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Friday 17 February 2012 at 11:48 pm
New in this prerelease of the 2.6 plugins:
- Fixed Mac plugin to be compatible again to Mac OS X 10.4 and newer. We lost that with adding SQL functions in pr2.
- Fixed ProgressDialog.GetBottomText to return bottom text on Mac and not top text.
- Added CURL.CloseDebugFile, CURL.CloseHeaderFile, CURL.CloseInputFile and CURL.CloseOutputFile
- Added CURL.CreateDebugOutputFile, CURL.CreateHeaderOutputFile, CURL.CreateOutputFile AND CURL.OpenInputFile
- Added CURL.SetOptionFileOnlyMode.
- Improved ProgressDialog button caption so it automatically fits the text length on Mac.
Download at
monkeybreadsoftware.de/filemaker/files/Prerelease/
Friday 17 February 2012 at 5:26 pm
Mac OS X 10.8 is coming and it looks great!
For developers with
Real Studio, well, I can recommend you read about how to code sign your applications. With the $99 Mac developer program you get already today the certificate so you can sign your applications like you do for the App Store.
Because with 10.8 will have default setting to allow only new applications from Mac App Store and identified developers. So if user downloads your unsigned app from your website, they get a warning or the OS will not open app. Yes, users can change the policy or allow your app, but default is to show a warning. You certainly want to avoid that and sign your app.
Read more on
Macworld.com.
Also Xcode has a view changes. I have to check them later, but it's possible that on our plugins we may loose 10.4 PPC support, 10.4 support or 10.5 support. That depends on whether older PPC compilers still work on 10.8 and whether Apple decides to drop older deployment targets.
When release date is set and we have final SDK, we will start doing those plugins and have them ready with 10.8 shipping. Due to NDA with Apple we are not allowed to give away plugins with new features before that.
For
Filemaker developers it may also be required to sign Runtimes. But we have to wait until we can verify that. And maybe Filemaker 12 has features for that to sign automatically.
Thursday 16 February 2012 at 10:10 pm
Aron Kiesow was kind enough to post a custom function for Filemaker. With the
MBS_HTML_EncodeImage_JPG function you can embed images much easier into html pages for showing in the webviewer. It uses our plugins function
Container.GetBase64 to create the base64 version of the JPEG data loaded from the container. You can pass optional title, alt, width and height parameters if you like and simply insert the result.
Have fun and if you have similar functions, don't hesitate to tell us.
Monday 13 February 2012 at 1:41 pm
New in this prerelease of the 2.6 plugins:
- Added String.DecodeFromURL and String.EncodeToURL functions.
- Added MouseCursor.Set function to show different mouse cursor while processing.
- Added ProgressDialog.GetPositionX and ProgressDialog.GetPositionY.
- Added ProgressDialog.Update to redraw dialog.
Download at
monkeybreadsoftware.de/filemaker/files/Prerelease/
Monday 13 February 2012 at 12:04 pm
Mac OS X DP3 (developer preview 3), was the first version I used to try developing for Mac OS X. As this version came out in February 2000, it has been 12 years since that installation. Amazing how time passes.
So if someone looks for an experienced Mac OS X developer, well, I'm available.
When did you tried Mac OS X the first time?
Friday 10 February 2012 at 2:13 pm
Well, in Filemaker, you can use ODBC Data sources to connect to SQL Databases and use them in Filemaker. But what if you need more flexibility or other features? Like...
- having database server user selectable, so your users can decide on runtime which server is used with what credentials?
- you simple want to call a store procedure on a SQL Server to trigger something on a database?
- you simply want to run a query to lookup some value.
- executing a special SQL command, for example to cleanup database?
- Export/Import data from sqlite database file.
- access database of some other application to directly change a value
As you see, there are quite a few use cases where you need SQL connectivity to run commands or query data directly with a SQL server. Especially as SQlite gets more popular for single user applications, read or writing values there is very interesting. For example when using Aperture application from Apple, you could read details from the database about the pictures you have directly.
To enable this, our new
Filemaker plugin with
version 2.6 supports connecting to Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, DB2, Sybase, Informix, InterBase, SQLBase, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ODBC and SQLite databases. You can connect and execute commands. And if your command is a query, you can query result set with data. Also you can easily call stored procedures and pass parameters. As we support using prepared statements, you can set parameters for SQL queries and avoid SQL inject attacks.
