New in this prerelease of the 25.4 plugins:
- Updated WiringPi to version 3.1.6.
- Undeprecated WiringPiMBS module.
- Added more methods and constants for WiringPiMBS module.
- Added AddItem() method variant to QLPreviewControllerMBS class, which takes an title text.
- Improved ReadString function in StdinMBS class to be more thread safe.
Download: monkeybreadsoftware.de/xojo/download/plugin/Prerelease/.
Or ask us to be added to our shared DropBox folder.
New functionality in documentation.
You can subscribe to our Xojo mailing list to get notified for new pre-release and release versions.
The November/December (23.6) issue of xDev Magazine is now available. Here's a quick preview of what's inside:
From Idea to Prototype by Tim Dietrich
Tim shares a novel way to use AI in your Xojo projects. Not for coding, but for designing, planning, and prototyping.
A Raspberry Pi Save File Dialog by Eugene Dakin
There are many features of Raspberry Pi that can't be obtained via built-in methods. In today's example, Eugene uses declares to create a save file dialog.
Converting Fitbit Data by Marc Zeedar
Years ago Marc got an internet-connect scale from Fitbit so he could track his weight. But it would never integrate with Apple's Health app. Now, using Xojo, Marc converts ten years of data and imports it into Health.
Android's New Developer Verification by Tim Dietrich
Recently Google threw a huge twist into Android development, requiring all developers register their apps for verification in a system similar to Apple's app signing. What does this mean for Xojo developers building for Android? Tim has some answers.
Plus: An interview with Christian Schmitz, learning to use unit testing, making your apps talk, charting weights, and more!
Recently I had to run a Xojo web app on a server for a client. We wanted to run four copies at once and distribute all users to them equally. Let me document how I do this for future installations.
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Six months until our MBS Xojo conference in Andernach starts. Since the last update we go the first speakers to confirm they are coming and listed the sessions:
- Protecting Sensitive Data in Xojo: Practical Encryption Techniques Using MBS Plugins
- Development of a tourist information system to promote local agritourism based on Xojo and Raspberry Pi installations
- What is new in the Xojo Web Framework?
- Framework and IDE enhancements
More sessions are in the works and get listed once the speakers confirm their attendance.
Attendees
We got a few more registrations, so we have over 20 people from 7 countries: 🇩🇪, 🇳🇱, 🇵🇱, 🇬🇧, 🇨🇭, 🇺🇸 and 🇬🇷.
Special guests
For years we worked with LibXL to provide excellent Excel integration with our MBS Xojo XL Plugin. And this year we are honored to have Dmytro Skrypnyk join us in Andernach for the conference.
If you signed up and you didn't receive an email from us, please contact us to check the status of the registration.
New in this prerelease of the 25.4 plugins:
Download: monkeybreadsoftware.de/xojo/download/plugin/Prerelease/.
Or ask us to be added to our shared DropBox folder.
New functionality in documentation.
You can subscribe to our Xojo mailing list to get notified for new pre-release and release versions.
New in this prerelease of the 25.4 plugins:
Download: monkeybreadsoftware.de/xojo/download/plugin/Prerelease/.
Or ask us to be added to our shared DropBox folder.
New functionality in documentation.
You can subscribe to our Xojo mailing list to get notified for new pre-release and release versions.
New in this prerelease of the 25.4 plugins:
Download: monkeybreadsoftware.de/xojo/download/plugin/Prerelease/.
Or ask us to be added to our shared DropBox folder.
New functionality in documentation.
You can subscribe to our Xojo mailing list to get notified for new pre-release and release versions.
Did you know that macOS 26 (and iOS 26) come with a small local LLM from Apple?
Since it runs local there is no cost involved and no network access. So why not tap into this resource when available to enhance your Xojo application?
You could use the LLM for:
- Generate text based on key words
- Summarize texts
- Tone editing to make some text sound more professional.
- Translate text
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New in this prerelease of the 25.4 plugins:
Download: monkeybreadsoftware.de/xojo/download/plugin/Prerelease/.
Or ask us to be added to our shared DropBox folder.
New functionality in documentation.
You can subscribe to our Xojo mailing list to get notified for new pre-release and release versions.
We have clients using both Xojo and FileMaker, so we made the MBS Xojo FMAPI Plugin to connect them both. Write a Xojo application to connect to the FileMaker server using our FMDataMBS class and query, update or create records.
With the FMDataMBS class, you can integrate FileMaker data directly into your Xojo applications—without relying on manual exports, ODBC bridges, or clunky middle layers. This plugin allows you to perform full CRUD operations (Create, Read, Update, Delete) over HTTPS using the FileMaker Data API, all via simple Xojo code and powered internally by the proven CURL library.
