We wish everyone a great start in the new year 2018.
We start right away in the next days with a new beta of our plugins. MBS FileMaker Plugin 8.0 is coming soon and we enter the 12th year of development. For Xojo I am now addicted for 20 years and the plugin finally turns 18.
On traveling the schedule is pretty full for 2018 already. Beside Xojo and FileMaker events, you may meet me at other places, e.g. at the
curl-up 2018 in Stockholm.
If you know another conference, let me know:
Not everything is planned or announced yet and some things may get moved or cancelled. But if you are interested in joining, I'd be happy to welcome you at one of those events.
As you may know, we collect some statistics about plugin usage and today I’d like to show the versions of Xojo used with MBS Plugins:
As you see over half of people now use Xojo 2017r2/r3. But a few still keep older versions like 2016r3, the last one before the use of DirectDraw.
The group with REAL Studio 2012 is still active, but shrunk a lot over time. Over time, it will be a question whether we should continue to support Real Studio with newer plugins.
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Three days left for the DynaForms' Christmas Sale for this year:
Christmas Special: 25% Off on anything!
As a thank you for the good collaboration and your trust, you get 25% Christmas Discount on anything til the end of the year!
I wish you and your family Merry Christmas and a successful new year.
With kind regards
DynaForms GmbH
The MBS online shop is updated and we reduced all our DynaPDF prices by 25%. So if you need a new license or updates for up to five years, please order. If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Order for Xojo -
Order for FileMaker
Frohe Weihnachten und ein gutes neues Jahr!
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year
Joyeux Noël et Bonne Année
Buon Natale e Felice Anno Nuovo
Franziska, Sebastian, Michael, Monika & Christian Schmitz
New in this prerelease of the 17.6 plugins:
Download:
monkeybreadsoftware.com/xojo/download/plugin/Prerelease/.
Or ask us to be added to our shared Dropbox folder.
The CoreImage functions from macOS allow you to load RAW files and pass various options. The follow example code for MBS Xojo Plugins shows how to use the RAW options:
dim options
as new Dictionary
dim d1
as Double = BaselineExposureSlider.Value
dim d2
as Double = BoostSlider.Value
dim d3
as Double = BoostShadowAmountSlider.Value
options.Value(CIFilterMBS.kCIInputBaselineExposureKey ) = d1/
100.0
options.Value(CIFilterMBS.kCIInputBoostKey) = d2/
100.0
options.Value(CIFilterMBS.kCIInputBoostShadowAmountKey) = d3/
100.0
dim f
as CIFilterMBS =
CIFilterMBS.filterWithImageFile(file, options)
pic = f.outputImage.RenderPictureWithAlpha
As you see, we have file property with folder item for the RAW file. We ask the system to load image and return a
CIFilter setup for the image. This filter is configured with various options like baseline exposure to allow to change exposure. Than we can ask filter for the rendered output image or ask for content compressed as
PNG or
JPEG to save to disk.
See
CIFilterMBS.filterWithImageFile for details.
Die
Denkform bietet eine Schulung zur Europäische Datenschutzgrundverordnung an:
Die EU-Datenschutz-Grundverordnung (EU-DSGVO) wird künftig das Bundesdatenschutzgesetz (BDSG) ersetzen. Der Trilog aus EU-Rat, EU-Kommission und EU-Parlament hat sich auf die EU-DSGVO geeinigt.
Im Mai 2018 ist es soweit, die neue europäische Datenschutzgrundverordnung (EU DS-GVO) tritt in Kraft.
Erfahren Sie alle wichtigen Punkte die Sie treffen müssen um gesetzeskonform ab Mai wirtschaftlich tätig zu werden.
Unsere Schulung informiert Sie über die Neuerungen der Umstellung auf die EU-DSGVO. Wir zeigen Ihnen, welche Maßnahmen Ihnen den Umstieg erleichtern und vermitteln Ihnen, welche Änderungen im Vergleich zum Bundesdatenschutz-Gesetz (BDSG) anstehen.
Die europäische Datenschutzgrundverordnung (EU DS-GVO) trifft alle Unternehmen die persönliche Daten verwalten.
