Check our QuickLook Plugin for Xojo and Real Studio Projects

You have several Xojo and Real Studio versions in use? Want to know in advance what version a project has?
Well, in that case, try our plug-in for QuickLook: MBS-Xojo-QuickLook-Plugin.dmg

After installation of our plug-in to /Library/QuickLook and you restarting the Finder or logged in the next time, your icons look like this:

Enjoy! This plug-in is freeware, so tell your friends. Version 1.4 adds support for newer Xojo versions.

MBS Xojo / Real Studio Plugins, version 16.1pr3

New in this prerelease of the 16.1 plugins:
  • Updated DynaPDF to version 3.0.49.148.
  • Added DynaPDFMBS.GetSysFontInfos.
  • Removed GraphicsMagick signal handlers so the plugin doesn't show up in crash reports on Mac when crashing.
  • Fixed bug in CURLSFileInfoMBS class with handling time/date right.
  • Added DeviceHandle, FeatureReportLength, InputReportLength and OutputReportLength for HIDAPIDeviceMBS class.
  • Added CURLEmailMBS.ClearHeaders method.
  • Added SQLDatabaseMBS.NativeAPI property.
  • Added Cache Option for SQL Plugin. This allows to cache whole recordset client-side.
  • Added WinUSBMBS.LastErrorMessage property.
  • Changed SQLDatabaseMBS.Prepare to accept question marks as place holders for parameters for compatibility to existing code. You are still advised to switch to named parameters to avoid mistakes with wrong indices.
  • Rewrote FileListMBS. Now even faster and works on Linux, too.
  • Added VolumeRoot parameter for CarbonApplicationEventsMBS.VolumeMounted event.
  • Added SetBusyTimeout and SetBusyHandler to SQLite3MBS class so you can set busy handler for SQLite database connections.
  • Fixed internal conversion for FSRef to Folderitem to work better for volumes.
  • Fixed bug in VolumeInformationMBS class for 64-bit.
  • Added renderInContext and renderInPicture methods to CALayerMBS class.
  • Updated MT methods on SQL Plugin to run trace events on right Xojo thread.
  • Updated SQLite to 3.11.0.
Download: macsw.de/plugin/Prerelease . Or ask us to be added to our shared Dropbox folder.

MBS FileMaker Plugin, version 6.1pr3

New in this prerelease of the 6.1 plugins:
  • Updated DynaPDF to version 3.0.49.148.
  • Added Dictionary.ToJSON, Dictionary.ToText and Dictionary.ToXML.
  • Removed GraphicsMagick signal handlers so the plugin doesn't show up in crash reports on Mac when crashing.
  • Fixed bug in Dictionary.Serialize.
  • Added AVRecorder functions to record audio/video.
  • Added FM.InsertOrUpdateRecord2 and FM.InsertOrUpdateRecord3.
  • Added SendMail.ClearHeaders function.
  • Added Window.ClearFocus.
  • Added CLGeocoder.Distance function.
  • Added asText parameter for Addressbook.person.vCardRepresentation.
  • Added Addressbook.person.ExternalUID and Addressbook.searchPersonWithExternalUID to help with CardDAV servers.
  • Fixed a bug with Encryption.Cipher.
  • Updated SQLite to 3.11.0.
Download at monkeybreadsoftware.de/filemaker/files/Prerelease/ or ask for being added to the dropbox shared folder.

DevCon Hotel Scam Alert

If you sign up for FileMaker DevCon as vendor (or attendee?), you may get calls from Conference Exhibition service, Reservation service or other names and they want to sell you hotel rooms on the phone.
This year I already got five such calls! As well as a couple last year for the previous DevCon.

As far as I know FileMaker, Inc, has not contracted any third party vendors to handle hotel reservations.
Please do not book a hotel reservation with any third parties, and be sure to share this information with your fellow developers.

You should either book the hotel DevCon website for the special rate. And if you are low on money, you can always find a cheaper room, e.g. the Monte Carlo Hotel has rooms for as low as $69, but you have to walk a block to the Cosmopolitan.

