We got trial keys about 6 years ago added to our
FileMaker and
Xojo plugins.
A trial key is only valid for a limit time and allows to test all features without demo limitations. Due to the time limitation of the key, you can use it for a few weeks. The key later expires and you are back to demo mode or you order a license to get a permanent license.
We setup a form to request a license key:
Request Trial License Key
We may limit who can get a trial and filter out the requests looking like spam. But so far we issued over 1800 trial keys to various people.
Please understand that trial keys are not intended for deployment of solutions as keys expire. Our regular keys don't expire and can be used forever with the plugin versions released before the license's expiration date.
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We got quite a few utility functions in MBS Xojo Plugins for you to enjoy in your projects.
GetVariantTypeMBS
Let's say you have a variant containing something. Usually you use VarType() or Variant.Type to query the type.
GetVariantTypeMBS(va as variant) as Integer
The GetVariantTypeMBS function does the same, but has an extra code path for UInt32 and UInt64. While Xojo's functions don't distinguish between signed and unsigned integers, the MBS Plugin can do.
| Variant contains | Variant.Type | GetVariantTypeMBS |
| Int32 | 2 | 2 |
| UInt32 | 2 | 102 |
| Int64 | 3 | 3 |
| UInt64 | 3 | 103 |
All other types would be same return values.
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Today Xojo Inc. released the new version of Xojo, their second release for this year. Let's check what is new.
Release notes - Download
Control Sets for web projects
Better late than never, but this makes it easier to convert older Web 1 projects using control sets to Web 2. And of course you can use array indexes directly instead of putting controls in your own array property. A control set allows you to access an set of controls by the same name and the index.
See also
What’s New in Xojo Web in 2024r2
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New in this prerelease of the 24.3 plugins:
- Added AddRow() variant to SQLDatabaseMBS with returning insert id.
- Fixed ArcShape for DynaPDFMBS to not close the Arc line.
- Updated CubeSQL library to version 5.9.
- Added isSequoia function to SystemInformationMBS module.
- Deprecated isMavericks, isElCapitan, isYosemite and isSierra functions in SystemInformationMBS module.
- Deprecated MacROMBootVersion, MacBoardID, MacVRAMSize and MacHasHardwareAcceleratedCoreImage functions in SystemInformationMBS module.
- Added isValidJSON function for JSONMBS class.
- Updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.89.256.
- Added SearchAsIs flag for DynaPDF.Parser.FindText function.
Download:
monkeybreadsoftware.de/xojo/download/plugin/Prerelease/.
Or ask us to be added to our shared DropBox folder.
You can subscribe to our Xojo mailing list to get notified for new pre-release and release versions.
We recorded the presentations at the MBS Xojo Conference in April 2024 and here is the fifth video with David Cox presenting about Cross-platform development using Convert to Method Pair:
If you have a massively multi-platform project you quickly discover that placing code in 12 locations (in Objects, Methods and Classes for Desktop, Web, iOS and Android) becomes nearly impossible to manage. Using Convert to Method Pair allows you to place all your source code into one external Class per Window/Container/Page/Screen making your applications work consistently and making debugging much easier.
More videos will follow into the playlist.
Recently a client asked about whether we can do MQTT to subscribe to a topic and receive messages or even send messages.
MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) is a lightweight messaging protocol designed for devices with limited resources and for low-bandwidth, high-latency, or unreliable networks. It operates on a publish/subscribe model which allows for efficient distribution of information to many receivers.
RabbitMQ
A quick search here found the RabbitMQ classes we have. They allow you to connect to the a server running the open source message broker software RabbitMQ. You can use our plugin to use a lot of things there and they have a MQTT plugin, so you can connect your MQTT stuff with the RabbitMQ server.
See MBS Xojo RabbitMQ Plugin, the example files and blog posts about it.
CURL
We also discovered that we have MQTT capabilities built-in to the CURL library. Just use an URL with "mqtt://" followed by IP or domain name of the server. In the path of the URL goes the subject to subscribe or post to. If you like, set a user name and password. Let us show you with some example code.
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New in this prerelease of the 24.3 plugins:
Download:
monkeybreadsoftware.de/xojo/download/plugin/Prerelease/.