Was ist neu?
- Neue Risiko- und Folgenabschätzung lösen die Vorabkontrolle ab
- Betroffenen Personen bekommen erweiterte Beschwerde- und Rechtsschutzmöglichkeiten
- Strengerer Rahmen bei meldepflichtigen Vorfällen und umfangreichere Sanktionen
- Öffnungsklausel ermöglicht individuelle Regelungen: Deutschland behält den Datenschutzbeauftragten
4 Stunden, 4 bis 12 Teilnehmer, 175 Euro + MWSt. pro Person.
Da wird das für uns und unsere Kunden umsetzen müssen, dürfte eine Schulung zu dem Thema nicht schlecht sein.
Anmeldung und Informationen
Say hello to our 5th generation of Monkeybread Software pens:
As you see over the years we got different designs for the pens. Xojo used to be named Real Studio and REALbasic. We even fixed the typo in FileMaker and capitalized the M. The new pens have bigger font and use the
.com domain.
We hope you like them. We'll bring a few to
Montreal,
Denver,
Berlin,
Dallas,
Munich and
Malbun.
L'hiver est à nos portes et c'est le moment idéal pour prendre une pause et sortir du quotidien. Quoi de mieux pour ce faire que deux journées en compagnie des développeurs, consultants et autres adeptes de FileMaker®. Le Regroupement
FMQC.CA vous convie à son grand rassemblement, les 15-16 mars 2018, à l'Auberge Saint-Gabriel du Vieux-Montréal, afin d'apprendre les astuces enseignées par des intervenants de la scène internationale et de découvrir les nouveautés de la plateforme FileMaker qui nous tient tant à coeur et qui nous passionne.
Un total de 15 sessions et topos seront présentés par des intervenants provenant de l'Allemagne, de l'Angleterre, de la France, des États-Unis, de l'Ontario et du Québec. La CQDF 2018 regroupera près de 100 développeurs de tous les niveaux, qui ensemble, rejoignent un bassin de plus de 5000 utilisateurs FileMaker de tous les coins du Québec ainsi qu'ailleurs dans le monde.
Situé en plein coeur du Vieux-Montréal, l’Auberge Saint-Gabriel est à quelques minutes de marche de la station de métro Place d’Armes (ligne Orange). L’accès internet sans fil sera offert tout au long des conférences.
Vous pouvez vous inscrire directement sur le site web de la conférence avant le 20 janvier 2018 et ainsi profiter d’un rabais «Réservation hâtive» de 50$ sur les frais d'inscription.
Inscrivez-vous dès maintenant:
cqdf.ca
Nom de l’activité: Conférence québécoise des développeurs FileMaker (CQDF) 2018
Dates:Jeudi et vendredi, 15-16 mars 2018
Lieu: Auberge Saint-Gabriel, 426 Saint-Gabriel, Vieux-Montréal, Qc, H2Y 2Z9 (lien Google Maps)
Tarifs: 199$ à 299$
Note: les non membres peuvent devenir membre pour profiter des tarifs réduits
Two weeks left for the DynaForms' Christmas Sale for this year:
Christmas Special: 25% Off on anything!
As a thank you for the good collaboration and your trust, you get 25% Christmas Discount on anything til the end of the year!
I wish you and your family Merry Christmas and a successful new year.
With kind regards
DynaForms GmbH
The MBS online shop is updated and we reduced all our DynaPDF prices by 25%. So if you need a new license or updates for up to five years, please order. If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Order for Xojo -
Order for FileMaker
New in this prerelease of the 17.6 plugins:
Download:
monkeybreadsoftware.com/xojo/download/plugin/Prerelease/.
Or ask us to be added to our shared Dropbox folder.
For Mac you can usually look with Finder Info window on the version of a plugin file, including the dylib files inside your built application. For Windows you can check details on the DLLs in the properties dialog, but did you know how you can check it on Linux?
