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Issue: 22.6 (November/December 2024)
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TPLM, End-to-End Xojo Code DRM, Now supports Stripe, DLC, and Emails

Tim Parnell is pleased to share some exciting updates for TPLM, the End-to-End Xojo Code DRM system.

Available now, the Web Panel supports automatic integration with Stripe, email license keys, and a new fulfillment type supports DLC.

TPLM is a professionally built Digital Rights Management system written entirely in unencrypted Xojo Code. A time tested system that supports most popular types of license models:

Traditional, Major Version licensing

Updates Period, a perpetual license with a year of updates

Subscriptions, pay to use, stop when you're done

DLC, optional additional features

Stripe Webhook setup is easy and automatic. Simply link Stripe products to TPLM product fulfillments easily through the TPLM Web Panel. TPLM does the legwork and even configures the Stripe account to send Webhook notifications to TPLM.

In addition to handling Stripe notifications, TPLM can now send emails to customers fulfilling license orders. This was added to support Stripe fulfillment, but can be done at will from the License Key view.

Product: TPLM

Platforms: All

Price: $36/month (service) or $599 (source)

Website: https://strawberrysw.com/tplm

Xojo 2024 Release 3

Announcing the arrival of Xojo 2024 Release 3, packed with over over 200 changes and improvements!

Major Highlights:

Preemptive Threading. In this highly anticipated feature, take your applications to the next level with preemptive threading. Preemptive threads allow you to create more responsive and efficient code, maximizing the potential of your multi-core systems.

Improved Code Editor. We've made significant improvements to the Code Editor, including row highlighting, a command bar button for Standardize Format, and Syntax Help area size control, making it easier for you to write and maintain your code.

Fuzzy Searches with SQLite's SOUNDEX. We've added support for SQLite's SOUNDEX function, which enables fuzzy searches to help you find similar-sounding words and phrases in your database.

These updates and enhancements are designed to make your development experience more efficient, productive, and enjoyable. Whether you're building a new application or updating an existing one, Xojo 2024 Release 3 provides you with the tools and capabilities you need to succeed.

Product: Xojo IDE

Platforms: All

Price: Free IDE (app deployment requires a one-time fee, $149-$1,999)

Website: http://www.xojo.com/download

GraffitiSuite Release 60

GraffitiSuite is pleased to announce Release 60 for Xojo Desktop, iOS and Web!

Release Statistics:

6 New Classes or Products

29 Additions

37 Bug Fixes

Desktop: In this release, GraffitiSuite gets a major bump with four new classes:

GraffitiAnimatorWindow to make animating your DesktopWindows a breeze.

GraffitiDiffViewer to show line-based diffs between two source documents.

GraffitiSearchField is an extremely powerful search field with history, autocomplete and more.

GraffitiTabBar has been rewritten from the ground up to be both beautiful and empowering with custom style development possibilities.

Additionally, this release includes necessary fixes for the upcoming Xojo 2024R3.

Mobile (iOS): Mobile also now has the new GraffitiDiffViewer and necessary fixes for Xojo 2024R3, but there's a number of other fixes included for GraffitiWall, as well as changes to make GraffitiGrid easier to use in complex views.

Web: Web Edition has received a lot of attention in this release with 20 additions, not including the new GraffitiDiffViewer component! The new features for GraffitiColorPicker, GraffitiButtonSegment, GraffitiStyle, GraffitiSyntaxEditor and GraffitiTextField will help expand what your web applications are capable of accomplishing.

Product: GraffitiSuite

Platforms: All

Price: Starting at $399.95/year

Website: http://www.GraffitiSuite.com/

MBS Plugins 24.4 Released

Monkeybread Software announces MBS Xojo Plugins 24.4 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 3000 classes and 82,000 documented features, and the versatile plugins have gained more new functions:

Use the ZxingBarcodeMBS module with the functions there to read barcodes from images. We support 18 different types of barcodes including EAN, UPC and QRCodes.

We improved our Linux support by using newer compilers for all 4 Linux targets: 32- and 64-bit on ARM or x86 architecture. This enables 32-bit Linux support for newer parts of our plugins. You can use JSONMBS class, Phidget classes, LibUSBTransferMBS class and XL classes there.