Tip of day: Load GIF into WebImageView

If you need to load a GIF picture into a WebImageView, you need to build a WebPicture and put the GIF inside it:

// get some gif file dim f as FolderItem = SpecialFolder.Desktop.child("test.gif") // open GIF dim g as GIFMBS = f.OpenAsGIFMBS // get data for GIF file dim b as BinaryStream = BinaryStream.Open(f) dim s as string = b.Read(b.Length) // get picture dim fp as Picture = g.MakeFirstPicture // creates a new webpicture based on picture dim pic as new WebPicture(fp) // now fill the web picture pic.Data = s pic.MIMEType = "image/gif" pic.Filename = f.name // show picture in WebImageView me.Picture = pic
Verified to work in Xojo 2019r3.

Answers 1.1.7 - Fixes and Tweaks

Tim Parnell just released Answers 1.1.7 which you get as part of OmegaBundle:

Feb 24, 2016 - Today's update for Answers tweaks a few details to improve your experience with the tool. Designed to always be a pleasant experience, Answers is your go-to app for help documents of any size.

Help documents are vital to customer support, and making them is no longer a challenging task. Answers from Tim Parnell, makes creating and organizing help documents simple. By allowing users to focus on the content, not the code, anyone can quickly create help documents like software help books or website FAQs.

Now updated, Answers allows you to build documents with a range complexity. Whether it's a simple help book, or a reference manual Answers extends new power to your communication. It's easier than it ever has been to convey your message for free. Version 1.1.7 also fixes some minor bugs reported by users.

Answers 1.1.7 is available now for Mac and Windows. Download it now from the website for free. Answers is free to use and build with. Some options and build types are limited to Pro users. Upgrading to a Pro license is $29 USD.

Answers is participating in OmegaBundle this year, along with 15 other incredible products. OmegaBundle offers a huge savings on the best add-ons, extensions and helper applications for developing cross-platform and mobile applications with Xojo.

Website - Download - Omegabundle


XojoTalk podcast

The XojoTalk podcast just got it's twenty second episode. So go and listen to it!
  1. Shoving Phones In Their Pockets with Geoff Perlman
  2. That's A Lot Of Tens with Bob Keeney
  3. Developer of Long Standing with Eric Gibbon
  4. Grizzled Veterans with Travis Hill
  5. Where's My Column? with Marc Zeedar
  6. I have no idea what you're talking about with Kem Tekinay
  7. Snowgun with Kevin Cully
  8. Really Wicked with Hal Gumbert
  9. It's my dog with Norman Palardy
  10. Strap a Mac Pro to my wrist with Tim Dietrich
  11. The forum is my personal training ground with Tim Hare
  12. Shipping is a feature with Paul Levine
  13. Hockey Programmer with Mike Cotrone
  14. Software Maniacs with Ken Whitaker
  15. Type my password like an animal with Justin Elliott
  16. Magical Toolkit with Craig Boyd
  17. I Keep My Secrets to Myself with Bruno Frechette and Jonanthan Guillemette
  18. Not The Pi You Eat with Geoff Perlman
  19. Ghost Touches with Geoff Perlman
  20. Spoiler Alert with Bob Keeney and Marc Zeedar
  21. Enterprise Consulting with Arthur Couture and Tom Rupprecht
  22. I Like Things That Just Work with Tim Parnell
Subscribe at iTunes or to RSS Feed

IP in menubar 4.5

NICHENICH, Germany (February 23rd, 2016) -- Monkeybread Software Releases IP in menubar v4.5, an application to show the current IP address in the menubar.

This small application runs in the background and shows the current IP address of your Mac in the menu bar. There are options available to customize the appearance of the menu entry. The IP dddress is updated regulary. Switch on the Router option if you are behind a router or gateway. You can still see your local IP address in the menu.

This application is freeware and provided as is.

IP in menubar is an example of what you can do in Xojo using the MBS Plugins and their NSStatusItemMBS class.

Changes in Version 4.5:
  • Added option to show country flag.
  • Added option to show notification when IP changes. This allows you to keep a history in notification center.
  • Added option to show VPN IP.
  • Fixed a bug for not connected and behind a router.
Requires Mac OS X 10.7 or newer; source code is included. This application shows Xojo developers how to create and update a menu in the top right of the menu bar.

