http://www.mbsplugins.de/index.php en tonne@monkeybreadsoftware.info Copyright 2012 Pivot Pivot - 1.40.8: 'Dreadwind' Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:03:58 +0100 60 http://www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2012-02-06/MBS_Filemaker_Plugin_version_2 http://www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2012-02-06/MBS_Filemaker_Plugin_version_2#comm 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/ ]]> 838@http://mbsplugins.de/pivot/ filemaker Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:03:00 +0100 http://www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2012-02-04/Using_Webviewer_for_full_text_ http://www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2012-02-04/Using_Webviewer_for_full_text_#comm 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 ]]> 837@http://mbsplugins.de/pivot/ filemaker Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:05:00 +0100 http://www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2012-02-03/MBS_Real_Studio_Plugins_versio http://www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2012-02-03/MBS_Real_Studio_Plugins_versio#comm New in this prerelease of the 12.0 plugins:

• Fixed a few things for future compatibility.
• Fixed internal NSDictionary to Dictionary conversion to work better with non string keys.
• Improved DirectorySizeMBS to use FSRef alone (and no longer FSSpec and FSRef) on Mac.
• Added LoadFontEx and PageLink3 methods to DynaPDFMBS class.
• Added Lasterror property to WIADeviceManager1MBS and WIADeviceManager2MBS class.
• Fixed a crash with CreateDevice function in both WIADeviceManager1MBS and WIADeviceManager2MBS classes.
• Changed Java plugin so we can use several VMs. Also most classes are now JavaObjectMBS subclasses and we added a few more methods.
• Updated DynaPDF to version 3.0.13.29.
• Fixed plugins so the precompiling is triggered less often.
• Fixed picture editing functions to clear picture cache.
• Fixed PDFPageMBS.characterBoundsAtIndex to now return a NSRectMBS.
• Added new plugin for DirectShow (for video recording on Windows)
• Added new plugin for Canon EOS Digital camera SDK.
• Added new properties to WindowsPageFormatMBS class for Windows Vista and newer.
• Added AddForm, DeleteForm, GetForm and SetForm methods to WindowsPrinterMBS class.
• Added XLBookMBS.SetKeyGlobal method.
• Added CRC16MBS function.
• Added BlockSmoothing and FancyUpsampling properties to JPEGImporterMBS class.
• Added private constructors to PortAudioDeviceInfoMBS, PortAudioHostApiInfoMBS, PortAudioHostErrorInfoMBS and PortAudioStreamInfoMBS classes.
• Fixed bug with XLBookMBS.AddPicture with taking folderitem.
• Fixed bug in Linux string handling where plugin functions returning UTF16 did not set the text encoding. This affects a lot of plugins, especially the XL Plugin where this was reported.
• Added new LCMS2StageSamplerMBS class and methods to LCMS2StageMBS class.
• Removed JPEGImporterMBS.UseTempMemory property.
• Updated Phidgets library to the December release.
• Added return value to CDFinanceChartMBS.addPlotAreaTitle or CDPolarLayerMBS.addCustomDataLabel methods.
• Added CollectionIndex parameter to LoadFont method in DynaPDFMBS class.

Download: macsw.de/plugin/Prerelease ]]> 836@http://mbsplugins.de/pivot/ realstudio Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:01:00 +0100 http://www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2012-02-02/Real_Studio_Meetings_and_Train http://www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2012-02-02/Real_Studio_Meetings_and_Train#comm This spring we have a couple of Real Studio events:

Leipzig, Germany, 1st March 2012: Real Studo meeting in Merseburger Hof.

London, UK, 29th and 30th March 2012: On thursday we have a training for web edition and database (in English) and on friday we have meeting with interesting sessions around Real Studio.

Pforzheim, Germany, 26th and 27th April 2012. Real Studio meeting on thursday evening and training with Real Studio Web Edition and Database (in German) on friday.

Orlando, USA, 24. und 25. Mai 2012: Real World is the biggest Real Studio meeting in the world. Three awesome days with probably more than 100 Real Studio developers to learn new things, exchange ideas and meet the people you only know from lists or forums.

Maybe we'll meet on one of those event? If you have questions, please contact us.

