About four weeks left until we start our MBS Xojo Developer Conference in Andernach, Germany.
Currently we have over 40 people from 13 countries:
🇩🇪, 🇳🇱, 🇬🇧, 🇺🇸, 🇫🇷, 🇨🇭, 🇪🇸, 🇨🇦, 🇵🇱, 🇦🇹, 🇩🇰, 🇸🇪 & 🇧🇪
Xojo 2024r1
Since the new Xojo version just launched, we will probably get an update on this in the Xojo keynote by Geoff Perlman. Then we look forward on the upcoming releases later this year and what is coming there.
The conference is your chance to directly talk to Javier, Riccardo and Geoff about the Xojo development. Ask Javier about the PDF classes, the new barcode scanning classes and pop overs. Then ask all your web framework questions to Riccardo.
Training day
We have a few tickets left for the training day. Please join to learn how to build an application in Xojo.
We combine the targets desktop, web and mobile to build a bigger solution. This may be a web app to act as a service for providing data to a Desktop, an iOS and an Android application.
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Our
MBS SQL Plugin turns 15 years old today.
Over the years we got requests for alternative database plugin classes for use with Xojo (formerly REALbasic). In 2009 a client requested a native plugin for Microsoft SQL Server, so we started writing a SQL Plugin and got a deal with
SQLAPI to use this C++ library as the base of the plugin. Over the years, we contributed lots of changes and bug fixes and helped funding adding CubeSQL and SQL Anywhere support to SQLAPI.
As of today, we support CubeSQL, Centura SQLBase, DB2, DuckDB, Firebird, Informix, InterBase, MariaDB, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, ODBC, Oracle Database Server, PostgreSQL, SQL Anywhere, SQLite, SQLCipher and Sybase. Well received features include using named parameters for prepared statements, full unicode support, threaded connect & execution, bulk row transfer, streaming blob values, and offering database specific options for advanced features. And recently we got even edit/update support for RecordSet and newer RowSet classes. Yes RowSet is supported!
You can use our plugin with one of two interfaces and even mix them.
SQLConnectionMBS is our native interface for using all the nice features and works in Xojo Lite. This includes
SQLCommandMBS class for doing both statement preparation and handling the result set. With
SQLDatabaseMBS class, we have a database subclass, which makes transition easier for existing Xojo developers and use PreparedStatement interface and RecordSet class.
If you check the
release notes for this plugin, you find that we recently we added
SQLiteFunctionMBS class so you can define your own custom functions for SQLite when using it in our plugin as well as Xojo's SQLiteDatabase class.
If you like to try the plugin, please check the
website.
Watch SQL Plugin presentation and read
Xojo Developer Magazine article in
issue 14.1.
See also
With
Xojo 2024r1 or newer, everyone can build Xojo desktop and console applications for Linux without a license. Basically this part of Xojo can be used for free. Only if you do Web applications on Linux, you'd need the paid license.
The bigger change for everyone with a Lite license is that you now save your project in text format. This enables the use of version control systems like GIT with Xojo projects. Previously this needed a Xojo Pro license. We hope more Xojo developers will use text projects and use GIT, even if they are developing alone, so they can track their own changes.
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Electronic invoices in Italia are nowadays sent as P7M files, digitally signed with a XML and PDF content. Checkout the details about FatturaPA format if you are interested. For storing XML in a PDF or extracting it, please check our DynaPDF functions. Since you may need to receive and decode such P7M invoices, even if you are not in Italy yourself, we have some sample code to handle this below:
First thing is to use PKCS7.ReadFromContainer or PKCS7.ReadFromFile to read in the P7M file and get the reference number. If that works, we can query the main content block of the P7M file with the PKCS7.SignedDataContent function. That block is the XML embedded in the P7M file.
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Check out the FMTraining.tv website. Richard Carlton and his team do a daily free live stream about FileMaker to watch.
A few days ago Christian Schmitz from Monkeybread Software joined a live episode to talk a bit about the MBS FileMaker Plugin. Watch it on YouTube.
We talk about a lot about WebView functions.
