July 2023 - MBS Xojo Plugins - lists.monkeybreadsoftware.com

[ANN] Omegabundle for Xojo 2023 Developer Tools Bundle Now Available
by Christian Schmitz 06 Sep '23

06 Sep '23

Hello, Get the top developer tools and third party components for the Xojo cross-platform development platform at a huge savings! Omegabundle for Xojo 2023 is a collection of the most useful tool sets, add-ons, digital books and components for use with Xojo Inc’s Xojo development environment. If purchased separately and not including any additional offers, the total cost would be over $4166.94. Omegabundle for Xojo 2023 costs $399.99. Xojo is an award-winning, cross-platform development tool for the Desktop (macOS, Windows, Linux), Web, iOS (iPad/iPhone) and Raspberry Pi. With Xojo, you can create native applications by using drag-and-drop to build your user interface and then one straight-forward programming language to enable the functionality. Xojo is powerful and modern, yet easy to use and learn. Included Products * AprendeXojo GuancheMOS (UPDATED). The toolkit you need for application serialization and validation. Now supports Intel and ARM processors on macOS! * AprendeXojo AXImageCanvas (UPDATED). Pull and display images easily. * AXNumValidatedTF (UPDATED). Locale settings, numeric range enforcement, adaptive format and more for numeric input. * Einhugur Plugin Pack for Xojo. e-CryptIt Engine for Xojo and all libraries and plugins, including plugins to work with Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word. * GuancheID (UPDATED). The easiest way to get a unique ID for macOS and Windows based computers. * GrafittiSuite Desktop Edition (UPDATED). 67 (up from 55 from 2022!) incredible user interface controls for Xojo that add value and improve the professional appeal of your Xojo applications. * MBS Chart Director for Xojo (UPDATED). Professional, interactive, real-time charts in your Xojo applications on Mac, Windows and Linux. Desktop, Console and Web projects. * MBS DynaPDF Starter Edition for Xojo (UPDATED). Create PDF files with your applications on Mac, Windows and Linux. Desktop, Console and Web projects. * Ohanaware App Wrapper (UPDATED). Prepare your application for the Mac App Store or Web Distribution (macOS only app) * Paradigma Software Valentina Studio Pro (UPDATED). Ultimate reports designer, database administration and forms creation tool that runs on all three operating systems - Windows, macOS, Linux. Select one OS version. * Paradigma Software ValentinaDB ADK for Xojo (UPDATED). Embed the ultra-fast, object-relational Valentina database into your applications and deploy royalty free - Windows, macOS, Linux, including Raspberry PI! Also works with local SQLite files and as a client to Valentina Server. * Paradigma Software Valentina Reports ADK for Xojo (UPDATED). Generate visually rich reports as graphics, web pages or PDF from your Xojo applications on Windows, macOS, Linux including Raspberry PI! Also works with local SQLite files and as a client to Valentina Server. * Paradigma Software Valentina Server Unlimited (UPDATED). 4-in-1 Reports Server, Forms Server along with two database servers: one built on object-relational Valentina Database and the other on SQLite. Report and forms serving works with MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server and the included Valentina and SQLite servers * XDL Library (NEW) Xojo Beginners Guide ebook (updated to over 1100 pages in June 2023) + 22 new digital articles * xDev Magazine (UPDATED). Get back issues and a year’s subscription to xDev Magazine, the professional’s magazine for developing with Xojo. You can learn more Omegabundle for Xojo 2023 from the Omegabundle website at http://www.omegabundle.net . Please allow up to 3-5 business days for all components to be supplied by participating vendors. If you are ready to purchase, order now from the Paradigma Software web store. About Xojo, Inc Xojo, Inc. was founded in 1997 with the idea that software development should be accessible to anyone. With traditional tools, creating software applications can be a very complicated process, but using Xojo anyone can learn to create high quality, native apps for the Desktop, Web, iOS and Raspberry Pi. With users all over the world, Xojo apps can be found in every conceivable category - from commercial software applications to use in governments, universities, businesses, and the Fortune 500. Secondary-level and college students in schools all over the world are introduced to programming with Xojo. About Omegabundle Omegabundle is a circus tent promotion platform created by Proactive International, the international distribution company, and Paradigma Software, developers of the Valentina high performance development tools and technologies. Each promotion is for a single, vertical platform and provides extreme savings to users of professional tools. Participating vendors change from promotion to promotion and year to year. -- Read our blog about news on our plugins: http://www.mbsplugins.de/

