2012-05-18T18:44:30+02:00 Christian http://www.mbsplugins.de/index.php tonne@monkeybreadsoftware.info tag:pivotpowered,2012:MonkeybreadSoftwareBlog Pivot Copyright (c) 2012, Authors of MonkeybreadSoftware Blog 2012-05-18T18:44:00+02:00 2012-05-18T18:44:00+02:00 tag:pivotpowered,2012:MonkeybreadSoftwareBlog.964

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

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 ]]> Chef 2012-05-18T16:45:00+02:00 2012-05-18T16:45:00+02:00 tag:pivotpowered,2012:MonkeybreadSoftwareBlog.963

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/

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/ ]]> Chef 2012-05-18T12:43:00+02:00 2012-05-18T12:43:00+02:00 tag:pivotpowered,2012:MonkeybreadSoftwareBlog.962

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.

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. ]]> Chef 2012-05-16T21:30:00+02:00 2012-05-16T21:30:00+02:00 tag:pivotpowered,2012:MonkeybreadSoftwareBlog.961

New in this prerelease of the 12.3 plugins: Updated DynaPDF to version 3.0.15.38. Download: macsw.de/plugin/Prerelease

New in this prerelease of the 12.3 plugins:

• Updated DynaPDF to version 3.0.15.38.

Download: macsw.de/plugin/Prerelease ]]> Chef 2012-05-16T15:24:00+02:00 2012-05-16T15:24:00+02:00 tag:pivotpowered,2012:MonkeybreadSoftwareBlog.960

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.

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. ]]> Chef 2012-05-16T12:30:00+02:00 2012-05-16T12:30:00+02:00 tag:pivotpowered,2012:MonkeybreadSoftwareBlog.959

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.

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. ]]> Chef 2012-05-15T17:58:00+02:00 2012-05-15T17:58:00+02:00 tag:pivotpowered,2012:MonkeybreadSoftwareBlog.958

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

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 ]]> Chef 2012-05-14T20:21:00+02:00 2012-05-14T20:21:00+02:00 tag:pivotpowered,2012:MonkeybreadSoftwareBlog.957

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.

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. ]]> Chef 2012-05-13T12:32:00+02:00 2012-05-13T12:32:00+02:00 tag:pivotpowered,2012:MonkeybreadSoftwareBlog.956

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.

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. ]]> Chef 2012-05-12T11:59:00+02:00 2012-05-12T11:59:00+02:00 tag:pivotpowered,2012:MonkeybreadSoftwareBlog.955

I hope I have them all here: Please join a group near you, so you can talk to other Real Studio developers.

Please join a group near you, so you can talk to other Real Studio developers. ]]> Chef 2012-05-11T22:12:00+02:00 2012-05-11T22:12:00+02:00 tag:pivotpowered,2012:MonkeybreadSoftwareBlog.954

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.

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. ]]> Chef 2012-05-11T13:17:00+02:00 2012-05-11T13:17:00+02:00 tag:pivotpowered,2012:MonkeybreadSoftwareBlog.953

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.

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. ]]> Chef 2012-05-09T12:46:00+02:00 2012-05-09T12:46:00+02:00 tag:pivotpowered,2012:MonkeybreadSoftwareBlog.952

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.

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. ]]> Chef 2012-05-08T21:14:00+02:00 2012-05-08T21:14:00+02:00 tag:pivotpowered,2012:MonkeybreadSoftwareBlog.951

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

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 ]]> Chef 2012-05-08T15:04:00+02:00 2012-05-08T15:04:00+02:00 tag:pivotpowered,2012:MonkeybreadSoftwareBlog.950

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:

* Encrypt/Decrypt text with AES or Blowfish.
* Calculate MD5 and SHA512 hashes.

Javascript Object Notation functions
* Parse objects in JSON notation
* Create JSON objects in your scripts

CoreLocation Functions:
* Use CoreLocation on Mac OS X to query the geographical position of a Mac
* Calculate distances between your Mac and other points.

Preferences Functions:
* Save and Load preference values.
* On Windows with the registry and on Mac OS X in the preferences folder.

File Dialog functions:
* Show open and save dialogs
* Show folder selection dialog
* Allow multiple selections, hidden files and more options.

File functions:
* Create directories
* Check whether files or folders exist
* Query file size
* Query path to your filemaker solution
* Launch applications and documents.
* Set/Clear file icons (Mac only)

New Webviewer additions:
* Query estimated progress for loading a web page.
* Use WebDownloadDelegate functions to catch downloads and process them. (Mac only)
* Use WebPolicyDelegate functions to define which files are downloaded and which are viewed. (Mac only)

New PDFKit functions: (Mac only)
* Add watermarks to a PDF page.
* Query text on PDF page with formattings.


Read about all changes in detail in the release notes on our website. Please also take time to check our more than 100 example databases showing you the functionality of our plugin.

System Requirements:
* Mac OS X 10.4 or later, and Intel processor
* Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7
* FileMaker Pro 7.0 to 12.0
* 50 MB

Pricing and Availability:
MBS FileMaker Plugin 2.7 for Mac OS X or Windows is available directly from the MonkeyBread website with licenses starting at just $149 (USD). Not all functions are available in both versions - check specifications. A free trial download is also available. ]]> Chef