Use Handoff to continue tasks on your other devices with macOS or iOS. The NSUserActivityMBS class helps you to implement this in your Xojo project and pass the current state from one device to the other device.

If you use CURL to retrieve emails from your IMAP server, please use the DecodeIMAPFolderName function to decode folder names from UTF-7 encoding. You can specify not just the minimum required TLS version, but also the maximum and we have new constants for these. We improved CURLSMultiMBS class to let you better reuse CURL objects.

Showing a statusitem in the Mac menubar can be done with our NSStatusItemMBS class. Use the new DidMove and DidResize events to notice if the statusitem moved. The DidChangeOcclusionState event tells you if the statusitem got hidden when the screen resolution is too low to show all statusitems.

With DynaPDF you can query the encryption state of the file with the GetInEncryptionInfo function and the DynaPDFEncryptInfoMBS class. The TestPassword function and verify whether a password is correct.

We improved the MongoDB classes with better trace logging. The MongoCursorMBS class can now provide all records as one big JSON string.

The TidyDocumentMBS class got a Tidy() function to make the usage easier and tidy up XML and HTML with a function call. You can list all option names with the OptionNames function.

The NetSNMPMBS class got new properties for SNMPv3 support, the NSViewMBS class got a hitTest() function to find a view in the hierachie based on screen coordinates and in SceneKit you can specify shader modifiers with new properties in SCNMaterialMBS and SCNGeometryMBS classes.

Finally we updated CURL to version 8.10.0, DynaPDF to 4.0.92.261, LibXL to 4.4.0, openssl to 3.1.6, SQLAPI to 5.3.4 with DuckDB 1.0 support, SQLite to 3.46.1 and Tidy library to version 5.8.

Product: MBS Xojo plugins

Platforms: All

Price: $29-$299

Website: http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.com/xojo/plugins.shtml

Announcing GraffitiBundle

GraffitiSuite is pleased to announce the immediate availability of GraffitiBundle!

The easiest and most powerful method to build Desktop applications from your Xojo Web applications is here! GraffitiBundle consists of a Xojo Web component and Desktop project template that link the two types of projects together for an Electron -like experience built specifically for Xojo. There's no need to build new Web Applications, you can simply drop GraffitiBundle in to your existing project, perform a bit of setup, and your app is ready to be distributed!

Check out these features:

Asynchronous Communication

Runtime Synchronization and Monitoring

Automatic Updates

Product: GraffitiBundle

Platforms: Desktop

Price: $149.95 (on sale for $99.95)

Website: https://graffitisuite.com/features/graffitibundle/

XojoUnit 6.9.1 with ObjectSpy

XojoUnit v.6.9.1 has been released.

XojoUnit is a unit testing package. This version has the following changes:

XojoUnit for Desktop is now split into API 1 and API 2 versions for improved project compatibility.

Desktop versions now support Dark Mode.

Product: XojoUnit

Platforms: All

Price: Free

Website: https://github.com/xojo/XojoUnit/tree/master

StackView 3.2

Version 3.2 of the StackView classes for Xojo only works with Desktop API 2.0 projects from Xojo version 2021r3+.

The classes enable a StackView, similar to Apple's NSStackView, to be used natively across desktop platforms (macOS, Windows, Linux) with the help of DesktopContainers. The StackView was tested under macOS 10.13+, Windows 10/11, Mint 19.2, Fedora 27, Ubuntu 16 and Elementary OS 5.0 Juno. The demo project was optimized for all three platforms. If the project is executed or compiled for Windows, the method PrepareForWindows takes over all adjustments for the controls within the StackView to create a flicker-free version.

Under Linux, the controls of the demo project automatically adapt to the system sizes of the respective distribution.

See a demo on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHQZ0RbpHL0).

