London 2015 Mix-Up

XOJO MBS Developer Conference 2015 in London

London 2015 Mix-Up from The Tomas on Vimeo.

Thanks to Tomas Jakobs for making this video.

Conference done

The conference in London is done. A few pictures for you:



You can read more soon in the XDEV Magazine or join the dinner tonight.

Interested in a conference 2016?
You can show your interested by filling out our survey to find the date for 2016.

Tip of the day: GIT Repository Cleanup

If you use GIT, I have a tip for you:

git reflog expire --expire=now --all
git fsck --full --unreachable
git repack -A -d
git gc --aggressive --prune=now

Those commands will remove unreferenced objects and recompress the repository. For me that worked great and for example a 4 GB repository shrunk down to 600 MB. That saves a lot of disk space here. Try at your own risk. Remote repositories may need extra work to upload the new state.

Reminder: Update policy

Just to remind everyone. If you have an older license and you missed to update it for 3 years, you are no longer eligible to order an update for the license. You can of course order a new license at any time.
So today we emailed people from 2013 to remind them to update before the end of 2015.

The key idea is that we offer discounted license prices for renewing licenses to honor you staying up to date.
Thank you for supporting Monkeybread Software.

Biggest Xojo Black Friday Ever!

Xojo, Inc. Announces Biggest Black Friday Sale Ever, so here is the announcement:

Xojo Black Friday Sale Save 20% storewide!

This Black Friday sale is our biggest ever! Everything Xojo is 20% off for one weekend only!* That means new licenses, renewals and upgrades to Xojo Pro are ALL 20% off this Friday, November 27th through Monday, November 30th! In addition, ALL 3rd party products and the XDC Training videos are 20% off! Shop now! Xojo licenses are available in the following options: Xojo Pro - Get a single license for Desktop, Web, iOS and Raspberry Pi, plus priority support, guaranteed access to Xojo Beta Program, membership in a special Xojo Pro-only forum, 3x Feedback multiplier when ranking cases, and you will receive consulting leads. Also, your Xojo Pro license will work on up to 3 machines. Xojo Desktop (Single Platform and Full Desktop) - Develop and build apps for OS X, Windows and Linux. Xojo Web - Build web apps that can run on Linux, Windows or OS X servers and support Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer. Xojo iOS - Create native iPad and iPhone apps. Xojo Raspberry Pi - Build console (non-GUI) applications that can run on Raspberry Pi. Interested in upgrading to Xojo Pro? Do it now and save! You can check your upgrade price here and come back during the sale to save an additional 20%. Don't forget to grab some of the powerful 3rd party products to help expand your development! And please, don't forget to help spread the word - tell your friends about this sweet deal to get them started with Xojo! Visit Xojo.com this weekend for the biggest Xojo sale ever! Xojo offers a 90-day money back guarantee. If you are not satisfied with your purchase you can get a full refund. *Sale excludes Xojo Cloud.

If you like to order your new MBS licenses through us, we will of course offer the same discount. Just contact us.

MBS FileMaker Plugin 5.4 for OS X/Windows

Nickenich, Germany - (November 24th, 2015) -- MonkeyBread Software today is pleased to announce MBS FileMaker Plugin 5.4 for Mac OS X or Windows, the latest update to their product that is easily the most powerful plugin currently available for FileMaker Pro. As the leading database management solution for Windows, Mac, and the web, the FileMaker Pro Integrated Development Environment supports a plugin architecture that can easily extend the feature set of the application. MBS FileMaker Plugin 5.4 has been updated and now includes over 3400 different functions, and the versatile plugin has gained more new functions:

Do you use a Mac? We have a few additions for FileMaker. For the script editor we have a search field to find text in the current script. The matching lines will be highlighted in yellow. For the relationship graph our plugin adds a new search field. Enter some text, press return and FileMaker navigates to the next matching table occurence. Using a popup menu you can jump directly to a table occurence or reduce the list by entering some text.

For OS X we have a few new functions including File system events to monitor directories for changes. The plugin triggers a script if something changes in a folder. You can monitor subfolders and even get file change events.

