NICKENICH, Germany (December 19th, 2006) — Monkeybread Software releases
version 6.5 of the MBS plug-in for REALbasic.

The MBS plug-in comprises a collection of several plug-in parts which
extend the REALbasic development environment with over 500 classes and 3
controls featuring over 11000 documented functions.

The plug-ins require REALbasic 5.5 or newer. Also required are 120 MB hard
disc space and around 16 MB of RAM in addition to the requirements of
REALbasic and your operation system itself. While all plug-in parts compile
on Mac OS 8.x, Mac OS 9.x, Mac OS X (universal), Linux and Windows, each
function may depend on additional system requirements to work successfully.

Plugin licenses are available for:
40 Euro (+sales tax) for private/educational and 80 Euro (+sales tax) for
company/business. (around USD 55 for private and USD 110 for commercial
with the current exchange rates)

If you buy a current license, you will get free updates for one year. After
that year, you can update your license to cover an additional year.

The plugins can be downloaded on MBS’ website as one big package or several
smaller ones:
(http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/realbasic/plugins.shtml)

The online documentation can be found here:
(http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/pluginhelp/themes.shtml)

A few of the new items in version 6.5:

* Byte level editing using memoryblocks of pictures with
PictureReaderMBS, PictureWriterMBS and PictureEditorMBS classes.
* Reading RAW image files using CocoaImageMBS class on Mac OS X.
* LCMS 1.16 included with a lot of new functions for color matching.
* Added Window Transitions for Mac OS X.
* Improvements on classes: CocoaStatusItemMBS.

And a lot of small changes&fixes requested by our users.

Read the complete release notes here:
(http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/realbasic/plugin/Releasenotes.html)

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