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Please check out the DynaPDFParserMBS class in MBS Xojo DynaPDF Plugin. This class allows you to:
Parse a page
Extract text
Find text
Replace text
Find characters
Delete text
Write changes back to page
You can limit the search to a part of the page or the whole page and use various options like whether the text search is case insensitive.
Today we want to show you how you can identify the exact position of any character in a PDF. Like this picture where we show all characters with a box, even for mirrored or rotated text:
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Check out the FMTraining.tv website. Richard Carlton and his team do a daily free live stream about FileMaker to watch.
A few days ago Christian Schmitz from Monkeybread Software joined a live episode to talk a bit about the MBS FileMaker Plugin. Watch it on YouTube.
We talk a lot about error handling in MBS FileMaker Plugin. Please check the IsError function to check if last function reported an error. Then check ClearErrors, HadErrors or ErrorLog functions.
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Just five weeks until the conference starts. We look forward to an intense week and meeting you all.
MBS Xojo Conference Plugin 25th to 26th April 2024 and Training day 24th April 2024 in Andernach, Germany.
Xojo Inc. recently promoted the conference in a blog post: Only 48 Days Until Monkeybread Software’s Xojo Conference. Thanks for the help!
Speakers
We reminded the speakers to start preparing their presentation. Doing a presentation is much easier if you divide it into several steps with a week of distance. Outline what you like to show, prepare slides, maybe an example project to show and refine week by week, so you can show something great.
It is still time to contact us if you have something to show. We look for a replacement sessions we can schedule if a speaker needs to cancel their presentation.
Or short presentations to fill 10 minutes if needed. Like if you can show a cool project, an add-on or some Xojo tips & tricks.
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Check out the FMTraining.tv website. Richard Carlton and his team do a daily free live stream about FileMaker to watch.
A few days ago Christian Schmitz from Monkeybread Software joined a live episode to talk a bit about the MBS FileMaker Plugin. Watch it on YouTube.
We talk a lot about our DynaPDF functions and a few other details.
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In this article I want to introduce you the new functionalities from the MBS Xojo Plugins in version 24.1.
SQLLite
Let's start with the new SQLiteFunctionMBS class.
With this class you can now create your own functions for SQLite.
We explain how this works in our blog article
Did you know that you can load extensions in SQLite?
Since we added a path property to InternalSQLiteLibraryMBS module,
we can even load our plugin as extension for using custom functions in SQLiteDatabase class, too.
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In this article we want to introduce you the new functions from the MBS FileMaker Plugin in version 14.1.
Overlay
Let's start with the new component that has been added to our plugin: Overlay. Using the functions of this component, you can display a graphical overlay in your window, completely independently of layout elements and you can interact with this overlay. First you create a new overlay with Overlay.Create function. We store the returned reference number and use it for the other functions.
We can specify the position in different ways. On the one hand, we can use a layout object as a size and position reference, which helps us, for example, if we want to frame a button on the layout red. Here we use the function Overlay.SetFrameWithControl and enter the window ID and the name of the control in addition to the overlay reference. If we do not want to display our overlay directly on the layout object or slightly larger, we can enter an offset and the extra width and height in additional parameters.
With the function Overlay.SetFrame we can specify a fixed position and size.
The
Overlay.SetImage is probably one of the most important functions because you use it to set the overlay graphics. These graphics can have the formats JPEG, PNG, TIFF and BMP, among others. We prefer PNG for small size and supporting transparency. With
Overlay.SetVisible we then make this overlay visible and can also hide it again with the same function.
These and many other possibilities are available to you with our new component Overlay. If you are further interested in the topic, please also read our blog article Overlay windows for FileMaker and have a look on the new example Overlay.
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If you have an USB device with HID protocol, you can easily use it from your Xojo application. Please check out the HIDAPIDeviceMBS class for macOS, Windows and Linux. With the recent 24.1 plugins, we upgraded the classes to work even better.
You may start with enumerating of available devices. This should find all the HID devices connected to your computer like various keyboards, mice, joysticks or whatever you connect. For Linux, you may need to use chmod with sudo to grant permissions to all applications to connect to the devices. On macOS and Windows, you may just freely connect to your device as long as no standard driver grabbed it.
