The
2019 Xojo Developer Conference will take place 1st to 3rd May 2019 in Miami, Florida. The Marriott Biscayne Bay is located in the north side of Miami downtown and is a convenient location to reach most of Miami easily.
Registration is possible and current rate is $799 for the ticket.
For now Xojo Inc. is looking for speakers to present at the conference. This is your chance to take the time to prepare a session to talk about an interesting topic for Xojo developers, claim your Xojo fame and get 50% off the registration cost!
A topic could be some best practice, how you solved a problem in development, how you made your app, explain a recently introduced feature in Xojo or present an add-on.
Find out more. Deadline for submission is 26th October 2018.
We are trying to move to Xcode 10.
This may involve dropping 32-bit for some things as Xcode 10 doesn't support 32-bit any more. And it may be we could drop 32-bit as target and just make new plugins to be 64-bit only.
Next we may make MacOS 10.9 the minimum, which would drop a few older Xojo and FileMaker versions. What minimum would you like to have?
Of course just going with 10.10 or 10.11 as minimum could simplify coding for us.
Nickenich, Germany - (September 25th, 2018) -- MonkeyBread Software today is pleased to announce
MBS Xojo Plugins 18.4 for macOS, Linux and Windows, the latest update to their product that is easily the most powerful plugin collection currently available for Xojo.
MBS Xojo Plugins 18.4 have been updated and now includes over 2400 classes and 63000 documented features, and the versatile plugins have gained more new functions:
For the MacOS 10.14 Mojave release, we got a few changes in our plugin. The
NSColorMBS class got 40 new colors for better supporting light and dark mode. The
AVCaptureDeviceMBS class has new methods to check authentication status and request authentication for video and audio device access. In the new operation system user needs to give permissions to applications before they can use camera or microphone. The functions working on Node IDs for files on MacOS got updated to use new APIs for Apple File System. For
NSAppleScriptMBS we got a method to determinate whether you have permissions to control another application and request permissions from the user.
We got a new example to detect QR-Codes, faces and text areas via
CIDetectorMBS class. The video is received via
AVCaptureVideoDataOutputMBS and processed in background, so your main thread stays free while the work in done on a preemptive thread. If you just want to get pictures in Xojo, we can do the conversion from YUV to RGB in the preemptive thread.
Our encryption plugin got new functions to work with S/Mime standard. This may be useful to work on encrypted emails or web forms. Our
PKeyMBS class can now open key files directly and query content.
The socket classes got improvements:
RAWSocketMBS can now do Listen and Accept to receive multiple connections for TCP/IP like a ServerSocket.
UDPSocketMBS and
RAWSocketMBS now handle better IPv6 vs. IPv4 protocols and got a new AddressFamily property.
Our
BitRotateMBS function allows to rotate 1-bit bitmaps easier by 90, 180 or 270 degrees and use multiple preemptive threads. The direct show functions to record video use higher resolutions is available. We got a new
CATextLayerMBS class for layers on MacOS and SQL operations can be cancelled easier.
The
OverlayMBS class got a new draw event, so you can draw yourself with CoreGraphics on MacOS and get the window class name for Windows, so you can change properties of the class.
Finally we updated CURL to version 7.61.1, DynaPDF to 4.0.23.61, Growl on Windows for 64-bit, LibXML2 to 2.9.8., SQLAPI to 4.3.3, SQLite to 3.25.0 and Xcode to version 9.4.
See
release notes for a complete list of changes.
On my next visit to Zurich, I'd love to make another Xojo developer meeting:
Wer hat Interesse an einem Xojo Entwicklertreffen am 21. November in Zürich?
Einfach gemütlich zusammen sitzen und über Xojo schnacken.
Gerne zeige ich auch neue Pluginfunktionen oder helfe bei Problemen mit Xojo Projekten. Einfach Computer mitbringen und was zeigen.
Bei Interesse bitte anmelden:
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Wer Interesse hat an einem Termin mit mir für Softwareentwicklung, Schulungen, Entwicklungshilfe, Plugin Empfehlungen, assistierte Fehlersuche, Code-Review und IT-Beratung, der darf sich gerne melden für eine baldige Terminfindung.
For everyone watching regularly the
Bitsundso Plus stream, we got a nice utility app (made in my spare time) to download the current episode as video:
You can download current version here:
BitsundsoDownload.dmg
Please try. You need to specify the ID and password for the login. Than you specify where the ffmpeg command line tool is and where to store the video file. By default it will be put on desktop. Our tool just performs a login on Bitsundso website, gets the video stream URL, picks the 720p stream and downloads it by running ffmpeg. It shows you progress and opens video file on the end. Settings are saved for next run, so you can just run it every week, when you got the push for the new episode.
Have fun!
If you like to plan an event, run a conference, you may need to consider a lot of details.