PS: Registration is now working. If you registered already, please do again as your data was not saved. Sorry. ]]> 835@http://mbsplugins.de/pivot/ realevents Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:39:00 +0100 http://www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2012-02-02/New_feedback_cases http://www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2012-02-02/New_feedback_cases#comm Here a few new feedback bug cases which may be worth putting them on your favorite list:

• Filling weblistbox has really bad performance with big number of entries
• Loading Tiff files makes trouble: Picture.Open returns strange value on tiff file and Picture.Open does not open every tiff.
• Debugger does not show alpha channel for picture. Seems like RS added new feature alpha channel pictures, but RS didn't update the debugger to handle them.
• WebMapLocation encoding wrong. Looks like nobody tried it with umlauts before me.
• WebPicture Constructor with folderitem broken. Again looks like testers didn't try this new feature before release.
• drawline not working right. New in 2011r4 and not in older releases.

]]> 834@http://mbsplugins.de/pivot/ realstudio Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:32:00 +0100 http://www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2012-01-30/Tip_of_the_day_appBuildDate http://www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2012-01-30/Tip_of_the_day_appBuildDate#comm If you need to display in your application the build date, you can use app.builddate function to get a date object with the time of the build command started.

You can try it with code like this:

MsgBox app.BuildDate.ShortDate+" "+app.BuildDate.ShortTime

The value does not change in the built application, so it works like a constant. And it's supported for Console, for Web and for Desktop. For more details, see Application.BuildDate. This also implements my feature request 2143 which can now be marked as resolved. ]]> 833@http://mbsplugins.de/pivot/ realstudio Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:01:00 +0100 http://www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2012-01-29/Using_a_HTML_slider_in_Filemak http://www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2012-01-29/Using_a_HTML_slider_in_Filemak#comm
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.

When the solution starts, we run a startup script. This script installs the javascript callback into the web viewer. Even if the script would run several times, it does only apply changes on the first call. In the startup script, we use this line:

Set Variable [$result; MBS( "WebView.InstallCallback" ) ]

The result variable will normally be "OK" after this call. If not, please tell us as this would be a bug. After we installed callback, we need a script we call from javascript. So we create a script named "ValueChanged". This script receives the new value and stores it in the database:

We add a script called ValueChanged:

Set Variable [$value; Get ( ScriptParameter ) ]
Set Field Value Slider::SliderValue; $value]

In the HTML file, we add this to the script section:

function CallFM( fileName, scriptName, scriptParameter)
{
window.status=fileName+":"+scriptName+":"+scriptParameter;
}

The plugin installs code on the window.status property, so it can call a script for you. To control it, you assign filename, script name and parameter with colon separated. For convenience we have this javascript function above which calls for us, so we just call that function wherever we need.

Next we need to change the change event. The slider has a change event where we add some code to pass the value to Filemaker. We query getValue() function on the javascript slider and call the CallFM function passing script name and parameters. So the change event looks now like this:

s.onchange = function () {
v = s.getValue();
CallFM("slider.fp7", "ValueChanged", v);
};

Now in order to set the slider to the initial value, we use a line like this:

Set Variable [$result; MBS( "WebView.RunJavaScript" ; "web"; "s.setValue(" & Slider::SliderValue & ")" ) ]

In order to have it working, call the web viewer control "web". This way the plugin can locate the web viewer and run the javascript code inside it. We call setValue function in javascript to pass the filemaker value. As you see javascript is created on the fly here with the calculation.

This final result looks like this on Mac OS X in Filemaker 11:


and on Windows:


download example database: filemakerslider.zip ]]> 832@http://mbsplugins.de/pivot/ filemaker Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:40:00 +0100 http://www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2012-01-26/MBS_Filemaker_Plugin_version_2 http://www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2012-01-26/MBS_Filemaker_Plugin_version_2#comm New in this prerelease of the 2.6 plugins:

• Fixed UUID functions which were broken.