Our new JavaScript functions for Mac allow to run JavaScript without webviewer. You can get/set properties, evaluate JavaScript expression or execute JavaScript functions. From JavaScript you can trigger FileMaker scripts, evaluate expressions and run SQL queries on the FileMaker database.

For users of Microsoft Word we have a few functions for Mac and Windows to edit Word files (docx and xml Format) and replace placeholder texts with text. You can use this to personalize word files with texts from your database.

If you need to sign text or data and later verify whether the signature is valid, you can now use our elliptic curve signature functions. You generate a private and public key. With the private key you can sign a piece of data. Someone else can now verify the data integrity by checking the signature with the public key.

As you may know we have a XML import feature to import XML files. The plugin creates required tables, fields and imports the data. We added new functions to do the same with JSON data. And our new work functions would allow the importing part to even run on a FileMaker server.

With new search functions for the Mac Addressbook you can easier find people or companies. Auditing can now ignore summary fields and the PrivilegeSetName field works better. Hotkeys got improved so you can limit them to FileMaker instead of system wide. With DynaPDF Pro you can now print a PDF on Windows directly. Our email parser got a few new functions, e.g. to save an imported email without attachments. Finally we have improvements for CURL, AVAsset, PDFKit, Menubar, SerialPort, Text and Window functions.

See release notes for a complete list of changes.

MBS Xojo / Real Studio plug-ins in version 15.4

NICKENICH, Germany (November 24th, 2015) -- Monkeybread Software releases version 15.4 of the MBS plug-in for Xojo and Real Studio.

The MBS plug-in comprises a collection of several plug-in parts which extend the Xojo (Real Studio) development environment with 2,200 classes featuring over 57,000 documented functions. Our plugins support all three platforms Mac OS X, Windows and Linux with all project types desktop, web and console.

Some of the highlights on the 15.4 update:

We happy to ship our first Xojo plugins supporting both 64-bit targets and Raspberry Pi. In general everything what is working on Linux should now work on Raspberry Pi, too. For 64-bit all classes should work, except those using deprecated APIs from Apple. But those are marked as deprecated in the plugin. Features not supported for 64-bit include QuickTime and ATS classes. We even have some 64-bit only classes for EventKit and Social frameworks from Apple. Be aware that for SQL Plugin and other plugins using external libraries, you may need new libraries for 64-bit.

If you need to sign text or data and later verify whether the signature is valid, you can now use our elliptic curve signature functions. You generate a private and public key. With the private key you can sign a piece of data. Someone else can now verify the data integrity by checking the signature with the public key.

Our new JavaScript classes for Mac allow to run JavaScript without HTMLViewer. You can get/set properties, evaluate JavaScript expression or execute JavaScript functions. From JavaScript you can call back to your Xojo code via an event.

For users of Microsoft Word we have a few functions for Mac, Windows and Linux to edit Word files (docx and xml Format) and replace placeholder texts with text. You can use this to personalize word files with texts from your database.

For our SQL Plugin we got a new ConnectMT method to do the connecting to a database on a preemptive thread, so the connect will not block the user interface of your application. For date fields we improved the handling, so you now get a nil instead of a bad date value. We updated SQLite to version 3.9.2 including support for FTS5 and JSON extensions.

Finally we got new spline calculation class, better email parsing, support for RC5 cipher and new functions to read text tracks in AVFoundation.

See release notes for a complete list of changes.

FileMaker Magazin - MBS Artikel

For our Germans speaking users:

Wir haben die Artikel zum MBS Plugin aus dem FileMaker Magazin gesammelt hier online gestellt: FileMaker Magazin Artikel:

