[News] New released IT2Be plugins

by Marcel Trapman
www.it2be.com

After a relative silence the last two weeks on my side I am happy to be back on track again. I used the last weeks to reset my mind and do something else than just Servoy developing. Ofcourse that something else was, however, very much Servoy related.

Well, why that silly introduction? Who cares? Hmm, I guess it will be you, the audience of Servoy Magazine, since I have been working on our three Plugins: Tools, Splash and Cryptor.

All plugins have improved sample code and some minor bugs fixed.

Most of the time was spent on the Tools plugin. Where the last 1.7 version contained fifteen function the new version 2.0 is packed with no less than 51 (FIFYONE) functions and properties. I think you will all benefit from this. For those of you that haven't seen the tools plugin yet it holds a lot of simple functions that make your developer life a lot easier. Functions vary from email validity check to number formatting and the very last one I added yesterday. Namely a function to calculate the difference between two dates in milliseconds, seconds, minutes, hours and days. After I noticed that last week the third tip was placed on Servoy Magazine concerning this subject I found it was time for that function.

The Splash plugin now also has a border propery which I find very nice to work with. Especially the Macintosh platform will benefit from this. For all you 'newcomers' the Splash plugin gives you the possibility to present the user with a Splash on opening a Servoy Client. The splash can be text-only, image-only and a combination of the both including html formatting.

The third plugin is the Cryptor. This plugin has functionality like Base64 encoding, DES encryption etc.. The encrypting and encoding is done on strings and/or images (where applicable) seperate from the database. In other words you will retreive and save via the plugin encrypted/encoded data and process the data seperately.

Have fun with the plugins. You can download them via the IT2Be website in the plugins section. When you have any questions please use the Servoy Forum for it so everybody can benefit from them.

Cheers,

marcel