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Xojo 2022 Release 1.1 is Now Available

This release adds 11 improvements to Xojo.

Product: Xojo IDE

Platforms: All

Price: Free IDE (app deployment requires a one-time fee, $149-$1,999)

Website: http://www.xojo.com/download

Xojo Developer Retreat 2022

The retreat will be in Nashville, TN on September 19th and 20th. Join us at the brand new Hyatt Centric Hotel for a two day developer retreat where we'll talk all things Xojo. Space is limited, so register early to guarantee yourself a spot!

Product: Xojo Developer Retreat

Platforms: All

Price: $499

Website: https://www.xojo.com/xdc/HTML/developerretreat.html

Call for Speakers at the Xojo Developer Retreat in Nashville

Xojo enthusiasts, experts and friends... the Xojo Developer Retreat call for speakers is now open!

If you have ever thought about presenting at a conference, this is your chance... plus all speakers get free admission to the conference!

Please send your proposed session topic, a brief description, and your contact information (including full name and email address) to xdc@xojo.com anytime before June 1, 2022.

Product: Xojo Developer Retreat

Platforms: All

Price: Free

Website: https://www.xojo.com/xdc/HTML/developerretreat.html

GraffitiSuite Release 44 Available

JOHNSON CITY, TN (April 1, 2022) -- GraffitiSuite is pleased to announce Release 44 for Xojo Desktop and Web!

9 New Products

38 Additions

70 Bug Fixes

4 Various Changes

This release brings the much-requested and much-hyped GraffitiMapViewer for Web Edition. Unleash true cartographic power in your apps with a nearly 100% implementation of the Google Maps API. Add markers, show directions, draw different types of polygons, and let your users edit all of it!

By request, GraffitiDateTimePicker for Web! That's right! You can now present your users with a super easy and elegant means of selecting dates and times in the browser and get a DateTime object back! Whether you need a single DateTime, multiple DateTimes, or a range of DateTimes -- it can do it all!

Making a comeback from the Web 1.0 days is GraffitiPagination. A powerful pagination control that gives you the ability to truly control the presentation of this often overlooked component of your design.

For Desktop, a lot of work was put in to expanding current product capabilities. GraffitiHTMLtoPDF has been rebuilt to work much better alongside GraffitiEditor so that your users can create their own PDFs in a WYSIWYG environment. GraffitiListbox adds more functionality that was lost in the standard Xojo ListBox. GraffitiSyntaxEditor now supports adding custom themes and modes so you can truly build the experience of your dreams. And more!

Product: GraffitiSuite

Platforms: All

Price: Starting at $249/year

Website: http://www.GraffitiSuite.com/

AprendeXojo announces GuancheMOS 1.9

GuancheMOS 1.9 is a Serial Number Generation and Validation Engine for Xojo Developers. Javier Rodriguez (www.aprendexojo.com) has announced the immediate availability of GuancheMOS 1.9, the multiplatform plug-in for Xojo users that allows the easy, fast, no Rocket-Science implementation of serial number generation and validation features on macOS, Windows, Linux, and Web applications.

GuancheMOS 1.9 plug-in adds the compatibility with ARM architecture on macOS, so users can deploy now their solutions on macOS as x86, ARM, or Universal apps.

Since 2007, GuancheMOS is the preferred serial number creation and validation Engine plug-in used by hundreds of Xojo developers all over the World in all kind of apps and solutions.

GuancheMOS is both Desktop and Console safe, so it is possible to create all kind of license serial number generation and validation solutions around it, without having to pay additional fees or other hidden costs.

Anyone can download and test GuancheMOS on their own projects! When running in demo mode, GuancheMOS only allows 3 serial number/licenses generation per session, and the validation feature is disabled.

Product: GuancheMOS

Platforms: Desktop/Web

Price: 110 Euros

Website: https://www.aprendexojo.com/shop/guanchemos-serial-number-generation-and-validation-for-xojo-developers/

MBS Plugins 22.1 Released

Nickenich, Germany - (March 15th, 2022) -- MonkeyBread Software today is pleased to announce MBS Xojo Plugins 22.1 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 79,000 documented features, and the versatile plugins have gained more new functions:

For over ten years we had classes to work with Phidget devices. Check out the Phidgets website for a list of sensors, motors and I/O boards available. We rewrote the classes to use the newer Phidgets libraries and integrate newer APIs. Your Xojo app can use sensors for light or temperature, react on them with running a motor to move the solar arrays. The old Phidget classes got an Old prefix, so you can continue to use them until you moved to the new classes.

Our Scintilla control to host a professional text editor got a lot of Xojo developers excited. We enhanced it with a few new functions and bug fixes. The updated example shows you how to implement search and replace as well as HTML syntax colorizing. The LexerNames functions can list the over 100 available lexers to pick one for syntax coloring.

For macOS we added NSSwitchControlMBS and DesktopNSSwitchControlMBS controls to host a switch control. The NSSwitchMBS class can configure the control appearance. The controlSize property for NSControlMBS class allows you to pick between small, normal and big button styles. If you load symbol images for NSImageMBS class, you can now use NSImageSymbolConfigurationMBS class to configure the options for it.

The DynaPDFMBS class got new support for PDF/A 2u and 3u. The new SpaceWidthFactor property allows you to control how the ExtractText function adds spaces. And you can pass empty text for RenameSpotColor to make a no name spot color.

For Windows we updated our Chromium classes to a newer version of CEF. Whatever Xojo version you use, our plugin can detect the version of Chromium and use the right interface.

We changed the MenuAction events for our controls to be named ContextualMenuAction or ContextualMenuItemSelected to match Xojo. Our ConstructContextualMenu events are now matching Xojo's controls. You may have to adjust your code if you use those.

We got a CoverArt property for TagLibFileRefMBS class to read cover art for MP3, MP4 or FLAC music files, the CheckCertificates and Verify methods for X509MBS class, a quick and handy ContainsWholeWordMBS function, and a SetTextAlignment method to change text alignment for NSAlertMBS class.

Product: MBS Xojo plugins

Platforms: All

Price: $29-$299

Website: http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.com/xojo/plugins.shtml

M_TOML, a TOML library for Xojo

Kem Tekinay of MacTechnologies Consulting is pleased to announce M_TOML, a free TOML library.

TOML ("Tom's Obvious Minimal Language") is a data markup language, similar to JSON in its intent, but easier to read and manage for humans. This library implements ParseTOML_MTC to convert a TOML string into a Dictionary, and GenerateTOML_MTC to create a TOML string from a Dictionary. It is compatible with TOML v.1.0.0 (the latest as of this writing) and includes classes that will let you have finer control over the data, like specifying local dates and times.

This is a free project hosted on GitHub. Check the README there for additional details.

Product: M_TOML

Platforms: All

Price: Free

Website: https://github.com/ktekinay/Xojo-TOML/

App Wrapper 4.4

Ohanaware Co., Ltd. are very proud to announce the immediate release of App Wrapper 4.4. An update to their popular premium post-build processor for the macOS. This release resolves some issues, provides more options and improves App Wrapper accessibility.

Since 2011 Ohanaware have been developing their premium post-build processor, aiding developers to process their applications for Apple's App Store and Apple's Notarization process. Version 4 is the fourth re-write of the product, taking everything that Ohanaware have learned in the last 10 years and re-employing that knowledge to create a modern, more assistive, more discoverable, more capable and importantly, more expandable product for todays post-build requirements.

Major New Features in App Wrapper 4.4:

Now supports Provisioning Profiles

New Help Viewer, so that all customers on Monterey can access the application help.

New update system, that is lighter and will allow for architecture specific versions.

Finally imported the purchase window designed back in Summer of 2021.

Includes a new Honeycomb background texture.

Changing Panes in the App Wrapper document now has animation.

Credits Editor, now includes the option to reset the typeface and color to Apple system settings.

App Sandbox is now enabled for the Development channel by default (only affects new documents).

Can now search the credits editor

Auto adds networking entitlement for App Sandbox and detection of the Xojo HTMLViewer

App Wrapper now indexes it's own help

Checking now does tests on the packing settings.

Checking now checks DMG Canvas version for compatibility.

Checking now check settings for Submission to Apple (including Notarization).

Added QuickLook support to the "Add Files" section of the Bundle Contents.

Keychain Access Groups

Can now export and import property lists from the property list editor.

Now supports setting Search Keywords to help customers find your apps.

Now adds support for Notch settings

Smart Card Reader to the Hardware Access entitlements

App Wrapper is now able to walk back on a Certificate trust chain and establish if a cert or cert on the chain is self-signed when it shouldn't be.

Product: App Wrapper

Platforms: OSX

Price: $49.99/year (free trial)

Website: http://www.ohanaware.com/appwrapper/

RubberViews

RubberViews is a unique API 2.00 Desktop class that you place on a window or container control, and it manages automatically the layout for all available devices, sizes, and resolutions.

Design your window at the size you like best, RubberViews 2.00 does the rest. Very easy to use, this class is the result of intense development, with exclusive features that are the result of the most recent research.

RubberViews 2.00 not only adapts the layout to any size, but it changes the content of controls to match. It resizes the content of ImageViewer, and can adapt the size of fonts to the window size. Individual controls can be set as ignored to manage yourself. Controls that must keep their aspect ratio, such as circles and squares, can be set individually so they do not stretch.

Complete personal assistance on all three platform (Mac, Windows, Linux) by email, or on the Xojo forum, including code review and idea box, for a smooth and enjoyable programming experience.

Product: RubberViews 2.00

Platforms: Desktop

Price: $149.95 (full source code), $49.95 (upgrade)

Website: https://RubberViews.com

MWX: Aqua Swatch

Ohanaware Co., Ltd. are very proud to announce the immediate release of Aqua Swatch 2.0.3. A minor update to their popular system color and icon swatch application for Apple's Aqua user interface.

Aqua Swatch makes it easy to view system colors and their variations, allowing developers to pick the most appropriate colors for user interface elements in their Mac applications.

Aqua Swatch contains a swatch for NSVisualEffectView's materials, which helps to preview and compare the materials against Apple's own applications.