Product: StackView

Platforms: Desktop

Price: 15? (source code)

Contact: https://forum.xojo.com/u/martin_t

GraffitiFirewall for Xojo Web

GraffitiFirewall is an in-project Web Application Firewall that's designed to help Xojo Web developers secure their applications from malicious users. Exposing your application to the internet can be a frightening proposition, but you can rest a bit easier with GraffitiFirewall watching the door. As part of a GraffitiSuite Web or All Access Edition subscription, get access to regular managed and curated definition updates for the following attack vectors:

Known Bad Crawlers

Known Malicious IP Addresses

Known Malicious UserAgents

Local File Inclusions

Cross Site Scripting Injections

SQL Injections

In addition, get basic protection from DDoS attacks, manually block IP addresses, log traffic, block or redirect based on HTTP security, custom security event implementation, and more! You can integrate GraffitiFirewall with or without the amazing dashboard once you've setup your application's database.

Product: GraffitiFirewall for Xojo Web

Platforms: Web

Price: $399/year

Website: https://graffitisuite.com/features/web-edition/

piDog Software has update DataView to Desktop API2

Phoenix, AZ (October 30, 2023) -- piDog Software has update DataView to Desktop API2

DataView has been updated to Desktop API 2 with the release of DataView 1.17!

This release updates DataView and piDogScrollingCanvas to be based on DesktopCanvas and also updates the DataView API to conform to the new naming conventions of API2, such as CellBackgroundColor() becoming CellBackgroundColorAt() as well as moving from Constants to Enums so that values like AlignCenter become Alignments.Center.

Also in this release:

Significant internal rendering improvements, in some cases leading to a 2x improvement in frame rendering rate during scrolling.

Fixes for various rendering/scale issues involving BackdropImage and BackgroundPattern.

If you're still working with API1, don't worry. I'll still be maintaining an API1 version (currently v1.16.2.1) with bug fixes where possible.

Product: DataView

Platforms: All Desktop

Price: $129

Website: https://www.pidog.com/wp/dataview/

Open Source Stable Diffusion Prompter

The Stable Diffusion Prompter is an application written in Xojo Code that allows users to create positive and negative prompts for Stable Diffusion. With support for both Windows and macOS, and the potential for compatibility with native Linux systems, this app offers a convenient way to generate prompts on multiple platforms.

Product:

Platforms: OSX/Win

Price: Free

Website: https://github.com/Schneppi/Stable-Diffusion-Prompter

PriorityQueue_MTC v.1.0

Kem Tekinay of MacTechnologies Consulting is pleased to announce PriorityQueue_MTC, a priority queue class for Xojo.

PriorityQueue_MTC lets you add arbitrary values (Variants) with arbitrary priorities, then pull those values in order of their priority. It handles both min-to-max and max-to-min sorting, and lets you peek ahead to see the priority and value of the next item on the queue. Based on a binary heap, it is tuned for performance and comes with a number of unit tests to illustrate its usage.

Product: PriorityQueue_MTC

Platforms: All

Price: Free

Website: https://github.com/ktekinay/Xojo-PriorityQueue

Xojo Developer Retreat Session Videos

The session videos from Xojo Developer Retreat 2022 are now available for anyone to purchase. You can now gain access to all of the session videos for $199 so you can learn from the experts at home. The following presentations are included:

ABCs of Android and Xojo -- Travis Hill

Building Digital Forensic Apps with Xojo -- Derrick Donnelly

Case Study: Building Data Processing Tools -- Geoff Perlman

Creating a Common Desktop App Installer -- Ken Whitaker

Getting Intimate with the Xojo Framework -- William Yu

Integrating Machine Learning into your Xojo Apps -- Jim Meyer

Integrating WooCommerce with Your Xojo Apps -- Javier Menendez

PowerXS -- Marc Zeedar

Thanks For the MemoryBlocks -- Kem Tekinay

The Legal Side of Programming -- Amy Barnes

Using MBS to Extend Xojo -- Christian Schmitz

Using Xojo's PDFDocument -- Javier Menendez

Web SDK -- Ricardo Cruz

Xojo: How It's Made -- Paul Lefebvre

19 Ways To Improve Your Business (Other Than Coding) -- Yousaf Shah

Product: Xojo Developer Retreat Session Videos

Platforms: All

Price: $199

Website: https://www.xojo.com/store/#conference

AXNumValidatedTF

AXNumValidatedTF is a Xojo DesktopTextField/TextField subclass for Windows, macOS and Linux allowing the input validation of a defined numeric range, using the system Locale settings for decimal and grouping text formatting.

The new release updates the control to API 2.0 and also includes other improvements.

Raise Events when the entered value is in / out of Range (active catching / propagation of the value).

Optionally displays a message Dialog when the entered value is out of range.

Optionally stays in focus when the entered value is out of range.

Use of Locale settings for Grouping and Decimal separators.

Adaptive formatting during the value validation.

Instance ToolTip / HelpTag set to the accepted value Range

Set the length of the decimal part for Real numbers.

IsInRange property to passively check if the value is inside the defined range.

Xojo API 2.0 / API 1.0 versions of the Class.

macOS / Windows / Linux (32/64 bits -- Intel / ARM) compatible.

Product: AXNumValidatedTF

Platforms: OSX/Win

Price: 20 Euros

Website: https://www.aprendexojo.com/en/shop/axnumvalidatedtf-for-xojo-2/

GuancheID 1.2 Released

GuancheID is the easiest way to get an unique ID for macOS and Windows based computers, so you can use it in combination with GuancheMOS or with your own software Licensing scheme to make sure your software only runs on the computer the license has been generated for, among other possible uses.

This new release adds ARM support and other improvements to GuancheID.

You can use GuancheID without restrictions when running your apps in Debug Mode from the Xojo IDE, but a license is required when building an application that makes use of it.

Product: GuancheID

Platforms: Desktop

Price: 40 Euros

Website: https://www.aprendexojo.com/en/shop/guancheid-2/

AprendeXojo announces GuancheMOS 1.9.5

AprendeXojo announces the immediate availability of GuancheMOS 1.9.5, the multiplatform plug-in for Xojo users that allows the easy, fast, no Rocket-Science implementation of serial number generation and validation features on macOS, Windows, Linux and Web applications.

GuancheMOS 1.9.5 plug-in adds the compatibility with ARM architecture on Windows, so users can deploy now their solutions on Windows as Intel or ARM64 apps.

Since 2007, GuancheMOS is the preferred serial number creation and validation Engine plug-in used by hundred of Xojo developers all over the World in all kind of apps and solutions.

GuancheMOS is both Desktop and Console safe, so it is possible to create all kind of license serial number generation and validation solutions around it, without having to pay additional fees or other hidden costs.

GuancheMOS is part of the Omegabundle 2022, so you can get it with other top Xojo developer tools and extras at an incredible price... while it lasts!

Product: GuancheMOS

Platforms: Desktop/Web

Price: 110 Euros

Website: https://www.aprendexojo.com/shop/guanchemos-serial-number-generation-and-validation-for-xojo-developers/

Markdown Parser for Xojo 1.2

AprendeXojo.com announces the availability of Markdown Parser for Xojo 1.2. The new release has been updated for Xojo API 2.0, with many other improvements in the parsing engine.

Markdown Parser for Xojo is an un-encrypted class with no dependencies, and easy to implement and use in your existing projects, allowing any Xojo developer to implement in their products the ability to parse Markdown source text into HTML + the provided CSS styles, so it can be presented on the fly over the standard Xojo HTML control.

Markdown Parser for Xojo is 32 and 64 bit compatible for macOS, Windows, Linux operating systems on Desktop, Web, Console and RaspberryPi deployments.

When buying a license of Markdown Parser for Xojo you will receive the 100% Xojo code class unencrypted, so you will be able to inspect/change/expand it to your own purposes (if needed).

Inspect / Access Source Code. No Chains!

Extremely Easy to Implement and Use.

One year of free updates and Customer support.

Exclusive portal for Feedback / Feature Requests / Bugs submission and follow up.

Product: Markdown Parser fo Xojo

Platforms: Desktop

Price: $96 (approx)

Website: https://www.aprendexojo.com/shop/markdown-parser-for-xojo-with-source-code/

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