First you think about what type of conference you’d like to have. It can be small like a meeting for a dinner with a few locals. A bit bigger maybe with a presentation before the dinner. Or you like to run a full conference with one or two days, you may need a lot of presentations over the day with lunch and maybe some dinner. For two days or more, it’s always nice to have a bigger evening event in-between.
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Once again Xojo is sponsoring the
Under the Radar podcast.
This podcast features two developers talking about problems and challenges you have as an independent software developers. The latest episode is about search and they use full text search in SQLite.
Thanks to David Smith and Marco Arment for their apps and the podcast.
And thanks to Xojo Inc. for supporting the shows. Xojo is sponsor for episode
#141. Coupon code is RADAR for 20% off a Xojo license.
New in this prerelease of the 18.4 plugins:
Download:
monkeybreadsoftware.com/xojo/download/plugin/Prerelease/.
Or ask us to be added to our shared Dropbox folder.
If you recently submitted a FileMaker iOS app to the App Store, you may have got the following message from Apple:
Invalid Document Configuration - Document Based Apps should support either the Document Browser (UISupportsDocumentBrowser = YES) or implement Open In Place (LSSupportsOpeningDocumentsInPlace = YES/NO)
Once again Apple improves the automatic checks on applications to find bugs in the configuration. The FileMaker app declares in the info.plist file in the bundle, that it works as editor for a few file types. For an iOS app, this usually includes the FileMaker Document type with the extension fmp12 (unless you change that).
An application declaring file types must specify whether it can open them in place or needs copies to work on. This is new since the introduction of the iCloud file synchronization. To fix, you'd need to add the missing LSSupportsOpeningDocumentsInPlace key to the info.plist file.
In Xcode, please locate to the project settings and there to the target settings. In the Info tab you find the info.plist settings for the applications. In the section for custom iOS target properties, you add a new entry with the following values:
Name: Supports opening documents in place
Type: Boolean
Value: NO
Please try and see if your app still runs. As we expect that FileMaker may not do the extra coordination for secure scoped bookmarks, we use the value NO above, so the OS may do copy files to temp folder for FileMaker to access them.
The key is documented here on the Apple developer website in the
LSSupportsOpeningDocumentsInPlace section.
Our client
BillJobs near Paris is looking for a
Xojo developer in France:
Développeur logiciel en CDI (H/F)
Missions :
Vous connaissez les langages de programmation XOJO ou VBA,
vous maîtrisez le langage SQL,
vous connaissez les langages et protocoles du WEB (http, https, html),
vous êtes curieux et souhaitez vous impliquer dans des projets à long terme,
vous savez vous adapter aux fonctionnements d’une entreprise à taille humaine.
Alors, rejoignez-nous pour participer au développement de notre solution de gestion disponible sur Windows, Mac OS et sur navigateurs web.
Envoyez-nous votre candidature et faites-nous part de vos motivations à contact@billjobs.com
Salaire selon profil, mutuelle, intéressement, tickets restaurant.
You may have seen Vincent Mercey in Munich at our Xojo conference.
For 2019, I have the chance to visit the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in early January.
Years ago I visited the Cebit here in Germany, but the CES will be bigger and show more hot new stuff. I hope to see a lot of innovative things to inspire me for future projects.
Anyone else going to CES next year?
In case we may have an extra meeting with developers, I made two surveys:
Survey for Xojo Meeting and
Survey for FileMaker Meeting
If you are interested in consulting, training or custom development around our plugins, please contact me for a private appointment.
New in this prerelease of the 18.4 plugins:
Download:
monkeybreadsoftware.com/xojo/download/plugin/Prerelease/.
Or ask us to be added to our shared Dropbox folder.
Today at the
Macoun conference, I visited the session about CoreML and for a nudity scanner. This included the pointer to the following CoreML model to detect nudity in pictures. That's great, if you get pictures from users and you want to know whether they include any porn pictures.
You can download the model here:
Yahoo's Open NSFW detector with Core ML as part of an open source project. In the download, please locate the OpenNSFW.mlmodel file and put the path into our CoreML.fmp12 example FileMaker database or the CoreML Xojo project coming with MBS Plugins.
When you run this model with a porn image, you may get an output like this:
{
"classLabel" : "NSFW",
"prob" : {
"SFW" : 0.34505009651184082,
"NSFW" : 0.65494996309280396
}
}
for a normal picture of something else, you may get this output:
{
"classLabel" : "SFW",
"prob" : {
"SFW" : 0.97758579254150391,
"NSFW" : 0.02241421677172184
}
}
As you see this model has only two classes SFW (safe for work) and NSFW (not safe for work) to categorize images in. For each we get the probabilities and the classLabel for the most likely class.
This can be used in various projects in both FileMaker and Xojo. Whatever image you get to post on social platforms, add to your image database or upload to your CMS, you can pre-check images. Whether you warn the user only, mark them as porn or decline them is your choice.