For Linux all the libraries are indeed also applications. You can run them in Terminal and they print a simple message to the console:
[centos@ip-172-31-17-30 infos Libs]$ chmod +x MBS_Main_Registration_Plugin_19505.so
[centos@ip-172-31-17-30 infos Libs]$ ./MBS_Main_Registration_Plugin_19505.so
MBS Plugin, version 17.5, built Nov 27 2017
[centos@ip-172-31-17-30 infos Libs]$
So if you set executable flag, you can launch them and see the version. This works fine for a few years now.
When using
WKWebViewControlMBS control in your Xojo projects, you can use WebKit 1.x (32-bit) and WebKit 2.x (64-bit) transparently. Depending on the bit setting of your Mac application, the plugin uses either the newer or older classes from WebKit.
Now with macOS 10.10 (and iOS 8.0) Apple introduced the ability to install custom JavaScript message handlers for WKWebView. We just added them for our plugins to call back from JavaScript to Xojo code. First you call in your 64-bit Mac app the addScriptMessageHandler method on the control to register a name:
browser.addScriptMessageHandler
"test"
Next you can use it in Javascript, e.g. via evaluate:
browser.EvaluateJavaScript(
"window.webkit.messageHandlers.test.postMessage('Hello');")
As you see, we get for our message handler a new entry in the namespace called window.webkit.messageHandlers.test. This allows us to call postMessage method there and this triggers the didReceiveScriptMessage event in our control. So we implement an event to show via msgbox what we got:
Sub didReceiveScriptMessage(Body
as Variant, name
as String)
MsgBox name+EndOfLine+body.StringValue
End Sub
This works nice in first tests and we'd love to see what you can do with this technique. Data from JavaScript is converted to Objective-C types and than converted to Xojo data types. So arrays, numbers, dictionaries and strings should work well. Please try with next prerelease or email us for a copy today.
We updated our QuickLook plugin to version 1.5 to support future Xojo version.
You have several Xojo and Real Studio versions in use? Want to know in advance what version a project has?
Well, in that case, try our plug-in for QuickLook:
MBS-Xojo-QuickLook-Plugin.dmg
After installation of our plug-in to /Library/QuickLook and you run "qlmanage -r" in Terminal app or logged in the next time, your icons look like this:
Enjoy! This plug-in is freeware, so tell your friends. Version 1.5 adds support for newer Xojo versions.
Get the best developer tools and third party components for the Xojo Web web application development for limited time. Ends
15th December 2017.
Omegbundle Mini for Xojo Web 2017 is a collection of 40+ of the most useful tool sets, add-ons and components for use with Xojo Inc's Xojo development environment. If purchased individually, the savings of the bundle is over $547. Omegabundle Mini for Xojo Web 2017 costs $199.
This is a very limited special offer available from November 24, 2017 (Black Friday) through December 15, 2017.
Xojo is an award-winning, cross-platform development tool for the Desktop (OS X, Windows, Linux), Web, iOS (iPad/iPhone) and Raspberry Pi. With Xojo, you can create native applications by using drag-and-drop to build your user interface and then one straight-forward programming language to enable the functionality. Xojo is powerful and modern, yet easy to use and learn.
Download Xojo today and see for yourself.
Xojo Web lets you build your web app user interface with drag and drop. With built-in support for graphics, database servers, internet protocols and more, you can build anything. If you have been thinking about making the leap from desktop or mobile Xojo development to web,
Omegabundle Mini for Xojo Web 2017 gives you all the best third party tools at one very good price!
Included Products
- GraffitiSuite Web Edition. Over 40 controls and classes cover just about all your user interface needs for building Xojo Web applications. Regularly $199.
- Monkeybread Web Starter Kit. Everything you need to begin creating your first Xojo Web app. Regularly $149.
- LeRoy Software Web Bundle. Featuring Web Calendar View, Web Chart View, and four other controls. Regularly $199.
- Valentina Studio Pro. The ultimate reports designer and professional database administration tool. Participants in Omegabundle for Xojo 2016 & 2017 can instead upgrade to UNIVERSAL. Regularly $199 or $239.
You can find additional information about Omegabundle Mini for Xojo Web 2017 from the
Omegabundle website or order now through the Paradigma Online Store. Please allow up to three business days for all components to be supplied by email by participating vendors.
