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Hello Jhonson,

Please, sorry for the delayed reply. You did not mention if you installed Apache Cordova into the Mac OS. Maybe you already install it, because you refer Node, NPM and GIT, for example. In order to install Cordova, you can try to execute the below line in a terminal / console, even when you can find if Cordova is installed by executing "cordova --version" in a terminal / console):

sudo npm install -g cordova

About to execute the "cordova_ios_debug.sh" file, please, don't try to do it by double clicking the file, but, execute it also from the terminal / console. What I do is to navigate to the folder of that file, and then change the permissions of the file, and then execute the file, in a similar way than below:

cd Downloads/app chmod +x -/cordova_ios_debug.sh ./cordova_ios_debug.sh

Remember, Jhonson, that, what the "cordova_ios_debug.sh" file generates after execute it, is a project for XCode, that is, if everything is ok, what we get is a complete XCode project in order to be opened by XCode. In fact, I never use the "cordova_ios_release.sh", because, we always need to open the project with XCode and then run the app from XCode or Archive the project (to get the IPAs, for example, or to upload the files to the Apple Store) from XCode, so, the "debug" file is enough for that.

P.S. If you find any trouble when execute the "debug" file, maybe it's possible that the problem are related with the permissions of the folder in which the "debug" file is. What I do is to use always the "Downloads/app" folder, so, I give all the permissions to the "Download" and the "app" folder: doing that I did not get any problem related with the permissions when execute the "debug" file.

P.S.2. You mention that you have XCode installed, but, maybe the Command Line tools are not installed. You can do it from XCode (make a search around how to install the Command Line tools in XCode) or maybe it's also possible to install it following this Cordova documentation. Anyway, remember that we are talking about Apache Cordova / XCode / Mac OS: if you see any trouble, probably you can get the right answer by searching a bit around internet with the particular error message, for example. I don't say that to avoid to give you the right support, Jhonson, it's because certainly we are talking about possible problems related with Apache Cordova / XCode / Mac OS, and, probably the already solved problems that we can find can help us to get the right answer more quickly.

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Here is a new DecSoft App Builder with the below changes, fixes and enhancements:

2021.38 (04/26/2021) * Add a new "Use the modern WKWebView" checkbox in the app's options, under the Apache Cordova -> iOS options, which is checked by default. With this option checked (remember, it's checked by default for all the apps) we place in the Apache Cordova configuration file the right stuff in order to use the modern WKWebView for our iOS apps, instead the old WebView, which is no more accepted by the Apple Store. In some cases you may want to use the old WebView, then just uncheck this option.

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Here is a new DecSoft HTML Compiler with the below changes, fixes and enhancements:

2021.34 (04/16/2021) * Add the new dhc.folders.getAppDataDir() external Javascript function. This function is intended to get the directory path intended to save app's related files. We can also use the dhc.folders.getUserDesktopDir(), for example, to store files, but, this last directory is mainly intended to save app's user's related files. * Remove an annoying flicker in the main toolbar Save button (basically the button alternates between the enabled / disabled states without apparently any reason). The button work as expected without any problem, however, the flicker referred to can certainly be a bit annoying distracting us about what we are doing. * Add a new button in the program's behaviour options in order to delete the recent files list. Make also some other internal changes in order to properly show the right images for the window of the program's dock panels (when floating), like the program's options, welcome page, about, and other dock panels.

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Here is a new DecSoft HTML Compiler with the below changes, fixes and enhancements:

2021.33 (04/15/2021) * Add the new Signature sample app, which show to us how to use the recently added dhc.base64.decodeToFile() external Javascript function in order to save a canvas control blob into a PNG image file. * Add the new dhc.base64.decodeToFile() external Javascript function. This function is intended to save base64 strings into files after decode it. This can be useful, for example, to save Javascript blob objects, like a canvas control blob object into images. Thanks Leonardo for the idea!

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Here is a new DecSoft HTML Compiler with the below changes, fixes and enhancements:

2021.32 (04/10/2021) * Prepare the Microsoft Edge Runtime to enable the Web Speech API. This API is quite experimental but interesting. You can find some examples of usage and get some fun from this Mozilla page: https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/API/Web_Speech_API Thanks Leonardo for the idea!

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Here is a new DecSoft App Builder with the below changes, fixes and enhancements:

2021.37 (04/09/2021) * Place a small text hint when entering an empty (not yet used) event of the app, app views, app dialogs, native visual and non visual controls and app plugins visual and non visual controls. The text hints inform us about the specific event that we are seeing and also give us information about possible keys to be used. * Remove an annoying flicker in the main toolbar Save All and Save buttons (basically the buttons alternates between the enabled / disabled states without apparently any reason). These buttons work as expected without any problem, however, the flicker referred to can certainly be a bit annoying distracting us about what we are doing. * Assign the proper images (we lost this in a previous release) for the popup / contextual menus of the app views list, the app dialogs list and app frames list.

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Here is a new DecSoft HTML Compiler with the below changes, fixes and enhancements:

2021.31 (04/07/2021) * Appropriately handle app's files which contain spaces in their names: before this change / release the app's files with spaces cannot properly work if they are included in the app's executables. Thanks Greg for the report! * Fix a minor bug which causes that the icon which appear in the New app's index file dialog becomes the "help" instead of the "folder" when we over the mouse by the index file input or just select a new index file for the new app.