• FMM 201105 Bilder skalieren mit dem MBS FileMaker Plugin, So bleibt Ihre Datenbank schlank
• FMM 201203 Arbeiten mit Dateidialogen, Komfortablere Dateiexporte per MBS Plugin
• FMM 201303 Script-Träger übers Netzwerk, Scripts triggern übers Netzwerk
• FMM 201303 Syntax Coloring, Berechnungen und Scripts bekennen Farbe
• FMM 201306 Zip-Archive auslesen, Bilder aus OpenOffice-Dokumenten extrahieren
• FMM 201401 Kalendertermine und Erinnerungen, Wie man Ereignisse aus FileMaker anlegt
• FMM 201402 Variablen, Globalisierte Lösungen per Plugin
• FMM 201405 Vorbereiten von PDFs für den Versand, Verkleinern großer Dateien
• FMM 201405 E-Mail-Versand, Mehr Möglichkeiten mit dem MBS Plugin
• FMM 201501 QuickList, Schnelle Listen für FileMaker
• FMM 201503 Neue Datensätze ohne Layoutwechsel, Mit Hilfe von SQL-Befehlen und dem MBS-Plugin
• FMM 201504 Datensätze effizient kopieren, Mit etwas SQL und dem MBS-Plugin
• FMM 201505 Wünsche werden wahr, Neues im „MBS-Plugin“ bei der FMK 2015
• FMM 201506 Authentizität durch Signaturprüfung, Daten übertragen und Veränderungen bemerken
• FMM 201601 iOS App SDK, Eigene iOS-Apps auf Basis von FileMaker

Wir empfehlen allen FileMaker Anwender ein Abo vom Magazin und den Kauf der alten Ausgaben. Das FileMaker Magazin ist eine excellente Quelle von Informationen, Anleitungen und Profitips.

MBS FileMaker Plugin, version 5.4pr7

New in this prerelease of the 5.4 plugins:

• Updated DynaPDF to version 3.0.46.135.
• Added List.MatchesPostfix, List.MatchesPrefix, List.ValueIndex, QuickList.MatchesPostfix, QuickList.MatchesPrefix and QuickList.ValueIndex.
• Fixed crash in JSON.GetObjectNameList when passing an array.
• Added FSEvents functions.

Download at monkeybreadsoftware.de/filemaker/files/Prerelease/ or ask for being added to the dropbox shared folder.

MBS Xojo / Real Studio Plugins, version 15.4pr7

New in this prerelease of the 15.4 plugins:

• Updated DynaPDF to version 3.0.46.135.
• Added SQLConnectionMBS.ConnectMT.
• Added Description and ModelText properties to CGColorSpaceMBS class.
• Little fixes for 64-bit.

Download: macsw.de/plugin/Prerelease . Or ask us to be added to our shared Dropbox folder.

Training day for MBS Filemaker Plugin - in two weeks

The people at denkform.de are hosting a training for our MBS Filemaker Plugin. So if you want to spend a day with us learning about our plugin, please join us.

We make a guided tour and show you a couple of highlights and examples. Talk about what you can do and how you do some things. Later we will implement a couple of things in sample databases like the Audit function. Also download and upload with CURL is a good topic. We will look into the webviewer extensions and fill a sample form. Next we will do some image editing and writing a report into a Excel file.
Finally we have plenty of time for questions.

This event is in German (english event is also possible).
We meet 3rd December 2015 at 9:30 am in Denkform office. Cost is 99 Euro (incl. VAT) and you can buy a license with 50 Euro discount.
You can register on the denkform website. After the event, there is the regular meeting which everyone can join for free and have dinner with us.

Dates for 2016: 3rd March 2016 and 3rd November 2016.

MBS Xojo / Real Studio Plugins, version 15.4pr6

New in this prerelease of the 15.4 plugins:

• Fixed crash related to ImageCaptureEventsMBS.cameraDeviceDidDownloadFile event.
• Recompiled CURL with max buffer size of 1 MB. OptionBufferSize is set to 16K as before, but you can now change it to bigger buffer.
• Changed SQL functions returning Date to check if date is empty and return nil in that case.
• Fixed possible crash with AddItemToObject and AddItemToArray in JSONMBS class.
• Fixed crash in Picture.HMirrorPictureMBS function with 64-bit.
• Fixed PrintDialogMBS to work again on current OS.
• Updated HASPHLDMBS class to use newer Sentinel SDK.
• Added WordFileMBS class.

Download: macsw.de/plugin/Prerelease . Or ask us to be added to our shared Dropbox folder.

MBS FileMaker Plugin, version 5.4pr6

New in this prerelease of the 5.4 plugins:

• Added RichText.ReadWebviewer function.
• Added Window.Fade function.
• Improved Window.Move and Windows.Resize on Windows to animate better.
• Recompiled CURL with max buffer size of 1 MB. OptionBufferSize is set to 16K as before, but you can now change it to bigger buffer.
• Changed SQL functions returning Date to check if date is empty and return empty result in that case.
• Fixed Window.HideScrollbars to work better for FileMaker 14.

