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MBS Releases the MBS Xojo / Real Studio plug-ins in version 15.1

NICKENICH, Germany (May 19th, 2015) -- Monkeybread Software releases version 15.1 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 2,100 classes featuring over 55,000 documented functions. Our plugins support all three platforms Mac OS X, Windows and Linux with all project types desktop, web and console.

Some of the highlights on the 15.1 update:

We added a new plugin for markdown processing. Markdown is a markup language with plain text formatting syntax designed to be converted to HTML. Using our plugin you can process markdown text and create HTML on the fly.

For this release we updated ChartDirector to current version 6. Beside some useful tweaks for various charts like glares, round edges and extra colors, this new release adds PDF output. You can now render a chart as a PDF file with vector graphics. For some complex charts we can fall back to a picture embedded in a PDF file.

For the Map, HashMap and Set classes in our plugin, you can now switch between case sensitive and case insensitive string comparison. Those specialized classes act like a dictionary, but can provide better performance by avoiding variants.

Our plugins include various classes for CoreGraphics, the graphics framework on OS X. Improvements have been made to CGPathMBS class with a new helper class CGPathElementMBS so you can inspect a path content. The CoreGraphics display class got a new property to check the refresh rate of the screen.

For Windows graphics, we got additional methods in the WindowsBitmapMBS module. Here you can find functions to convert between HBITMAP and HDIB as well as Xojo pictures. Related to this are new methods on our GraphicsMagick and ImageMagick image classes to get a HBITMAP. This is useful for declares to Windows APIs and passing images.

The HTMLViewer in Xojo can have various platform specific backends. For the Mac part, we added support to WebUIDelegateMBS for multiple selection in file open dialogs. For Internet Explorer on Windows, we added a new way to load HTML from memory and a function to check the reference count. When using Chromium instead we can also check reference count and adjust.

For OS X we improved our QCView classes and added a full functional control for showing Quartz Compositions. The repository class helps you locate compositions.

Our SQL Plugin got new functions to receive notifications for postgre SQL databases. We also got a Trace event for our SQLDatabaseMBS class to better log what is happening. For MySQL we can now repeat requests in case of a dead lock.

In this release we updated ChartDirector to version 6.0, DynaPDF to 3.0.39.113 and LCMS to 2.7. While Xojo Inc. announced 64-bit support for upcoming Xojo versions, this plugin version does not yet support 64-bit targets.

See release notes for a complete list of changes.
19 05 15 - 11:58