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StackView 3.3

Version 3.3 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 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

Windows Code Signing and Installer Creation with InnoSetup

Jurg Otter is excited to share an open-source project that makes Windows Code Signing and Installer Creation (with InnoSetup) easier than ever.

If you've ever struggled with code signing or setting up a reliable Windows installer, this project can save you time and hassle. Whether you're an independent developer or working on a team, this solution helps streamline the process with minimal setup.

Windows Code Signing

Sign your Xojo built Windows executables and created Installers using either Azure Trusted Signing or

Traditional Codesigning certificates .pfx

Seamless InnoSetup Integration

Automates the entire process after compilation from signing to packaging.

You just have to click "Build" in the Xojo IDE.

Cross-Platform Support

Works with the Xojo IDE running on Windows, Linux, and macOS - allowing you to build and sign your Windows applications and installers from any OS.

Minimal Setup

No complex installation and dependencies -- just Docker is required.

Product: Windows Code Signing and Installer Creation

Platforms: Desktop

Price: Free

Website: https://github.com/jo-tools/ats-codesign-innosetup

GraffitiSuite Release 62

GraffitiSuite is pleased to announce Release 61 for Xojo Desktop, iOS and Web!

Release Statistics:

• 13 New Classes or Products

  142 Additions

  25 Bug Fixes

  22 Other Changes

New Documentation

Our documentation is better than ever with a dedicated desktop application! Easily download and browse documentation in a standardized format matching the experience of industry standard documentation.

Easily determine what a class inherits from, what methods or properties it has, and more! All with the speed and convenience of a desktop application supporting offline browsing!

GraffitiSimpleEditor

GraffitiSimpleEditor is the modernization of our old GraffitiHTMLEditor. It provides a simpler API for allowing users to create and edit HTML content. GraffitiEditor is the right tool when you need to design large pages, but when you just need users to focus on textual content with styling then GraffitiSimpleEditor is the right control for the job.

GraffitiButtonGroup for iOS

GraffitiButtonGroup is a powerful segmented button control designed especially for mobile devices. This control has it all with support for icons, Single; Multiple; or None selection types, automatic overflow handling, complete customization via properties, and beautiful pulse animations.

GraffitiNote for Web

GraffitiNote for Web completes our offering of this class type across all platforms with variants for Desktop and Mobile. Supporting adaptive height, customization via indicators and HTML embedding, this class will spice up your notifications!

GraffitiSessionMessenger for Web

GraffitiSessionMessenger allows you to communicate between sessions regardless of running application instance. This powerful class can not only enable chat between users, but can also be used for sending messages such as shutdown warnings! Or you could build a forced user logout function!

GraffitiGrid Cell Containers

And finally, a new feature for our massively powerful Grid component. It's now easier than ever to embed WebContainers in your data grid rows!

Product: GraffitiSuite

Platforms: All

Price: Starting at $399.95/year

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

Xojo 2025 Release 1.1

The 2025R1 update introduces support for running the Xojo IDE on Linux ARM, drag and drop functionality in the Web framework and the ability to submit apps directly to the Mac and iOS App Stores from Xojo.

Highlights of New Features and Updates:

Linux ARM IDE Support: Now available, including Raspberry Pi.

App Store Publishing: Directly publish macOS Desktop and iOS projects to App Store Connect from the IDE.

Web Drag and Drop Support: Any visual control can now be dragged or accept drops.

WebListBox: Now supports editable cells and checkboxes.

macOS Window Menu: Desktop projects include the Window menu by default.

Windows Built-In ICU Libraries: Eliminates manual ICU updates and reduces app file sizes.

iOS MobileColorPicker: Simplifies color selection and provides a native app experience.

Android Support: Initial ColorGroup and Dark Mode support.

TLS 1.3 Support: Now available with SSLSocket and URLConnection.

Toolbars: Option to hide captions. Windows now features a smaller toolbar, and both Windows and Linux use modern Bootstrap icons. The Documentation window toolbar is now more compact.

Code Editor: Cmd/Ctrl + Double-clicking on a local variable name now jumps to its declaration, similar to the "Go To var" command.

Layout Editor: Improved performance for complex container layouts.

Product: Xojo IDE

Platforms: All

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

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

MBS Plugins 25.2 Released

Monkeybread Software today is pleased to announce MBS Xojo Plugins 25.2 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:

We have our Bonjour classes for macOS, iOS and Windows to find computers on the local network by publishing and browsing for services. For Linux we use Avahi library and there we added new AvahiAddressResolverMBS, AvahiEntryGroupMBS, AvahiHostNameResolverMBS and AvahiRecordBrowserMBS classes to publish and find services. You may have a linux service running on a Raspberry Pi, which can then by a desktop application on macOS, Windows or Linux or an iOS application.

For Windows we have a set of classes to query diagnostic information about application and system memory, disk and CPU usage. The WindowsPowerManagerMBS class allows you to query battery status and get events for updates. Use the WindowsSharePanelMBS class to share files to contacts using the Windows share sheet. The WindowsAVIWriteMBS class helps to write AVI files from pictures.