System icons are also listed in Aqua Swatch, aiding developers to view and choose from a variety of artwork that's consistent across different OS versions.

Aqua Swatch was built with Xojo in conjunction with the Ohanaware App Kit, and wrapped with App Wrapper 4. Aqua Swatch is available today from the Mac App Store. Aqua Swatch is freeware.

Product: MWX: Aqua Swatch

Platforms: OSX

Price: Free

Website: https://ohanaware.com/aquaswatch/

Free M_Crypto Updated

Kem Tekinay of MacTechnologies Consulting is pleased to release M_Crypto v.2.8, an update to the free encryption and hashing module.

This version improves performance of the encryption classes slightly, and the Scrypt hash dramatically. Behind the scenes it now uses MemoryBlock (and other API2 classes) instead of the older Xojo.Core.MemoryBlock.

Product: M_Crypto

Platforms: All

Price: Free

Website: https://github.com/ktekinay/M_Crypto

Notched Up, a Notch Simulator for macOS

Ohanaware Co., Ltd. are very proud to announce the immediate release of Notched Up. Ohanaware's Notch Simulator attempts to draw a Notch on any Mac running 10.13 (High Sierra) or newer, as close to the actual physical size of the Notch in Apple's latest 14" and 16" MacBook Pro as possible.

Notched Up was designed to aid developers by displaying a close to real life Notch on their existing screens, which allows developers to see what menus do not fit on the left side of the Notch, without having to purchase both the 14" and 16" MacBook Pro.

Once developers can see which menus do not fit on the left side of the Notch, developers can then make a decisions as to what do about the menus in their applications, such as combining menus, re-naming menus, using icons instead of labels or culling some menus.

Notched Up can also be used to add a Notch to application screen shots, helping to illustrate an application's compatibility with Apple's Notched MacBook Pros.

Uses system info to draw Notch close to real size.

Multi screen support, the Notch can be dragged between screens.

3 templates, 16", 14" and unconfirmed 13" display options.

Custom option, where screen dimensions, notch dimensions and even the notch color can be changed.

Current Screen option, where it will move to fit the current display.

Notch floats above the menubar.

Notch isn't hidden when hiding the application.

Notch can appear in Exposé.

Notch can appear in Full Screen Apps.

Notch can be locked to Menubar height.

Screen calibration for incorrectly recognized displays.

Notched Up was built with Xojo in conjunction with the Ohanaware App Kit, and wrapped with App Wrapper 4.

Product: Notched Up

Platforms: OSX

Price: Free

Website: https://ohanaware.com/notchedup/

MBS updated Xojo Kits

Monkeybread Software releases new versions of their Xojo Kits, powerful add-ons to Xojo with additional functionality provided as source code.

Today we update our Xojo developer Kits for Updater, Bugreporter, and Web Starter. They all got a few bug fixes and changes over time and can be used in Xojo 2021. This includes a Web 2 variant for Web Starter Kit.

Bug Reporter Kit 1.5

Fixed some localization bugs.

Fixed compilation bugs for Xojo 2019r3

Changed email script to mark email as UTF-8.

Add list of current visible windows with focused control to the report.

Updated to Xojo 2021

Web Starter Kit 1.6

Fixed over 300 changes for Xojo Web 2.0 API

Added ErrorName and ErrorStack for JavaScriptErrors table and removed UserDetails

Updated for Xojo 2021

Updater Kit 2.3

Changed HTTPSocket to URLConnection class for newer API.

Updated Sparkle framework

Moved projects to 64-bit

Uses Info.plist added to project

Uses Build Step for MacOS to copy Sparkle.framework and key file.

Changed some URLs to https:// for app transport security.

Replaced updated app on server to be signed.

Using SSLConnectionTypes.TLSv12 now for socket.

Fixed kCheckSumNodeName to not include 32 as bit number is added later.

Updated to Xojo 2021.

If you use one of this components, you may want to download and compare. We recommend an app like Arbed to compare between two projects.

All Kits have been updated to make sure they work in Xojo 2021. If you have a current license, bought within the last 12 months, you can use the updates for free. Otherwise, you can order licenses on our websites or the Xojo store as needed.

Product: Xojo Kits

Platforms: All

Price: Varies

Website: http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/xojo/

XojoUnit 6.7.1

XojoUnit 6.7.1 is now available on GitHub. Changes include:

XojoUnit is a unit testing package. This version has the following changes

API 2.0.

Web 2.0.

Added Assert.FailCount, incremented within a test on every failure.

The package is available through GitHub and contains built-in tests that serve as an example of how to use it.

Product: XojoUnit

Platforms: All

Price: Free

Website: https://github.com/xojo/XojoUnit

Sxcript Version 0.1.1 Available

The open source XojoScript editor Sxcript is available for download. This update supports Xojo API 2.0 and has a range of bug fixes and other small improvements. If you have any questions, please contact the developers at Sxcript@rnd.nl.

Product: Sxcript

Platforms: Desktop

Price: Free

Website: https://github.com/RNDTC/Sxcript

Feedback 2021r1 Now Available

A new version of Feedback (2021r1) is available for download today. Feedback now runs natively on the new Apple Silicon/M1 Macs and has updates for Windows and Linux. Web Feedback is still on the way and we are excited to make it available to you as soon as we are ready.

Product:

Platforms: Desktop

Price: Free

Website: https://www.xojo.com/download/

fp Plugin 11.0

Using the fp multi-precision engine, fpPlugin 11.0 for Xojo now supports MacOS ARM. It has eight data types:

BigInteger, BigFloat, BigComplex, BigFraction, BigPoly, BigFloatMatrix, BigComplexMatrix, BigFractionMatrix

All types have unlimited precision.

fpPlugin allows a developer to construct Xojo programs which can handle the eight data types much like doubles and integers are handled. To a large extent the plugin's data types can be freely used with the +, -, *, and / operators, and can be used in comparisons. And some of Xojo's functions have been overloaded to take the plugin's data types, where it makes sense to do so.

fpPlugin is compiled for Mac, Windows, and Linux for both 32- and 64-bit applications.

Product: fp Plugin 10.0

Platforms: All

Price: Free

Website: http://delaneyrm.com/fpPlugin.html

Free iOSDesignExtensions 2.0

Jeremie Leroy is pleased to announce the release of iOSDesignExtensions v2.0, a collection of free extensions for the Xojo Mobile framework.

iOSDesignExtensions modules are now updated for iOS API 2.0 and all Mobile-prefixed controls. Three years ago, iOSDesignExtensions was released with 100 extensions methods. There are now more than 150 extensions.

With this set of extensions, it is easy to add a background color to any control, change the color displayed in a MobileSwitch when value is True, add rounded borders to buttons and container controls. Some advanced features enable recoloring a picture using its mask and adjusting font size for any control that displays a text label.

Product: iOSDesignExtensions

Platforms: iOS

Price: Free

Website: https://github.com/jkleroy/iOSDesignExtensions

Unicode Normalization now part of M_String package

Kem Tekinay of MacTechnologies Consulting is pleased to release M_Norm, a Unicode Normalization module as part of the free M_String package.

Unicode Normalization is an intricate way to convert strings to a standard, or "normal", form suitable for searching. The M_Norm module uses pure Xojo code to support all four forms of Normalization, and is fast, cross-platform, and completely compatible. In fact, M_Norm passes all the unit tests provided by Unicode.org , unlike the native Mac and Windows functions. (The unit tests are included in the package.)

But if you still prefer to use the OS-native tools, M_Norm lets you do that too on Mac, Windows, and iOS.

The M_String module includes dozens of functions for working with strings that range from an easy way to repeat a string to wrapping paragraphs with padding.

Product: M_String

Platforms: All

Price: Free

Website: http://www.mactechnologies.com/index.php?page=downloads#m_string

DataView and piDogScrollingCanvas Updated

Phoenix, AZ -- piDog Software has released version 1.15.6.0 of DataView and piDogScrollingCanvas.

If you've ever wished the Xojo Listbox control was a little more flexible, DataView may be what you've been looking for. With variable row heights, row span and column span, DataView can accommodate an endless number of layouts.

DataView also adds numerous other features, including Reorder-able Columns, ProgressBar cells, PopupMenu cells and DatePicker cells. You can even design your own cells using the CellContainer, subclassed from ContainerControl: add textfields, canvases, and whatever else you suits your needs.

DataView is subclassed from piDogScrollingCanvas, giving it a natural scroll behavior on macOS using a native NSScrollview to handle navigation. piDogScrollingCanvas also provides native scrollbar rendering on Linux and Windows and adds a smooth scrolling feel.

This release (1.15.6.0) adds scroller arrows on Linux and Windows and a LazyRender setting to DataView to allow scrolling to take priority over complete frame rendering along with several other minor fixes.

Product: DataView and piDogScrollingCanvas

Platforms: All

Price: $129 (encrypted), $349 (source code)

Website: https://www.pidog.com/wp/dataview/

Valentina 11 Released; Supports macOS ARM

Paradigma Software announces Release 11 of its data driven solutions, database and reporting tools, including support for ARM based Apple Macintosh systems. The company announces updates and improvements across all tools, servers and developer solutions.

Valentina Server 11

Valentina Server incorporates Valentina Reports Server, Valentina Forms Server and two database servers: ValentinaDB Server and Valentina SQLite Server, with client integration with Xojo on all supported platforms. Valentina Reports Server and Valentina Forms Server also works with all major databases, including MySQL / MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, SQLite , and Paradigma Software's own ValentinaDB. Valentina Server 11 is available for Windows, Linux, macOS (Intel and ARM) and Raspberry PI (ARM 7). It also integrates with Xojo Web.

Valentina Reports ADK for Xojo 11

Valentina Reports is the powerful, cross platform for building and deploying visually rich, data driven business reports, using a broad selection of visual objects and scripted with JavaScript. Valentina Reports works with all major databases and data sources, including MySQL / MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL and SQLite, and Paradigma Software's own ValentinaDB. Valentina Reports ADK 11 for Xojo is available for Windows, Linux, macOS (Intel and ARM) and Raspberry PI (ARM 7). It also integrates with Xojo Web.