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Multi year updates for MBS Plugins
by Christian Schmitz 25 Jul '23

25 Jul '23

Hello everyone, did you know that you can order updates in advance for multiple years? Please contact us if you like to order updates for up to 5 years in advance. See blog post for our pricing for multi year updates. https://www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2022-06-08/Multi_Year_Updates We can offer a discount or additional months and you secure current pricing. Best regards, Christian -- Read our blog about news on our plugins: http://www.mbsplugins.de/

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[ANN] MonkeyBread Software Releases the MBS Xojo Plugins in version 23.3
by Christian Schmitz 18 Jul '23

18 Jul '23

Nickenich, Germany - (July 18th, 2023) -- MonkeyBread Software today is pleased to announce MBS Xojo Plugins 23.3 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 80,000 documented features, and the versatile plugins have gained more new functions: With this version, we switch from OpenSSL 1.1 to the newer version 3.1.1. While you may not notice the difference from the outside, the inside is updated for Encryption, FMAPI, RabbitMQ, SSH, Archive and CURL plugin parts. Since the new OpenSSL 3 deprecates less secure ciphers, you can enable them again with for CURLSMBS class with OptionSSLCipherList property if needed. The CipherMBS class got 49 new ciphers and a ZeroPaddingKey property while the DigestMBS class got 8 new digest methods. For Windows we got a WinPreviewControlMBS control to preview PDF documents using the PDF viewer built-in to Windows 10 and newer. We ported our PDFKit classes to iOS and got PDFThumbnailViewIOSControlMBS and PDFViewIOSControlMBS controls for your iOS projects to show PDF documents. The QLPreviewControllerMBS class on iOS allows you to preview various documents like Word or Excel documents. If you show pictures or PDF documents, you can allow the user to markup the document and save the final PDF document. The XML plugin got an evaluate method to XMLDocumentMBS class to do XPath queries and return results as XMLXPathResultMBS object. For DynaPDF we got new functions for tagged PDF formats to add tags as needed. And the AddDPartNode function allows to add Document Part Metadata right within your PDF document. The Scintilla plugin got an improved lexer code to better highlight Xojo code. We added RegisterRGBAImage and MarkerDefineRGBAImage methods to use pictures for markers. For HTMLViewers based on WebKit 2 on macOS and iOS we have new options for WKWebViewConfigurationMBS and WKPreferencesMBS to allow inline media playback or picture in picture playback. You can limit navigation to app bound domains and upgrade known hosts to https protocol. We added the describe method to GMImageMBS class to provide various details for an image as text to show to the user, the ConvertImage method in WindowsPDFDocumentMBS class helps to convert HEIF or RAW images to PNG, the XLSheetMBS class can set column widths and row heights in pixels and you can filter object arrays in JSONMBS class. Finally we updated CURL library to version 8.1.2, DynaPDF to 4.0.75.218, LibSSH to 1.11.0, LibXL to 4.2, MongoDB-c to 1.23.4, openssl to 3.1.1, RabbitMQ-c library to 0.13 and SQLite to version 3.42.0. See release notes for a complete list of changes: https://monkeybreadsoftware.com/xojo/newinversion233.shtml If you have questions, please don't hesitate to contact us. The plug-ins requires Xojo 2017 release 3 and newer. While all plug-in parts compile on macOS, Linux and Windows, each function may depend on additional system requirements to work successfully. Only used plugin parts of plugins are added to your application. Plugin licenses are available for components or for the complete collection. Please visit the website store for prices and join us on the next conferences to ask questions in person. The plugins can be downloaded on MBS' website as one big package or several smaller ones: https://www.monkeybreadsoftware.com/xojo/plugins.shtml The online documentation can be found here: https://www.monkeybreadsoftware.net/ Located in beautiful Nickenich, Germany, MonkeyBread Software is a privately held company founded in 2000 by Christian Schmitz. MonkeyBread Software focuses on the Macintosh, Linux and Windows platforms. With over twenty years as a software developer, Christian's aim is developing unique and useful utilities, complemented by first-class customer support. Copyright 2000-2023 Christian Schmitz Software GmbH. MonkeyBread Software is a registered trademark of Christian Schmitz, Nickenich. All Rights Reserved. Apple, and the Apple logo are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries. Xojo is a trademark of Xojo, Inc. Other trademarks and registered trademarks may be the property of their respective owners. Greetings Christian Schmitz Monkeybread Software