We are looking forward to improvements in MacOS 10.14 Mojave and iOS 12. Looks like CreateML lets you really easily create new models.
For other models, please check the awesome list of models for Core ML here:
github.com/likedan/Awesome-CoreML-Models. There are some really cool models like predicting location of a picture, what type of food you got on a picture or gender classification for names.
At the
MBS Xojo Conference 2018 in Munich, I presented the keynote about MBS Plugins to show what's new from us this year. As the recording is not perfect, I recorded it again for you:
If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.
New in this prerelease of the 18.4 plugins:
Download:
monkeybreadsoftware.com/xojo/download/plugin/Prerelease/.
Or ask us to be added to our shared Dropbox folder.
The good news is: We have videos this time.
The bad news: The camera was not the best one and not properly configured, so we have something to improve for next conference.
Still you can watch the videos and all attendees should have an email with the download link.
Here a few screenshots:
Have fun watching them. If you didn't attend and you like to get a copy, please
order here. Be sure that the money will be used for the next conference and especially for better videos.
Omegabundle for Xojo 2018 Developer Tools Bundle Announced; Save 89% on Top Tools
Due to request of some buyers who missed first deadline, we extended the offer, but the final end is coming soon: 10th September 2018, which is
today.
You can buy it several times, e.g. one for each of your developers. Or buy multiple copies to get more than one OS for Valentina Server.
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As you may know, we always do a raffle on the end of our conferences, so attendees don't run away early.
This year, we got a lot of T-Shirts, a Xojo bag, some Bavarian chocolate and
XDevMag coupons.
Congratulations to all the winners!
See you at the next conference:
XDC 2019
We are always happy to see more women joining our conferences over the years:
Most IT conferences have nearly no women, so we try to encourage more women to join the conferences.
Second day started with Paul Lefebvre presenting on what is new in Xojo 2018r2 and coming in 2018r3 or beyond.
Full schedule on the
Conference Website
We are right now in the Xojo Keynote with Geoff Perlman, CEO of Xojo Inc.
Great news about newer APIs, Android progress, Windows changes, MacOS Dark Mode and much more!
Next will be MBS Keynote.
Conference Website
New in this prerelease of the 18.4 plugins:
- Added new optional MultiplyOnlyOver parameter for MultiplyUInt8MBS and MultiplyUInt16MBS.
- Added CNContactStoreMBS.CNErrorCodeRecordIdentifierInvalid constant.
- Added NSAppleScriptMBS.DeterminePermissionToAutomateTarget function.
- Added authorizationStatusForMediaType and requestAccessForMediaType methods for AVCaptureDeviceMBS class for MacOS 10.14 Mojave. For older MacOS versions we always report authorized.
- Fixed NSColorMBS.colorValue for new colors on MacOS Mojave.
- Fixed problem with registration where Win license didn't unlock DirectShow plugin part.
Download:
monkeybreadsoftware.com/xojo/download/plugin/Prerelease/.
Or ask us to be added to our shared Dropbox folder.
This week we head to Munich for our
European MBS Xojo Conference 2018.
Sixty developers from twelve countries are signed up including Xojo CEO Geoff Perlman and Xojo Evangelist Paul Lefebvre.
The schedule:
| Sep 4th | Day | optional sight seeing tour |
| Sep 4th | Evening | optional get-together with everyone arriving early |
| Sep 5th | Day | optional Xojo training (English) |
| | Evening | optional get-together with everyone arriving early |
| Sep 6th | 9:00 to 18:00 | First day of conference with keynotes |
| Evening | Dinner event in Augustiner Keller |
| Sep 7th | 9:00 to 18:00 | Second day of conference with more sessions |
| Evening | optional dinner together |
We all look forward to presentations about Android, the new Web Framework other news in the Xojo keynote.
Register here. Attending the conference costs regularly 699 Euro plus VAT, including food and beverage in the Maritim Hotel as well as an accompanying social program.
Sessions are to be held in English. Our conference is conceived as a networking event for the Xojo community. The conference is an ideal opportunity for sharing your thoughts and your own development experience with fellow users and developers. If you like to hold a presentation, please contact us as soon as possible.
PS:
OmegaBundle includes a transferable coupon to save 100 Euro on the registration fee.
Omegabundle for Xojo 2018 Developer Tools Bundle Announced; Save 89% on Top Tools
Due to request of some buyers who missed first deadline, we extended the offer, but the final end is coming soon: 10th September 2018.
You can buy it several times, e.g. one for each of your developers. Or buy multiple copies to get more than one OS for Valentina Server.
Read More
New in this prerelease of the 18.4 plugins:
Download:
monkeybreadsoftware.com/xojo/download/plugin/Prerelease/.
Or ask us to be added to our shared Dropbox folder.