Let's enumerate the devices and look for ours:
Dim DevicePath As String
// find our device
Const VendorID = 1234
Const ProductID = 2345
Dim d As HIDAPIDeviceInfoMBS = HIDAPIDeviceMBS.Enumerate
While d <> Nil // go thru all enumerated devices
System.DebugLog d.Path+", "+d.ManufacturerString+", "+d.ProductString+", "+d.InterfaceNumber.ToString
If d.VendorID = VendorID and d.ProductID = ProductID Then
// found it
DevicePath = d.Path
Exit
End If
d = d.NextDevice
Wend
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Check out the FMTraining.tv website. Richard Carlton and his team do a daily free live stream about FileMaker to watch.
A few days ago Christian Schmitz from Monkeybread Software joined a live episode to talk a bit about the MBS FileMaker Plugin. Watch it on YouTube.
We take the FMStartingPoint database from RCC and add various MBS features to it like our GraphicsMagick, ContinuityCamera, DynaPDF and DragDrop functions.
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Nickenich, Germany - (March 12th, 2024) -- Monkeybread Software today is pleased to announce MBS FileMaker Plugin 14.1 for Claris FileMaker for macOS, iOS, Linux and Windows, the latest update to their product that is easily the most powerful plugin currently available for Claris FileMaker produce line. As the leading database management solution for Windows, macOS, iOS and the web, the Claris FileMaker Pro Integrated Development Environment supports a plugin architecture that can easily extend the feature set of the application. MBS FileMaker Plugin 14.1 has been updated and now includes over 7300 different functions, and the versatile plugin has gained more new functions:
Our new Overlay functions allow you to show a custom window on macOS and windows. The content of the window can be defined with a picture, include transparency and has no OS widgets or border. You can let the user move it around with the mouse or handle mouse events like a click or the mouse entering/leaving the window. Use our overlays to show navigation widgets, splash screens, additional information, progress indicators or guiding lines.
For DynaPDF we have the DynaPDF.CreateGoToEAction function to create an action to open an embedded PDF document from a button on a PDF page. When you use our parser to read text on a page, you can check the current found text with DynaPDF.Parser.SelectionText function. Use DynaPDF.GetActionsAsJSON to query all actions in a PDF as JSON block.
For JSON we improved JSON.Replace to directly take replacement values. For passing values, you can use JSON.AddValueToArray and JSON.AddValueToObject functions. If you create a difference between two JSON blocks with JSON.JSONPatch.FromDiff function, you can now copy primary keys.
When you format a calculation in a FileMaker using our ƒ button in the calculation dialog, you can hold down the option key for a compact representation. Use the SyntaxColoring.FormatCalculation to invoke our format code for your own calculations stored in fields. You may enjoy various enhancements to the formatting code. When you use the contextual menus to copy an entry in a list of fields, our contextual menu now offers you to copy the full field specification.
For iOS we got the AVRecorder.SetVideoOrientation function to define the orientation of the camera preview. And when using WebView.SetPrintParameter to control printing, you can specify the page orientation.
We improved the handling of styled text in the clipboard for Windows, the SendMail functions can now send attachment only emails without text, the Events functions got new functions to ask for permissions and Window.List can now list function names and filter to visible or database windows. The GMImage.Statistics function can calculate mean and standard derivation of color information in a picture. We added RemoteControl functions to check if modifier keys are pressed and we marked the path functions free to use.
Finally we updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.84.246, dyncall to 1.4, SQLite to 3.45.1 and the plugin SDK to the latest version.
See release notes for a complete list of changes.
Nickenich, Germany - (March 12th, 2024) -- Monkeybread Software today is pleased to announce MBS Xojo Plugins 24.1 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 81,000 documented features, and the versatile plugins have gained more new functions:
In our SQL Plugin we have the SQLiteFunctionMBS class to define custom functions for use in SQLite with our plugin. Since we added a path property to InternalSQLiteLibraryMBS module, we can even load our plugin as extension for using custom functions in SQLiteDatabase class, too. Our unicode extension for SQLite got updated for Xojo 2022r4.
Beside our NSSpeechSynthesizer class for speech synthesization we added lower level AVSpeechSynthesizerMBS and related classes for macOS and iOS. If you like to check network availability on macOS and iOS, please check the new NWPathMonitorMBS class.
