XDC Keynote from Geoff Perlman - Founder and CEO of Xojo, Inc. Geoff Perlman discusses our vision for Xojo, how we have been delivering on that vision and our plans for continuing to do so for the future.
Xojo for Android from Paul Lefebvre - Xojo Engineer Paul Lefebvre talks about Xojo for Android, currently in pre-release testing. Learn about Android Architecture (ART), supported Android OSs, Android UI Components, Android Framework items, debugging and more coming to Xojo Mobile, plus a look at some sample code for Xojo Android.
Building Plugins for Xojo from William Yu - In this XDC Anywhere session, Xojo Engineer William Yu talks about how you can use the Plugins SDK to create your own Xojo plugins. You’ll see what the structure of a plugin looks like and explore how the dynamic API can be utilized to access parts of the Xojo framework.
Building a Xojo Web Dashboard from Wayne Golding - In this XDC Anywhere session, Xojo MVP Wayne Golding builds a Xojo Web Dashboard where all dashboard pages are the same, so the activity is managed at the Application level.
What’s New in MBS & Xojo 2022 from Christian Schmitz - Christian shows you what’s new in MBS Xojo Plugins for 2021/2022. Monkeybread Software is one of the most respected names in the Xojo community and offers a variety of plugins.
Filling in the iOS Gaps from David Cox - There is a learning curve when moving from developing Desktop or Web Apps to iOS. There are many differences and entirely new ways to approach the same problems, but it can be done. Learn how you can create an iOS app that is fully iOS and has the equivalent functionality from both Desktop and Web.
Favorite Xojo Web Features from Travis Hill - In this XDC Anywhere session, Xojo Engineer Travis Hill talks about his favorite Xojo Web features.
Using Xojo’s PDFDocument from Javier Menendez - Xojo Engineer Javier Menendez discusses all of the exciting changes that have come to PDFDocument in recent releases.
Apple Mapview in Xojo Using MBS Plugins from Stefanie Juchmes - Stefanie shows how you can embed maps from AppleMaps into your solutions and even calculate your own route!
Today we are two months into the Russian attack on Ukraine. This war is heart breaking as we know people both in Ukraine and Russia. We have quite a few customers in those countries. It's amazing to see how much of the people we work with or buy stuff from are based inside the Ukraine. Like Valentina database is developed there. LibXL also is from there, but they left just in time before the war.
We personally had visited Russia before on a cruise ship trip to St. Petersburg. A nice city, friendly people and a lot of history to see. What could have happened to Russia, if they invested all the money from their resources into the country. See what other oil countries do like Norway, Saudi Arabia or Dubai. They all know the oil will end and put the money into the country to prepare it for the time after the oil.
No idea what the Russian government wants in Ukraine. They already killed tens of thousands Russians (Soldiers and civilians there) as well as thousands of Ukrainians. And that all to control a piece of land as if Russia wasn't big enough already?
For us, we stopped selling to Russia immediately two months ago. Days before sanctions blocked the credit cards anyway. We donated for good causes in Ukraine and will continue to help.
We hope the Ukrainians can stand their ground and defend their country long enough, that the Russian government realizes this is not going to end in their favor. Or maybe the Russian people revolt to force a change in the government. We know most Russians may not know about the war since it's not shown in newspapers or TV inside Russia.
I feel sorry, for the Russians, who get dragged in a war by their government with all the bad consequences. But I feel even more sorry for the Ukrainians being attacked. We pray for you guys!
Xojo Inc. changed their price list and adjusted the prices. Adjusting prices every few years is okay and nobody should complain. But if you carefully read the blog post here: Changes to Xojo License Pricing, you may notice that old prices are still available for renewals and upgraded until 5th May 2022.
Anyone with a current or expired license should consider ordering an update now.
If your license is good until e.g. August 2022, you may think an update is not needed. But still you may do one and extend your license by one year to August 2023.
If you enjoy using Xojo, plan to use it for another year and you like to save a bit of money, you should order your renewal before 5th May.