The AVPlayerViewControllerMBS class for iOS is great to play fullscreen video. With the AVPlayerViewControllerControlMBS control we have a way to use it for videos playing on a screen.

You can use PHPickerMBS to show a window for the user to pick photos from his library without your application requiring permissions to do so. With the PHPickerControlMBS control, you can embed this picker in your own window. For PHPhotoLibraryMBS we added methods to ask for permissions with level, so you can ask for add-only access instead of asking for full access.

If you have multiple Python installations, you can use AddSysPath method to point to the directory where to find libraries.

On macOS and iOS you can use Genmojis with the NSAdaptiveImageGlyphMBS class. We can render images using NSAdaptiveImageGlyphImageMBSclass. You can use supportsAdaptiveImageGlyph property on NSTextViewMBS or WKWebViewConfigurationMBS classes to enable Genmojis support.

When you send emails using CURLEmailMBS class, you can decide to use 8bit encoding instead of quoted printable. The ECKeyMBS class got ES256 sign and verify functions. For arrays we have a ReverseMBS function in addition to more variants for CopyMBS and AddMBS array methods. The CURL feature for MQTT can keep the connection alive.

Product: MBS Xojo plugins

Platforms: All

Price: $29-$299

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

Announcing PrefsKit - A Native Preferences Framework for Xojo

If you've ever struggled with handling native preferences across macOS, iOS, and Windows in Xojo, PrefsKit is here to simplify your workflow! This open-source module provides a structured, native-friendly way to store and retrieve application preferences, making your Xojo apps feel right at home on each OS.

Xojo lacks a universal API for working with native preferences across platforms. While Windows developers can rely on the built-in RegistryItem class, macOS and iOS require more complex declares to properly interface with Apple's plist-based preference system.

PrefsKit bridges this gap, offering:

Full support for macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and Windows

Native integration with each OS's preference storage system (plists on Apple platforms, Registry on Windows)

Granular control over preference reading and writing

Seamless integration into your Xojo projects

PrefsKit is available now as an open-source project for the Xojo community.

Product: PrefsKit

Platforms: All

Price: Open Source

Website: https://gitlab.com/patricksalo/PrefsKit-for-Xojo

GraffitiVerificationKit Available

GraffitiSuite is pleased to announce the initial release of GraffitiVerificationKit!

GraffitiVerificationKit is a drop-in module that enables developers to incorporate email address validation and verification. Using this product, you can ensure that you get real user signups, separating out potential spam accounts. Key Features:

Email domain blocking

Automatic sending of verification emails via SMTP

Automatic validation of verification codes

Automatic user database table updates

Global rate limiting

Per-email or IP address rate limiting

Email subject, body HTML and body Text customization

Sender email and name customization (where supported by the SMTP server)

Product: GraffitiVerificationKit

Platforms: All

Price: Starting at $399.95/year

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

Year of Code 2025: Kickoff

Xojo is kicking off 2025 with something for everyone in the Xojo community, an event that will help new users grow their Xojo coding skills and existing users polish theirs. Back in 2018, we did a "Summer of Code" contest that challenged people to create one project a week through the summer. This was a lot of fun and many interesting apps were made that summer. For 2025, we have expanded that idea out to the entire year! However, instead of one app a week, we will make one app a month from January to November 2025. In December we will give away a grand prize!

The Idea

Early each month we will share a blog post that introduces an app "theme" and recaps the prior month. A week or so later, we will create a Forum topic and post an example project created by one of the Xojo team. To participate in the Year of Code, make a Xojo project that that demonstrates the theme in some way, share it on GitHub to make it easily accessible to everyone and then add a post about it (with your GitHub link) to the Forum topic.

The Prizes

And yes, there will be prizes for those that participate. Each month all participants (everyone who shares a project that month) will be entered for a chance to win a monthly prize of $100 at the Xojo Store plus a 25% off coupon for GraffitiSuite.1 The $100 can be applied to any Xojo license purchase or Extras Store item. At the end of 2025, all participants from the year will be entered to win the grand prize of a Xojo Pro license, $250 cash and a free year of GraffitiSuite. The more you participate throughout the year, the more chances you'll have to win the grand prize.

How to Participate

Now that it is January (Happy New Year, everyone), the 2025 Year of Code kicks off with this theme: Desktop apps. People have used Xojo to make wonderful desktop apps since its inception in 1998 so this is an ideal first theme that is broad enough to allow anyone to participate. Look for a post next week announcing this months' project details. Once it is posted, I will start a forum topic for others to share their projects and apps. In early February we will do a blog post that highlights what people made this month and introduce February's theme.

Product: 2025 Year of Code (contest)

Platforms: All

Price: Free

Website: https://blog.xojo.com/2025/01/09/year-of-code-2025-kickoff/

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

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

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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