Let’s do a little poll for what is your preferred feature in MBS Xojo Plugins for 2022:
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Anything else you liked especially?
I appreciate the qualitative and reliable plugins from MBS.
MBS is the valuable addition to work around bugs or gaps in Xojo.
Thanks for your work!
Phidgets was a lifesaver for me. I needed to develop a PCB tester in less than a month - normally I would “roll my own” circuitry, but that would have required at least twice that time. Because of MBS I was aware of Phidgets, although I’d never really taken them seriously before, thinking they were a “hobbyist” solution. It turns out that they have quite good specs generally, are very well documented, and are easy to use. Being entirely event-driven, they make for clean and robust code. If you remove the plastic cases, they become PCB-mountable. The solution looks quite strange, but it worked out great.
It’s a shame that Xojo and MBS get no mention in the Phidgets documentation, even though APIs for C, C#, Java, Javascript, Max, Python, and Swift are all presented.
Phidgets also has my vote for best MBS Xojo Plugin for 2022.
I first learned about Phidgets during Christian’s session at the Xojo Developer Retreat. He mentioned that MBS has support for them, and until then, I had never even heard of them. From the way he described them - as simple USB sensors that can be used to measure temperature, humidity, etc - they seemed like what I had been looking for.
When I got back from the conference, I ordered a few Phidgets to test them out. As a proof of concept, I developed a Xojo desktop app that measures the environment’s temperature, humidity, and illuminance. If you’re interested, I wrote about that here.
That proof of concept has turned into a “real” project. I’m now developing a Web API to provide that environmental information for a manufacturing setting.
Thanks, @Christian_Schmitz , for all the work that you put into the MBS Xojo Plugins. I’m looking forward to seeing what you come up with next.
