You may have seen Safari, Mail, Notes or other applications highlighting information in some text and they may offer to do something with the data, e.g. take a date and make a new event in your calendar or take an address and add it to your contacts... [More]

New in this prerelease of the 21.1 plugins: Added NSNetServiceMBS and NSNetServiceBrowserMBS classes for macOS and iOS. Added runOnce method to NSRunLoopMBS class. Upgraded BigNumberMBS to a 1280 bit floating point number for even bigger range and... [More]

New in this prerelease of version 11.1 of the MBS FileMaker Plugin: Added RegEx.DataDetector function. Added timeout for loop/if check to exit after 10 ms to avoid longer delays. Added CoreLocation.requestLocation for macOS 10.14 or newer. Added C... [More]

We had for years the MBS Xojo Network Kit to provide Bonjour services for Xojo iOS applications. Since Xojo 2020r2 can use plugins on iOS, we deprecated the Kit and now provide a replacement via NSNetServiceMBS and NSNetServiceBrowserMBS classes. ... [More]

Did you know that iOS 11 introduced a feature to markup images and PDF documents right into the iOS system software? A client asked for adding annotations to a PDF right on the iPhone or iPad with their custom FileMaker iOS SDK based application. W... [More]

You may have seen Safari, Mail, Notes or other applications highlighting information in some text and they may offer to do something with the data, e.g. take a date and make a new event in your calendar or take an address and add it to your contacts... [More]

After installing several servers for a client with various configurations, I collected the notes and made a video for you guys: Installing a Xojo Web App Server We show how to install a virtual private server and run both Xojo 2019 and Xojo 2020... [More]

Noch vier Monate bis zur FileMaker Konferenz 2021 in Malbun (Liechtenstein) und zur MBS Plugin Schulung Schulung am Mittwoch vorher. Vom 17. bis 19. Juni 2021 findet die elfte deutschsprachige FileMaker Konferenz in Malbun, Liechtenstein statt. Akt... [More]

While looking for a memory leak in a Xojo app, I printed repeatedly Runtime.MemoryUsed value to the console and the object count with Runtime.ObjectCount. While objects and strings are created and destroyed, the memory used goes up regularly, often ... [More]

You may have seen the earlier blog post about Custom Function Tools for FileMaker Pro. Once we showed this to people, we got a few ideas and one request was to include those buttons for the calculation dialogs in FileMaker in various places: As y... [More]

New in this prerelease of the 21.1 plugins: Added Constructor for handle to UNNotificationMBS, UNNotificationContentMBS, NSToolbarItemMBS and NSToolbarMBS. Updated LibXL to version 3.9.4. Applied SQLAPI patch for SQL Server precision for number ty... [More]

New in this prerelease of version 11.1 of the MBS FileMaker Plugin: Changed result box in Custom Functions Editor to be a white box and no longer extend below buttons. Updated LibXL to version 3.9.4. Applied SQLAPI patch for SQL Server precision f... [More]

For MBS Xojo SQL Plugin 21.1, we have RowSet now in 10 places. In general the plugin provides with one Database API the backend for both RowSet and RecordSet. The difference is how the Xojo frameworks provide back errors to you. RecordSet passes err... [More]

When using other development tools, we frequently have a feature to inspect values for variables or fields. Just move the mouse over the variable or field and see what's inside. This is very convenient for debugging a script to quickly see values, e... [More]

For a client I built an example that put together an email for us. This email should show a picture as header and another picture as footer by default. These pictures were included via inline graphics. How this works I would like to show you now. F... [More]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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