The application is freeware, but contributions are accepted through PayPal.

Download at the IP in menubar website.

MBS Xojo Conference: One week left for young developer tickets

Monkeybread Software is pleased to announce the 5th MBS Xojo Conference in beautiful Koblenz, Germany. Once again we meet in the lovely Contel hotel on the banks of the river Moselle. Beside our two conference days we have accompanying social programme with our dinner event and optional two training days. For the evenings we have casual get-together in the hotel bar or beer garden.

We like to offer young developers the possibility to meet the Xojo community, get in touch with other developers and maybe find first clients or an employer.

For the 2016 conference we decided to do something special. We provide three conference tickets free of charge to three young developers so they have the chance to join our conference. Please apply until 29th February 2016 to get one of the tickets.

Requirements:
  • You speak english and you can follow the conference.
  • You are 25 years old or younger.
  • You have done your first Xojo projects and know Xojo a little bit.
  • You are sure you can cover your cost of travel, food and hotel room.
  • You have the required passport or Visa to travel to Koblenz.
We are happy to have Xojo engineers join our conference. Norman Palardy from Canada and Stéphane Pinel from France will be there to talk about Xojo. Jens Boschulte, our PDF specialist and creator of the DynaPDF library will be available for questions. And of course we have a few other well known Xojo developers coming.

The schedule:

May 17th: Xojo Training in English
May 18th: Xojo Training in German
May 19th: Conference, first day with dinner event
May 20th: Conference, second day

Registration is open. Attending the conference costs regularly 299 Euro plus VAT, including food and beverage in the Contel Hotel on the banks of the river Moselle as well as an accompanying social programme. The early bird offer available till 29th March is just 249 Euro plus VAT.

Sessions are to be held in English. Our conference is conceived as a networking event. The conference is an ideal opportunity for sharing your thoughts and your own development experience with fellow users and developers. If you like to hold a presentation, please contact us as soon as possible. Speaker receive discounted tickets.

Registration and more Information on our website.
Training days in German and English.

For any questions, please contact me directly.

One month for early Registration for XDC

Early registration for the 2016 Xojo Developer Conference is available till 21st March, 2016. Don't miss it.

XDC will take place in Houston, TX October 5-7, 2016. It features sessions on best practices, special interests and other technical topics, with content for every level of Xojo developer. Educational sessions will cover topics like Xojo iOS, Raspberry Pi, database design, user interface design, debugging techniques, writing secure apps, and much more! Want to know what XDC is like? Watch our highlights video!

Register now!

XDC Pricing:
Early Bird Registration
Now through March 21, 2016: $799

Advanced Registration:
March 22 - August 22, 2016: $899

Late Registration:
August 23 - Conference: $999

XDC will take place at the lovely boutique Hotel Derek in the Galleria area of Houston. It's right in the middle of two airports, giving you plenty of options (and time) to find a great flight! We have negotiated a hotel room rate of $164 a night. Rooms can be reserved here.

If you have any questions about XDC, feel free to email Data Brown.

PS: Looking for European conference? Early bird offer for MBS Xojo Developer Conference in Koblenz is available till 19th March.

Audio and Video Recording for FileMaker

The last weeks I worked on audio/video recording functions for FileMaker. Just a few functions to start a session, select a video and/or audio device, start recording and have a preview picture. This seems to work well so far:



So far this works well for Mac and Windows. On Mac we get a m4v file (m4a for audio only) and for Windows an AVI file is created. We don't have many options yet, but you can show the preview on any layout window in the position you need.

Coming soon in the next prerelease of our 6.1 plugin. For Mac and Windows in Filemaker 8.5 to latest one.

OmegaBundle and DynaPDF Upgrade

As part of the OmegaBundle for Xojo 2016, you get a DynaPDF Starter License. You can upgrade this license to a Lite or Pro license.