Our OverlayMBS class allows you to show custom windows and define the content with a picture including transparency and without the usual OS widgets. We rewrote the mouse handling to allow you to move them by background. You can decide to implement mouse events or have the control ignore mouse events altogether.
We rewrote our HIDAPI classes and added a new BusType property to the HIDAPIDeviceInfoMBS class. We added DeviceInfo and GetReportDescriptor functions to HIDAPIDeviceMBS class. We enabled logging for LibUSB on Linux to help finding issues.
To support touch events better on macOS, we upgraded our NSTouchMBS class with new properties. The CanvasGesturesMBS class got events to report touch events and NSEventMBS class can report the touches.
The parser in DynaPDF got upgraded to report current selection text and report all 4 coordinates for the text, useful for rotated text.
The linux libraries in our plugins are optimized for size and lost over 33 MB in total.
Our CURLEmailMBS class can send attachment only emails without text and we added methods in EKEventStoreMBS class to better ask for permissions for events. We added character count and string value to NSCharacterSetMBS class for debugging, the MidiThruConnectionMBS class got a find() function, the SCNViewMBS class can request a preferred rendering API or a low power device, the NSProcessInfoPowerStateDidChangeNotification can report a power state change in NSProcessInfoMBS class and we added willShowContextualMenu and didCloseContextualMenu events to 34 controls.
Finally we updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.84.246, HIDAPI to 0.14 and SQLite to version 3.45.1.
See release notes for a complete list of changes.
12. März 2024 - Monkeybread Software veröffentlicht heute das MBS FileMaker Plugin für Claris FileMaker in Version 14.1, mit inzwischen über 7300 Funktionen eines der größten FileMaker Plugins überhaupt. Hier einige der Neuerungen:
Unsere neuen Overlay-Funktionen ermöglichen es Ihnen, ein benutzerdefiniertes Fenster auf macOS und Windows anzuzeigen. Der Inhalt des Fensters kann mit einem Bild definiert werden, dieses kann Transparenz enthalten und hat weder OS Widgets noch einen Rahmen. Sie können den Benutzer das Fenster mit der Maus bewegen lassen oder Mausereignisse wie einen Klick oder das Betreten/Verlassen des Fensters durch die Maus nutzen. Verwenden Sie unsere Overlays, um Navigationswidgets, Splash-Screens, zusätzliche Informationen, Fortschrittsanzeigen oder Führungslinien anzuzeigen.
Für DynaPDF gibt es die Funktion DynaPDF.CreateGoToEAction, um eine Aktion zum Öffnen eines eingebetteten PDF-Dokuments über eine Schaltfläche auf einer PDF-Seite zu erzeugen. Wenn Sie unseren Parser verwenden, um Text auf einer Seite zu lesen, können Sie den aktuell gefundenen Text mit der DynaPDF.Parser.SelectionText Funktion analysieren. Mit DynaPDF.GetActionsAsJSON können Sie alle Aktionen in einem PDF als JSON-Block abfragen.
Für JSON haben wir JSON.Replace verbessert, um Ersatzwerte direkt zu übernehmen. Für die Übergabe von Werten können Sie die Funktionen JSON.AddValueToArray und JSON.AddValueToObject verwenden. Wenn Sie einen Unterschied zwischen zwei JSON Blöcken mit der Funktion JSON.JSONPatch.FromDiff erzeugen, können Sie jetzt Primärschlüssel kopieren.
Wenn Sie eine Formel in einem FileMaker mit unserem ƒ-Schalter im Formeldialog formatieren, können Sie die Optionstaste gedrückt halten, um eine kompakte Darstellung zu erhalten. Verwenden Sie SyntaxColoring.FormatCalculation, um unseren Formatierungscode für Ihre eigenen in Feldern gespeicherten Formeln aufzurufen. Sie können verschiedene Erweiterungen des Formatierungscodes nutzen. Wenn Sie die Kontextmenüs zum Kopieren eines Eintrags in einer Liste von Feldern verwenden, bietet Ihnen unser Kontextmenü jetzt die Möglichkeit, die vollständige Feldspezifikation zu kopieren.