This is ideal for:
- Creating desktop or web frontends in Xojo that interact in real-time with your FileMaker server.
- Automating background tasks or server-side scripts using Xojo that manipulate FileMaker data.
- Extending FileMaker solutions with cross-platform apps, IoT, or REST integrations using Xojo’s flexibility.
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Xojo Inc. runs a sale in their web shop. You get
20% off with a coupon code
MVAJZX for the next few days.
This time the discount is applied to a limited number of orders and then decreases. As of now, you can still have the 20% discount.
For the third day the discount is 15% with coupon code VAVVYV.
As usual, if you have an expired license or your license expires soon, the offer may save you some money.
See the
Xojo Store
New in this prerelease of the 25.4 plugins:
- Added Windows ARM 64-bit support for ChartDirector.
- Added Wait parameter to InstalledProfiles function in CSProfileMBS class.
- Updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.102.297.
- Updated OpenSSL to version 3.5.2.
- Deprecated OptionSSLFalseStart in CURLSMBS class.
- Removed CURLNMBS class.
- In CURL the Upload and Put flags are aliases. We do the same in the plugin now.
- Added CURL.GetMultiTransfersAdded, CURL.GetMultiTransfersCurrent, CURL.GetMultiTransfersDone, CURL.GetMultiTransfersPending and CURL.GetMultiTransfersRunning functions.
- Added CURL.NetworkChanged function.
- Updated CURL to version 8.16.0.
- Updated expat library to version 2.7.3.
- Fixed JaroWinklerDistanceMBS function to work better with empty strings.
- Updated to Xcode 26.0.
- Added SignRSAPSS and VerifyRSAPSS to OpenSSLMBS module for 2048-bit RSA electronic signature with PSS padding and SHA-256.
- Added SignCertificateParametersMBS class.
- Changed SignCertificate method in PKeyMBS class to take SignCertificateParametersMBS for all the parameters.
- Improved MongoSSLOptionsMBS class.
- Fixed an issue with exception handling in GraphicsMagick.
- Updated jsoncons library to version 1.4.2.
- Added FoundationModels classes. See LanguageModelSessionsMBS, SystemLanguageModelsMBS and others.
- Added NameConstraints property to SignCertificateParametersMBS class.
- Removed Secure Transport in CURL library.
Download: monkeybreadsoftware.de/xojo/download/plugin/Prerelease/.
Or ask us to be added to our shared DropBox folder.
New functionality in documentation.
You can subscribe to our Xojo mailing list to get notified for new pre-release and release versions.
When using MBS Xojo DynaPDF Plugin, you can set the draw mode with the SetTextDrawMode function in DynaPDFMBS class.
Each mode has one of three flags set:
- Whether to draw the outline of the glyphs.
- Whether to fill the outline of the glyphs.
- Whether to apply the outline as clipping path.
The text draw mode specifies how text should be rendered. Texts can be used as clipping paths such as normal vector graphics; however, the usage is not the same. To use a text as clipping path save the graphics state, set the text draw mode to a clipping mode, paint the objects which should be clipped into the path and restore the graphics state.
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In this article I want to introduce you the new functionalities from the MBS Xojo Plugins in version 25.4.
Math
The Int128MBS and UInt128MBS classes are brand new and allow you to handle large 128-bit numbers. You can use them with or without a sign. The classes also provide operations for working with these numbers. If you are interested in this topic, please take a look at our blog article 128-bit math in Xojo.
Favicon
When you are surfing the Internet, you will often see small images displayed next to website names. These small images are called favicons. You can now query them in the WebView for a website. To do this, use the GetFavicon methods from the DesktopWebView2ControlMBS and WebView2ControlMBS classes to get the actual image data of the favicon. This method raises the FaviconCompleted events.
Then we have the new FaviconChanged events from the same classes. When the favicon had a different URL than the previous URL, this event is raised. The events give us the data as JPEG or PNG data. You can find the current URI for a favicon in the FaviconURI property.
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Seven months until our MBS Xojo conference in Andernach starts. Since we basically repeat the 2024 event, a lot of details are already set except what to do on Thursday evening.
Evening event
For Thursday evening, we had these dinner events in the past:
- Walk to a nearby specialty restaurant for dinner
- Have a boat trip on the river to enjoy the views
- Take the bus to a castle to see it and enjoy a meal
- Rent a party location for dinner
- Went to a brewery with optional tour of the facility
- Went to a facility where everyone could use a digger
- Went underground to discover the Vulcan cellars in Mendig
What would you like to enjoy with the conference?