Check the differences here:
DynaPDF Starter vs. Lite vs. Pro vs. Enterprise

If you are interested, we have a few special offers for you:

Upgrade Starter to Lite for $319 USD (or 289 Euro) instead of $449 USD. (save $130)
Than you can import existing PDFs, create interactive forms and load form field values, create layers or new PDFs as PDF/A or PDF/X.

Upgrade Starter to Pro for $699 USD (or 629 Euro) instead of $969 USD. (save $270)
With Pro you can do single page import, extract text and vector graphics, render PDFs to images for viewing and work with external character maps.

Upgrade Starter to Enterprise for $1269 (or 1139 Euro) instead of $1719 USD. (save $450)
The Enterprise version includes the C++ source code for DynaPDF.

Add PDF/A Addition to Pro/Enterprise for $659 (or 589 Euro) instead of $899 USD. (save $240)
With PDF/A Addition you can use the converter feature to turn existing PDFs into PDF/A files.

If you are interested in an upgrade, please contact us, so we can send you an invoice for the upgrade you need.
All upgrades include upcoming DynaPDF 4.0 and an additional year of maintenance.

The OmegaBundle for Xojo 2016 will be available through February/March 2016 and offers 16 products for $399 instead of $3800 USD.

A chart similar to the one on Apple Watch

While we don't have the exact same chart ready to use like you see them on the Apple Watch, we can create similar charts with our MBS Xojo ChartDirector Plugin.

We take a pie chart and have it render. Than we pick the draw area and draw a few circles on top with some labels.

if you like you can modify it to draw several circle segments to have it look more like an Apple Watch with Move, Exercise and Stand chart.

The chart on the right is created by the code below:
(more)

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:

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.


Cookies in HTMLViewer

If you use HTMLViewer in your Xojo desktop app, you may need to handle cookies from time to time. The MBS Plugins have various classes to work with cookies, e.g. to read them for storing a database. And later you can restore them to make sure your users can use auto login features in the webviewer.

On Windows we have a couple of classes for use with WebKit/Chromium. This includes the ChromiumCookieManagerMBS class and the ChromiumCookieMBS class. With AllCookies method you can query all current cookies, save them for later and on the next run add them with SetCookie method.

When using a Mac, you can use the Cocoa classes for cookie management: NSHTTPCookieStorageMBS and NSHTTPCookieMBS class.

The classes for Linux with WebKit look similar: LinuxWebCookieStoreMBS and LinuxWebCookieMBS

As all those classes use WebKit cross platform, they have nearly the same functionality.
Check also other functions like running javascript, extracting text or html from webpages or rendering a picture from website.

iOS SDK and MBS Workshops @ Denkform

For our German speaking clients we have two workshops:

Am 3. März 2016 haben Sie Gelegenheit bei der Denkform an drei Veranstaltungen teilzunehmen:


Vielleicht ja mal die Gelegenheit alle drei zusammen zu besuchen?

Shorts Report Designer Release 1.5.4

Did you try Shorts for doing reports?
If so you may be interested to get a copy of OmegaBundle. Our MBS Xojo DynaPDF Plugin is used by Shorts for the PDF output and currently on sale as part of the OmegaBundle.

BKeeney Software Inc. released version 1.5.4 of the Report Designer. One of the bigger changes is it ships with a web example of how to take a report definition and display it for a web app. This affects a significant amount of methods and properties throughout the project to make them work on desktop and web but seems to work well.

BKeeney Shorts (with report designer) is 100% Xojo code (DynaPDF Starter kit required to export to PDF) and comes with a drop in Report Designer and Report Viewer component for both desktop and web apps.

For purchasing information please visit BKeeney Website.


Printing with FileMaker on Mac with a specific Paper Tray

For next plugin version, we got our PrinterDialog functions improved.

A new function PrintDialog.SetTray allows you to select the paper tray by name.

The only problem is that the tray name is printed specific. To learn what your tray is, you can use PrintDialog.GetTray to see what tray was used in the last printer dialog. This way you can see if your trays are named Tray1/Tray2 or maybe Upper/Lower.

Please try with new prerelease (or email me for a test copy).
This is currently only for Mac and requires to use PrintDialog.Enable and PrintDialog.Install.