Für iOS gibt es die Funktion AVRecorder.SetVideoOrientation, um die Ausrichtung der Kameravorschau zu definieren. Und wenn Sie WebView.SetPrintParameter verwenden, um den Druck zu steuern, können Sie die Seitenausrichtung angeben.
Wir haben die Handhabung von gestyltem Text in der Zwischenablage für Windows verbessert, die SendMail-Funktionen können jetzt nur Anhänge ohne Text versenden, die Events-Funktionen haben neue Funktionen zum Abfragen von Berechtigungen erhalten und Window.List kann jetzt Funktionsnamen auflisten und nach sichtbaren oder Datenbankfenstern filtern. Die Funktion GMImage.Statistics kann den Mittelwert und die Standardableitung der Farbinformationen in einem Bild berechnen. Wir haben RemoteControl-Funktionen hinzugefügt, um zu prüfen, ob Modifikatortasten gedrückt sind, und wir haben die Pfadfunktionen als frei verwendbar markiert.
Schließlich haben wir DynaPDF auf Version 4.0.84.246, dyncall auf 1.4, SQLite auf 3.45.1 und das Plugin SDK auf die neueste Version aktualisiert.
Alle Änderungen in den Release Notes.
Sometimes the little things make live easier. We had for some time various contextual menus in FileMaker to copy what is in a list. New for 14.1 is the option to copy the full field specification (table occurrence and field name together) if you click on a field name in a field picker like in the picture below:
e.g. in the example above it would copy "Assets::Type" instead of just copying the text "Type".
Please try later in 14.1 pre-release. You may enjoy that our copy content command will recognize checkboxes in a list and provide the value of the checkbox as 0 or 1 or - for mixed state.
New in this prerelease of the 24.1 plugins:
- Reduced size of Win plugin a little bit by optimizing stub code for macOS/Linux.
- Improved linking of linux libraries to do more stripping of unused code to save 33 MB in total.
- Removed UniMotionMBS module.
Download:
monkeybreadsoftware.de/xojo/download/plugin/Prerelease/ or
from DropBox.
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 14.1 of the
MBS FileMaker Plugin:
Download at
monkeybreadsoftware.com/filemaker/files/Prerelease/, in
DropBox folder or ask for being added to the DropBox shared folder.
You can subscribe to our FileMaker mailing list to get notified for new pre-release and release versions.
Check out the FMTraining.tv website. Richard Carlton and his team do a daily free live stream about FileMaker to watch.
A few days ago Christian Schmitz from Monkeybread Software joined a live episode to talk a bit about the MBS FileMaker Plugin. Watch it on YouTube.
We check what is coming soon for the 14.1 plugin release. We walk over the new functions and try a few examples. Check out the new overlay functions to show transparent windows independent of FileMaker layouts.
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If you plan to do ZUGFeRD or Fracture-X invoices in FileMaker or Xojo, you may sooner or later see our DynaPDF offering. Our MBS FileMaker Plugin and the MBS Xojo DynaPDF Plugin help reading and writing the XML data in the PDF document. We also have XML functions to help building or parsing the XML document. And DynaPDF can help to make a correct PDF/A document for the output and optionally sign it digitally with a certificate.
Read embedded XML
To read a PDF, you need DynaPDF Lite or higher. Once you opened a PDF document for import, you can check access embedded files.
With the Lite version you can import from multipel documents to merge them together. Or extract images or text from the document to analyze them.
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Check out the FMTraining.tv website. Richard Carlton and his team do a daily free live stream about FileMaker to watch.
A few days ago Christian Schmitz from Monkeybread Software joined a live episode to talk a bit about the MBS FileMaker Plugin. Watch it on YouTube.
Let's take a look on a few new examples. We check DynaPDF functions to handle PDF attachments and book creation. We check the example to show SyntaxColoring.FormatCalculation function to format a calculation. And the Data Detector example uses menu functions with the JSON functions to process the JSON returned by RegEx.DataDetector to find emails, locations or phone numbers in some text.
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In Xojo you have two ways to compare objects. You can use equals operators or the is operator.
Let us show you when to use "is" instead of equals "=".
The "is" keyword will compare the internal reference value, the pointer to the memory used for the object. This avoids calling any compare operator and is usually faster. If there is no compare operator, the same compare code as for = runs.