This plugin is based on
SQLAPI and you can read about server specific things on their documentation. As you see in our
SQL.SetConnectionOption, you tell the plugin where to find the client library for the database you want. This way we can keep the plugin smaller and simply connect to the newest client library. Once the database client and library is specified, you can connect and run your queries.
We have a guide about it and if you have questions, please contact us. You can read
all new SQL functions and
our SQL guide.
Thursday 09 February 2012 at 2:10 pm
New in this prerelease of the 12.0 plugins:
- Changed encryption plugin parts so they are no longer detected as being virus infected by some virus scanners.
- Added colorspace parameter to CGPictureContextMBS Constructor.
- Added Names and Lines function to EnvironmentMBS class.
- Added CGColorSpace parameter to NSImage functions CopyPicture and CopyPictureWithMask.
- Fixed a few bugs in EnvironmentMBS class.
- Fixed MailFrom option in CURLMBS and CURLSMBS.
Download:
macsw.de/plugin/Prerelease
Tuesday 07 February 2012 at 6:03 pm
- We'll get a second baby. So Michael will be a big brother in October
- Real Studio now has 150,000 users in 130 countries. Don't ask me how they count it. Details on Real Software website
- Welcome Paul Lefebvre who joins Real Software. I met him at Real World events before.
- We booked hotel rooms for London, Pforzheim and Leipzig as we already have a lot of people coming. For London we have already 20 people for the friday! Events Website
- Someone at the Cebit this year? I plan to go there and I'd like to meet some people.
Monday 06 February 2012 at 5:03 pm
New in this prerelease of the 2.6 plugins:
- Added new SQL methods for accessing multiple SQL databases (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Sybase, Informix, InterBase, SQLBase, MySQL, PostgreSQL and ODBC, SQLite).
- Fixed crash with CGPSConverter.Convert function.
Download at
monkeybreadsoftware.de/filemaker/files/Prerelease/
Saturday 04 February 2012 at 11:05 am
Here we have a nice project to use
TinyMCE with Filemaker in a Webviewer. We use our plugin to pass data from Filemaker to Webviewer to load text. And also other way from Javascript in Webviewer to Filemaker.
You can download project here:
tinymce.zip
Sunday 29 January 2012 at 10:40 pm
Well, the question today is, how do we get this slider to be used in Filemaker solutions:
The idea is to run it in a web viewer control in Filemaker. We want to get update events from the slider to update a value in our filemaker database. Also we want to have a way to update the slider with a value from filemaker. This way we can save the value in our database and load value in database while also updating it when the user changes the slider. Same way you could embed any control you find in web development toolboxes. We found a
nice slider for this example.
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Thursday 26 January 2012 at 10:28 am
New in this prerelease of the 2.6 plugins:
- Fixed UUID functions which were broken.
Download at
monkeybreadsoftware.de/filemaker/files/Prerelease/
Tuesday 24 January 2012 at 12:13 pm
MBS FileMaker Plugin 2.5 for OS X/Windows - 765 Functions In One Plugin - Published on 01/24/12
MonkeyBread Software today announces MBS FileMaker Plugin 2.5 for Mac OS X or Windows, easily the most powerful plugin currently available for FileMaker Pro. The leading database management solution for Windows, Mac, and the web, the popular IDE supports a plugin architecture that enables additions to its built-in feature set. MBS FileMaker Plugin 2.5 is the latest update of this versatile plugin and adds new features and capabilities, including CURL upload/download and CUPS printer functions.
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Tuesday 24 January 2012 at 10:59 am
After some talks with a lot of Filemaker developers over the last months, we change the licenses a little bit.
- As before we keep the 5 to unlimited seat options for companies doing their in house development with Filemaker and simply buy a license matching their seat requirements.
- Also we keep the runtime license for people who create runtimes.
- We add a new license for people who want to use the plugin on Filemaker Server.
- And as several professional developers asked us, we also add a flat rate, our Pro Developer license. This way a developer can license the plugin once and use in all solutions for all clients.
Of course serial numbers must be hidden, e.g. by putting them in startup script and disallow users to see this script.
I hope this works well for you and as we honor existing licenses, we will certainly find special upgrade deals for you as well as sending out replacement license keys.
Thursday 19 January 2012 at 10:32 pm
New in this prerelease of the 2.5 plugins:
- Added CURL examples for posting form data.
- Added better exception handling for CURL and fixed a couple of bugs.
- Improved CURL with adding some new form functions to easily fill and send forms.
