After the recent survey, we found a date: 13th March 2014. For 7 pm, we reserved a table in the Steak-House Arizona, but I hope to be there earlier. See you there. PS: if you like to join us, please email me. ... [More]

BKeeney Software has released version 1.1 of our Calendar Classes for Xojo and Real Studio. The Calendar Control is a Canvas subclass that lets you easily add Day, Week, Multi-Week, and Month views into your desktop applications.  The Calendar Contro... [More]

We thought about whether to make another conference this fall. With some questions we'd like to know how many people to expect and what preferences you have. If you have time, please fill this survey with just 10 questions:Start Survey For addition... [More]

Currently Mac OS X only, but working nice already: For FileMaker 11 to 13. ... [More]

New in this prerelease of the 14.1 plugins: Added LinuxProcessMBS class. Added WindowsICMProfileMBS.CreateIccProfile function. Changed NSImage*MBS classes to have properties instead of methods, so you see something in debugger. Also added a few mor... [More]

Every now and then the Xojo IDE/compiler does something that just makes zero logical sense.  By all accounts some bit of code should work.  But it doesn’t and no amount of debugging and code changes solves it.  It’s easy to … Continue rea... [More]

New in this prerelease of the 4.1 plugins: Added new grapichsmagick path drawing methods. Improved DynaPDF.GeneratePreview to flattens annotations and forms. Fixed bug in DynaPDF.GetTextFieldValue and DynaPDF.GetTextFieldDefaultValue function. Add... [More]

The March/April 2014 (12.2) issue of xDev Magazine is now available. Here's a quick preview of what's inside: Inside Email * by Christian Schmitz Have you ever needed to send email from inside your application? In this guide, you'll learn how to do... [More]

This is oddly specific. Must be a very small storm.... [More]

A nice video about the hotel where next FileMaker Developer Conference will take place: ... [More]

Excellent article over at Fast Company that’s a really good read.  http://www.fastcodesign.com/3024819/how-not-to-get-screwed-by-clients?partner=newsletter  I’ll wait for you to come back. Get it in Writing Never do any work unless you have it in wri... [More]

NICKENICH, Germany (February 26th, 2013) -- Monkeybread Software releases version 2.3 of the MBS Xojo SOAP Kit. With this SOAP Kit, you can parse the webservice description file (WSDL) and generate source code for all the methods, constants and cla... [More]

FileMaker Stammtisch Köln 5th March, 19:00 Uhr in the Pohlhof restaurant. Pohlhofstr. 3, 50765 Köln, www.pohlhof.de Let's talk about what's new in FileMaker. And who is going to San Antonio? ... [More]

Today I found a way to print to PDF file in Cocoa app with Xojo. Next plugin prerelease will have the required functions to have this code work: Sub Action() // print to PDF in Xojo Cocoa app // change print info to go to dim s as NSPrintInfoMB... [More]

With latest prerelease we add two very universal hash and encryption functions: MBS( "Hash.Digest"; Algorithm; InputType; InputData; InputEncoding; OutputType; OutputInfo ) and MBS( "Encryption.Cipher"; Direction; Algorithm; KeyType; KeyData; KeyEn... [More]

New in this prerelease of the 14.1 plugins: Added more CoreImage functions. Improved CFBookmarkMBS module with new overloaded methods using CFURLMBS. Added RenderPageToImageMT function to raster PDF pages in preemptive thread. Fixed an issue where ... [More]

New in this prerelease of the 4.1 plugins: Added new functions Encryption.Cipher and Hash.Digest with a lot of options. Fixed a build problem on Windows where some parts where not probably recompiled for 4.0 release (plugin still reported version 3... [More]

Today was a new forum post with a job offer from Xojo, Inc: Xojo, Inc. is looking for two qualified and enthusiastic individuals to join our global marketing team as a German Xojo Evangelist and an Italian Xojo Evangelist. The ideal candidates woul... [More]

Just created a plugin decision graph for which plugin file to use for which FileMaker version for Pro or Server. The rules are here:For FileMaker Pro you need the 32bit version.For FileMaker Server 12 with WebPublishing and for Filemaker 13, you nee... [More]

The response for our XDC Training Day in Las Vegas hasn’t been as good as we had hoped.  If we don’t get a few more attendees, we will need to cancel the event.  That would really bum us out. The … Continue reading →... [More]

We are big fans of Container Controls for a lot of reasons.  Containers, in my opinion, are one of the most powerful tools in Xojo and they are often misunderstood and under used, in my opinion. In the first picture … Continue reading →... [More]

Xojo sent out a notice to speakers this morning about due dates for session presentations for the Xojo Developer Conference.  You don’t need to care about the presentation deadline but that’s just a reminder that I need to get my … ... [More]

There have been a number of trips down memory lane this week regarding the Macintosh so now you’ll have mine.  If you’ve been living under a rock you may not know that the Macintosh was introduced 30 years ago this … Continue reading U... [More]

Lot’s of drama on the Xojo forums the past couple of days.  People are gnashing teeth at perceived slips in timeframes that were really estimates at the 2013 Xojo Developers Conference.  There’s also some gnashing of teeth going on whether … Co... [More]

Jen, Juan, a xylophone, and a lawnmower.... [More]