As I travel to Montreal for the Québec FileMaker conference, I'd love to have some Xojo meetings with local developers:
If you live in this part of Canada, or you like to come over from the USA, please join those surveys to find the perfect date between 12th to 19th March 2018:
Survey for Toronto Survey for Montreal
I know I have 15 Xojo developers using my plugins in Montreal alone and about 30 in Toronto. If you like to join, please contact me soon.
I reserve a table in a nice restaurant and I will be there. You can join and we can shop talk all night. Ask me plugin questions, bring your laptop and show projects.
And of course we discuss latest changes in Xojo, upcoming conferences and what's new in plugins.
Of course it is possible to arrange private meetings for consulting while I am in the city.
New in this prerelease of the 17.6 plugins:
- Changed OptionCAINFO, OptionCAPATH, OptionCookieFile, OptionCookieJar, OptionIssuerCert, OptionNETRCFile, OptionRandomFile, OptionSSHPrivateKeyfile, OptionSSHPublicKeyfile, OptionSSLCert, OptionSSLKey for CURL to use always UTF-8 on Mac and to do the unicode transformation for decomposed characters to avoid trouble with special characters in file paths.
- Fixed an issue with exception handling on 64-bit Linux introduced in 17.3.
- Fixed an issue in file handling from pr1 where file path was freed instead of decreasing reference count.
- Added camera configuration properties for RaspberryPiCameraMBS class.
- Fixed bugs with DynaPDF Print and scaling pages for some printers.
Download:
monkeybreadsoftware.com/xojo/download/plugin/Prerelease/.
Or ask us to be added to our shared Dropbox folder.
Nickenich, Germany (December 13rd, 2017) -- Monkeybread Software releases version 1.3 of the
MBS Xojo Web Starter Kit
The MBS Xojo Web Starter Kit is a starting point for building your Web Applications with Real Studio or Xojo.
Especially our Web Signature Kit allows you to easily capture signatures on a tablet device with your web application. You can of course simply use it as a drawing area, too.
New in Version 1.3:
- Added email field for users
- Added Status app to run on desktop and watch status several servers
- Added Status REST API for the Status app to query status of web app
- Added email sending function using MBS CURL Plugin
- Added password reset feature via email with link
- Added possibility to disable an user
- Added ConfigurationModule for constants
Existing features of our Web Starter Kit:
- Database Support including SQLiteDatabase, MySQLCommunityServer, CubeSQLServer and SQLDatabaseMBS. Other databases can be added easily.
- Simple User Management for Admins and normal users.
- Login Panel.
- Auto login, so people don't need to login each time.
- Collects Exceptions and JavaScript Errors in database and displays them to Admin..
- Allows logging to text file and database and displaying them.
- SQL Console with download of database and query result as CSV file.
- Session management for admin to see what users do..
- Chat Window.
- Creates Backup of database.
- Object browser and memory statistics.
- Messages for Admins to/from users.
- File Browser.
- Shows how to cache images/files to save memory.
- Allow user to reset password by email
- Allow users to be disabled
- and much more...
You can use the Kit as a foundation of your new web application or simply copy the parts you need to your own web application. This Kit is the result of putting together all the goodies we developed in the last two years for various web applications. Things we believe everyone could need in their own solution. And of course in the next years, we will add more functions depending on user requests.
Our Web Starter Kit requires Xojo 2013 or newer and a license of the MBS Xojo Plugins. The Kit uses a couple of plugins.
The Web Starter Kit is available for $149 USD or 99 Euro (+VAT if needed).
Order
You can learn more and try the demo on our
website.
Our Web Starter Kit is included in
OmegaBundle Mini for Web.
New in this prerelease of the 17.6 plugins:
Download:
monkeybreadsoftware.com/xojo/download/plugin/Prerelease/.
Or ask us to be added to our shared Dropbox folder.
Update: Please don't use this prerelease. Due to a bug we free memory on file access which should not happen! Will be fixed for pr3.
The year 2017 will end in less than three weeks. Do you need some more licenses?