Download at monkeybreadsoftware.de/filemaker/files/Prerelease/ or ask for being added to the dropbox shared folder.

Update for London Conference

Just a quick update: Bob Keeney and his wife Carol join us for the Xojo conference in Wimbledon.
We are pleased to add Bob's presentation to our schedule:

Reporting using BKeeney Shorts
The built in reporting tool is find for simple reports but for many it's not powerful enough. BKS Shorts is a 100% Xojo solution that allows you to create complex reports in code. With the addition of a new report designer you can create external report files and can even embed a report designer into your Xojo desktop applications.

We still have some last tickets available for interested Xojo developers. Or if you just want to join one of the evening dinners, please contact us soon.

See schedule and register.

FileMaker Magazin 5/2015

Die fünfte FileMaker Magazin Ausgabe für dieses Jahr ist soeben erschienen:

Eigene Funktionen

• Feiertagsberechnungen mit FileMaker
  Bald nun ist Weihnachtszeit ... | Burkhart Quenzler

Gewusst wie

• Kalenderwoche
  Vom Datum zur Kalenderwoche und zurück | Klaus Kegebein

• Einblendkalender
  ... vielseitig, farbig, mit Zeitangaben, zum Rechnen, für eigene Ideen,
  größeneinstellbar | Norbert Lindenthal

• Austausch in der fünften Ebene
  Elemente auswählen und ersetzen | Rainer Maschke

• Die 2n-Boolmethode
  Ein neuer und interessanter Ansatz, um komplexe Boolabfragen
  zu vereinfachen | Gerhard Schwingenschlögl

• Einmaliger Aufwand für wiederkehrende Routinen
  Ein universell einsetzbares Script zur Aktualisierung von Datensätzen
  | David Hamann

FileMaker Lösungen

• Bürosoftware als offene Lizenz
  FileMaker Framework mit dynamischer Navigation
  und hoher Produktivität | Markus Schall

Plugins

• Wünsche werden wahr
  Neues im „MBS-Plugin“ bei der FMK 2015 | Christian Schmitz

FileMaker Konferenz

• FileMaker Konferenz 2015
  übertroffene Erwartungen in Hamburg | Markus Schall

• Impressionen von der FileMaker Konferenz
  in Hamburg

Neuigkeiten, Kleinanzeigen, aktuelle Versionen, Adressen, Stammtische

Schedule for MBS Xojo Conference, London, 27th November 2015

We are pleased to announce our MBS Xojo Conference for 2015 in London. This is an english speaking conference located in the southern United Kingdom. We reserved our conference room in Antoinette Hotels Wimbledon in Wimbledon, a part of Greater London.

The conference will start on 26th November 2015 in the evening with a casual get-together. The exact location will be given earlier same day. Meet your colleagues, have a drink together and chat about what's new in Xojo world.

Our conference sessions will run on 27 November 2015 from about 9:00 to 17:00 o'clock with lunch and coffee breaks in-between.
The current schedule:

	Name	Title	Description
08:00		Registration
09:00		Welcome
09:20	Stephane Pinel	Xojo Keynote	What's new in Xojo this year and what is coming
10:00	Bob Keeney	Reporting using BKeeney Shorts	BKS Shorts is a 100% Xojo solution for reporting, now with a new report designer.
10:30		Coffee Break
11:00	Christian Schmitz	MBS Keynote	New in MBS Plugins
12:00	Tomas Jakobs	Products	How to create a product. Tomas will take us on a journey how to shape a Product out of a XOJO software project.
12:20	Chris Carter	Controlling	Controlling a model train with Xojo
12:30		Lunch
13:30	Øjvind Søgaard Andersen	Xojo in Broadcast
14:00	Richard Duke	Made with Xojo	Artscene and ACMS, applications made in Xojo
14:15	Christian Schmitz	PDF in Xojo	Overview about PDF solutions for Xojo
14:45	Jakob Krabbe	Quality Internet	A short introduction to how things can be the same as today but better.
15:10	David Cox	Scaling Web Apps	The things I've learned about supporting Xojo Web Apps for unlimited clients
15:30		Coffee Break
16:00	Norman Palardy	Xojo Q&A	Ask questions about Xojo to one of the engineers (via video conference)
17:00	Christian Schmitz	CURL	What you can do with CURL, the powerful library for network transfers.
17:30		Closing Session	Raffle & Goodbye

On the evening, we offer to have dinner together with others in a casual get-together. If you like, extends your stay for more days and stay the weekend in London.
If you like to join, please register soon. Cost is 69 £ including VAT.

