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MBS Releases the MBS Xojo / Real Studio plug-ins in version 16.4

NICKENICH, Germany (September 27th, 2016) -- Monkeybread Software releases version 16.4 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 2,300 classes featuring over 59,000 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 16.4 update:

With our new plugin version we add a class to use the camera of a Raspberry Pi for capturing images. You can enumerate devices, connect to one, select various options, capture pictures or get a preview image. If you have a similar camera on a desktop linux, you can of course use the same class there.

This release improves a lot of linux classes. The DirectorySizeMBS class now fully supports linux to quickly check the size of a directory. The module for extended attributes now works on Linux as well as the SystemInformationMBS.MACAddressMBS function.

If you need to securly create password hashes, we recommend checking the new Argon2MBS class. Argon2 is a price winning key derivation function which you can now use to generate encryption keys.

For our SQL Plugin, the internal SQLite library now allows you to run the same commands as the SQLite shell tool. Use this to benefit from various import and export functions there. For SQLValueMBS class, we added new properties to easier read/write blob values. You can now stream them from/to folderitem or streams. You can set a BLOB from memoryblock directly without converting to a string, from a variant as well as all parameters in a SQLCommandMBS from a dictionary. Our SQLite3MBS can now load extensions directly. For prepared statements, the BindType function is now optional.

On Windows we can now read/write/delete file streams. So beside some data your files can have additional metadata which your app can use, e.g. to store backup state. Our LargeBinaryStreamMBS class can now handles long file paths better. And our windows list class can now enumerate child windows.

We added a new WebKit 2 control for Mac. This allows you to have one HTMLViewer replacement which dynamically switches between WebKit 1 (32-bit) and WebKit 2 (64-bit) depending of the host application.

With the new MBS.Has*Plugin constants, you can write conditional code which uses plugin functions only if the plugin is installed. This helps for bigger source code libraries.

We got new CRC, more GraphicsMagick and a new SplitMBS function. Our MemoryStorageMBS class helps to break 32-bit memory limits. We improved several Cocoa related classes including NSLayoutManagerMBS, NSURLRequestMBS and NSFontManagerMBS

Finally we updated LCMS 2 to version 2.8, OpenSSL to 1.0.2i, SQLite to 3.14.2 and DynaPDF to 4.0.3.9. The UniKey plugin now uses 6.5 SDK and supports 32 and 64bit targets on Mac, Windows and Linux including ARM.

See release notes for a complete list of changes.
27 09 16 - 12:56