New in this prerelease of the 12.5 plugins:
- Added memoryblock variants of the MD5 functions to avoid conversion from memoryblocks to string.
- Fixed problem in MD5MBS on Mac OS X 10.4.
- Added ExtendedAttributesMBS module.
Download:
macsw.de/plugin/Prerelease. Or ask us to be added to our shared Dropbox folder.
On Mac OS X the frameworks behave differently depending on which Mac OS X SDK version was used to build the app. For example the
HTMLViewer draws background of textfield differently. Also our
NSStatusItemMBS class works better with 10.6 than with 10.4 SDK setting. And now we also see that
NSImageMBS works differently. Picture orientation is not recognized if SDK setting is 10.4, but works in 10.6.
So switch your Real Studio copy on Mac OS X to mark applications to get 10.6 behavior, you can use this line in terminal:
defaults write com.realsoftware.realstudio "Mac SDK Version" -string "10.6"
Update: This also affects MBQueryMBS.
Warning: This is a global setting which affects all your projects. This can have bad side effects, especially in Cocoa project where the framework expects you to use the default version. Default SDK for 2012r2 Cocoa is 10.7, so the plugin functions should work fine there without you use this setting.
Here a few pictures from the conference:
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Real World 2013 is just five months away. The good news today is: Our MBS Real Studio Plugin Session has been accepted. Your chance to see what's new in our plugins, learn about what is coming and ask questions directly to me.
If you know already that you will join us for the conference, you can register on the
conference website and have the chance to win a Disney Park ticket.
Also if you have an interesting topic for a session, please contact Real Software.
Real World 2012 was a huge success with over 100 attendees from 14 countries, featuring 20 exciting sessions. On the heals of that success, we will be returning to sunny Orlando, Florida in 2013 at the Holiday Inn Downtown Disney!
The
2013 Developer Conference will be even bigger and better than 2012, with 3 full days of presentations and events!
New in this prerelease of the 12.5 plugins:
- Fixed bug in VLC Plugin with drawing to CGContext.
- Fixed NSControlMBS.stringValue so assigning empty string does not raise an exception.
- Added ReadPipePacket, WritePipe and WritePipePacket methods to WinUSBMBS class.
- Added MacUSBMBS class.
- Added Icon, IconImage, IconMask to IconFamilyMBS class.
- Fixed bug in WinUSBMBS.PipePolicyMaximumTransferSize.
- Changed CURLMBS/CURLSMBS.OpenMTInputFile to set input size to file size.
- Added AddValues/AddKeys methods to map classes for older Realbasic versions.
- Added SetGrayPicture, SetRows and a few constants to PNGPictureMBS class.
Download:
macsw.de/plugin/Prerelease. Or ask us to be added to our shared Dropbox folder.
You can have a GUI application in Real Studio and still take command line parameters and output to console. This means that people can launch your app by double clicking and use it normally. But someone else can write a shell script (or batch file on Windows) to call your app with command line parameters and just do a certain task. After the task is done, the app quits so it can be called again for the next batch job.
In order to do this, we have
StdOutMBS class in our plugins and our latest 12.5pr plugins contain a sample project for this. You can use StdOutMBS.Write to write to the console. Be aware that some actions like showing a msgbox turn your app into a GUI app which may make it impossible to write to the standard output.
Check out the example and try to see if you can find an use for this. If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Real Software engineers, how about having a command line switch for the Real Studio IDE to load a project, build it and quit? This way we could easier batch build projects.
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New in this prerelease of the 12.5 plugins:
- Fixed plugin pictures on console target, so they are no longer 100% transparent.
- Fixed StringToVariantHashMapMBS and other map classes to have ValueAtIndex and Key functions to work on Realbasic 2007.
- Added ChartDirector examples for cursor tracking.
- Fixed bug in RegistryValue.asLong32 and RegistryValue.asLong64.
- Fixed RegistryMBS.getStringValue function.
- Fixed WinUSBMBS constructor.
Download:
macsw.de/plugin/Prerelease. Or ask us to be added to our shared Dropbox folder.
The conference ended and went well.
I actually presented something very new: Cursor tracking in ChartDirector.
With 12.5pr10 we include six new example projects with our plugins for tracking cursors.