Xojo Meetings in Chicago and Cleveland next month

Next month we have Xojo developer meetings in Cleveland and Chicago area. Maybe you want to join me for a dinner event?

For Chicago, Illinois the meeting is Friday, 11th March 2016.
We have twelve people on the list. If you like to join, please email me soon.
Planned location is: Longhorn Steakhouse Des Plaines, 1470 East Touhy Avenue, Des Plaines, IL 60016.

For Cleveland, Ohio the meeting is Tuesday, 15th March 2016
We have eight people on the list. If you like to join, please email me soon.
Planned location is: The Greenhouse Tavern, 2038 East 4th Street Cleveland, Ohio 44115.

Location can change and will be confirmed to the registered people on my lists same day or day before.
The meetings are planned for 7pm, but I probably will be there around 6pm to make sure we have a table.

If you are interested in private time for consulting, training or discussion MBS or Xojo topics, we can of course schedule a meeting. Please contact me if interested.

See you there!

PS: we probably have some price to raffle :-)

PauseOnError next month in Cleveland!

Less than a month left. Most tickets and slots are taken, so if you like to join, be quick!
See you there. If you need an hour or two for MBS related questions or consulting you can of course have a private meeting with me. Please contact me if you are interested.

The PauseOnError Steering Committee, in collaboration with Cleveland-based host firm Adatasol, is pleased to announce the Sixth PauseOnError Conference in Cleveland, OH, Monday, March 14th to Tuesday, March 15th, 2016, at the Metropolitan at the 9 hotel in downtown Cleveland.



Interface. Contribute. Learn. Be a part of your Community.

PauseOnError is a self-organized effort of software developers and consultants who use FileMaker. PauseOnError content is created by the attendees in a low tech and high touch environment, so leave Powerpoint at home and come prepared to share the mic.

Have a topic you'd like to talk about? Visit the wiki page, and add your session to the Schedule. It's just that easy.

Our objective is to provide a valuable and educational forum on which we can all collaborate to grow our community. We took care of most of the details so you an focus your energy on your contributions to the conference. PauseOnError is inexpensive because PauseOnError is a not-for-profit venture. The goal for each event is to cover our expenses and break even, and have some buffer for future events.

We would like to extend an early invitation to you to learn about the event, add your session to the schedule, and purchase tickets for you and your team.

To find out more about PauseOnError Cleveland - Sessions, Tickets, Hotel, and more, visit the conference wiki page!

We will have a MBS Plugin session there about our plugin, features and how the plugin is created and changed development with FileMaker.

Omegabundle 2016

The OmegaBundle is back for Xojo with 16 products for just $399.



Get a bundle before it ends. If just two or three things in the bundle are interesting, you save a lot of money.

Zombie clause in AWS Legal Agreement

Did you read amazon web service agreement?

57.10 Acceptable Use; Safety-Critical Systems. Your use of the Lumberyard Materials must comply with the AWS Acceptable Use Policy. The Lumberyard Materials are not intended for use with life-critical or safety-critical systems, such as use in operation of medical equipment, automated transportation systems, autonomous vehicles, aircraft or air traffic control, nuclear facilities, manned spacecraft, or military use in connection with live combat. However, this restriction will not apply in the event of the occurrence (certified by the United States Centers for Disease Control or successor body) of a widespread viral infection transmitted via bites or contact with bodily fluids that causes human corpses to reanimate and seek to consume living human flesh, blood, brain or nerve tissue and is likely to result in the fall of organized civilization.

So once zombies appear in the US, it's okay to use was for anything :-)

PS: It is not part of the German version, so read english one.

cubeSQL 5.5

We just got notice today about cubeSQL 5.5:

After several months of development we are proud to announce the immediate availability of cubeSQL 5.5. cubeSQL is probably the most stable version we have ever released, it also includes several performance related changes that you'll immediately noticed when compared to older versions. SSL support has been greatly improved and thanks to Tino Gruse from Roth Soft AG we now have a complete and detailed guide about how to Setup SSL.

You can find more details in our blog post: Announcing cubeSQL 5.5


We support cubeSQL with our SQLiteExtension.