ValentinaDB ADK for Xojo 11

ValentinaDB is Paradigma Software advanced, object-relational database and available in ValentinaDB Server (a part of Valentina Server) and Valentina DB ADK for Xojo (developer components for adding runtime database support to applications). ValentinaDB ADK 11 for Xojo is available for Windows, Linux, macOS (Intel and ARM) and Raspberry PI (ARM 7). It also integrates with Xojo Web.

Product: Valentina for Xojo

Platforms: All

Price: Varies

Website: https://valentina-db.com/en/latest-news/322-valentina-release-11-now-available-supports-arm-based-macs

gHTML Editor Updated

Gate61 is pleased to announce the release of gHTML Editor WEB version 1.8 and gHTML Editor Desktop version 1.6.

gHTML Editor brings the power of CKEditor4 within your Xojo Web application while the desktop version supports your Xojo desktop applications. It offers following features:

simple to use WYSIWYG text editor

load or insert HTML

insert Text

read-only mode

customize and change toolbar on the fly

Important note: Gate61 WEB add-ons are not compatible with Xojo Web 2.0 (last supported Xojo version is 2019r3.3).

Product: gHTML Editor for Web or Desktop

Platforms: Web

Price: $19 (encrypted), $74 (with source)

Website Web: https://www.gate61.com/ghtml.html

Website Desktop: https://www.gate61.com/ghtml_desktop.html

M_Redis v.1.1, now with Redis Server

Kem Tekinay has released M_Redis v.1.3, a library to interact with Redis, an open-source in-memory database.

This release includes both the Intel and ARM versions of redis-server v.6.0.9, so the Redis Server GUI app will run natively on both platforms.

Product: M_Redis

Platforms: Desktop

Price: Free

Website: https://github.com/ktekinay/xojo-redis

The Xojo Showcase

The Xojo Showcase has some great new apps -- check it out if you haven't stopped by in a while.

And of course, show off what you've done with Xojo! Submit your app (using the link on the upper right of the showcase) to be listed in the Xojo Showcase! Note: It does not have to be a commercially available app.

Product: Xojo Showcase

Platforms: All

Price: Varies

Website: https://showcase.xojo.com/

Christian Schmitz has joined the MVPs

Christian Schmitz has been nominated by the MVPs and Xojo Team to be an MVP. Christian joined the community when the first version came out in 1998, developing various freeware products. Since founding his company, Monkeybread Software, he provides various Xojo-related services like consulting, training, plugins, and magazine articles. Christian has organized over 10 Xojo conferences in Europe with hundreds of attendees. We look forward to working with him in his new role as MVP.

Product: Xojo MVP Program

Platforms: All

Website: https://www.xojo.com/mvp/

New SQLite ebook released

xDev Library has released a new book by Eugene Dakin, I Wish I Knew How to... Program SQLite with Xojo API2 delves into the mystery of programming a back-end database.

The book is written as a guide and reference to Xojo programmers who program Desktop Applications in Windows and Mac. There are no plugins, dynamic link libraries (dll), COM, or Active X parts to add.

There are more than 20 chapters with over 400 pages with over 80 example programs.

Examples include opening RowSets, finding data, sorting, updating data, counting records, printing a report, deleting records, creating new records, creating reports, and more. Many screenshots have been added to show the results of the code with an index to help find topics quickly.

All examples have been created with native Xojo code with Xojo 2020 r2.1. There is an older book for AP1 (Xojo 2014 -- SQLite).

Product: I Wish I Knew How to... Program SQLite with Xojo API (ebook)

Platforms: All

Price: $15.99

Website: http://xdevlibrary.com

New Xojo Canvas ebook released

xDev Library has released a new book by Eugene Dakin, I Wish I Knew How To... Program the Canvas Control 3 with Xojo Desktop with major updates to API2 code and adding GraphicsPath. Thousands of code and description changes have been made, and the original examples have been kept to assist with converting old API1 code to API2.

All examples have been created with native Xojo code with Xojo 2020 r2.1. There are two older books for AP1 (Xojo 2018 r4 -- Canvas 2) and legacy code (Xojo 2014 r2 -- Canvas).

This new book includes fourteen chapters and over 450 pages with over 65 examples that both show and describe the code. This book is in PDF format with example chapter folders containing Xojo source code and running examples. The Table of Contents can be previewed at the author's website (https://scispec.ca/index.php/books).

Product: I Wish I Knew How To... Program the Canvas Control 3 with Xojo Desktop (ebook)

Platforms: All

Price: $15.99

Website: http://xdevlibrary.com

DynaPDF Licenses now include iOS

Since Xojo 2020r2 supports plugins for iOS, Monkeybread Software can now provide plugins for your iOS development. Use MBS Xojo Plugins in your iOS projects for PDF, charts, SQL, encryption, barcodes, and more!

The DynaPDF licenses sold were for macOS, Windows, and Linux as a bundle. You always had the option to pay for additional platforms like AIX, Android, HP-UX, iOS, Solaris, and OS400.

For future licenses, we change the flags and enable iOS for all our customers. All future license keys purchased from Monkeybread Software include the additional iOS platform without extra charge. Apple Silicon support is available or DynaPDF with MBS Xojo DynaPDF Plugin in version 20.5.

Product: DynaPDF

Platforms: All

Price: $199-$1599 (varies)

Website: https://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/xojo/plugin-dynapdf.shtml

ARGen Updated

Rochester, NY -- Tim Parnell is excited to announce the newest version of ARGen. This update improves API 2.0 compatibility and expands the documentation for using ActiveRecord.

ARGen generates Xojo code classes and user interface elements to interact with databases with Xojo code rather than SQL. Save time and write less code by taking advantage of the ActiveRecord library which abstracts database interaction. ARGen creates the classes necessary to use ActiveRecord from an existing database schema.

This is the last build that will support User Interface generation for Xojo Web 2020r1 as event names have changed. An update will be available soon supporting Xojo Web 2020r2 and newer.

Key new features in the latest ARGen include:

New: Dark mode User Guide

New: Exception reporting with Radar

Fixed: Database connection pooling for threads

Fixed: Namespace module compatibility flags are now set correctly for Console projects

Changed: Expanded documentation for Customize Template and Database Connection features

Changed: Generated projects have Open and Opening events to automatically connect to the database

Product: Strawberry Software

Platforms: All

Price: Varies

Website: https://strawberrysw.com/argen

Ohanaware Announces Iconographer Mini for macOS 11

Iconographer Mini is a quick and easy way to take a logo or image and create a compressed ICNS file for your Xojo made Mac apps.

Iconographer Mini was designed for macOS 11.0 Big Sur, to fit in with the new visual theme and to aid developers in creating Big Sur style icons for their Mac apps.

Icons can quickly be created using a single 1024 x 1024 image, or via multiple representations. Iconographer Mini also features many templates to help create Document icons, folder icons, DMG icons and others.

Iconographer Mini includes our ICNSmini technology which can compress ICNS files down to 1/3rd of their original size. Helping developers to ship smaller apps.

Other features include:

Grid View provides an easy way of viewing the most common icon sizes.

List View provides a list of the icons in the Iconset or ICNS file, as well as being able to add ICNS elements that are not supported with Iconset.

Compare View allows multiple icons to be lined up next to each other.

Multiple background options to help isolate minor imperfections with the icon design.

Option to preview the icon in the dock.

Several views supporting Zooming in and out, to get a closer look at elements.

Iconographer Mini was created with Xojo and the Ohanaware App Kit, the icon was made using Iconographer Mini and applied to the application via App Wrapper 4.

Product: Iconographer Mini

Platforms: OSX

Price: $2.99

Website: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/iconographer-mini/id1541509510

BKeeney Shorts has a new home

BKeeney Shorts has a new owner: varcess Software from Siegen, Germany continues the development and support of BKeeney Shorts. The further development focuses on new features and support of API 2.0:

inheritable report designs (letterhead -> offer, delivery note etc.)

XojoScript step-by-step debugger

API 2.0 support

Sub-reports

simplified integration via interfaces and events

Diagrams

Report server via REST API

Over the next few months, inheritable report designs and a XojoScript debugger, which allows XojoScripts to be debugged step-by-step and to look at variables, will be implemented. Both modules have already been integrated in a developer version of vcEuroFaktura. Support for Xojo's API 2.0 will of course follow. We expect new releases of BKeeney Shorts in spring 2021.

The report server will enable iOS and all platforms to retrieve BKeeney Shorts reports as PDF via REST API.

Product: BKeeney Shorts

Platforms: All

Price: 299 Euros

Website: https://www.varcess.com/

Introducing Queue_MTC, a fast queue class for Xojo

Queue_MTC, from Kem Tekinay, offers a fast way to queue, and dequeue (first-in-first-out) or pop (last-in-first-out), any type or data. It works mostly like an ordinary Variant array but is many times faster for this purpose.

Product: Queue_MTC

Platforms: All

Price: Free

Website: https://github.com/ktekinay/Queue_MTC

DiscretePath Network Analysis Announced

In June 2020 Marc De Block launched the software DiscretePath. DiscretePath is completely written in Xojo and is an application to draw, visualize, and analyze networks (graphs). A deep understanding of how networks (molecular, metabolic, social, etc.) are organized and how the different components interact with each other is essential to gain new insights.

Although good network visualization and analysis software is available on the market, Marc wrote his own software that suited his needs better (he is a research scientist in the field of plant biology and agriculture). The first version of DiscretePath contains most of the basic graph algorithms for analyzing networks. The flexible visualization tools help in discovering underlying network structures. With DiscretePath any type of network can be visualized and analyzed.

Product: DiscretePath

Platforms: OSX/Win

Price: Free

Website: https://www.intrinsic-code.eu

New Raspberry Pi 4B ebook released

xDev Library has released a new book on using Raspberry Pi 4B with Xojo. The 650-page ebook, "I Wish I Knew How to... Program Raspberry Pi 4B Electronics with Xojo", covers the latest Raspberry Pi 4B hardware with the newest version of the Buster Operating System. The book details numerous programs that can be built to interact with many types of electronic gadgets.