MBS Xojo / Real Studio Plugins, version 15.4pr5

New in this prerelease of the 15.4 plugins:

• Added color parameter for DynaPDFMBS.ShowDifferences function.
• Added JavaScript plugin classes for Mac.
• Fixed bug with GenUID in Rockey2MBS class.
• Fixed bug with NSFontManagerMBS class.
• Changed BeginLayer and EndLayer to pass handle for optional content object in DynaPDFParseInterfaceMBS class.
• Added MimeEmailMBS.Source property.
• Updated DynaPDF to version 3.0.46.134.
• Changed VLCMediaPlayerMBS to cleanup more and remove any window reference or callback for you.
• Updated SQLite to 3.9.2. Now with FTS5 and JSON extensions enabled.
• Deprecated ImageCaptureMBS class as Apple stopped supporting the underlaying APIs. Please switch to newer IC* classes.

Download: macsw.de/plugin/Prerelease . Or ask us to be added to our shared Dropbox folder.

MBS FileMaker Plugin, version 5.4pr5

New in this prerelease of the 5.4 plugins:

• Added XML.Import.Work and JSON.Import.Work.
• Added selector parameter for XML.Import.Todo and JSON.Import.Todo.
• Fixed parameter passing for FM.InsertRecordQuery.
• Entering multi line text in search field for script search now searches for several words. Use Control-Enter to type a newline there.
• Changed Menubar.SetMenuCommandVisible to remove menu items on Windows.
• Added Audit.GetIgnoreSummaryFields and Audit.SetIgnoreSummaryFields.
• Fixed PrivilegeSetName field for audit logging so it is now logged.
• Added SerialPort.CloseAll.
• Added new color parameter for DynaPDF.ShowDifferences and changed function to return number of annotations.
• Added JavaScript functions for Mac.
• Added WordFile functions.
• Updated DynaPDF to version 3.0.46.134.
• Updated SQLite to 3.9.2. Now with FTS5 and JSON extensions enabled.
• Added XL.Book.DeleteSheetsExcept, XL.Book.SheetIndexForName and XL.Book.Sheets.
• Fixed a problem with SQL Execute called in FileMaker 11.
• Fixed a crash in UnZipFile.OpenContainer when container does not contain a valid zip file.

Download at monkeybreadsoftware.de/filemaker/files/Prerelease/ or ask for being added to the dropbox shared folder.

xDev Magazine Issue 13.6

The November/December 2015 (13.6) issue of xDev Magazine is now available. Here's a quick preview of what's inside:

• A Simple Hint System * by Markus Winter
  Markus shares a way to offer users unobtrusive help. It can also be used instead of invasive "nag" screens.
• 64-Bit Conversion * by Sam Rowlands
  Xojo 64-bit support is finally here, but what does it mean to your projects? Sam explains how you can update declares in your apps for 64-bit.
• Staying Out of Jail * by Mark Strickland
  The U.S. has strict regulations about encrypting medical data. Mark shares his technique for keeping the government off your back!
• A Multicore Processing Primer * by Markus Winter
  Are you confused about multi-processing? Markus begins a series explaining everything you need to know about it.
• Medication Alerts, Part One * by JC Cruz
  JC's epic health journal app series continues, this time covering presenting medical alerts to the user.

Plus articles on Raspberry Pi, database design patterns, caching, OptionParser, tips, and much more.

New Version of Spotlight Importer for Xojo from Thomas Tempelmann

Please try this really cool extension for Spotlight on Mac:

On Oct 30, 2015, Thomas Tempelmann has released a new version of the Spotlight importer for Xojo.