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[ANN] 23.3pr7
by Christian Schmitz 12 Jul '23

12 Jul '23

Hi, * Fixed a crash with SQLNumericMBS when parsing a string. * Deprecated CarbonEventsTabletProximityMBS, CarbonEventsIdleTimerMBS, CarbonEventsTabletPointMBS, CarbonSystemEventsMBS, CarbonMonitorEventsMBS and CarbonCommandEventsMBS classes. * Deprecated CGSTransitionMBS and CGSTransitionRequestMBS classes. * Fixed Files.AudioTags function for macARM target. * Updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.75.218. Best regards, Christian -- Read our blog about news on our plugins: http://www.mbsplugins.de/

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[ANN] MBS Xojo Conference 2024 in Andernach, Germany
by Christian Schmitz 11 Jul '23

11 Jul '23

Monkeybread Software is pleased to announce the MBS Xojo Conference in beautiful Andernach, Germany. We meet in the lovely Einstein Hotel Am Römerpark in Andernach, Germany. This hotel was built in 2020 and is brand new, very modern and features a nice layout with plenty of views towards the river Rhine. Beside our two conference days we have accompanying social programme with our dinner event and optional training day. For the evenings we have casual get-together at the Sky Bar. As date and location is set, we are now looking for interested speakers to join our conference. If you have an interesting topic, feel free to propose a session. We look for sessions to present applications made in Xojo, best practice, looking deeper on a Xojo features or presenting a product for Xojo developers. The schedule: April 24th: Xojo Training in English April 25th: Conference, first day with dinner event April 26th: Conference, second day Registration is open. The early bird offer available till early 2024 is just 399 Euro plus VAT for a regular ticket. We offer a higher corporate rate to support the event as well as a lower rate for citizen and hobby developers as well as giving a few free tickets to students. Sessions are to be held in English. Our conference is conceived as a networking event for the Xojo community. 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 here: https://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/andernach Training days in German and English: https://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/xojo/events/andernach-2024-training.shtml For any questions, please contact me directly. Sincerely Christian Schmitz -- Read our blog about news on our plugins: http://www.mbsplugins.de/

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[ANN] 23.3pr6
by Christian Schmitz 05 Jul '23

05 Jul '23

Hi, * Added ElementFullscreenEnabled and siteSpecificQuirksModeEnabled properties to WKPreferencesMBS class. * Added allowsPictureInPictureMediaPlayback, allowsInlineMediaPlayback, upgradeKnownHostsToHTTPS and limitsNavigationsToAppBoundDomains properties to WKWebViewConfigurationMBS class. * Updated LibXL to version 4.2. * Added AddFormatFromStyle method for XLBookMBS class. * Added Table, SetRowPx and SetColPx methods for XLSheetMBS class. * Improved Text property in JSONMBS class to output less commas. Best regards, Christian -- Read our blog about news on our plugins: http://www.mbsplugins.de/

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