If you use the equals sign (or <, <=, >, >= or <>), Xojo will decide whether to call the operator_compare method on the class, if it offers one. But even if the class has such an operator, a compare to a hard coded nil will just do the pointer comparison. Be aware that Xojo looks on the type of variable you use. If you use object for a variable type, the operator isn't called.
When the second object to compare is a variable (or property or function result), the code is different. It first compares whether the first object is nil. If it is not nil, you get a call of the Operator_Compare method if it exists. If it is nil, the second object is. If you ever write an Operator_Compare yourself, please be aware that the other object may be nil.
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This year looks great for all FileMaker developers as we get plenty of places to get together. Make connections, learn what's new and best practice, and chat about your beloved development tool.
The conferences are your chance to leave your working desc and travel around the world to visit the various places the conferences happen. Meet new people each time as well as old friends. Especially if you speak English, you have seven choices.
Although not yet announced, we got notice that there will be another EngageU conference towards the end of the year.
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The March/April (22.2) issue of
xDev Magazine is now available. Here's a quick preview of what's inside:
Vision of the Future? by Marc Zeedar
Apple's Vision Pro is finally here and Marc has thoughts. Lots and lots of thoughts!
Design Patterns Part 3 by Marc Zeedar
Our design pattern series continues with the Factory pattern, which helps you produce new objects.
Rasp Pi Electronic Fun Part 6 by Eugene Dakin
Eugene shows how to use your Raspberry Pi to control a motor.
Hybrid Android Apps by Tim Dietrich
Tim explores the line between fully-native apps and Web apps by introducing a hybrid model that uses Web technologies to make the app more cross-platform.
Opinion: DMA and Apple by Marc Zeedar
The European Union's new law to control big tech is going into effect this month and Apple's "compliance" is controversial.
Plus: Topics such as how to use the Static keyword in Xojo, finding the location of your device, AI, procrastination, and more!
Vom 1. bis 4. Oktober 2024 findet die nächste deutschsprachige FileMaker Konferenz in Malbun, Liechtenstein statt. Die Tickets für die Konferenz sind jetzt verfügbar, bis 20. April noch zum Frühbucherpreis.
Die Hotelzimmer im JUFA Hotel sind begrenzt. Bitte dort bald ein Zimmer buchen. Wenn das JUFA Hotel voll ist, werden Sie automatisch ein Zimmer aus einem anderen Hotel in Malbun bekommen.
Monkeybread Software ist als Sponsor mit Stand und Session vor Ort. Bitte kommen Sie mit Ihren Fragen vorbei!
Stefanie wird zwei Interessante Sessions übernehmen und wir planen noch für den 1. Oktober einen Wandertag ein (Anmeldung bei uns). Wer mit möchte, kann dann bei hoffentlich schönem Wetter mit uns durch die Berge wandern. z.B. von Malbun aus am Sass-Seeli vorbei zur Alpe Guschg.
siehe FileMaker Konferenz.com
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New in this prerelease of the 24.1 plugins:
- Fixed an edge case with Replace in JSONMBS where it didn't catch all spots.
- Fixed problem with Substitute with too small output buffer.
- Improved CURLEmailMBS class to allow the creation of attachment only emails.
- Enabled logging for LibUSB on Linux.
- Updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.84.246.
- Added SelText property for DynaPDFParserMBS class to query found text.
- Added SelBBox2 method for DynaPDFParserMBS class to query all 4 points of current text box.
- Changed StringValue in NSCharacterSetMBS class to property, so we see it in the debugger.
- Added CharacterCount property for NSCharacterSetMBS class for debugging.
- Improved NSTokenFieldControlMBS by to work better with our custom cell class.
- Added SetPrintBacktraceAndAbortHandler method to SignalHandlerMBS class.
Download:
monkeybreadsoftware.de/xojo/download/plugin/Prerelease/ or
from DropBox.
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 14.1 of the
MBS FileMaker Plugin:
Download at
monkeybreadsoftware.com/filemaker/files/Prerelease/, in
DropBox folder or ask for being added to the DropBox shared folder.
You can subscribe to our FileMaker mailing list to get notified for new pre-release and release versions.