If you like to join, please register as we need to know how many people come to decide which event to do this year.
Speaker
We got a few presentations, but we would love to see more. Looking on the roadmap, we expect to have Xojo 2026r1 be in testing or shipped at the time of the conference next year.
Would you be interested to learn at the conference or present on one of the following topics?
- Improving Xojo applications for macOS 26
- Xojo Libraries introduction
- Grid Control introduction and how to use
- Using AI assistant with Xojo
Feel free to sign up for the conference and submit your topic to us.
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We got an updated ChartDirector plugin to build for Windows ARM 64-bit target.
You can download a test plugin here: ChartDirectorWinARM.zip.
ChartDirector is our solution for Xojo to create professional charts:
- 29 types of charts including gantt, box-wisker and 3D charts
- Per developer royalty free license for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux
- Full Unicode support
- No external DLLs
- One year of free updates with each license
- Create vector graphics as PDF and SVG files.
- Export chart as PNG, JPEG, GIF, WMP and BMP.
- Track cursor movements with a dynamic layer.
- Use custom fonts.
- Available for macOS, Windows and Linux with Intel and ARM architectures.
This will be included with next MBS Xojo Plugin pre-releases and ship with 25.5 release.
If you need a license, please check out the OmegaBundle 2025, which includes ChartDirector.
Our mail provider moved our email to a new server.
Sadly this caused an interruption in the mail services whenever this happens.
If you send an email to use and it bounces, please try again later. If we don't react to an email, maybe contact us the next day on a different way like by messaging service, website form or a different email.
Sorry for any inconvenience.
Nickenich, Germany - (September 9th, 2025) -- Monkeybread Software today is pleased to announce MBS Xojo Plugins 25.4 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 have been updated and now includes over 3000 classes and 83,000 documented features, and the versatile plugins have gained more new functions:
Since C++ compilers support 128-bit integers, we added these as classes for Xojo: Use Int128MBS and UInt128MBS classes to calculate with huge numbers. If you need even more digits, check the LargeNumberMBS and BigNumberMBS classes.
For macOS and iOS we started working on support for the StoreKit 2 framework from Apple to integrate it into Xojo. For this we add StoreKit2MBS module with all the methods. We bridge from the Swift based framework to C++ plugin code to Xojo with a modern implementation using asynchronous callbacks via delegates. Once implemented in your application on the Apple App Store, you can process in-app purchases. The older Store Kit classes continue to work fine.
We updated our WebView2ControlMBS for Windows to handle favorite icons. Use the FaviconURI property to learn what is the current URL for the favorite icon. Implement the FaviconChanged event to learn when the website changes and a new icon is available. Use GetFavicon method to asynchronously load the icon to display.
When running under macOS on an Apple Silicon based Mac, you can use MacProductSOCName and MacProductName methods in SystemInformationMBS module to query the product name and the system-on-chip name.
For our MBS Xojo SQL Plugin, we got OLEDB: as a new prefix for SQLDatabaseMBS class. This allows you to pick the OLEDB connection type for Microsoft SQL Server directly. For SQLConnectionMBS class, please use the kOLEDBClient constant here. Alternatively you can still connect to SQL Server using the kSQLServerClient or SQLServer: prefix. With ODBC, OLEDB and native SQL Server interface, we have three ways to connect to your Microsoft SQL Server.
For WMI queries, we updated the WMIObjectMBS class. Use the new functions to query properties with arrays directly. Previously we could only read array properties with strings.
The SetupAWS method in CURLSMBS class can handle COPY and MOVE verbs to move or copy objects in AWS S3, we added beginAppearanceTransition and endAppearanceTransition methods to UIViewControllerMBS class for iOS. We added recursion limit for PythonMBS class, a SkipDeletedText property for WordFileMBS class and a performChangesAndWait method for PHPhotoLibraryMBS to may changes synchronously.
Finally we updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.102.295, SQLAPI to version 5.4.0 and SQLite to version 3.50.4.
See release notes for a complete list of changes.
New in this prerelease of the 25.4 plugins:
Download: monkeybreadsoftware.de/xojo/download/plugin/Prerelease/.
Or ask us to be added to our shared DropBox folder.
New functionality in documentation.
You can subscribe to our Xojo mailing list to get notified for new pre-release and release versions.
Would you like to be able to plan your projects better? How about using a suitable Gantt chart to display the individual tasks in a project in relation to the schedule? Would you like to create this in Xojo? With the MBS Xojo ChartDirector Plugin, that's no problem.
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