Download at monkeybreadsoftware.de/filemaker/files/Prerelease/ ]]> 831@http://mbsplugins.de/pivot/ filemaker Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:28:00 +0100 http://www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2012-01-24/Now_offering_bundles_with_Real http://www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2012-01-24/Now_offering_bundles_with_Real#comm
So in combination with buying a plugin license (new or update), we offer this Real Studio prices:

Real Studio Enterprise with 12 month updates:	629 €
Real Studio Enterprise with 24 month updates:	939 €
Real Studio Professional with 18 month updates:	289 €
Real Studio Professional with 6 month updates:	189 €

All prices plus VAT if required.
To make this low prices possible, we have reduce the payment options and limit this to transactions going through Paypal or bank transfer.
As Real Studio has hundreds of update combinations, please ask for a quote for your Real Studio license needs.

Now if you combine this with our existing bundles, you can save some money. For example:

Real Studio Enterprise with 24 month updates:	1128 €
MBS Real Studio DynaPDF Pro Plugin:	799 €
MBS Real Studio Complete Plugin:	199 €
total, sold separated:	2126 €
total, with MBS Bundle:	1888 €

12% saved. To order simply send us an email and we write an invoice for you. ]]> 830@http://mbsplugins.de/pivot/ realstudio Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:11:00 +0100 http://www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2012-01-24/[ANN]_MBS_FileMaker_Plugin_25_ http://www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2012-01-24/[ANN]_MBS_FileMaker_Plugin_25_#comm 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.

Nickenich, Germany - MonkeyBread Software today is pleased to announce MBS FileMaker Plugin 2.5 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 2.5 now includes 765 different functions, and the versatile plugin has gained new features, including CURL functions to enhance upload/download capabilities and CUPS functions to allow greater control over print jobs:

• Control the WebViewer:
  • Print website, Fill and submit forms
  • Run JavaScript in WebViewer and call back FileMaker Scripts from JavaScript
• Image editing with GraphicsMagick:
  • Load pictures from file, container value or create a blank one
  • Compose pictures together, e.g., add an overlay or watermark
  • Edit images with crop, rotate, scale and other operations
  • Use lots of image effects like blur, sharpen, swirl and others
  • Save result to container or file
• Use PDF functions from Mac OS X:
  • Render an image from a page of a PDF
  • Extract text from PDF
  • Create new PDF with pages from existing PDF
• Scripting:
  • Run AppleScript and WindowsScript scripts in FileMaker
• Query Icons:
  • Get icon from file or folder and previews with QuickLook (Mac only)
• Make Screenshots:
  • List screens and take screenshot from whole screen or from rectangle
• Lock your app for Kiosks:
  • Query which USB devices are connected and allow only the start of your runtime if special USB stick is connected
  • Hide system GUI like Dock and menubar with System UI Functions
  • Show a backdrop behind your FileMaker window so user does not see the desktop
  • Color window content to focus user on a dialog
• Control windows in FileMaker:
  • Show progress dialogs
  • Add Drag and Drop functions to your Mac solutions
  • Enumerate windows and control any window in FileMaker
  • Disable, close, minimize, and maximize widgets
  • Show and hide any window
  • Use window transitions on Mac OS X like Apple's applications
• Mac App Store:
  • Put your solution into Apple's Mac App Store and use plugin functions to verify the package receipt
• Register your own URL Scheme:
  • Have your solution start with a click on an email or website and process the URL as you need - plugin calls a script with the name you define when registering
• Query system information:
  • Need to know computer name, memory size, serial number, OS Version or something else?
• Run Scripts:
  • Start a script now or after some time and pass file name, script name, and parameter as texts
• Global Variables:
  • Set and Get variables that you can see in all files of your solution
• Powerful Text functions:
  • Remove accents from texts for easier search
  • Use SoundEx to have searches for "Maier" also show results for "Meyer, Meier, Mayer"
• CURL plugin functions:
  • Download/upload with http/https/ftp/ftps/sftp and sending/receiving emails with pop3/imap/smtp
• CUPS plugin functions:
  • Query printers and print jobs, cancel print jobs, and sending data to printer

"The FileMaker WebViewer control is very powerful, but it was somewhat isolated from the rest of FileMaker," stated Christian Schmitz of MBS. "There was very little interaction between it and FileMaker. But not anymore. Now, with MBS FileMaker Plugin 2.5 you can easily employ a variety functions, including: call FileMaker Scripts from Web Pages, read and write directly to and from Web Forms, call JavaScript functions from FileMaker, dynamically control the content of the WebViewer, and include interfaces built with AJAX/DHTML and Flash in your FileMaker layout."