Major updates to the book are:

Written using the newest Xojo 2019 r3.1 (Xojo API2) code

Uses the latest Raspberry Pi Operating System (Buster)

The author wrote a new pigpio (wiringPi is deprecated) library wrapper (which is free at https://github.com/eugenedakin and called pigpio-GPIO).

There are 27 chapters with more than 650 pages with over 70 example programs.

This ebook is a PDF document and all examples include Xojo code. It is assumed readers have an intermediate understanding of both electronics and programming of the Xojo language.

Please Note: There are different books for the older versions -- pre-Xojo 2019 r1.1, Jessie OS, and pre-Pi 3 B hardware. This book is for programing with the latest Raspberry Pi 4 B hardware, with the Buster OS, and API2 2019 r3.1 Xojo IDE with pigpio. The older books are still for sale for those who wish to use older versions of Raspberry Pi and Xojo.

Product: I Wish I Knew How to... Program Raspberry Pi 4B Electronics with Xojo (ebook)

Platforms: All

Price: $24.99

Website: http://xdevlibrary.com

Android Update Video

Check out the latest Android video that demos 32 Xojo-made Android apps!

Product: Android Update Video

Platforms: All

Price: Free

Website: https://youtu.be/0v_KvEUlY-Q

xDevLibrary Announces New Xojo Beginner's Collection Ebook

xDevLibrary is delighted to announce the release of a massive new book targeted at beginning Xojo users. The "Xojo Beginner's Collection" is a 900-page ebook that gathers 17 years of *xDev Magazine* beginner columns into one volume.

Just about every issue of *xDev Magazine* has included a column called *Beginner's Corner*. In that column we go in-depth on how to use a particular feature of Xojo, explore basic programming concepts, or give tips and instructions specifically geared toward beginners in programming or new to Xojo.

Some of the topics covered include:

basic controls, canvas, computed properties, contextual menus, control arrays, data structures, dates, dictionaries, drag and drop, encapsulation, folderitems, JSON, loops, OOP, printing, ProgressBar, Refactoring, Scope, strings, styled text, Threads, timers, toolbars, transparency, typecasting, unit testing, windows, XojoScript, and much more!

We've gathered nearly two decades of those columns into a single book of over 900 pages and almost 100 demo projects. If you're new to Xojo this is a terrific resource that goes into much more detail than the often-cryptic Xojo help files.

**Note**: This book is included as part of the 2020 Omegabundle, a terrific collection of top Xojo add-ons (http://www.omegabundle.net/).

Product: Xojo Beginner's Collection Ebook

Platforms: All

Price: $24.99

Website: http://gum.co/TERSK

XDC Video Playlist Links

Xojo has been sharing videos from past XDCs. You can access the full playlists directly via these links:

XDC 2020: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPoq910Q9jXiPu7F9x8C6gtAmDbb26oWR

XDC 2019: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPoq910Q9jXituYe-kCyayWDNu4uMu2bS

XDC 2018: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPoq910Q9jXjI-LzGypA8xTg7DzDjrxQn

XDC 2016: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPoq910Q9jXiDBb2RSf_xDuZx_48n9JtN

Product: XDC Video Playlist Links

Platforms: All

Price: Free

Website: https://www.youtube.com/user/goxojo

EnvironmentVars_MTC

Kem Tekinay of MacTechnologies Consulting is pleased to announce EnvironmentVars_MTC, a class to handle environment variables conveniently.

Using environment variables in Xojo usually means setting up constants and linking those to properties. This class envisions a different way where the environment variables are set up with their own names as Computed Properties with copy-and-paste code in the Get and Set functions. It includes functions to list the variables and get display values for each, even allowing you to hide those values when appropriate. Adding a new environment variable is as easy as duplicating an existing property and changing its name.

Product: EnvironmentVars_MTC

Platforms: All OSX/Win/Linux

Price: Free

Website: https://github.com/ktekinay/Xojo-EnvironmentVars_MTC

Congratulations to the 2020 Xojo Design Award Winners!

The results are in and these are the 2020 Xojo Design Award Winners:

Best Consumer App -- HDRtist NX, Ohanaware

Best iOS App -- PropertyMe Manager, PropertyMe

Best Lifestyle App -- Crossword Wizard, Rush Software

Best Vertical Market App -- qwireCast, qWire

Best Developer Tool -- RegExRX, MacTechnologies Consulting

Best Vertical Market App -- bMD Medical Software

Best Plugin -- MBS Plugins, MonkeyBread Software

Yes, there are 2 Best Vertical Market Apps, they were both so good, Xojo had no choice but to award them both!

Product: Xojo Design Awards

Platforms: All

Price: Free

Website: https://www.xojo.com/designawards/

Xojo is part of the GitHub Student Developer Pack

The GitHub Student Developer Pack provides over 1.8 million students access to the best real-world developer tools and we are proud to now include Xojo in the Pack!

Product: GitHub Student Developer Pack

Platforms: All

Price: Free

Website: https://github.blog/2020-02-25-over-100-partners-to-help-you-succeed-with-the-github-student-developer-pack/

XOJO.CONNECT Conference App

The XOJO.CONNECT Conference App is now available for Android and iOS! View the schedule, favorite the sessions you want to attend, and more.

Product: XOJO.CONNECT Conference App

Platforms: iOS/Android

Price: Free

Website: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/xojo-connect/id981196816

Website: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xojo.xojoconnect

ExeWrapper Updated to 1.2.1

Tim Parnell is excited to announce the latest version of ExeWrapper! A small incremental update, this version offers some user experience improvements.

ExeWrapper is a tool for batch code signing Windows executables from macOS. Features like secure certificate password storage on the macOS Keychain, drag and drop file management, and one-click signing make packing deliverables easier than ever.

Product: ExeWrapper

Platforms: OSX

Price: Free ($16 for 5+ files at a time)

Website: https://exewrapper.com/

Xojo MVPs

One of the best things about Xojo is the community. Xojo is excited to recognize five Xojo developers within the community who have made exceptional contributions. These MVPs will be acting as an advisory board to help make Xojo even better. The MVPs were selected by nomination from Xojo employees. Congratulations to Jeremie Leroy, Anthony Cyphers, Kem Tekinay, Gavin Smith, and Wayne Golding!

Product: Xojo MVPs

Platforms: All

Price: Free

Website: https://www.xojo.com/mvp

HDRtist NX2

Ohanaware Co., Ltd. is very proud to announce the immediate release of HDRtist NX2 2.2 a major update to their flagship High Dynamic Range Imaging software for the macOS operating system. Version 2.2 includes 26 improvements and 20 fixes/workarounds. Improving the user experience and capabilities of the product, while cracking down on issues. HDRtist NX2 is the fourth major revision of their HDR software, covering 10 years, allowing for a significantly improved engine, modern interface, and extendable functionality.

Major changes in HDRtist NX 2.2:

6 New Gradient masking filters, with linear or radial gradients, enabling spot alterations.

6 existing filters updated with gradient masking.

New Noise suppression options in Polaris and extra filter.

New White Balance extra, for localized corrections and proving a new algorithm.

Added 16 new blend modes for various filters.

Improved the hardware options, with a new automated function.

Cut, Copy and Paste filters between documents.

More meta data options, including Keywords, the ability to ignore original camera meta data.

Various interface changes, improving the user experience throughout the application.

Added an extra 7 1-Click Styles.

20 bug fixes and workarounds for various issues.

Product: HDRtist NX2 2.2

Platforms: OSX

Price: $59.99 ($39.99 special)

Website: https://www.ohanaware.com/hdr/

RVCare Logbook

LibertyApp Ltd today is pleased to announce a brand new, completely revamped version of RVCare Logbook.

RVCare Logbook 3 is a ground-up modernisation of the long-running RV maintenance and trip log app for Mac and Windows. It's completely compatible with your existing data and is a free upgrade for all current customers. RVCare Logbook is now a modern 64-bit app, with many bug fixes and new features too. And we're not done yet, there's lots more on the roadmap for RVCare Logbook!

Organize your RV life with RVCare Logbook. Record service history, inventory, LP Gas, enhancements, tires and much more! You can even record details about campgrounds you visit and the trips that you go on as you travel.

Keeping accurate and complete records will provide information for scheduling preventive maintenance and a history of work done on your vehicles.

Product: RVCare Logbook

Platforms: OSX/Win

Price: $39.99

Website: https://www.rvcarelogbook.com/

Rondure 2.0 released

Park Bench Software, LLC announces the release of Rondure 2.0, a macOS native application for configuring and managing VMware vSphere hosts. The Rondure 2.0 release includes the availability of the new premium features, including:

Create / edit / register / delete virtual machines

Power on / off / suspend virtual machines

Import / export OVF

Create / delete / edit datastores

Upload / download / manage files on datastores

Add / edit / delete virtual switches / NICs / port groups

Edit ESXi users / groups / permissions

Manage licenses (ESXi and vCenter)

Toggle ESXi host maintenance mode

Backup / restore ESXi firmware settings

Reboot / shut down ESXi host

Join / remove ESXi host from AD domain

Configure ESXi host settings (date / time configuration, logs location, enable / disable MOB)

Product: Rondure 2.0

Platforms: OSX

Price: $99/year per user

Website: https://www.parkbenchsoftware.com/rondure/index.html

Server Ranger 2.5.5

LibertyApp Ltd is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Server Ranger 2.5.5.

Server Ranger monitors your devices, websites and servers so you don't have to, automatically sending you alerts when things go wrong. Create alert policies for websites and servers that have a slow response or go offline. Get emails, SMS messages and other alerts automatically sent to you or your colleagues. Analyse the log files for server error messages.

Server Ranger is already in use around the world, from home offices to IT departments to schools. It has been in the Top 5 and Top 10 App Store charts in several categories and countries and won a Xojo Design Award in 2018.

Product: Server Ranger

Platforms: OSX, Win, Linux

Price: $49.99

Website: http://www.serverranger.com/

Xojo iOS Language Reference

Jeremie Leroy is pleased to announce the Xojo Language Reference free app is now available on the App Store. The entire Language Reference is now available from anywhere, no Internet connection required. This handy app, made with Xojo, will be updated with each Xojo release. Thanks to iOSDesignExtensions set of functions available on GitHub, writing this app only took two days.

Product: Xojo iOS Language Reference

Platforms: iOS

Price: Free

Website: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1484982467

StackView Classes Updated

These classes enable a StackView, similar to Apple's NSStackView, to be used natively across platforms (macOS, Windows, Linux) with the help of ContainerControls.

Version 1.08 of the StackView classes for Xojo contains significant internal changes to make StackView ready for API 2.0, so owners of the previous version are recommended to upgrade to the current version 1.08 (they receive the update for free by e-mail). This Version detects automatically, if it should use the classic API 1.0 or the new API 2.0 (Xojo 2019.02+).

To purchase, just write Martin a private message at the Xojo Forum (https://forum.xojo.com/member/227571) with your valid e-mail address. I'll sent you the invoice about 15 euros and after purchasing via PayPal you'll get the unencrypted source code.

Product: StackView classes for Xojo

Platforms: All

Price: 15 Euros (source code)

Website: https://www.dropbox.com/s/o7ufgegbqj6galy/StackView%20DEMO.zip?dl=0

AXNumValidatedTF

AXNumValidatedTF is a Xojo TextField subclass (32/64 bits) for Windows and macOS allowing the input validation of a defined numeric range, using the system Locale settings for decimal and grouping text formatting.

Raise Events when the entered value is in / out of Range (active catching / propagation of the value).

Optionally displays a message Dialog when the entered value is out of range.

Optionally stays in focus when the entered value is out of range.

Use of Locale settings for Grouping and Decimal separators.

Adaptive formatting during the value validation.

Instance ToolTip / HelpTag set to the accepted value Range

Set the length of the decimal part for Real numbers.

IsInRange property to passively check if the value is inside the defined range.

Xojo API 2.0 / API 1.0 versions of the Class.

macOS / Windows (32/64 bits) compatible.

Among other features, the user can set the kind of numerical input (Integer or Real), Minimum and Maximum values for the accepted numerical input, the decimal length for real numbers, and the default value for the field. It also provides properties to enforce the input of a numerical value in the defined range (the focus stays in the field) and the optional display of an error message dialog.

As part of the validation process, AXNumValidatedTF properly formats the displayed number, including the use of the Grouping and Decimal character defined in the system Locale settings, the deletion of left side zeroes and even trying to fix the incorrect use of the Grouping and Decimal characters as part of the input from the user (for example, "10,00.32" is formatted as "1,000.32" after the validation when the "," character is set for number Grouping and "." as the decimal separator).

AXNumValidatedTF formats the Minimum and Maximum values, showing them as a hint in the ToolTip (API 2.0) or HelpTag (API 1) for each of the instances used in the Layout of the App.

The Xojo demo project is fully functional and whithout limitations when run from the Xojo IDE, but you need a License in order to deploy (compile) a project that includes AXNumValidatedTF. Licensed users are entitled to receive for free all the component updates published for 12 months after purchase.

Product: AXNumValidatedTF

Platforms: OSX/Win

Price: 20 Euros

Website: https://www.dropbox.com/s/bqq2b53anzfsab1/AXNumValidatedTF.zip?dl=1

AXControlGrid: Page Layout and Rendering

AXControlGrid is a complete and powerful Xojo desktop UI component for macOS and Windows that it makes possible to put Canvas-based controls in a Page or a series of Pages of a given size (width and height) and, optionally, their associated captions.

It allows the rendering of such page content as Pictures objects so you can do further operations on them: including saving them to a database or as files, generating PDF files, sending them via email, printing them, etc.

From the developer point of view everything is configurable and every change is visible on the fly, including the re-layout of the Page Contents to reflect the new settings applied.

From the point of view of a final user, they will be able to Zoom the Page contents, navigate between the available pages, drag and drop new items to add them to the currently visible Page, select a range of items in the Page to cut and paste or delete them, besides writing and modifying caption texts (and their settings) or undoing every action done!

The Xojo demo project is fully functional and whithout limitations when run from the Xojo IDE, but you need a License in order to deploy (compile) a project that includes AXControlGrid. AXControlGrid license users are entitled to receive for free all the component updates published for 12 months after purchase.

Product: AXControlGrid: Page Layout and Rendering

Platforms: OSX/Win

Price: 120 Euros

Website: https://www.aprendexojo.com/en/shop/axcontrolgrid/

RegExRX updated to v.1.9.2

Kem Tekinay, MacTechnologies Consulting, is pleased to announce the release of RegExRX v.1.9.2, the regular expression development tool. The new version is 64-bit, ready for next version of macOS, and supports Dark Mode on the Mac. It introduces some other handy features too, like the ability to export replaced text, store the Match List in the clipboard, show invisible characters in any field (Mac-only), and more.

Product: RegExRX

Platforms: OSX/Win

Price: $4.99

Website: http://www.mactechnologies.com/downloads

Looper Class from Kem Tekinay

Kem Tekinay of MacTechnologies Consulting is pleased to announce Looper_MTC, a class to help process code in the background with full access to your responsive UI. Example code is in the download.

Product: Looper Class

Platforms: All

Price: Free

Website: https://github.com/ktekinay/Xojo-Looper

GuancheID Released

Javier Rodriguez (AprendeXojo.com) announces the immediate release of GuancheID for Xojo Desktop and Xojo Console (Windows and macOS; 32- and 64-bits).

GuancheID is the easiest way to get a unique ID for macOS- and Windows-based computers, so you can use it in combination with GuancheMOS or your own software Licensing scheme to make sure your software only runs on the computer the license has been generated for. You can use GuancheID without restrictions when running your apps in Debug Mode from the Xojo IDE, but a license is required when building an application that makes use of it.

Product: GuancheID

Platforms: Desktop

Price: 40 Euros

Website: https://www.aprendexojo.com/en/shop/guancheid-2/

AXImageCanvas Released

Javier Rodriguez (AprendeXojo.com) announces the immediate release of AXImageCanvas for Xojo Desktop. AXImageCanvas greately simplifies the task of displaying a Picture into the containing control area, with the ability to correctly display the image maintaining its original aspect ratio keeping the original picture at its full resolution. This can be done with any dropped image from inside the app, via a Picture File dropped from the Desktop, or another Picture dropped from another AXImageCanvas control or executing App, plus any copied picture from another app or source. Of course, the displayed image can be set programmatically, just passing the desired Picture Object (instance).

AXImageCanvas instances can be used in combination of any of the currently supported database engines (Database Edition): SQLite, MySQL / MariaDB, PostgreSQL.

In these cases, and in addition of the previously described features (among others), it will take care of the usual CRUD operations; getting the picture for the specified record, creating new records, updating the current record or deleting the current displayed record (more on this a bit later).

This class also brings methods and capture keyboard events allowing navigation through the records: first record, last record, next record, previous record; even if their ID are not consecutive.

Product: AXImageCanvas

Platforms: Desktop

Price: 30 Euros/60 Euros (standard/database)

Website: https://www.aprendexojo.com/en/shop/aximagecanvas-standard-edition-2/

MarkdownKit

MarkdownKit is the only 100% native Xojo Markdown parser that is fully CommonMark compliant. It works on every supported Xojo platform (including iOS) and is fast. Really fast.

MarkdownKit is an easy-to-use Xojo module that takes String or Text Markdown as input and outputs HTML as a String or Text. It is fully compliant with the CommonMark 0.29 specification which means that it passes all 649 tests in the test suite.

Why use MarkdownKit?

100% native Xojo code. Requires no external plugins

The only Xojo Markdown parser that works on iOS

Fast. 3-4x faster than other Xojo Markdown parsers*

The only CommonMark compliant Markdown parser for Xojo

Unencrypted source code

Provides access to the abstract syntax tree (AST) so you can easily create your own renderer. This allows you to easily output the Markdown in a format other than HMTL

Advanced features

Whilst MarkdownKit is very easy to use, it also provides access to the abstract syntax tree (AST) it generates whilst parsing the input Markdown. The AST is a representation of the structure and content of the Markdown document. Once created, it can then be "walked" or traversed by a renderer.

A renderer is a class that implements the MarkdownKit.IRenderer interface. You can create your own if you wish. The default HTML renderer included in the MarkdownKit module is just such as class. A second renderer class called ASTRenderer is included which will print out the AST (instead of converting it to HTML).

MarkdownKit comes with comprehensive documentation and a high quality demo application.

Product: MarkdownKit

Platforms: All

Price: $75 (unencrypted module)

Website: https://garrypettet.com/xojo-addons/markdownkit

MBS SQLite Extension 1.5

Monkeybread Software releases version 1.5 of the MBS SQLite Extension. The MBS SQLite Extension is a multifunctional extension to any SQLite powered application.

Our SQLite Extension gives you over 50 new functions for SQLite:

Additional mathematical functions like Round or Pow.

Functions to save blob values in files outside the database.

Functions to calculate checksums on blob values on the server.

String functions like SoundEx or accents removing for your text searches.

Regular Expressions in queries.

UUID generation

New in Version 1.5:

Minimum macOS is now 10.9.

Added CreateDirectoryMBS function.

Improved RemoveAccentsMBS function.

Windows DLL now code signed.

Mac dylib now code signed.

Product: MBS SQLite Extension

Platforms: All

Price: 149

Website: http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/SQLiteExtension/

XojoTalk 034

The XojoTalk Podcast is back with a super-sized episode! Paul and Geoff talk about announcements from WWDC 2019 and more.

Product: XojoTalk 034

Platforms: All

Price: Free

Website: https://blog.xojo.com/2019/06/05/xojotalk-034-back-in-black/

New VB-to-Xojo Ebook

xDevLibrary is delighted to announce the release of a new book by Paul Abell, VB.Net to Xojo: Converting Visual Studio Basic to Xojo.

Visual Studio Basic and Xojo are remarkably similar... but just enough different that those subtle changes can throw you off your programming game. What you need is a guide, someone to show you the Xojo ropes.

Thankfully, Paul Abell is here to show you how to make the VB.net to Xojo transition. He's new to Xojo and still learning, but in this 53-page ebook he'll show you the conversion process, point out common Xojo misconceptions VB users make, and help you with tips and techniques to make your move to Xojo easy and successful!

Some of the topics discussed include explanations in how the two languages handle files, menus, colors, sounds, errors, printing, and more. You'll learn how to add features like using the Escape key to close windows, make pictures fit a box, and more.

Paul even includes the full source of a Xojo Windows project he wrote, XJSnip, which lets you manage snippets of Xojo code.

The ebook is in PDF, EPUB, and Mobi (Kindle) formats.

Product: VB.Net to Xojo: Converting Visual Studio Basic to Xojo

Platforms: All

Price: $4.99

Website: http://gum.co/qPkCj

XOJO.CONNECT

Xojo Conferences are about connections -- whether it be with other users from around the world or the Xojo team themselves. Save the date for XOJO.CONNECT, to be held March 25-27, 2020 at The Sheraton Music City Hotel in Nashville, TN! We have arranged a great room rate for conference attendees and free airport transportation. More information coming soon!

Product: XOJO.CONNECT,

Platforms: All

Price: $799-$999

Website: https://www.xojo.com/store#conference

XDC 2019 Session Videos Now Available

XDC 2018 session videos are now available for sale. Visit the Xojo Store to purchase your video pass for $299. You'll get access to all of the session videos and XDC Keynote!

If you attended XDC 2018, you already have access to them in your Xojo Account.

Also, everyone can check out Travis Hill and Paul Lefebvre's API 2.0 session now on YouTube (https://youtu.be/rPjbH4_sARs).

Product: XDC 2018 Session Videos

Platforms: All

Price: $299 (free for XDC 2019 attendees)

Website: https://www.xojo.com/store/#conference

MBS Xojo Conference 2019 in Cologne, Germany

Monkeybread Software is pleased to announce the MBS Xojo Conference in metropolitan Cologne, Germany on the 24th and 25th October 2019 in the lovely Dorint hotel. The hotel is in the city center and in walking distance to the main station. Beside the two conference days there are a social program with a dinner event and optional two training days (in English on the 23rd and in German on the 26th). For the evenings there are casual get-togethers in the hotel bar or restaurant.

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.

Product: MBS Xojo Conference 2019

Platforms: All

Price: 599-699 Euro plus VAT

Website: http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.com/conference

xDevLibrary Announces New Canvas 2 Book

xDevLibrary is delighted to announce the release of a new book by Eugene Dakin, "I Wish I Knew How To... Program the Canvas Control 2 with Xojo." The 450+ page PDF book can be purchased via GumRoad for instant delivery (http://gum.co/atzaR).

The focus of this book is to work with topics related to the Canvas Control. All of these examples are created with native Xojo code and does not use any third party programs. The examples have been tested on Windows 10, OS X Mojave 10.14.3, and Ubuntu 18.04 Operating Systems.

By the time you finish the book you will be able to apply skills from these examples to create your own programs!

Note: An older Canvas book that has legacy code for Xojo 2014r2 that works without the changes in the Xojo Language is still available at xDevLibrary (http://www.xdevlibrary.com).

The book contains 13 chapters and over 450 pages of code to build 60 example programs. Create realistic 2D game motion. It also includes example images and the ways to use them in programs. The book is in PDF format with example chapter folders containing Xojo source code and running examples.

Product: I Wish I Knew How To... Program the Canvas Control 2 with Xojo (book)

Platforms: All

Price: $14.99

Website: http://www.xdevlibrary.com

Aloe Express 4.1

Tim Dietrich has released an update to Aloe Express, the popular open-source Xojo Web server module.

With Aloe Express, Xojo developers can quickly and easily build Web APIs, microservices, and more. You can create Xojo apps that serve dynamic and static content, easily route and process requests, make use of WebSockets, and more.

Aloe Express Version 4.1 resolves multiple bugs, and includes several performance improvements, including improved support multi-threading request processing.

Product: Aloe Express

Platforms: Desktop

Price: Free

Website: https://aloe.zone

ARGen Updated

BKeeney Software Inc. is proud to announce an update to ARGen, their ActiveRecord Generator utility for Xojo developers. This minor update includes dark mode support, speed improvements, and important updates for generated projects. Updating to 3.0.3 is recommended for all ARGen users.

Product: ARGen

Platforms: OSX/Win

Price: $99.95

Website: https://bkeeney.com/argen/

XDC Video Sale (Starting at $75)

As we are getting closer to XDC 2019, new conference videos are on the horizon! We are now offering some great pricing on the XDC 2018 and 2016 videos! Between now and XDC (May 1, 2019), you can get the XDC 2016 video set for $75 and the 2018 video set for $99!

Product: XDC Videos

Platforms: All

Price: $75-$99

Website: https://www.xojo.com/store#conference

Formatted Text Control 3.2

BKeeney Software Inc. releases a major update to Formatted Text Control. Developers can now implement tab leaders, change character spacing, implement text drop shadows, and use standard keyboard handling in their applications that require a robust word processing control. This version contains dozens of new, changed, and updated items.

Formatted Text Control (FTC) is a set of classes that offer developers word processing capabilities for their Mac and Windows desktop applications. FTC has several viewing modes that gives users a choice of Page View, Edit View, or Single Line view. FTC supports inline graphics, hyperlinks, and text formatting that the built-in Xojo TextArea control just can't do. Users can import and save text, RTF, and XML format documents.

FTC version 3.2.0 is a free update to all 3.x users and is recommended.

Product: Formatted Text Control 3.2

Platforms: Desktop

Price: $150 (source code)

Website: https://www.bkeeney.com/formatted-text-control/

BKS Tab Control Updated

BKeeney Software releases an update for BKS Tab Control enabling users to drag and drop to rearrange tabs. Developers can enable or disable this feature using a switch in the Xojo IDE. A new event, `TabOrderChanged`, is raised when the user performs a drag-rearrange.

The BKS Tab Control is a set of classes that offer developers a classic "tabs control" for Xojo Desktop applications. The Tab Control can attach to any RectControl or Window, and will maintain a relationship to this parent control if and when it changes size. Tabs can be displayed in one of four directions (North, South, East, West) and individually offer options like a close button, an icon, a background color, and can be disabled.

Product: BKS Tab Control

Platforms: Desktop

Price: $75 (source code)

Website: https://www.bkeeney.com/allproducts/bks-tab-control/

All Sascha Schneppmueller MAS Apps updated for macOS Dark Mode

Shortly before Christmas Sascha Schneppmueller managed to get all his macOS Dark Mode Updates approved by the MAS (Mac App Store) Review Team. Because of the hard work of the Xojo Team, it was really easy to achive this.

Sascha writes: "A big **thank you** to the whole Xojo Team for making our lives so much easier with each new release!"

Product:

Platforms: OSX

Price: Varies

Website: https://itunes.apple.com/de/developer/sascha-schneppmueller/

CSTrueColors

With macOS Mojave support being one of the new features of Xojo 2018r3, you might want to polish your desktop UIs by incorporating the new dynamic color constants. While Xojo supports only a selection of them, CSTrueColors from Ulrich Bogun has all 50+ as dynamically buffered Xojo Colors--which means they are cached until a Dark Mode change or a change of the selection/AccentColor happens.

To make cross-platform development easier, you find the same colors on Windows, too, and on this platform selection and high contrast mode changes are registered, but not the current Windows Dark Mode.

convert Xojo pictures to macOS template images which change their brightness automatically

insert pictures and templates into some of the most commonly used desktop controls.

some color conversion methods and Apple's new System Effects

macOS VisualEffectViews as custom controls (Mojave types)

and more

Product: CSTrueColors

Platforms: OSX/Win

Price: 12.50 Euros (free demo)

Website: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vg-sN8_7mz18zeu9XoRWZaBc8Tm-_Enb

New Cross-Platform Reporting Tool

BKeeney Software launches BKS Report Studio, a simple database reporting tool that features a visual interface, templates, and editing features that allow users to create reports without writing SQL.

Designed for every skill level, BKS Report Studio operates like a layout editor by allowing users to drag and drop data sources, labels, images, and even barcodes to build powerful reports, quickly.

Reports can be printed directly, or can be exported in several file formats. Created by a need to simplify and extend the database reporting process, BKS Report Studio focuses on making the report design phase easier.

BKS Report Studio features several functions:

Drag and Drop layout design for report templates

Export as PDF documents or print directly

SQL engine generates the necessary query and gathers data

Filter data beforehand, or live at runtime with dynamic runtime filtering

Boolean display is fully customizable, and supports Emoji

Format numbers, and perform scripts on bands as they are generated

Connect to the most popular database engines, or connect to any database engine that provides an ODBC driver. BKS Report Studio supports these database engines: CubeSQL, MySQL, ODBC, PostgreSQL, and SQLite

Product: BKS Report Studio

Platforms: OSX/Win

Price: $175 (free trial)

Website:

Free Xojo Menus Training

Javier Rodriguez announces the availability of this Free Online Xojo Course, initially available only in Spanish and very soon in English, about "Everything you need to know about Menus" in Xojo.

Discover throughout a total of 13 Lessons and 10 Videos how to create static menus using the Menu Editor, associate actions, create complete menu hierarchies from code, how to assign actions to dynamic menu items, and even how to clone and display your own menu hierarchies in any spot inside the limits of any Window!

This course is available for free to all registered users of AprendeXojo.com.

Product: Xojo Menus Training

Platforms: All

Price: Free

Website: http://aprendexojo.com

JSONItem_MTC Update

Kem Tekinay is pleased to announce an update to the JSONItem_MTC project that now includes the M_JSON module. This emulates the new framework's ParseJSON and GenerateJSON functions but with the classic (soon to be API 2.0) framework. While the native functions work with Text, Xojo.Core.Dictionary, and Auto(), these will work with String, Dictionary, and Variant(). More, GenerateJSON_MTC has an optional parameter to produce a formatted ("pretty") string.

