maker of the popular MBS Plug-in for RealBasic and geist interactive have teamed up to bring the extensive MBS function library to FileMaker. The MBS RealBasic plug-in contains over 10000 functions, and this release represents the first step in a project to bring as many of those functions to FileMaker as make sense. Many many more features to com in the future.
The plug-in is available for FileMaker 8 and 8.5. It is available for Windows XP and as Universal Binary for Mac OS X There is a Developer Tool available to help you get started quickly with documentation and Calculation builder. Demos are available on the website
more info: geistinteractive.com
download: monkeybreadsoftware.de/filemaker/
Read also:
4000 functions in 10 years and
5000 Functions in MBS Plugin.
Thanks for the support over years.
Going to a FileMaker conference teaches you a lot of things. You talk with a lot of experienced developers and enjoy some great presentations. Let's think about a few I remember:
PSoS vs. job queue
The call to PSoS takes time to start the session, open files, load schema, run open and close script triggers. It can be quicker to use a job queue table and run one script server side to check every few seconds if the queue has new entries and trigger scripts to process the jobs. This script just pauses most of the time and still is very responsible.
More OData
Claris looks into improving their OData support for the next releases. And then eventually the ODBC/JDBC support will internally go through OData to provide connectivity for older systems, that can't yet do OData.
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Please watch our short presentation for Reconnect.fm conference in Brisbane, Australia. We show a few new things in 2024 for MBS Plugin for Claris FileMaker.
More movies
Watch on YouTube.
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Check out the FMTraining.tv website. Richard Carlton and his team do a daily free live stream about FileMaker to watch.
A few days ago Christian Schmitz from Monkeybread Software joined a live episode to talk a bit about the MBS FileMaker Plugin. Watch it on YouTube.
We answer questions from the live stream. This includes Overlay functions with Drag & Drop or hosting a web viewer. We check file dialogs and Drag & Drop as way to import lots of files into FileMaker. We check MapKit functions, progress bar in portals, cropping images and try a window moved script trigger. Thanks to everyone bringing questions!
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In the realm of cross-platform development, handling file access consistently across different operating systems can be a challenging task. For Xojo developers working on macOS or iOS, NSFileCoordinatorMBS and NSFilePresenterMBS from the Monkeybread Software’s Xojo plugins offer a powerful way to manage file access while avoiding conflicts with iCloud. In this blog post, we’ll delve into a practical example of using these classes in a Xojo project.
Introduction to NSFileCoordinatorMBS and NSFilePresenterMBS
Before we dive into the code, let’s briefly understand what NSFileCoordinatorMBS and NSFilePresenterMBS do:
- NSFileCoordinatorMBS: This class helps in coordinating access to files across different processes. It ensures that multiple processes can read from or write to a file without interfering with each other, thus avoiding file access conflicts.
- NSFilePresenterMBS: This class works in tandem with NSFileCoordinatorMBS and represents a file or directory that presents its state to the file coordinator. It allows your app to be notified of changes to the file or directory it is coordinating. We won’t really use this class today.
Example Scenario
Let’s walk through a simple Xojo application example where a user selects a file, and the application reads its contents. We will use NSFileCoordinatorMBS and NSFilePresenterMBS to manage file access on macOS or iOS while skipping these steps on Windows and Linux.
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Greetings from the
Australian FileMaker conference. It just started and we are happy to meet so many developers from the Asia Pacific area. Lots of attendees from Australia and New Zealand, but also up to Japan or Dubai. And some usual suspects from USA, Canada and Europe, who just like me love to explore the world. In total 110 people came including the Claris representatives.
There will be a short MBS Presentation to highlight a few new things in the plugin. Learn what is new in MBS Plugins this year.
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The September/October (22.5) issue of
xDev Magazine is now available. Here's a quick preview of what's inside:
Xojo and MQTT by Tim Dietrich
MQTT is a low-resource messaging protocol that lets devices communicate with each other. It's ideal in scenarios where a device might not have a lot of power or connectivity. Tim explains how to use this with your own Xojo apps.
Balancing Act (Raspberry Pi Part 9) by Eugene Dakin
If you've ever wanted to use your Raspberry Pi to detect tilt and other movements, Eugene is here showing how to connect a gyroscopic sensor and read the results with Xojo.
Invaders from Space! by Marc Zeedar
In this fun summer project, Marc creates a version of the classic Space Invaders game in Xojo. You'll learn how to do animation, explosions, collision detection, and other aspects of game play. Use it as inspiration for your own retro games!
Design Patterns 6 -- Supporting Undo by Marc Zeedar
If you thought supporting undo in your app was difficult, it's because you weren't using the Command design pattern. Marc shows how it makes undo easy!
Plus: Topics such as how to use ChatGPT 4o-mini to correct your grammar, using overlays, retro gaming with Xojo, an interview with Kem Tekinay, and more!
When managing and optimizing FileMaker databases, understanding the details of your data is crucial. Whether you’re looking to optimize performance, audit data quality, or get insights into database structure, having precise statistical information about your database can be invaluable. The MBS FileMaker Plugin offers powerful functions for querying detailed statistics on fields, records, and entire tables. In this blog post, we’ll explore three key functions — FM.FieldStatistics, FM.RecordStatistics, and FM.TableStatistics — and how to use them to gain deep insights into your FileMaker databases.
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About 17 years ago we started the development of our
DynaPDF Plugin.
After a year of development, the plugin was released to the public on 1st Sep 2007 with MBS Plugin 7.6pr1.
This plugin has been a big success for us and provides the PDF engine to thousands of Xojo applications around the world. Based on user feedback we got a lot of functions over the years like the raster engine, PDF/A conversion and ZUGFeRD support.
Please make sure you try the plugin, make it part of your toolbox and start to enjoy all the PDF features you can add to your application.
