Yesterday I arrived here in San Antonio in the JW Mariott Hill Country Hotel for the FileMaker Developer Conference. I already found my way through this huge resort and found the registration desk. So if you are here nearby, we can of course meet fo... [More]

Today we want to show you how to translate a PHP script with CURL commands step by step to a FileMaker script. Here is a PHP script: $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false)... [More]

New in this prerelease of the 14.3 plugins: Added EncodeEmailSubjectMBS function. Added more parameters to AUPlayerMBS.LoadFile. Added two VAT ID check examples for your convenience. Updated LibXL to version 3.6.0. Download: macsw.de/plugin/Prer... [More]

New in this prerelease of the 4.3 plugins: Added QLPreviewPanel functions. Added String.EncodeEmailSubject function. Updated FileDialog.SelectFolderDialog to use newer API to get nicer dialog. Added support for Windows for ListDialog functions. Add... [More]

Version 3.6.0 * added autofit column width support (use -1 for width parameter in setCol method) * added hyperlink support * added direct access to merges * added a possibility to create xltx and xlsm files * added a possibility to read errors "#N... [More]

With CURL plugin functions you can use the IMAP protocol for downloading emails. The plugin connects to the imap server, performs a query and returns result, e.g. a list of email, the content of an email or something else. As you probably want to us... [More]

In the last days I collected a list of German Xojo Developers available for consulting: Alex von Siebenthal bei Zürich ... [More]

For some time now Xojo has been doing webinars on various topics.  It’s a great way to learn about Xojo.  In addition to being live (where you can ask questions) they are recorded too.  As time goes on the webinar … Continue reading ͛... [More]

Over 70 sessions at the biggest FileMaker event of the year! Still time to register for the FileMaker Developer Conference! There is still time to register for the FileMaker Developer Conference with over 70 sessions to choose from at the biggest ... [More]

Over the summer the conference is coming closer quickly. Just about 2 month left and our hotel contingent will end soon. So if you want to come and you have not yet a hotel room, please reserve one soon. Hotel in Koblenz is reserved for 17th to 20... [More]

New in this prerelease of the 14.3 plugins: Fixed a problem with Carbon apps if they create a new picture in plugin. Plugin now calls SetGWorld to make sure there is a valid gworld. Fixed plugin bug in DynaPDFMBS.GetTextHeightExAnsi and others. Up... [More]

New in this prerelease of the 4.3 plugins: The functions Time.UnixTimeStamp, ZipFile.CreateFile and SQL.SetParamAsDateTime now report an error if the timestamp parameter is not a time, date or timestamp value. So please don't simply pass text there... [More]

for our MBS Complete plugin users, we have this distribution: Spain: 2% Switzerland: 3% Netherlands: 3% Canada: 3% Japan: 3% Australia: 3% France: 4% Italy: 4% United Kingdom: 8% Germany: 12% United States: 40% and just a few in Egypt, Colombia, S... [More]

In a blog post this week Xojo announced that they were dropping support for Carbon applications in Release 3 which is due in roughly 3 months. Furthermore, their reasoning for doing so was because the Carbon framework was causing interference with &#... [More]

I always expected Apple to drop it at some date, but now it seems like Xojo Inc. drops Carbon for 2014r3 release later this year. For us, we will continue to provide plugin with carbon code and also continue to build our own projects for Carbon usi... [More]

Just a quick note that in Xojo 2014r2 the RegEx plugin from Xojo links to the pcre library in /usr/lib. That's a reason for Apple to reject your application. So if you want to submit an app to Mac App Store, you have a few choices: Wait for a 2014r... [More]

If you import PDF files into DynaPDF for combining or editing, you may want to use the if2DuplicateCheck flag for SetImportFlags2. This enables the engine to replace duplicate items in the PDFs with one common item. e.g. avoid storing images or font... [More]

Xojo 2014 Release 2 was released this week.  This release has around 200 bug fixes and enhancements, some new features, and some licensing changes.  A good portion of the changes and enhancements are in the Web framework which will make … Conti... [More]

Writing software for others can be a tricky profession.  The client often has totally unrealistic expectations on how software development works.  They give vague requirements (or none!) and expect you, the developer, to read their mind and produce a... [More]

Last week wasn’t a very good week.  Over the weekend the hard drive on my iMac failed and by failing Mac OS X said it couldn’t repair the drive so it came up read only mode.  So I did the sensible … Continue reading →... [More]

Your customers and clients expect your Xojo applications to be as bug free as possible.  What mechanisms do you have in place to handle an error and report it?  Bugs occur – that’s a fact of life – and even … Continue reading ... [More]

Developers love Visual Basic.  The site http://www.classicvb.org/petition/ has received well over 14,000 signatures since its inception in 2005.  In the user forums for Microsoft Visual Studio there is a place where developers can make suggestions.  ... [More]

BKeeney Software is proud to announce a new 4 1/2 hour video training series for subscribers at http://xojo.bkeeney.com/XojoTraining/.  The new LinkShare Web App series takes budding Xojo developers from nothing, to a fully functional web application... [More]

Today we released an update to ARGen, our utility to create ActiveRecord classes for your Xojo and Real Studio database projects. ARGen costs a mere $19.95 and can save you many hours of tedious and error-prone database coding. ActiveRecord for ̷... [More]

Does your customer really need the type of custom programming you’re selling?  I often get a request for a quote that involves fairly standard business applications such as accounting and contact management.  It’s hard to justify,  to mys... [More]