NICKENICH, Germany (December 12th, 2016) – Monkeybread Software releases
version 16.5 of the MBS plug-in for Xojo and Real Studio.
The MBS plug-in comprises a collection of several plug-in parts which extend
the Xojo (Real Studio) development environment with 2,400 classes featuring
over 61,000 documented functions. Our plugins support all three platforms Mac
OS X, Windows and Linux with all project types desktop, web and console
including 64-bit and ARM targets.
Some of the highlights on the 16.5 update:
If you do math and you need more precision than a double or currency data type
can offer, you may want to check our new BigNumberMBS class. This is a 320bit
floating point number, but it can also be used as a 256bit integer. Precision
is excellent with over 100 digits before the dot.
For macOS 10.12 we added several TouchBar classes. You can offer normal
buttons, but also advanced controls like sliders, popovers or groups. The
plugin provides functions to check if TouchBar is available and events so you
know whether your items are visible.
For DynaPDF we added new StyledText functions. You can convert from a Xojo
StyledText to the formatting commands used by DynaPDF. And you can pass
StyledText directly to our WriteStyledText method to draw on a PDF page.
For editing Excel documents with our XL Plugin, we provide now more methods
and new copy functions. You can copy sheets from one book to another, or the
content from one sheet to another, even across books. If needed you can also
copy single rows from one document to another. And in case LibXL updates
quicker than our plugin, you can now optionally load the LibXL libraries
directly from disk.
If you use Xojo 2016r4 or newer, please update to this release. This plugin is
built using the latest SDK, but with backwards compatibility down to REALbasic
2006r4. For Windows we added support for DirectDraw pictures. Older plugins
may not work correctly in Xojo 2016r4.
Our barcode generator learnt two new types: DotCode and HanXin, we added
tabbing features to NSWindowMBS, XFA stream support in DynaPDF and time code
reading for AVAsset.
We updated CURL library to version 7.51.0, DynaPDF to 4.0.5.15, libSSH2 to
1.8, libXL to 3.7.0, OpenSSL to 1.0.2j, PortAudio, SQLAPI++ to 4.1.10, SQLite
to 3.15.0 and zint to 2.5.
See release notes for a complete list of changes:
http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.com/xojo/newinversion165.shtml
If you have questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
The plug-ins require Xojo or Real Studio 2006r4 or newer. Also required are
1 GB hard disc space and around 1 GB of RAM in addition to the requirements of
Xojo (Real Studio) and your operation system itself. While all plug-in parts
compile on Mac OS X, Linux and Windows, each function may depend on additional
system requirements to work successfully.
Plugin licenses are available for components or for the complete collection.
Starting at 20 Euro ($29 USD) for one component. The complete package costs
199 Euro ($299 USD) for commercial usage. If you buy a current license, you
will get free updates for one year. After one year, you can update your
license to cover an additional year.
The plugins can be downloaded on MBS’ website as one big package or
several smaller ones:
http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.com/xojo/plugins.shtml
The online documentation can be found here:
http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.net/
Read the complete release notes here:
http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.com/xojo/ReleaseNotes.shtml
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http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.com/xojo/mailinglist.shtml or visit
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Meet us in Berlin at the MBS Xojo Developer Conference in May 2017
http://monkeybreadsoftware.de/conference