JSONItem_MTC is a drop-in replacement for the native JSONItem that is faster and compensates for some bugs found in the native version. The version has been changed to 4.0 to stay in sync with the new M_JSON module, but there have been no functional changes in this release. JSONItem_MTC and M_JSON can be used independently.

Product: JSONItem_MTC

Platforms: All

Price: Free

Website: https://github.com/ktekinay/JSONItem_MTC

PDTSQL Released

PDTSoftware is pleased to announce the availability of PDTSQL, an embedded SQLite database server for Xojo. With PDTSQL, developers can easily create custom, redistributable SQLite database servers for their applications. It is intended for light-weight database applications with less than 10 users connected at a time. Developers can make the administration of the server as simple or as extensive as needed.

A sample server and applications are included in the package. Server source code in the demo is encrypted and will only run in the Xojo IDE.

Product: PDTSQL

Platforms: All

Price: $75 (source code)

Website: http://www.pdtsoftware.com/

Tim Dietrich launches PromoStandards JSON API

Xojo developer Tim Dietrich has launched the PromoStandards JSON API, a service that provides developers with an alternative, JSON-based interface to PromoStandards.

"PromoStandards is a collaborative effort by some of the leading companies in the promotional products industry to standardize how data is communicated," said Tim. "The goal is to reduce friction in the industry's business processes, which benefits suppliers, distributors, and customers alike. The promotional products industry is massive, with 2017 sales of $23.3 billion. So even the slightest increase in efficiency can have dramatic results."

With the PromoStandards JSON API Service, developers can send simple JSON requests, and receive JSON responses as well. Tim developed the API using Xojo and Aloe Express, a popular open-source Xojo Web server module.

Product: PromoStandards JSON API Service

Platforms: All

Price: Free

Website: https://json.promoproducts.io/

New Raspberry Pi with Xojo Book

xDevLibrary is delighted to announce the release of a new book by Eugene Dakin, "I Wish I Knew How To... Program Raspberry Pi 3B+ Electronics with Xojo -- Stretch Edition."

The 600+ page PDF book can be purchased via GumRoad for instant delivery (http://gum.co/bXqy).

You can do many things with the Raspberry Pi, and some have built a Star Trek interface, while others have built robots. This book provides the building block to work with Xojo to react with the real world through its motherboard to allow you to make your own interesting device. This inexpensive computer can be programed by the widely recognized Xojo programming language.

This book "I Wish I Knew How to... Program Raspberry Pi 3B+ Electronics with Xojo" goes into the numerous programs that can be built to interact with many types of electronic gadgets. This book uses the latest Raspberry Pi 3B+ hardware with the newest version of the Stretch Operating System.

Note: A previous version of this book that supports older Xojo releases and Raspberry Pi operating systems is still available at xDevLibrary (http://www.xdevlibrary.com ).

Product: I Wish I Knew How To... Program Raspberry Pi 3B+ Electronics with Xojo -- Stretch Edition (book)

Platforms: Win

Price: $19.99

Website: http://xdevlibrary.com

Just Code Challenge

Introducing this summer's Just Code challenge. The idea is that you try to make one app a week throughout the next 14 weeks of the summer. These apps don't need to do anything fancy, although they should do something. Any type of Xojo-made app counts -- desktop, iOS, or web. No need to compile, you are only required to submit your project to complete the challenge.

This contest is a great way to show people new to coding what it takes to make an app, and to show how much fun coding is.

The Just Code challenge starts today, June 18 and ends Friday, September 21. Submit a project on at least 10 out of 14 Fridays to complete the Just Code challenge! Complete the challenge and you'll get one of our super soft, new Xojo shirts (while supplies last) and you'll be entered to win a Xojo Pro license plus $100! UPDATE: Because of growing interest, we'll also be giving away a limited number of Xojo Lite licenses!

Product: Just Code Challenge

Platforms: All

Price: Free

Website: https://blog.xojo.com/2018/06/18/jump-right-in-just-code-challenge/

Free SQLiteDatabase Online Course

Javier Rodriguez (AprendeXojo.com) announces the availability of this Online Xojo Course, initially available only in Spanish and English to follow, about creating and using SQLite databases from Xojo via code from scratch.

Discover throughout a total of 14 Lessons, 10 Videos and 10 Test quizzes all you need to be aware of in order to create from Xojo code new in-memory SQLite database, file based SQLite database, create new tables, records, updating records, working with RecordSet, DatabaseRecord, DatabaseField executing direct queries against the database, synchronous and asynchronous backups, encrypting and decrypting SQLite Databases... and other regular operations for starters, and without previous experience!

Once you finish every lesson, you will go through a quiz in order to test the learned topics, validating their correct assimilation.

Product: SQLiteDatabase Online Course

Platforms: All

Price: Free (with registration)

Website: https://www.aprendexojo.com/shop/primeros-pasos-con-sqlitedatabase-y-iossqlitedatabase/

BKS Tab Control

BKeeney Software releases BKS Tab Control, a set of classes that offer developers a classic "tabs control" for Xojo Desktop applications. The Tab Control can attach to any RectControl or Window, and will maintain a relationship to this parent control if and when it changes size. Tabs can be displayed in one of four directions (North, South, East, West) and individually offer options like a close button, an icon, a background color, and can be disabled. Other features:

Optional CloseBox can be positioned on the left of right

If the CloseBox is selected a CancelClose event is fired

Optional Icon can be positioned on the left or right

Each tab can have a different background color

Each tab can be disabled

Each tab text can be stylized with font, font color, text size, bold, italic, underline

Tabs that overflow the available width may be accessed with an overflow popup menu

Works in HiDPI and non-HiDPI modes

Product: BKS Tab Control

Platforms: Desktop

Price: $75

Website: https://www.bkeeney.com/allproducts/bks-tab-control/

SpeakerCue Confidence Monitoring

ampSoftware is excited to announce the release of SpeakerCue, a confidence monitor for professional producers and presenters. This handy communications tool is a simple, streamlined way for a presenter or speaker to monitor their time and for an assistant or producer to provide them with invaluable information. SpeakerCue requirements are simple; a Mac or PC for the person who is controlling the time and messaging, and an external display within view of the speaker to receive those messages.

Product: SpeakerCue

Platforms: Desktop

Price: $80

Website: http://speakercue.com/

Introducing Temper: A Xojo-based Web API for FileMaker

Tim Dietrich has released Temper, a new Web API for FileMaker databases. With Temper, developers can make API calls to create, read, update, and delete records, run scripts, set and get the contents of containers, get information about layouts, scripts, and more.

"I developed Temper as an alternative to FileMaker's Data API," said Tim. "Temper uses the FileMaker API for XML, so there are no additional licenses needed to transfer data, and no need to worry about hitting data transfer limits."

Temper works with all versions of FileMaker Server that support the FileMaker API for XML. Temper was developed using Xojo, XFM (a FileMaker integration module), and Aloe Micro (a variant of the popular Aloe Express Web server module).

Product: Temper

Platforms: All

Price: Free

Website: https://temperapi.com/

xDevLibrary Announces New WMIC Book

xDevLibrary is delighted to announce the release of a new book by Eugene Dakin, "I Wish I Knew How To... Program Windows WMIC With Xojo."

The 550-page PDF book can be purchased via GumRoad for instant delivery (http://gum.co/limjl ).

Has someone ever asked you the question "Is my computer 32-bit or 64- bit?" WMIC is the command that can retrieve this information about a Windows Operating System and almost all of the components installed on the computer. WMIC is the abbreviation for Windows Management Instrumentation Command-Line that has been used for over a decade in the Windows OS.

The book "I Wish I Knew How To...Program Windows WMIC With Xojo" is able to query hundreds of parameters on the computer and this code can be implemented into your program. This is a reference book that shows the many possible options of WMIC and retrieves data seamlessly to your program.

The most difficult part of working with WMIC is to provide the correct search parameters, which this book covers in all of these chapters.

There are 60 chapters which contains over 550 pages and more than 60 example programs that can retrieved hundreds of specifications. Many screen shots have been added to show the results of the code with an index to help find topics quickly. Each chapter has a working version of the WMIC command that can be used.

A few of the many examples include drivers, network protocols, Network Interface Card (NIC), motherboard data and specifications, boot configurations, the BIOS, and much more.

Product: "I Wish I Knew How To...Program Windows WMIC With Xojo" book

Platforms: All

Price: $14.99

Website: http://www.xdevlibrary.com/

Combine PDFs 5.3

Monkeybread Software is proud to announce Combine PDFs 5.3, an update to their popular PDF merge and split tool for Mac OS X. With a focus on ease-of-use, Combine PDFs is a lightweight utility which allows anyone to merge PDF files and images (JPEG, TIFF, etc.) into a single PDF file. Additionally, users can split a PDF file or create a new PDF file with interleaved pages from two different PDF files.

The user need only drag and drop files onto the program icon. The main window appears allowing the user to set the order in which the files are joined, or to remove any files. A menu command launches a window for the input of metadata, such as Title, Author, Creator, Subject, and Keywords. Once all PDF and image files are correctly ordered, and metadata has been entered, a single menu command will automatically join all the selected files into a single PDF file.

Combine PDFs also supports the use of encrypted passwords. With the password option activated users can restrict the viewing, copying and printing of any document. The app permits use of 40 bit, or extremely strong 128 bit encryption. Also supported are OS X Quartz filters which enable users to apply a variety of effects to both PDF and image files. Effects include variable compression level, lightness, gray tone, sepia, and black and white. A preview window allows the user to review all files and effects before producing the final PDF document, and full-screen preview is available.

Changes in Version 5.3:

Fixed preview window setting, so it's saved and honored on next app start.

Added swedish translation.

Can use app store license in shareware version.

Added retina support and now a Cocoa application.

Added preference option to enable copying of annotations.

Requires MacOS 10.9 or newer.

Upgraded to 64-bit.