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 or later
• 50 MB

Pricing and Availability:
MBS FileMaker Plugin 2.5 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.

Monkeybread Software:
MBS FileMaker Plugin 2.5: http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/FileMaker/
Function Reference: http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/FileMaker/reference/
Download Free Trial: http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/FileMaker/download.shtml
App Logo: http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/images/MBSLogo.jpg


Located in beautiful Nickenich, Germany, MonkeyBread Software is a privately held company founded in 2000 by Christian Schmitz. MonkeyBread Software focuses on the Macintosh and Windows platforms. With over eleven years as a software developer, Christian's aim is developing unique and useful utilities, complemented by first-class customer support. Copyright 2000-2012 Christian Schmitz Software GmbH. MonkeyBread Software is a registered trademark of Christian Schmitz, Nickenich. All Rights Reserved. Apple, and the Apple logo are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries. FileMaker Pro and FileMaker are trademarks of FileMaker, Inc. Other trademarks and registered trademarks may be the property of their respective owners. ]]> 829@http://mbsplugins.de/pivot/ filemaker Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:13:00 +0100 http://www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2012-01-24/License_changes http://www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2012-01-24/License_changes#comm

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. ]]> 828@http://mbsplugins.de/pivot/ filemaker Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:59:00 +0100 http://www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2012-01-23/New_video_for_writing_Excel_fi http://www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2012-01-23/New_video_for_writing_Excel_fi#comm Today we have a new video for you. It's about using our MBS Real Studio XL Plugin to read and write a Microsoft Excel file without using Excel application.

This is very different from the Excel classes in Real Studio which works only on Windows with installed Microsoft Excel.

Our plugin is based on libXL and can read/write older xls and newer xlsx files on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. ]]> 827@http://mbsplugins.de/pivot/ realstudio Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:52:00 +0100 http://www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2012-01-22/Recent_News_around_Real_Studio http://www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2012-01-22/Recent_News_around_Real_Studio#comm

Real Studio meeting in Esslingen was great. I presented the Web Edition and people were very excited.

Seattle Real Studio Group meets next week at 28th January.

Atlanta Real Studio Group meets 20th February.

Read about iOS meta tags on Real Software Blog.

Jason published his web edition compatible calendar control.

]]> 826@http://mbsplugins.de/pivot/ realstudio Sun, 22 Jan 2012 11:21:00 +0100 http://www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2012-01-19/MBS_Filemaker_Plugin_version_2 http://www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2012-01-19/MBS_Filemaker_Plugin_version_2#comm 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/ ]]> 825@http://mbsplugins.de/pivot/ filemaker Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:32:00 +0100 http://www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2012-01-17/MBS_Releases_the_MBS_Real_Stud http://www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2012-01-17/MBS_Releases_the_MBS_Real_Stud#comm NICKENICH, Germany (January 17th, 2012) -- Monkeybread Software releases version 12.0 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 38,000 documented functions. Our plugins support all three platforms Mac OS X, Windows and Linux with all project types desktop, web and console.

After our very big 11.3 release end of last year, we concentrated now on improving existing things:

We updated our LCMS2 plugin to use version 2.3 and added several new classes, methods and examples to really use much more of this nice library. Like you can now edit, modify or create tone curves. Also you can use the pipeline class to access/edit the stages for a Device to PCS or PCS to Device tag.

For Windows we allow now watching for WMI events and going through an object hierarchy using the new WinObjectMBS class. For this we added methods to run queries asynchronously. For watching for changes in a directory, we have FSEventsMBS class on Mac and now also the WindowsDirectoryWatcherMBS class for Windows.

On the Cocoa target, we added a ton of new classes. Improvements to NSAttributedStringMBS and NSMutableAttributedStringMBS let you handle attributes better. For example when loading a Word document, you can now query metadata like author name. The new NSPathControlMBS class helps to display file paths in a window like the Finder. Also we added new scroll wheel events for custom views and new table view events.

We fixed a couple of critical bugs related to console graphics, text encodings and picture handling, so we recommend this update to all of our users. Especially if you plan to use Real Studio 2011r4. ]]> 824@http://mbsplugins.de/pivot/ realstudio Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:04:00 +0100