It allows Spotlight to search projects saved by the Xojo (and Real Studio) IDE.

The importer used to be included in Real Studio and early Xojo IDEs until about 2 years ago. This version by Thomas Tempelmann is functionally the same, as a standalone plugin, and updated to support the latest Xojo project formats.

More information and download here: tempel.org/RB/SpotlightImporter

As you see you can now use RB Class in the search criteria popup and look explicit for projects using a given class name:

And of course you have full text search in your Xojo and Real Studio projects.

Video of German MBS FileMaker Plugin Presentation

[English]
MBS Plug-in Introduction
Recording of the session at FileMaker Conference, 8th to 10th October 2015 in Hamburg.
The presentation is in German.

[Deutsch]
MBS Plug-in: Der Tausendsassa unter den Plug-ins
Präsentation von der FileMaker Konferenz, 8. bis 10. Oktober 2015 in Hamburg.

Das MBS Plugin ist vermutlich das umfangreichste Plug-in welches für FileMaker verfügbar ist. FileMaker Entwickler verfügen damit über mehr als 3100 zusätzliche Funktionen um ihre FileMaker Lösungen zu erstellen. Jede Funktion führt eine kleine Aufgabe aus, zusammen kann das volle Potential des Plug-ins ausgeschöpft werden.

Better Debugging & Exception Wishes

While a couple of people can't wait for the 64-bit debugger, I'd really like to see some improvements for exceptions. Our bug reports could need some help from the xojo runtime with detailed messages.

• 12703 - OutOfBoundsException exceptions should have details
  For our bug reports it would help a lot to have ubounds and index included.
• 38829 - Add details to TypeMismatchException message
  We'd like to have details on why this exception was raised.
• 37586 - TypeMismatchException should show message with required and existing types for auto data type usage
  Here we'd like to have the details like: Need Int32, but got String.
• 32225 - KeyNotFoundException should have details
  Please get string value for key and add it to the error message.
• 35431 - OutOfMemoryException should have details in message
  Here you could include the amount of bytes which couldn't be allocated.
• 22193 - Show Exception message in debugger
  I see a lot of people ask me what's going on with plugin functions. The plugin raises an exception, but nobody reads the details. So if editor shows exception, it could show message inline.

Maybe one of the next Xojo released could address a few of those? If you like those, please favorite them in Feedback, comment them or put them in your top 5 list.

Tip of the day: Detect MBS FileMaker Plugin

To know if the MBS Plugin is installed on a computer, you can call a plugin function. If the function causes an evaluation error, the plugin is missing:

Set Variable [$r; Value: Evaluate("MBS(\"Version\")") ]
If [GetAsText($r) = "?"]
	Show Custom Dialog ["MBS Plugin not installed"]
Else
	Show Custom Dialog ["MBS Plugin installed in version: " & $r]
End If

Sometimes it may be good to test on solution startup and ask user to install plugin if it is missing.
Or to use the script step to install plugin.

We use evaluate in the example above as you can code this without actually having the plugin. So FileMaker will not show a missing function in editor.

Hotel for MBS Xojo Conference, London, 27th November 2015

We have a hotel room contingent for the conference in London in the Antoinette Hotel Wimbledon.
The following contingent is timing out soon (3rd November). So if you like to join the conference, reserve your room soon:

The offer expired!

For 27th November, we have blocked:

• Club Double Rooms at £70 per room
• Classic Double Room at £79 per room

Rates are inclusive of VAT, and parking.

Full English Breakfast is £11.95 or £8.95 if booked in advance.

Guests should call our Reservations department on 0844 567 8950 to reserve their room, quoting ‘Monkey Bread’, in order to obtain the preferential rate.

If the night of the 26th is required, I can offer the following rates:

• Club Double Room at £92 room only
• Classic Double Room at £100 room only

The Club Double Room is slightly smaller in space than a Classic Double.

Tip of the day: Joining images to one PDF file

Below a code example on how to quickly join a list of image files into a PDF. You provide the page size, here in milli meter. All images are placed as pages with the given page size. So this is best if you have images in a given paper format (e.g. DIN A4) and you want to merge them to a PDF file. Duplicate images are referenced within the PDF and not added twice to the file, which reduces the file size: