Stefanie Juchmes made two videos where she walks though example files on MacOS and Windows. MBS FileMaker Plugin Examples Windows (English) MBS FileMaker Plugin Examples MacOS (English) For more presentation videos see the other videos ... [More]

New in this prerelease of the 20.2 plugins: Added JavaScript LibPhoneNumber example to validate and format phone numbers Updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.38.110. Deprecated OpenSpecialData method in PNGReaderMBS class. Reduced dependencies for Photo... [More]

New in this prerelease of version 10.2 of the MBS FileMaker Plugin: Added JavaScript LibPhoneNumber example to validate and format phone numbers Updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.38.110. Fixed bug in Audit functions, introduced in pr2. Added Matrix.C... [More]

Recently a client asked whether we could integrate the libPhoneNumber library into the plugins. Well, it's a big C++ library with a lot of dependencies and it looks like building a static version for our plugin or a DLL version to load at runtime is... [More]

Stefanie recorded a short video about the new physics classes in SceneKit with the example and talks how it works: See also: Physics example for SceneKit in Xojo Watch XDC 2020 SceneKit Presentation - Watch on Youtube. MBS Xojo Mac64bit Plu... [More]

As you may know FileMaker comes with a plugin SDK, which C++ developers like me use to develop plugins. Now the Plugin SDK offers a way to register functions and script steps and provide additional features to the FileMaker developer. The plugin d... [More]

So far a couple of people updated their licenses, some even for 5 years. Thank you. We are half through April, so our sale has another 14 days left. If you have a license about to expire or just expired a few months ago, just order an update if you... [More]

For the current prerelease version 20.2pr3 we added NSURLSessionMBS and related classes to the MBS Xojo Plugins. Main reason is that we urgently needed a solution for a client to support HTTP/2 connections for a project. Long term plan is to add HTT... [More]

New in this prerelease of version 10.2 of the MBS FileMaker Plugin: Added List.SortWithEvaluate and QuickList.SortWithEvaluate functions to sort lists with custom expression. Added JSON.SortWithEvaluate function to sort JSON objects or arrays with... [More]

New in this prerelease of the 20.2 plugins: Added NSURLSessionMBS and related classes to support HTTP/2 in Xojo on MacOS. Upgraded CLPlacemarkMBS to show properties in debugger. Added SetCellPicture method from DynaPDFTableMBS class. Added more kI... [More]

We got a few new functions to sort lists: List.SortWithEvaluate, QuickList.SortWithEvaluate and JSON.SortWithEvaluate. The idea is to pass an expression to do the comparison for the sort operation. This way you can use functions like for example Ge... [More]

While staying at home, how about watching some videos for sessions from XDC 2019 and 2020? Although the conference was cancelled this year, some sessions got recorded and may be worth to watch. XDC 2020 Xojo 2020 with Geoff Perlman Xojo Android ... [More]

Did you know you can have a callback from JavaScript in a web viewer in FileMaker without using FMP URL scheme? For MacOS and iOS in FileMaker 16 or newer, you can use the WebKit message handler feature. First you call Webview.AddScriptMessageHandl... [More]

Matt Petrowsky from the ISO FileMaker Magazine has an amazing library of video content related to FileMaker. You can subscribe on the website and enjoy a lot of tutorials and video talks about learning FileMaker. Currently for the time of the COVID... [More]

Just 12 years ago we added the ChartDirector Plugin to our MBS Xojo Plugin collection. Thanks to Mr. Jason J. Campbell for asking me to add a charts plugin and thanks to Peter Kwan from Advanced Software Engineering Limited for his support over the ... [More]

Back in July, I was wondering aloud how I could help improve RB and whether I should start up and host a testing suite.Well I had a few abortive attempts at designing the suite and never really came up with a decent spec.I don't have extensive knowle... [More]

Low-level security is often needed in a compiled app.Things like hiding a secret string from the casual hacker with a hex-editor.When the pro edition of RB of allowed me to use IDEScripts, I had a simple script that changed the currently selected cod... [More]

When I was developing large apps for other people to use, one of my recurring nightmares was that old bugs, once fixed, would return in a future version and make me look unprofessional.Consequently, one of my most important tools was an ever-growing ... [More]

I've been creating a number of EditFields lately where the TextChange event of each updates all the others.I pretty soon got fed up with wrapping every bit of update code in "alreadyUpdating" flags, so I decided to create a simple EditField subclass ... [More]

I went through a patch when I tried to answer quite a number of questions on the forums and one or two on the NUG.Whenever I post code, I always try to test that it at least compiles.Many of the test projects I used ended up on a website that is alas... [More]

We all know that REAL Software can't be bothered to document REALbasic properly, so it comes as no surprise that I can find no reference in the docs to the pairs class, the only new feature RS is advertising for 2008r2.Of course, Aaron has stepped in... [More]

I probably should not write this first paragraph publicly. The beta list has been awash lately with phrases like, "I really like this new spirit of openness," "thanks for keeping us informed" and even "thanks for listening, the changes are much bette... [More]

I've been playing with Yuma and it's great fun.I've got a lot of learning to do but I thought I'd mention one or two bits I've found useful.I have an include file called myGlobals.yuma which includes methodsSub MsgBox(s As String)Function MsgBox(s As... [More]

A question that comes up a lot in REALbasic is What is the difference between the Self and Me keywords?Everybody eventually thinks they have it sorted out in their own minds but it's surprising how many of us then find we're wrong.I think that essent... [More]

Lots of developers talk about multiple processors in the same dubiousway they've always spoken of bigger screens and higher screen resolutions. If the user happens to have more, how can I fill it up?All those resources aren't there so the computer ca... [More]