- You can order licenses for 2018 or later and have invoice, delivery and payment done in 2017.
This way you secure the current pricing and the possibility to keep upgradeability for older licenses. - And of course you can order updates for several years in advance for all your MBS products.
- DynaPDF licenses are on sale for December 2017 with 25% automatically.
- As all our Xojo and DynaPDF plugin licenses are per developer, you should check if you got a new developer in your team this year and adjust licenses to match team size.
- If you need a Xojo license (new or update), we can always check whether a bundle with Xojo offers an advantage for you. Or we can point you to the next sale or a coupon code for the Xojo Store.
- For FileMaker please check if you have enough license for the number of seats or servers you have in use.
If you upgrade to unlimited seats or servers, the plugin won't need to check the usage.
Especially if you run on a budget and you want to spend some money in the old year, you can buy updates for several years in advance.
If you need help to decide what Xojo, FileMaker or plugin license you need, we may be able to assist you.
Get the best developer tools and third party components for the Xojo Web web application development for limited time. Ends
15th December 2017.
Omegbundle Mini for Xojo Web 2017 is a collection of 40+ of the most useful tool sets, add-ons and components for use with Xojo Inc's Xojo development environment. If purchased individually, the savings of the bundle is over $547. Omegabundle Mini for Xojo Web 2017 costs $199.
This is a very limited special offer available from November 24, 2017 (Black Friday) through December 15, 2017.
Xojo is an award-winning, cross-platform development tool for the Desktop (OS X, Windows, Linux), Web, iOS (iPad/iPhone) and Raspberry Pi. With Xojo, you can create native applications by using drag-and-drop to build your user interface and then one straight-forward programming language to enable the functionality. Xojo is powerful and modern, yet easy to use and learn.
Download Xojo today and see for yourself.
Xojo Web lets you build your web app user interface with drag and drop. With built-in support for graphics, database servers, internet protocols and more, you can build anything. If you have been thinking about making the leap from desktop or mobile Xojo development to web,
Omegabundle Mini for Xojo Web 2017 gives you all the best third party tools at one very good price!
Included Products
- GraffitiSuite Web Edition. Over 40 controls and classes cover just about all your user interface needs for building Xojo Web applications. Regularly $199.
- Monkeybread Web Starter Kit. Everything you need to begin creating your first Xojo Web app. Regularly $149.
- LeRoy Software Web Bundle. Featuring Web Calendar View, Web Chart View, and four other controls. Regularly $199.
- Valentina Studio Pro. The ultimate reports designer and professional database administration tool. Participants in Omegabundle for Xojo 2016 & 2017 can instead upgrade to UNIVERSAL. Regularly $199 or $239.
You can find additional information about Omegabundle Mini for Xojo Web 2017 from the
Omegabundle website or order now through the Paradigma Online Store. Please allow up to three business days for all components to be supplied by email by participating vendors.
New in this prerelease of the 17.6 plugins:
- Fixed a crash with JSONMBS class.
- Improved JSON handling to break circular references.
- Updated Rockesy4ND library for macOS to better support macOS High Sierra.
- Added checks to IconMBS class to make sure you don't get corrupted images.
- Changed CFURL to/from folderitem to use NativePath/URLPath instead of FSRef.
- Fixed an issue with file path handling for Mac XL Plugin. Now handles composed unicode characters better.
- Updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.14.40.
- Updated CURL library to version 7.57.0.
- Updated OpenSSL to 1.1.0g and 1.0.2m
Download:
monkeybreadsoftware.com/xojo/download/plugin/Prerelease/.
Or ask us to be added to our shared Dropbox folder.
For your convenience, here a list of all error codes with messages for lookup.
DynaPDF Error List
Don't forget the
DynaPDF Christmas Sale. A great chance to upgrade and add maintenance at lower prices.
Xojo Inc. today released Xojo 2017r3.
See
Announcement,
Download,
Release Notes
The new Xojo 2017r3 release brings us a 64-bit IDE. That is great news, but may require some updates on your plugins. The recommended version for
MBS Xojo Plugins is the current
version 17.5 which contains important fixes to load plugins at all on Windows. Over the year we fixed a couple of 64-bit related bugs, so please do not use the older ones and find those bugs. All plugin versions older than 16.0 do not load at all in the new IDE due to missing 64-bit code.
