MonkeyBread Software Releases the MBS Xojo Plugins in version 19.0

Nickenich, Germany - (January 22nd, 2019) – MonkeyBread Software today is
pleased to announce MBS Xojo Plugins 19.0 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 2400 classes and 63000 documented features, and the
versatile plugins have gained more new functions:

The rewritten MapKit plugin now uses Apple’s maps framework for the map views.
It is 64-bit Mac only and includes showing maps, getting directions, and
rendering snapshots.

Newer archive classes allow to create or read various archive formats like
zip, tar and handles several compression algorithms like gzip, bzip2 or
compress. An example shows you how to zip a files/folders or how to expand an
archive. Compared to the old zip file classes, the new classes better handle
file permissions and support more archive types.

We upgraded DynaPDFRasterizerMBS class to handle alpha channel better. You can
now decide whether we render with alpha channel and provide you the rendered
image as a picture with alpha channel. The updated class works with DirectDraw
pictures on Windows.

We rewrote FileListMBS class for MacOS to use newer APIs for higher
performance on newer APFS and older HFS+. The new ReadFileMBS and WriteFileMBS
functions allow you to quickly read or write a file, faster than BinaryStream
or TextInputStream/TextOutputStream.

The documentation now links to blog articles related to the classes, modules
or controls related.

If you use WebKit classes, the new ProgressChanged and TitleChanged events for
WKWebViewControlMBS control may be useful. With the new NSURLCacheMBS class
you can change cache behavior and use NSCachedURLResponseMBS for cached
responses.

Our VLC classes got updated to better work with VLC 3.x libraries. This
includes newer methods to get current picture from VLCMediaPlayerMBS objects
including CopyCGImage for getting CGImageMBS and showing it in the window.

GraphicsMagick got a major upgrade in this release. New functions include auto
orient, resize, and extent for images. Over 80 properties are now visible in
the debugger.

The SQL Plugin got improved for handling ODBC connections to FileMaker. Our
SQL variant functions can now use folderitems to stream files for blob fields.
SQLite is now built with API armor option to increase stability.

We got a new XLCopyOptionsMBS class for copy options in Excel files. JSON
classes can now compare two objects and find items in JSON arrays. CURL can
now parse MLSD results for FTP file listings into CURLSFileInfoMBS objects.
PNGReaderMBS and PNGWriterMBS classes can now handle EXIF data blocks
directly.

This release drops a lot of older classes, which are 32-bit Carbon only and
can’t really be used any more in Cocoa applications. Old carbon classes for
ColorSync, View, Drag & Drop, Menu, Font, ATS and Navigation dialogs are gone.
QuickDraw related picture support is gone and if you need a new plugin for
Real Studio, please contact us.

Finally we updated CURL to version 7.63.0, DynaPDF to 4.0.25.72, freetype to
2.9.1, GraphicsMagick to 1.3.31, iconv to 1.15, libarchive to 3.3.3, libexpat
to 2.2.6, OpenSSL to 1.1.1a, png to 1.6.36, regex to 8.42, SQLAPI to 4.2.4 and
SQLite to version 3.26.0.

See release notes for a complete list of changes:
http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.com/xojo/newinversion190.shtml

If you have questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

More details in the release notes. Please take the time to check our 2100
example project and check where you can use our plugin features in your
applications.

The plug-ins require Xojo. Also required are 1 GB hard disc space and around 1
GB of RAM in addition to the requirements of Xojo and your operation system
itself. While all plug-in parts compile on macOS, Linux and Windows, each
function may depend on additional system requirements to work successfully.
Only used plugin parts of plugins are added to your application.

Plugin licenses are available for components or for the complete collection.
Please visit the website store for prices.

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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