We have a few customers who use document databases to store Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other documents in a FileMaker database.
To preview these documents in a container field, we need to generate a preview image for each document. JPEG, PNG, and a few other image formats can be displayed directly. However, Office documents need to be converted into images, and this requires an application that can correctly handle document layouts, page breaks, and other formatting.
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New in this prerelease of the 26.4 plugins:
- Updated whisper headers for version 1.9.2.
- Added Version property to WhisperMBS class.
- Updated llama headers to version 0.3.0.
- Deprecated SetWarmup in LlamaContextMBS class.
- Added Version property to LlamaMBS class.
- Removed MemoryBreakdownPrint for LlamaContextMBS class.
- Removed use_direct_io, use_mmap and use_mlock for LlamaModelParametersMBS class.
- Changed InternalSQLiteLibraryMBS and InternalCubeSQLLibraryMBS to not activate internal library if you loaded a DLL/so/dylib already.
- Added ZoomFactor, DefaultBackgroundColor, EnvironmentHandle and ControllerHandle properties to WebView2BrowserMBS class.
- Updated CURL to version 8.22.0.
- Updated libxml2 to version 2.15.3.
- Updated libxslt to version 1.1.45.
- Updated mongo-c-driver to version 2.5.2.
New functions in documentation
Download Links: Download Mac dmg or Download Windows/Linux zip
Download: monkeybreadsoftware.de/xojo/download/plugin/Prerelease/.
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New in this prerelease of version 16.4 of the
MBS FileMaker Plugin:
New functions in documentation
Download Links: Download Mac dmg or Download Windows/Linux zip
Downloads at monkeybreadsoftware.com/filemaker/files/Prerelease/:
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With the recent DynaPDF update 5.0.4, you can place SVG drawings on a page in a PDF document. By converting all SVG drawing commands into PDF drawing commands, the graphics is preserved as a vector graphics. This avoids any pixelation that a bitmap graphics would have.
You can load a SVG from file with DynaPDF.LoadSVGFile or with container (DynaPDF.LoadSVG. Then query the sizes and insert the graphics to the current open page in a PDF document with DynaPDF.InsertSVG. There you pass a rectangle and optional the name of the symbol.
When you insert a SVG into a PDF page, you can change the size of the drawing by passing a different width and height. You can pick the position where to place and apply transformations if needed. This allows you to rotate the drawing, mirror it or stretch it in one or both axes. You can use SVG drawings for templates and stamp annotations.
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Just two weeks left to get the OmegaBundle 2026 for the $399 USD price.
This year there is no extension and no price hike. If you like to have a bundle with all the goodies, please place an order in time.
Omegabundle for Xojo 2026 is a collection of the most useful tool sets, add-ons, digital books and components for use with Xojo Inc's Xojo development environment. If purchased separately and not including any additional offers, the total cost would be over $7,600 USD. Omegabundle for Xojo 2026 costs $399.99.
Xojo is an award-winning, cross-platform development tool for the Desktop (macOS, 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.
Learn more at omegabundle.net, see what is included and order here.
The September/October (24.5) issue of
xDev Magazine is now available. Here's a quick preview of what's inside:
TF-Luna LiDAR Range Sensor by Eugene Dakin
You can't have too many ways to measure things. After demonstrating sonar distance measurement, Eugene shows how to use the TF-Luna LiDAR range sensor with Raspberry Pi and Xojo to do the same thing with LiDAR.
Breaking Bunny by Marc Zeedar
Marc recently discovered anti-bot software called Bunny Shield was stopping his Xojo app, Comic Downloader, from data scraping a comics website. A discussion with ChatGPT led to a simple solution, using an HTMLViewer control instead of URLConnection to download the page's HTML.
Locked Down—Part 2 by William O'Keefe
In part 2 of his new encryption series, "The Right Way to Get It Wrong," William shows how Xojo encryption code that seems correct and works doesn't create truly secure encryption if you aren't doing everything exactly right. He demonstrates several ways you can get encryption wrong and how to do it the right way.