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Here is a new DecSoft HTML Compiler with the below changes, fixes and enhancements:

2021.29 (04/04/2021) * Enhance the program's help to describe and provide samples of code for the new dhc.themes.* related external Javascript functions, which allows to deal with the app's executable themes at runtime. * Add the new Themes sample app, which shows how we can use the new dhc.themes.* related external Javascript functions, in order to get the list of the available themes for the app's executable, get the current established theme and set a specific theme at runtime. * Add the new dhc.themes.getThemes() external Javascript function, which we can use to retrieve a list of the available themes to be set for the app's executable. * Add the new dhc.themes.getTheme() external Javascript function, which we can use to know the current app's executable theme name. We can set a theme to be used at designtime, from the app's options. We can also set the app's executable theme at runtime by using the dhc.themes.setTheme() external Javascript function. * Add the new dhc.themes.setTheme() external Javascript function, which allows to establish the app's executable theme at runtime, in addition to use the app's options, which allows to establish the app's executable theme at designtime.

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Here is a new DecSoft HTML Compiler with the below changes, fixes and enhancements:

2021.28 (04/01/2021) * Add the new FindWindow sample app, which show how we can use the dhc.shell.windows() in order to determine if a specific program is running in the user's computer, based in the program's windows' captions. * Add the new dhc.shell.windows() external Javascript function. This function retrieves all the windows' captions from the executing programs in the user's computer. This function can be useful, for example, do determine if a specific program is running or not, based in the program's windows' captions.

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Here is a new DecSoft HTML Compiler with the below changes, fixes and enhancements:

2021.27 (03/31/2021) * Add the new dhc.folders.getAppExecutableDir() external Javascript function, which let us to know the absolute directory path of the app executable. This function can be useful to get that directory path, and to conform absolute paths for certain files, in order to be used with other Javascript functions like dhc.shell.command(), for example.

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Here is a new DecSoft App Builder with the below changes, fixes and enhancements:

2021.35 (03/29/2021) * Continue with the efforts to make the program GUI ready for high DPI (Dot Per Inches) screen configurations. This release try to fix the item height for the control properties inspector and the control styles inspectors, as well the item height for the editor Quick Code List. Thanks Philip for your help!

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Hello to all,

Here is a new DecSoft App Builder with the below changes, fixes and enhancements:

2021.34 (03/28/2021) * In this product release we make several internal changes and enhancements in order to prepare the GUI (Graphic User Interface) to be ready for 4K monitors, and, in general, for screens with a DPI (Dot Per Inches) configuration larger than the used when designing the product, that is, the Windows default DPI configuration. The menu and toolbars icons, the dialogs and all the GUI forms and controls have been reviewed and tested to achieve this objective. We are particularly proud of this product release, because the work we expend on it and because the results that we finally can obtain. * In a previous release of the product we lost the ability to list in the integrated contextual help the available app plugins, as well their help. This release of the product reincorporates the app plugins list in the integrated contextual help. Additionally, the app plugins help button from the app options works again as expected: we lost this ability also in the past due to some changes. * We experience certain very, very rare bugs due to the lack of initialization for certain variables related with some events of the Edge Runtime WebView. This product release fixes these rare bugs by properly initializing the appropriate variables before trying to use it.

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Hello to all,

Here is a new DecSoft HTML Compiler with the below changes, fixes and enhancements:

2021.26 (03/28/2021) * In this product release we make several internal changes and enhancements in order to prepare the GUI (Graphic User Interface) to be ready for 4K monitors, and, in general, for screens with a DPI (Dot Per Inches) configuration larger than the used when designing the product, that is, the Windows default DPI configuration. The menu and toolbars icons, the dialogs and all the GUI forms and controls have been reviewed and tested to achieve this objective. We are particularly proud of this product release, because the work we expend on it and because the results that we finally can obtain. * We experience certain very, very rare bugs due to the lack of initialization for certain variables related with some events of the Edge Runtime WebView. This product release fixes these rare bugs by properly initializing the appropriate variables before trying to use it.

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I hope you are well, Donald!! I want to add something into this thread, because I am dealing with this (exit the app) in the iOS platform for certain app. We have the cordova-plugin-app-exit plugin for Cordova, who works like a charm in the iOS platform, and, uses exactly the same instructions than in Android to exit the app, that is, the below one:

navigator.app.exitApp(); So, even when maybe this instructions need to be considered to be used (because maybe close an app is not something we must do in Android nor the iOS platforms), the point is that that instructions works in Android as expected, and, with the referred plugin, also in the iOS platform. So, if we really need to close the app... we can do it in both Android and iOS.

Hello to all,

Here is a new DecSoft App Builder with the below changes, fixes and enhancements:

2021.33 (03/14/2021) * Fix a wrong behaviour which occur when we launch the app using one of the possible available external browsers buttons in the program's main toolbar: the expected behaviour is that the app become launched in the external browser, but, also in the internal debugger browser. Before this change the app is launched in the external browser, but, not always in the internal browser, as is expected. * Close the app's debugger panel when stop the debugger process by clicking the Stop button of the program's main toolbar. Previously to this change the internal debugger HTTP server is deactivated when clicking the Stop button, but, the debugger panel are not closed. * Remove some hints from the app's debugger panel to avoid some problem (which do not occur everytime, but can cause that the program hang during a time) caused by that hints when the app is launched in the debugger browser (which is inside the debugger panel).

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