If you need our plugins for a bigger organization, it may be difficult to order each license or consulting service on it's own. For some organizations it can take a year between someone needing a license an the delivery of a license key! The bigger ... [More]

I just packed a few hundred pens in my bags for the conferences in Houston and Salzburg. If you want one, be sure to visit the conference and look for me. As you see over the years we got different designs for the pens. Xojo used to be named Real... [More]

Here are three examples from our own Xojo made applications on what you can do with the Listbox.CellTextPaint event: The first one takes the text from the cell and reduces text size until the text fits or we are down to 8 point font size. This is u... [More]

Recently I visited developers in Switzerland and we discussed visiting conferences. Some developers love to go to conferences and others are skeptical whether the cost is worth it. So lets think about reasons why you should go: 1. Get out of your o... [More]

Today I once again got a winmail.dat from a Windows Outlook user. None of my unarchiver tool can read that. I dropped it on a text editor and saw it has an uncompressed PDF inside. So I quickly wrote this little Xojo app to extract it: // pick the w... [More]

FileMaker Inc. announced their new FileMaker Cloud service. In your amazon account add can add an EC2 instance for a virtual private server. Inside you can now install CentOS 7 64-bit with FileMaker Server for Linux. This gives you a server in the c... [More]

NICKENICH, Germany (September 27th, 2016) -- Monkeybread Software releases version 16.4 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 env... [More]

Nickenich, Germany - (September 27th, 2016) -- MonkeyBread Software today is pleased to announce MBS FileMaker Plugin 6.4 for Mac OS X or Windows, the latest update to their product that is easily the most powerful plugin currently available for Fil... [More]

iOS 64 bit builds was introduced in Xojo 2015 R1.  Raspberry Pi support and 64 bit builds for Xojo desktop, web, and console apps was released in Xojo R3 in October 2015.  iOS, Raspberry Pi, and the 64 bit builds are … Continue reading →... [More]

Just talked today about how to know the calling function name. Solution can be to ask this by getting call stack. So here a code snippet: Function CallingFunction() As string // Query name of calling function of a function #Pragma BreakOnExcepti... [More]

New in this prerelease of the 6.4 plugins: Changed EmailParser to ignore an erroneous From line on top of email. Updated OpenSSL to 1.0.2i Added RunTask.Wait function. Fixed duplicate detection for Text.ReplaceNewline. Rewrote AppleScript function... [More]

New in this prerelease of the 16.4 plugins: Added orderFrontStylesPanel and orderFrontFontPanel for NSFontManagerMBS class. Updated OpenSSL to 1.0.2i Upgraded Unikey plugin to use latest 6.5 SDK and supports 64-bit and Linux ARM. Added IOPowerSourc... [More]

Do you have a need to synchronize Todos from your FileMaker database to the Mac, iPad or iPhone? Today I have a script which may serve as an example on how to synchronize from a table in FileMaker with Todos to the Reminders app on a Mac. Those r... [More]

The last Xojo release brought us an optimization switch. We can now decide whether we want default, moderate or aggressive optimization. I just finished an article for Xojo Developer Magazine about some good optimization things happening. But there ... [More]

As you may know the Webviewer in FileMaker uses Internet Explorer version 7 for rendering websites, even if you have a newer version of Internet Explorer installed. We can change that version to 10 or 11 if you need with our new Webview.SetInternetE... [More]

Splitting and joining string arrays is a common operation in Xojo projects. Beside the built-in Join and Split functions, we do have a couple of alternatives, optimized in their way. First we have Split: SplitMBS(value as String, delimiter as Stri... [More]

Xojo 2016 R3 was released today.  This release is a much smaller release than either R1 and R2 and despite not having any major new features has some nifty new small features and changes that will probably make your life … Continue reading U... [More]

Today is the 50th anniversary of Star Trek.  For many people it inspired us to be better people and get involved in technology.  I think I can say with some relative certainty that I would not be who I am … Continue reading →... [More]

A question that comes up quite a bit is how to do proper estimating.  It’s not an easy thing to quantify as much of involves gut feeling at times.  It’s why I feel that estimating is an art, not a science.  … Continue reading →... [More]

ARGen More Powerful Than Ever! BKeeney Software is pleased to announce the release of version 2 of ARGen, our ActiveRecord generator utility.  The new release includes many enhancements.  Some of the highlights are: Can now create User Interface elem... [More]

I’m probably getting into quasi-religious questions here, but I’ve been reading someone elses code in an OPC (Other Peoples Code) project and they use a lot of statements like this: I find this harder to read and much prefer: I … Continue readi... [More]

In Kansas City this past weekend I attended MidAmerican 2, or WorldCon.  WorldCon is a Science Fiction and Fantasy fans dream come true.  Thousands of people from around the world attended hundreds of sessions covering television shows, movies, autho... [More]

We are currently getting our kitchen remodeled.  We’ve used the contractor before because we know he does quality work and gets it done when he says it will be done.  Plus, when he gives us a bid, we know that … Continue reading →... [More]

Release 2.1 of Xojo 2016 was released yesterday.  This version fixes a few bugs discovered in Release 2 and fixes couple of serious regressions regarding threads.  Sadly, it also introduces a couple of new bugs that might affect your project. A ̷... [More]

We at BKeeney Software are blessed in so many ways.  All of our employees bring a unique and interesting mix of talents and experiences.  It’s not just about one person and we often bounce ideas off each other to get the best … Continue r... [More]