Plus: Pragmatic programming, DesktopGrid control, MBS SQL, and more!
New in this prerelease of the 26.4 plugins:
- Added PrintToPdf variant taking Folderitem for the path for WebView2ControlMBS and WebView2BrowserMBS classes.
- Deprecated OptionProxyTLSAuthPassword, OptionProxyTLSAuthType, OptionProxyTLSAuthUsername, OptionTLSAuthPassword, OptionTLSAuthType and OptionTLSAuthUsername properties in CURLSMBS class since they are deprecated in CURL library.
- Updated phidgets to version 1.26.20260821.
- Added kDeviceClassVoltageInput constants for PhidgetMBS class.
- Changed WinSparkleMBS class to only call CanShutdown event if you didn't set CanShutdown property.
- Deprecated IKImageViewControlMBS and IKImageViewMBS due to bugs in the frameworks.
- Fixed Configure event for WinPreviewControlMBS control to work if you like to change classID property.
- Updated mongo-c-driver to version 2.5.1.
- Updated openssl to version 3.5.8.
- Added WriteToPkcs12 method to X509MBS class.
- Added fullStateForDocument and fullState properties for AVAudioUnitMBS class.
- Updated DynaPDF to version 5.0.5.15.
- Updated expat to version 2.8.4.
- Updated SQLAPI to version 5.4.3.
New functions in documentation
Download Links: Download Mac dmg or Download Windows/Linux zip
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.
New in this prerelease of version 16.4 of the
MBS FileMaker Plugin:
New functions in documentation
Download Links: Download Mac dmg or Download Windows/Linux zip
Downloads at monkeybreadsoftware.com/filemaker/files/Prerelease/:
You can subscribe to our FileMaker mailing list to get notified for new pre-release and release versions.
Since FileMaker 26 you can not just define a field annotation, but also provide display names. See Defining advanced field options for more details.
With MBS Plugin 16.4 we show the annotation and the JSON for the field display names as a tooltip for the field. This way you can quickly peek into the display names without opening the advanced options dialog.
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With the recent DynaPDF update 5.0.4, you can place SVG drawings on a page in a PDF document. By converting all SVG drawing commands into PDF drawing commands, the graphics is preserved as a vector graphics. This avoids any pixelation that a bitmap graphics would have.
You can load a SVG from file with LoadSVG methods in DynaPDFMBS class either from a file on disk or a buffer in memory. Then query the sizes and insert the graphics to the current open page in a PDF document with InsertSVG function. There you pass a rectangle and optional the name of the symbol.
When you insert a SVG into a PDF page, you can change the size of the drawing by passing a different width and height. You can pick the position where to place and apply transformations if needed. This allows you to rotate the drawing, mirror it or stretch it in one or both axes. You can use SVG drawings for templates and stamp annotations.
Some SVG files have multiple drawings, so you can use SymbolCount function in DynaPDFSVGMBS class to query the count. Then check the internal name of the drawing with SymbolName() function. Or use SymbolNames to get an array with all names. Once you have a name, you can pass it to InsertSVG for the symbol id parameter.
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We recorded the training day at the MBS Xojo Conference in April 2026 and provide the video to the attendees.
If you attended the training, you should have an email for the playlist with all 4 blocks.
All session videos go into the playlist for the conference.
Updated for ZUGFeRD 2.5.2
and Saxon 12.10
When you receive an electronic invoice in the formats ZUGFeRD, Factur-X, X-Rechnung or UBL, you may need to validate the XML file. You can use our DynaPDF functions to extract the XML from the ZUGFeRD invoice. Once you have the XML, you can do some automated validation. We leverage the XSL and XSD files coming with the ZUGFeRD 2.3 or 2.4 download. They provide a way to check both the structure with the XSD file as well as the content with the XSL file. The XSL file is based on the schematron file with all the business rules, but converted to a stylesheet for using it with the XSLT function. While the schema check makes sure you have the right nodes in the right places, the business rules define what can go in a field and how fields are related.