Version 5.3 sports many new improvements, adding support for French and Italian, automatic metadata, more metadata values, and user selectable fonts for text overlays. Combine PDFs exploits the powerful PDF Libraries built into the Core Graphics of Mac OS X, permitting operations not supported natively on the Windows platform.

Product: Combine PDFs 5.3

Platforms: OSX

Price: $30

Website: http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/Software/CombinePDFs.shtml

mySalesAgent 2.7

Imagine mySalesAgent as your personal Media Wishlist, Media Shopping list or Collection List. You can search for iPhone, iPod, iPad, AppleTV and macOS apps, for Movies, TV Shows, Music Albums and Songs, Audiobooks or Books and add them to your watchlist. If one of your desired Media reaches the price for which you would like to buy it, mySalesAgent will inform you with a message center notification and optionally by email. You can select any iTunes Store Store worldwide and monitor the price of any Media in that region. The program is free of any advertisement and will not use in app purchases.

Product: mySalesAgent 2.7

Platforms: OSX

Price: Free

Website: https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/mysalesagent/id966480103?mt=12&uo=4&at=1l3vbES&ct=mySalesAgent

Free M_Presentation

Kem Tekinay is pleased to announce M_Presentation, a collection of tools to assist in presenting or demoing Xojo apps. The M_Presentation module holds a collection of control subclasses that will adjust their font size at runtime according to a module constant. Need to change the font size of all of your controls at once to something else? Just change the constant's value!

There is also a window subclass that will automatically created a mirror image of your window that you can put in a projector or second monitor. This "ghost" will reflect almost everything in your main window in real-time and will show the cursor position as a red dot, like a laser pointer. You can have multiple windows open, each with its own "ghost" that will maintain order as you cycle through the main windows. There is even a scaler that will let you scale all the "ghosts" at once. M_Presentation is a free, open-source project

Product: M_Presentation

Platforms: All OSX/Win/Linux

Price: Free

Website: https://github.com/ktekinay/M_Presentation

MBS Xojo Event Kit 1.2 Released

The MBS Xojo Event Kit provides you with a few useful classes for using the calendar for your Xojo iOS application. New in version 1.2:

Added privacy entries for info.plist via build script step.

Updated for Xojo 2018r1

Fixed bugs with color for Mac and we now use NSColor there.

Fixed bug with EKCalendarItemMB.URL setter

Product: MBS Xojo Event Kit

Platforms: iOS

Price: $99

Website: http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/xojo/EventKit/

Monkeybread Software Releases IP in Menubar

Monkeybread Software Releases IP

in Menubar v4.6, 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 address is updated regularly. Switch on the Router option if you are behind a router or gateway. You can still see your local IP address in the menu.

New in version 4.6 is 64-bit support.

Product: IP in Menubar

Platforms: OSX

Price: Free

Website: http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/Freeware/IPinmenubar.shtml

ActivityViewer

piDog Software releases version 2.6.0 of their ActivityViewer classes, which have been updated to improve compatibility with the current Xojo IDE and add support for SecureSockets.

ActivityViewer is a set of classes by piDog Software that makes it easy to add progress displays for various background tasks to your Xojo projects.

ActivityViewer works by extending the Thread, SocketCore and Shell classes with properties and methods like "Label", "Icon", "Progress", "ProgressText", "Cancel" and "Finish".

An ActivityView can be embedded in any window or use the included default Activity Window.

ActivityViewer also includes the ActivityViewer_HTTPFileDownloadSocket which includes SSL support, pausable downloads, automatic proxy detection, password protected directory handling and URL redirection.

Product: ActivityViewer

Platforms: OSX/Win/Linux

Price: $40

Website: https://www.pidog.com/ActivityViewer/

Announcing gTooltip

Gate61 is proud to announce gTooltip, a new Xojo Web add-on to create flexible, styled and customized Tooltips (HelpTags).

Tooltip text can also contain html tags (strong, img, ...) and icons

Different sizes, multi-lines allowed

Dynamic (you can change settings at runtime, by code)

Text and background colors, transparency allowed !

Triggered by hover, click or manually

Multiple positioning options

With or without arrows

Delayed and animated display/hide

Set the Tooltip to follow the mouse cursor

Optional "flip" (position change) when not enough room available

Product: gTooltip

Platforms: Web

Price: $17/$69 (encrypted/source)

Website: https://www.gate61.com/gtooltip.html

Free Xojo Pi!

In honor of Pi Day 2018, Xojo will be giving away Xojo Pi licenses for free! Xojo Pi allows you to build console apps for Linux ARM for use with Raspberry Pi 2 and Raspberry Pi 3.

Back at XDC 2015 when we announced Xojo would be adding support for the Raspberry Pi, we thought it was a fun extra for Xojo users. We were not expecting the overwhelming excitement and interest from the Xojo community and makers around the world! To celebrate Pi Day like the true geeks we are, we're making Xojo Pi licenses free from Pi Day forward! Email hello@xojo.com or DM Xojo on Twitter for your free Xojo Pi license activation code.

Product: Xojo Pi

Platforms: Raspberry Pi

Price: Free

Website: http://www.xojo.com

gNotify

Gate61 is proud to announce gNotify a new Xojo Web add-on, a powerful and flexible control to display Notifications.

Product: gNotify

Platforms: Web

Price: $17/$69 (encrypted/source)

Website: https://www.gate61.com/gnotify.html

Free Online Xojo Course: SQLite basics

Javier Rodriguez (AprendeXojo.com) announces the availability of this Online Xojo Course, initially available only in Spanish, about the basics on creating apps based on SQLite with Xojo.

Discover throughout a total of 12 Lessons, 10 Videos, and 9 Test quizzes all the basics you need to be aware of in order to get the SQLite foundations in combination with Xojo. For that, we will create a basic but functional sample app that will manage Customers, Invoices and general Invoices listing per customer. Learn the foundations about SQLite database definition, creating, updating or deleting records... and more, withouth previous experience!

Once you finish every lesson, you will go through a quiz in order to test the learned topics, validating their correct assimilation.

Product: SQLite basics course

Platforms: All

Price: Free (with registration)

Website: https://www.aprendexojo.com/shop/fundamentos-sqlite/

gColorPicker

Gate61 is proud to announce our new Xojo Web add-on: gColorPicker, a Web Control providing a clean and flexible HTML Web Color Picker.

This control was built with pure javascript and css, no images or external libraries needed. It works with all major modern browsers and is compatible with Xojo 2016r2.1 onwards.

This control offers the following features:

fully responsive

customize layout by adding an Alpha (transparency) selection, and/or a sample of the selected color

get or set color using Xojo colors

provides hex and rgb/rgba HTML strings

activate read-only mode

Product: gColorPicker

Platforms: Desktop OSX/Win/Linux

Price: $17 (encrypted), $69 (source code)

Website: https://www.gate61.com/gcolorpicker.html

Free Online Xojo Course

Javier Rodriguez (AprendeXojo.com) announces the availability of his first Online Xojo Course, initially available only in Spanish, about the use of Timers in Xojo.

Discover along a total of 7 Lessons, 6 Videos and 6 Test quizzes the three Timer classes available in Xojo, and where you should use any of them depending the deployment target or the things you want to accomplish. Learn when (and how) to instantiate the Timer classes, when to execute scheduled code without even instantiate Timers, and how the Scope is involved in the process!

This course is available for free to all registered users of AprendeXojo.com.

Product: Online Xojo Course

Platforms: All

Price: Free (with registration)

Website: https://www.aprendexojo.com/shop/uso-timer-xojo/

Free Redis_MTC

Kem Tekinay is proud to announce Redis_MTC, a free, open-source project that will let you easily interact with a Redis Server.

Redis_MTC offers an API that closely mimics the features available on a Redis server and makes the connection as easy as creating a new object. The project comes with unit tests that demonstrate its various features and show off its speed of around 25k requests per second in normal mode, and up to 500k requests per second when using "pipelines."

You can read more about Redis at their site (https://redis.io/).

Product: Redis_MTC

Platforms: Desktop

Price: Free

Website: https://github.com/ktekinay/XOJO-Redis/

Markdown Parser for Xojo

Javier Rodriguez (AprendeXojo.com) announces the availability of Markdown Parser for Xojo. This un-encrypted class allows any Xojo developer to implement in their products the ability to parse Markdown source text into HTML + the provided CSS styles, so it can be presented on the fly over an HTML control for its use "as-is", or as an starting point for invoices, reports, templates or document conversion (among other possibilities of use).

Markdown Parser for Xojo is 32- and 64-bit compatible for macOS, Windows, Linux operating systems on Desktop, Web, Console and RaspberryPi deployments.

Inspect / Access Source Code. No Chains!

Extremely Easy to Implement and Use

Free updates for one year

Exclusive portal for Feedback / Feature Requests / Bugs submission and follow up

Product: Markdown Parser fo Xojo

Platforms: Desktop

Price: $96 (approx)

Website: https://www.aprendexojo.com/shop/markdown-parser-for-xojo-with-source-code/

New Window Style component

The 'New Window Style' component for Xojo from PesaroSystem for desktop development platform is a class for customizing the windows of Xojo projects for macOS. The class allows to transform the "old" classical view into the new style adopted by the most common applications for macOS.

The class allows different functions including: hide the title bar; display or hide the title caption; color a sidebar to create a left menu commands; etc.

By downloading the class you will find an example of use. Everything is very simple and intuitive.

Product: Window Style

Platforms: OSX

Price: $12 (approx)

Website: http://www.pesarosystem.it/xojo-new-window-style-english.asp

New Zoom Image Component

The Zoom Image component from PesaroSystem for Xojo Desktop development platform is a support tool for image management. A box containing the image is made available.

The component allows various features including zoom on command, with the mouse wheel, via code, moving, loading by drag and drop, etc. It can be used for drawing applications or any other environment where a dynamic visualization of the image is required.

In the download component you will find an example of use. Everything is very simple and intuitive.

Product: Zoom Image

Platforms: Desktop

Price: $17 (approx)

Website: http://www.pesarosystem.it/xojo-zoom-image.asp

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