Due to
limits on Windows for the number of plugins, you may not see all plugins loading. Some older plugins which are not supporting 64-bit well enough, may not load. When moving to 64-bit, please also consider moving code from QuickTime to AVFoundation on Mac.
Still you can build 32-bit applications, so no worry on that.
See also:
Xojo and Real Studio versions supported by MBS Plugin,
MBS Xojo Plugin 17.5 Announcement and
Windows DLL Limits and Xojo 64-bit IDE
PS: Blog post from Bob Keeney:
Xojo 2017 R3
We are software developers and make a living from selling our software. Ourselves we pay for licenses to enable others to make a living. This includes paying royalties for libraries used in our plugins which enable the continued development of those libraries. And we expect our clients to pay their license fees and indeed the majority does it correctly and pays their bills.
Technically we don’t enforce it directly. Xojo itself has a server based activation, FileMaker Pro doesn’t, but the Server talks back to FileMaker Inc.. Personally we don’t like to use an activation for the plugins, so we only check license keys locally. We also do some statistics on the usage of the plugins, so we know what versions are in use on which operation systems. And we can see which license keys are in use.
The licensing terms for Xojo and FileMaker are quite clear. You can have a trial for FileMaker Pro and for Xojo simply use the software without a license. Those are limited in a couple of ways. But when you get productive, you should really get a license key. You need one license per developer and you do not share license between developrs. For Xojo you need to have a Pro key to use version control software, so you buy the Pro licenses when you want take part in a bigger development project. For FileMaker you should have a license for Pro Advanced when you develop and of course you pay it.
For using plugins we expect that you match the licenses for plugins with those for Xojo and FileMaker. So if you have two Xojo licenses for two developers and both developers work on the projects using the plugins, we expect you to buy two licenses. We want bigger companies to contribute more for the tools than a small one person company. For FileMaker you pay for each server a license to FileMaker Inc. and we expect that you also pay for each server using MBS Plugin the license fee to us. That may result in paying for every developer including trainees and managers. We do know that some things may be temporary and for that reason like to issue
trial keys to use our plugins without paying for a limited time.
Luckily the statistics show that nearly everybody obeys the licensing terms and that makes me happy. We do have Xojo plugins in use for development on at least a thousand computers. We don’t know about deployment as we don’t want to track that! Still MBS Xojo Plugins is used in thousands of applications with properly hundred thousands installations. I know some Xojo applications using my plugins which sold over 10000 times. Our FileMaker plugin is used on tens of thousands computers and that makes us happy. We got some success there over the years.
On the other side the statistics reveal some really bad guys. We learnt that there are license keys used, which we never created. Someone clearly hacked the plugins. And some users really use the plugin on much more computers than intended. Like the company who runs 26 servers with just one server license for our FileMaker plugin. Or a company with eight Xojo developers and just one license key. Same with a FileMaker solution with a 5 seats key, which was in use on 21 computers on a single day last month. And those calculations include a filter which removes the occasional use of a key for a day or two on another computer.
Today I double checked this and contacted a few clients which exceed the license terms a lot. Not the job I like to do.
Ten years ago we started created tutorial videos and today our
video page has birthday. Enjoy a video and learn about our plugins.
Over the years we collected more than 80 videos. We hope you enjoy them!
Watch
Xojo Videos -
FileMaker Videos
Youtube channels:
We know we could make more videos. So what wishes do you have?
Please email us or post a comment here.
We just got notice from DynaForms about their Christmas Sale for this year:
Christmas Special: 25% Off on anything!
As a thank you for the good collaboration and your trust, you get 25% Christmas Discount on anything til the end of the year!
I wish you and your family Merry Christmas and a successful new year.
With kind regards
DynaForms GmbH
The MBS online shop is updated and we reduced all our DynaPDF prices by 25%. So if you need a new license or updates for up to five years, please order. If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Order for Xojo -
Order for FileMaker