MBS Xojo / Real Studio Plugins, version 16.1pr2

New in this prerelease of the 16.1 plugins:
  • Changed JSON functions to better detect invalid JSON text.
  • You can now set HandleResult property for SQL Connection and it propergates to SQL Command objects automatically (like PreFetchRows, Scrollable, CommitRetaining and SQL_ATTR_QUERY_TIMEOUT).
  • Rewrote WindowsPlayerMBS to allow mono and other sample rates.
  • Changed PortAudioStreamRecorderMBS to adjust buffer size instead of failing.
  • Changed OverlayMBS to work better with full screen apps.
  • Fixed ZipFileMBS.CompressFiles to handle no password case better.
  • Added CURLEmailMBS.AddAttachment method taking folderitem.
  • Updated DynaPDF to version 3.0.49.144.
  • Added WebUIDelegateMBS events for drag and drop.
  • Added MemoryBlockMBS constructors.
Download: macsw.de/plugin/Prerelease . Or ask us to be added to our shared Dropbox folder.

MBS FileMaker Plugin, version 6.1pr2

New in this prerelease of the 6.1 plugins:
  • You can now pass text for the flags to DynaPDF.SetImportFlags and DynaPDF.SetImportFlags2.
  • Changed JSON functions to better detect invalid JSON text.
  • You can now set HandleResult property for SQL Connection and it propergates to SQL Command objects automatically (like PreFetchRows, Scrollable, CommitRetaining and SQL_ATTR_QUERY_TIMEOUT).
  • Fixed QuickList.HasValue function.
  • Fixed ZipFile.CompressFiles to handle no password case better.
  • Added Menubar.SetMenuCommandTitle function.
  • Updated DynaPDF to version 3.0.49.144.
  • Changed ProgressDialog functions to return an error if called on server.
  • Improved socket implementation with better ID handling.
  • Added JSON.SetPathValue, JSON.GetPathValue and JSON.GetValue function.
  • Fixed issue with LDAP.Bind not working correctly on Windows for all auth methods.
Download at monkeybreadsoftware.de/filemaker/files/Prerelease/ or ask for being added to the dropbox shared folder.

MBS Xojo Conference: 10 days for early bird offer

For our conference 19th/20th May in Koblenz, the very early bird offer for 199 Euro per ticket is ending in just 10 days. If you like to join at the lowest price, you should be quick!

Whether you are registered or plan to do so, please join our session voting:
  • Creating reports with XojoScript and MBS XL Plugin
  • Database independant programming: using interface
  • Screen designer: how to create an application specific IDE
  • Creating and communicating with a web service using JSON
  • Integrating SIX payment systems saferpay credit card terminal with a web app
  • Creating PDF file with XojoScript and MBS DynaPDF Plugin
Please vote for them in this doodle survey.

And if you are student with 25 or younger, please join our free ticket offer.

More customization of FileMaker solutions


Do you see something unusual on this menubar screenshot or on the dock screenshot right?


Well, with MBS FileMaker Plugin you can change the name of the app in the menubar and also change the dock icon. Some nice ways to customize your solutions with FileMaker. And for the dock tile you can still use the badge function to show a little number or text. For example like Mail to show the number of unread emails.

To change the app name, please use the App.SetProcessName function. To change the dock icon pass an image container to App.SetDockIcon and for the badge label use App.SetDockBadgeLabel.

For the dock icon you best use a square image with at least 128x128 pixel size. Better you use 512x512 (for retina) and the plugin will fit the image to the right size requested by the operation system. For transparency, please use a PNG file.

XOJO Schulung / Training: XOJO für Einsteiger

For our German speaking Xojo developers we have a training day:

Mit der Denkform bieten wir eine Xojo Schulung an.

Siehe Denkform Webseite.

Entwickeln Sie Ihre eigenen Apps mit Xojo, ganz gleich ob Programme für den internen Einsatz, Spiele, Dienstprogramme etc. Dieses objektorientierte Multi-Plattform-Entwicklungswerkzeug erlaubt es ganz normalen Anwendern, außergewöhnliche Software für den Desktop, das Web, die Kommandozeile und iOS zu entwickeln.