Just take a look at the pictures and wait for the new plugins:
a financial chart:
with line and values in legend:
with line and values in chart:
with values on the axes:
with values on the axes for two vertical axes:
and also with bar charts:
Stéphane is just giving presentation about state of the Real Software projects like Cocoa, Web Edition, LLVM and 64 bit. And of course we can't wait for him to show RS 2012r2. Later tonight Geoff will show 2013r1 and we are excited to see iOS support.
If you are in Koblenz, join us tonight with our boat trip and/or the dinner in the Weindorf restaurant.
Just a picture taken at lunch time.
Already a couple of other people arrived for tomorrow and we are enjoying the hotel bar.
New in this prerelease of the 12.5 plugins:
- Changed some multithreading functions to use Grand Central Dispatch on Mac OS X 10.6 and newer like PictureMBS.Scale.
- Changed icon functions to be console safe.
- Fixed leak of threads in many multithreading functions like PictureMBS.Scale.
- The plugin created threads now have a stack size of 2 MB to avoid stack overflows and names to make debugging easier.
- Fixed DynaPDFMBS.GetFieldName to work with unicode names.
Download:
macsw.de/plugin/Prerelease. Or ask us to be added to our shared Dropbox folder.
I'm writing this on saturday. Just one day left until we meet with a few people in the hotel. Some people taking the training actually come sunday evening.
If you like to join us, feel welcome to come. Even if you are not joining the conference. Actually it's quite likely to find people on every evening in the hotel at the bar. Or downstairs in the Weindorf next to the hotel.
You can still
register on the conference website.
The Mercure hotel located in Julius-Wegeler-Str. 6, 56068 Koblenz.
New in this prerelease of the 12.5 plugins:
- Added WindowsKeyboardLayoutMBS class.
- Added Window.NSPanelMBS function.
- Added Picture.ColorizeMBS.
- Added CUPSMBS.SetDefaultPrinter.
- Updated DynaPDF to version 3.0.21.55.
- Updated ShortPathMBS and LongPathMBS on folderitem to be unicode safe.
- Added NSControlMBS.ConnectActionEvent method.
- Fixed possible crash with NSSavePanelMBS class.
- Added SetGrayPicture, SetRows and a few constants to PNGPictureMBS class.
- Added Picture.IsGrayMBS method.
- Added new methods and properties to Twain classes.
- Removed InstallEvent and RemoveEvent from TwainMBS class.
- Added CDMultiChartMBS.getChart, CDTTFTextMBS.destroy, CDXYChartMBS.getLayer and CDXYChartMBS.getLayerByZ.
- Added StdoutMBS.AttachConsole and StdinMBS.AttachConsole.
- Added TextInputSourceMBS class.
- Fixed possible leak in NSLocaleMBS constructor.
- Fixed crash in PHPMBS constructor. Now it raises exception if PHP library is not loaded.
- Updated ChartDirector to version 5.1.1.
Download:
macsw.de/plugin/Prerelease. Or ask us to be added to our shared Dropbox folder.
Real Software
announced the Real Studio 2012r2 beta and the 2013r1 alpha.
The good thing: They make progress and show something and it looks like we get another release this year. 2012r2 will have the old IDE, but new framework and 2013r1 will have the new IDE.
If you like,
join the beta program and test 2012r1b1.
If you see a problem with our plugins, please send bug report directly. We test our plugins with 2012r2b1 and 2013r1a1, but if you see an issue it helps us getting things fixed quicker.
Ten days left to register and seats are filling already. We still have a few left, so you can still
register on the conference website. Already we have people from France, Romania, Sweden, Austria and Germany.
Take the chance to learn about Real Studio 2012r2 and 2013 versions, see progress on new IDE and the iOS support. Learn about how to use web edition, databases, color management and xml to improve your applications. Talk directly to Stephane Pinel from Real Software. Take the chance to get in touch and show your problems, make feature requests and present your own projects.
If you need help for finding a hotel or planning your trip, please don't hesitate to contact us. See you there!
On the Real Software Blog you find some useful tips and tricks articles:
New in this prerelease of the 12.5 plugins:
- Updated MBS Plugin Manager project.