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Updated for ZUGFeRD 2.5.2
and Saxon 12.10
XRechnung Visualization 2026-01-31 compatible with XRechnung 3.0.x
When you receive an electronic invoice in the formats ZUGFeRD, Factur-X, X-Rechnung or UBL, you may need to visualize the XML file. You can use our DynaPDF functions to extract the XML from the ZUGFeRD invoice. Once you have the XML for one of the formats UBL or Cross Industry Invoice, you may want to convert it to HTML and show it in a web viewer.
We leverage the XRechnung Visualization Transformators project from GitHub. This project has a couple of XML stylesheets to convert our invoices to HTML. For this they first convert the UBL or CII XML to an intermediate XML and finally convert that to XML with a second transformation. All with XSLT with our Saxon functions. There is also an alternative output to produce a XML for Apache FOP to make it a PDF file.
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When installing an MBS FileMaker Plugin on macOS, especially in a production or security-sensitive environment, it can be useful to verify that the plugin has a valid Apple code signature and that its contents have not been modified.
MBS Plugin is available for FileMaker and Monkeybread Software signs its macOS plugins. Apple provides the `codesign` and `spctl` command-line tools for inspecting signatures and checking how macOS security policies treat signed software.
This article shows how to perform those checks from Terminal.
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You can check the digital signature of our MBS Plugin files on Windows. There are three ways:
- Use Get-AuthenticodeSignature function in Powershell.
- Use signtool command line tool (requires Windows SDK installed).
- Use properties dialog for DLL files.
Let us show you all threelink ways today.
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NICKENICH, Germany (August 19th, 2026) -- Monkeybread Software releases version 1.8 of the
MBS SQLite Extension.
The MBS SQLite Extension is a multifunctional extension to any SQLite powered application.
Our SQLite Extension supports Mac OS, Windows and Linux. You can use it
- in MBS SQL Plugin with SQLite,
- in Cube SQL 4.0 and newer,
- in Studio Stable Database Server 2.0 and newer,
- in Xojo with the SQLiteDatabase class (needs LoadExtensions property set to true),
- in Real Studio with the REALSQLDatabase class,
- with SQLiteManager
- or any other SQLite application using load_extension.
New in Version 1.8:
- Added ReplaceAllMBS function.
- Upgraded to Xcode 26.
- Upgraded to Visual Studio 2022.
- Upgraded to SQLite 3.51.2.
- Updated minimum macOS version to 12.0.
- Updated to CubeSQL SDK version 5.9.6.
- Deprecated the REALserver part.
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New in this prerelease of the 26.4 plugins:
- Updated DynaPDF to version 5.0.4.14.
- Updated expat to version 2.8.3.
- Added HasAlpha to PNGReaderMBS class.
- Added HasAlpha to TiffPictureMBS class.
New functions in documentation
Download Links: Download Mac dmg or Download Windows/Linux zip
Download: monkeybreadsoftware.de/xojo/download/plugin/Prerelease/.
Or ask us to be added to our shared DropBox folder.
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New in this prerelease of version 16.4 of the
MBS FileMaker Plugin:
New functions in documentation
Download Links: Download Mac dmg or Download Windows/Linux zip
Downloads at monkeybreadsoftware.com/filemaker/files/Prerelease/:
You can subscribe to our FileMaker mailing list to get notified for new pre-release and release versions.
At the Full Access conference, we had a session about the MBS Goodies and a workshop to implement a few features. The DIGFM channel on YouTube has a few videos already, but more will later come to the FullAccess-Events channel.
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New in this prerelease of the 26.4 plugins:
New functions in documentation
Download Links: Download Mac dmg or Download Windows/Linux zip
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.