As you know you can send emails via the CURL functions in MBS Xojo CURL Plugin. To have your mails show up in sent folder, you need to upload them to the IMAP server. The following snippet does it for Xojo. Key thing is to pass in URL to IMAP Server with name of Mailbox, e.g. "imap://imap.monkeybreadsoftware.de/INBOX.Sent". Than you set the upload option and provide the data to send. Of course you should use SSL, certificate verification and pass in your credentials. So here the Xojo code from the example project:
We like to show you how to use our MBS Xojo SQL Plugin with the SQLDatabaseMBS class with a local PostgreSQL server. This includes connecting, inserting records and running a query to load them into a listbox.
To test locally, we can download the PostgreSQL app and install it locally on our Mac (or Windows/Linux version on PC). With the app, we get a way to launch the server locally and create a database. Then we can open a connection in the Terminal and directly run queries.
Let's create a test table there with a few fields:
CREATE TABLE Persons (
PersonID SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
LastName varchar(255),
FirstName varchar(255),
Address varchar(255),
City varchar(255)
);
Just 14 years ago we added the ChartDirector Plugin to our MBS Xojo Plugin collection.
Thanks to Mr. Jason J. Campbell for asking me to add a charts plugin and thanks to Peter Kwan from Advanced Software Engineering Limited for his support over the years and the excellent co-operation.
PS: ChartDirector is also the engine used by FileMaker Pro internally for the chart generation as you can see on the included DLLs.
There are a few nice additions like debugging on iOS live on the device. You know, timing is different on the devices and you may only see some bugs on the device and not in simulator. Your local iPhone or iPad devices should show up in the build menu in the "Run On" submenu.
This release brings a new software for the online documentation. We like that it gets redone and hopefully it will be better. But this is still work in progress and you see the first version now. In parallel you can use the old documentation or for offline usage use the built-in documentation. If you like to use documentation offline, you have to go to the preferences dialog and click a button to have it download the offline copy.
If you like to automate the IDE, check the big enhancements to the IDE scripting. You can define shortcuts for the keyboard to easier access the various scripts and they got new commands.
The new version includes an updated version of the Chromium libraries for the HTMLViewer on Windows. Please update MBS Xojo Plugins to version 22.1 if you use our Chromium extensions there. The plugin got updated for the new version of the libraries earlier this year.
You may know the debugger has long standing bugs. A very annoying one on newer M1 MacBooks got fixed where break points were not working always. Also the edit source button should now find the right spot in the source code more reliable.
For plugin developers there are a few goodies. First the build process has one build dialog for the whole time of a build including pre-compilation. It was really annoying if that dialog run in background and users got the impression that the IDE crashed. Thanks for the IDE no longer trying to load a plugin as a project. And our plugin controls can now be first in tab order, which helps users of our Scintilla control.
Finally they also changed the price list. Basically after 8 years they do a correction for the inflation. A Pro license is now $799 USD. If you do you renewals before 5th May, you should get the old prices and save a bit of money. e.g. if your license expires in August 2022, you may do a renewal now to extend it to August 2023. Repeat that if you like for multiple years.
In general this is a nice release with over 100 bug fixes, including a few long awaited fixes for the Web framework. You may still open old projects and work on them without moving things to API 2. So everyone can install this and enjoy the new features.
1st April 2000 I founded my company. Well, I registered as a business by getting my business registration (Gewerbeanmeldung) here in Germany.
That was 2 months before I finished school (Gymnasium). While alternative civilian service (Zivildienst) and my time at the university, the company run well and I didn't have to depend on my parents or student loans. Actually the company got me so busy over the years, that I spend less time at university and since 2007 this is my full time job.
I had a few clients in that time interested in development in REALbasic, a very young development environment which started two years earlier. At that time I had a website with a few freeware utilities, so people could see that I can do development. Two years later the demand for plugins got so high, that end of 2001 I started publishing my own plugins. And since 2006 I got into FileMaker Plugin development.
Thanks everyone for supporting me over the years!
PS: If you need a new license this weekend, use coupon code Birthday for an 22% discount.
New in this prerelease of the 22.2 plugins:
As you know you can send emails via the CURL functions in 
Xojo Inc. released the first new version for 2022: 
1st April 2000 I founded my company. Well, I registered as a business by getting my business registration (Gewerbeanmeldung) here in Germany.