- Rewrote RenderSamplesMBS function.
- Improved DirectShow grabber so it uses half the CPU time.
- Added SCPreferencesMBS.CreateWithAuthorization.
- Added MySQLMBS.NumberOrRows.
- Added RecordCount support for RecordSet in use with SQLDatabaseMBS class and PostgreSQL or MySQL.
- Added TwainMBS.DontUnload.
- Added NSLayoutManagerMBS.font property.
Download:
macsw.de/plugin/Prerelease. Or ask us to be added to our shared Dropbox folder.
Just two weeks left until the
conference. Everything is ready and if you like, you can
register your seat today.
Take the chance to learn about Real Studio 2012r2 and 2013 versions, see progress on new IDE and the iOS support. Learn about how to use web edition, databases, color management and xml to improve your applications. Talk directly to Stephane Pinel from Real Software. Take the chance to get in touch and show your problems, make feature requests and present your own projects.
For tuesday evening, we will do a sight seeing boat trip on the Rhine, so if you are registered, please notice us if you like to join this trip. Also we reserved space in the Weindorf restaurant for dinner as it's very nice location and quite close to the conference hotel.
If you need help for finding a hotel or planning your trip, please don't hesitate to contact us.
See you in two weeks!
Sometimes it can be difficult to get things working in several development tools. For example if you encrypt something in a server shell script using openssl, you may want to decrypt in a Real Studio app. For example this command line:
openssl aes-128-cbc -in input.txt -out input_enc.txt -k mypassword -p
Runs AES 128bit CBC Mode encryption on an input.txt file. Result is written to input_enc.txt file and we use the given password. Also we didn't disable salting, so the encryption will get some salt.
So how we decrypt with
MBS Plugin?
Well, we first locate the file and read it. If first 8 bytes are "Salted__", than the next 8 bytes are the salt. This is how OpenSSL adds flavor. Next we need to build key and initial vector using password, key and salt and pass them through MD5 to make them more random.
Now we can set key to
AESMBS class. With passing key as string, the length of the key (16 bytes) will define that we use AES-128. We built memoryblocks for input and output and pass them Through DecryptCBC. Finally we need to remove PKCS7 padding. In result variable, we keep the result. If you encrypted text, this is the time where you can add a DefineEncoding call to mark it as UTF-8 or so.
Below you see the complete code:
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We currently have 19 people here as a few cancelled. But still a great meeting with a lot of interesting projects and details:
If you missed this event or you need more, please join the
conference in Germany in three weeks.
The
stack size of threads is an issue. It can cause random crashes. For code in Real Studio, there is extra code inserted in every method to ensure you get a
StackOverflowException. But in C code, this check is not performed. So if you have a full stack and you call into the Real Studio runtime, some DLL or a plugin, the function can overwrite the some objects in memory located behind the end of the stack.
With a tiny stack of just 64 K by default on Mac this is very likely to happen with a little bit of recursion.
So please set stacksize to a higher value like one million bytes.
Also sign on this bug report:
22996: Increase default Thread.Stacksize
We were 12 people for dinner and it was an interesting discussion about Real Studio, Macs/PCs, iOS/Android and weather in the US.
See you tomorrow!
I arrived today in Birmingham and will soon join others for dinner and cold drinks.
If you like to come along for a beer, you can join us from 6pm tonight at the Bacchus Bar, Burlington Arcade, New Street, Birmingham B2 4JH (near the Pallisades ramp).
If you come for the Real Studio event, please enter this door. It's the side of the house looking to the temple building. Than go to the front bar and ask for the room of the meeting.
Due to missing house numbers, we needed to walk around the house to find the right door.
Real World 2013 is just five months away. The good news today is: Our MBS Real Studio Plugin Session has been accepted. Your chance to see what's new in our plugins, learn about what is coming and ask questions directly to me.
The conference ended and went well. 
I'm writing this on saturday. Just one day left until we meet with a few people in the hotel. Some people taking the training actually come sunday evening. 
For tuesday evening, we will do a sight seeing boat trip on the Rhine, so if you are registered, please notice us if you like to join this trip. Also we reserved space in the Weindorf restaurant for dinner as it's very nice location and quite close to the conference hotel.