Download at
monkeybreadsoftware.de/filemaker/files/Prerelease/
Saturday 14 January 2012 at 7:20 pm
New in this prerelease of the 2.5 plugins:
- Added CURL examples for sending and receiving emails.
- Added more CURL functions to get details on transfer.
- Improved documentation with table formatting.
- Improved Form Utility:
- Now shows right commands for textarea, checkbox and select fields.
- Added Images tab.
- Now uses $ for variable names.
- Added WebView.DisableJavascriptAlerts to disable javascript alert on Mac.
Download at
monkeybreadsoftware.de/filemaker/files/Prerelease/
Monday 09 January 2012 at 1:41 pm
New in this prerelease of the 2.5 plugins:
- Added options to CURL plugin to run transfer in background, so you can show progress and cancel.
- Improved GMImage.NewFromContainer so it now also reads references image files.
- Improved CURL handling of JPEG images. They now should have right size for preview on Windows, too.
- Added CURL.GetResultAsData function.
Download at
monkeybreadsoftware.de/filemaker/files/Prerelease/
Thursday 05 January 2012 at 11:27 pm
The
Filemaker Magazine (in German) published a new issue a few days ago and it features an article from me about our
MBS Filemaker plugin.
We show you how to scale pictures in Filemaker 7 to 11 on Mac and Windows with our plugin using the GraphicsMagick plugin. While working on the article and all the scale options in the plugin, I also improved the documentation on the
GMImage.Scale. You can specify a size like "600x400" or a percentage like "50%". Also you can use > and < to scale only if image is bigger/smaller than target size. Also we talk a little about loading and saving images and querying size. Don't hesitate to send us questions about our plugins.
Also if you have time to come to Hamburg next week, don't miss the
Filemaker meeting in Wandsbek. 12th January 2012 at 7 pm in the Block House Wandsbek.
Saturday 31 December 2011 at 9:33 pm
The year ends and it was a great year for us. We had two conferences hosted in Germany this year. First in May in Essen with ASH and second in November in Frankfurt on our own. We also participated in other events like the
Filemaker Conference in Hamburg.
With our plugins, we had several transitions this year:
On the Real Studio plugin, we had quite a few transitions:
- First we had to move 400 plugin parts from CodeWarrior to Visual Studio 2008. Also a few plugins which had already been with Visual Studio 2005 had to move to 2008 version. That change had a few side effects and it needed a few releases to fix them all. One benefit is better code output.
- Next we moved to Mac OS X 10.7 for compiling on Mac. For this move we now use Xcode 4 for the Mac Intel plugins and a copy of Xcode 3 for the PPC parts. Works well and we can support PPC a little bit longer.
- The transition to Cocoa is also huge. We updated a lot of functions to support Cocoa like our methods for the window class. For others we simply updated documentation and hint to newer Cocoa classes.
- The biggest transition so far are the new alpha channel pictures. So far we updated dozens of plugin parts to support new alpha channel pictures. At least like the old ones and ignore the alpha channel. But of course in the future we'll have to thing a lot how to handle mask and alpha channel for each of them. This is really difficult to support more than 20 combinations of Real Studio versions, platforms, picture class flavors and color depths.
On the Filemaker plugin we moved from Visual Studio 2005 to 2008 and from Xcode 3.x to Xcode 4.x. That was really a smooth transition and the only side effect is that we dropped PPC target.
For 2012, we plan to take part in a lot of events. First Real World 2012 in Orlando, Florida in May. Than of course
Filemaker Conference in Salzburg in October. In-between a couple of smaller meetings like the
Real Studio meeting 20th January in Esslingen (near Stuttgart in Germany), the
Filemaker meeting in Hamburg on 12th January and a couple more. For example we plan a spring
Real Studio meeting for London. Maybe also one in Paris or in Switzerland.
On our plugins, we'll continue our work to release a new Filemaker plugin soon with new CURL and CUPS functions. And for Real Studio we'll have a 12.0 version coming to update several plugin parts and a couple of new functions, especially with LCMS2, WMI and a new class for directory watching on Windows.
We wish you and your family a happy new year 2012! And see you soon on an event in your area
Saturday 24 December 2011 at 4:00 pm
Frohe Weihnachten und ein gutes neues Jahr!
Dieses Jahr hat Michael fleißig mitgeholfen beim Backen
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year
This year Michael helped a lot with backing cookies.
Joyeux Noël et Bonne Année
Buon Natale e Felice Anno Nuovo
Michael, Monika & Christian Schmitz