Wir nehmen uns mal zwei Tage Zeit uns Xojo ausführlich anzuschauen und bauen einige Beispiele zusammen.
Genauer Inhalt und Themen nach Wunsch der Teilnehmer.

Der nächste Termin ist der 11./12. April 2016.

MBS Workshop @ Denkform

For our German speaking clients we have a workshop day:

In Zusammenarbeit mit der DenkForm GmbH bieten wir eine Schulung zum MBS Plugin an. Am 3. März und 3. November 2016 können Sie in Hofheim am Taunus an einer eintägigen Schulung teilnehmen. Lernen Sie die über 3500 Funktionen einmal näher kennen und wie Sie sie effektiv einsetzen. Sammeln Sie Ideen und verbessern Sie ihre FileMaker Lösungen durch den Einsatz unseres Plugins.

Das Monkeybread Software Plugin für FileMaker stellt eine vielseitige Erweiterung der eigenen Datenbank dar. Der Kurs bietet nicht nur einen tiefgreifenden Überblick in die Benutzung und Entwicklung, sondern bietet auch die Chance das Plugin günstiger zu erstehen.
  • Einführung in das MBS Plugin
  • Überblick über die Funktionsbereiche
  • Neues im MBS Plugin dieses Jahr
  • Rundgang durch ausgewählte Beispiele
  • Gemeinsames Implementieren von Plugin Funktionen in eine Datenbank:
  • Upload/Download mit CURL auf einen HTTP/FTP Server
  • Ausfüllen eines Formulares auf einer Webseite
  • Bilder bearbeiten
  • PDF Verarbeitung
  • Druckerfunktionen
  • Adressbuch und Kontakte abfragen bei Mac OS X.
  • Fragen und Antworten
Die Teilnahme kostet 99 Euro inkl. MWSt. und Verpflegung.
Details und Anmeldung bei der Denkform.

PS: Die Mindestteilnehmerzahl wurde erreicht und der Workshop findet am 3. März statt.

MBS Xojo / Real Studio Plugins, version 16.1pr1

New in this prerelease of the 16.1 plugins:
  • Fixed picture.ScrollHorizontalMBS for Mac.
  • Added NSShadowMBS class.
  • Added LinuxSUMBS class to run commands as root on Linux.
  • Updated OpenSSL to 1.0.2f
  • Added handle properties for NSPointMBS, NSRangeMBS, NSRectMBS and NSSizeMBS classes.
Download: macsw.de/plugin/Prerelease . Or ask us to be added to our shared Dropbox folder.

MBS FileMaker Plugin, version 6.1pr1

New in this prerelease of the 6.1 plugins:
  • Fixed JSON.GetArrayItemsAsList function.
  • Added highlighting of If/Loop blocks for Mac in FM 14 or newer.
  • Added SyntaxColoring.SetUseBoldFont to disable bold font in syntax coloring. This helps some asian users who don't see brackets.
  • Added SyntaxColoring.GetScriptIfColor, SyntaxColoring.GetScriptLoopColor, SyntaxColoring.GetScriptSearchColor, SyntaxColoring.SetScriptIfColor, SyntaxColoring.SetScriptLoopColor and SyntaxColoring.SetScriptSearchColor.
  • Updated OpenSSL to 1.0.2f
Download at monkeybreadsoftware.de/filemaker/files/Prerelease/ or ask for being added to the dropbox shared folder.

Sudo on Linux

We got a new LinuxSuMBS class for Linux to run commands as root if needed:

dim s as new LinuxSuMBS s.Command = "/usr/bin/whoami" s.User = "root" s.Alert = "Please Root?" s.Message "Can I install something for you?" if s.ExecuteSudo then MsgBox "OK" else MsgBox s.LastErrorMessage end if

Our example writes a little shell script and runs it as root. Could be useful to write an installer which updates a web app (As example). Of course this is for GUI apps and requires user to enter a root password.

MBS FileMaker Plugin with if/loop highlighting

Something is coming to the MBS Plugin soon. See this animation:



Soon in MBS FileMaker Plugin in version 6.1.
For FileMaker 14 and newer & Mac only.

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