Or ask us to be added to our shared DropBox folder.
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We recorded the presentations at the MBS Xojo Conference in April 2024 and here is the forth video with Jérémie Leroy presenting about Managing exceptions like a pro:
Detecting bugs and fixing them is very important as a developer.
Managing exceptions can take a lot of time to implement. This session will present Sentry.io using an open-source set of classes written in Xojo.
Watch on YouTube. More videos will follow into the playlist.
New in this prerelease of the 24.3 plugins:
- Added CanonicalXML function to XMLValidatorMBS class.
- Improved error messages for exceptions raised in OpenSSLMBS module to contain more details.
- Added quotationEndDelimiter, quotationBeginDelimiter, alternateQuotationBeginDelimiter, alternateQuotationEndDelimiter to NSLocaleMBS class.
- Added calendarIdentifier, localeIdentifier, languageIdentifier, collatorIdentifier, regionCode to NSLocaleMBS class.
- Added NSCurrentLocaleDidChangeNotification function for NSLocaleMBS class to use with NSNotificationObserverMBS class.
- Added localizedStringForVariantCode, localizedStringForScriptCode, localizedStringForLocaleIdentifier, localizedStringForLanguageCode, localizedStringForCurrencyCode, localizedStringForCountryCode, localizedStringForCollatorIdentifier, localizedStringForCollationIdentifier, localizedStringForCalendarIdentifier, localeWithLocaleIdentifier to NSLocaleMBS class.
- Added PythonHome, ProgramName, ProgramFullPath, Prefix, Path and ExecPrefix properties to PythonMBS class.
- Changed CURL debug messages to include the full URL you requested for review. We include a warning, if URL has no scheme.
- Updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.88.252.
- Added kKeepUnsupportedAnnots constant for DynaPDFMBS class.
- Added SetLineAnnotPoints and EnableImageCache functions to DynaPDFMBS class.
Download:
monkeybreadsoftware.de/xojo/download/plugin/Prerelease/.
Or ask us to be added to our shared DropBox folder.
You can subscribe to our Xojo mailing list to get notified for new pre-release and release versions.
We recorded the presentations at the MBS Xojo Conference in April 2024 and here is the third video with Javier Menendez presenting about Mobile Development:
Getting the most out of Mobile Development with Xojo
Watch on YouTube. More videos will follow into the playlist.
New in this prerelease of the 24.3 plugins:
Download:
monkeybreadsoftware.de/xojo/download/plugin/Prerelease/.
Or ask us to be added to our shared DropBox folder.
You can subscribe to our Xojo mailing list to get notified for new pre-release and release versions.
We recorded the presentations at the MBS Xojo Conference in April 2024 and here is the second video with Christian Schmitz giving an update on MBS Xojo Plugins:
What is new in the 23 & 24 versions and what is in the pipeline?
Watch on YouTube. More videos will follow into the playlist.
New in this prerelease of the 24.3 plugins:
- Added Python plugin with PythonMBS class.
- Fixed a problem with XLBookMBS when using conditional formatting.
- Updated plugin SDK for Xojo 2024r2.
- Fixed problem with JSON returning negative floating point numbers without leading 0.
- Updated to Xcode 15.4.
- Updated SQLAPI to version 5.3.2.
- Removed deprecation attribute for FFTSingleMBS and FFTDoubleMBS functions.
- Fixed the ReplaceTag function in WordFileMBS, which broke in 14.2.
- Fixed number passing for XojoDOMXPathExpressionMBS class.
- Updated SQLite to version 3.46.0.
- Updated our ICU integration for SQLite to the new SQLite version.
- Changed HotkeyMBS class for Windows to react on right shift/control/option keys, too.
- Updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.87.251.
- Updated curl to version 8.8.0
- Added SetInput method taking ptr to ZLibDecompressMBS, ZLibCompressMBS, BZip2DecompressMBS and BZip2CompressMBS functions.
- Added title property to VNDocumentCameraViewControllerMBS class.
Download:
monkeybreadsoftware.de/xojo/download/plugin/Prerelease/.
Or ask us to be added to our shared DropBox folder.
You can subscribe to our Xojo mailing list to get notified for new pre-release and release versions.