MBS FileMaker Plugin 13.2 development

[MonkeybreadSoftware]

Hello,

in this thread I want to post to you what's new in development of MBS Plugin, version 13.2.

Download is available as usual here:

monkeybreadsoftware.com/filemaker/files/Prerelease/

or from Dropbox: Dropbox folder

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If not, well you can ignore it.

Thanks for supporting our plugin.

For questions please do not answer here, but start a new discussion.

Greetings

Christian

[MonkeybreadSoftware]

13.2pr1:

• Added AppleScript.LastErrorPosition function.
• Added Archive.BZip2Version, Archive.LZ4Version, Archive.ZLibVersion, Archive.ZStdVersion and Archive.lzmaVersion functions.
• Added DynaPDF.GetNeedAppearance and DynaPDF.SetNeedAppearance functions.
• Added DynaPDF.OpenTag and DynaPDF.CloseTag functions to add tags for a tagged PDFs.
• Added DynaPDF.SetTabLen and DynaPDF.SetTabLen functions.
• Added flags parameter for Icon.GetIconWithQuickLook function.
• Added GMImage.WriteToWebPContainer function.
• Added MongoDB.ContainerToBinary and MongoDB.TextToBinary functions.
• Added MongoDB.NowUTC and MongoDB.Time function.
• Added PhotoPicker.SetSize function.
• Added Plugin.WebPVersion function.
• Added possibility to copy a field content or variable content via context menu (in addition to showing it via tooltip).
• Added support for WebP pictures to GraphicsMagick Plugin.
• Added Window.HideKeyboard function.
• Added WinPDF functions to use built-in PDF features on Windows.
• Added WMFP.GetAudioBitsPerSample, WMFP.GetAudioChannels, WMFP.GetAudioSamplesPerSecond and WMFP.GetVideoFrameRate functions.
• Added XL.Sheet.AreCellsEmpty function.
• Adjusted plugin for the next version of FileMaker.
• Changed field quoting for FM.SQL.InsertRecordsToSQL and Matrix.InsertRecordsToSQL to handle non ANSI quotes for MySQL/MariaDB.
• Changed our error notifications to show script name and file name.
• Changed Vision.RecognizeText to handle PDF documents on Windows, too.
• Enabled lz4 and zstd for Archive functions.
• Enabled zstd for curl library.
• Fixed a problem where WMIQuery.Query would not report the error message.
• Fixed a problem which prevents Java.Initialize to initialize on macOS and Linux with current JDK 19.
• Fixed a problem with Archive.Create and creating 7zip archive.
• Fixed code to automatically find libjvm.dylib on macOS to work with JDK 19.
• Fixed DynaPDF.ParseContent to not complain about open page.
• Fixed issue with indentation for copied script text. Now correct for 30+ level of nesting.
• Fixed JavaScript.Available to return 1 on macOS and iOS, broken in 13.1.
• Fixed script font color to use Menlo-Regular if you pick default since that seems to be what FileMaker uses without plugin instead of system font.
• Fixed SyntaxColoring.SetFontSize to allow passing value zero to disable font size change.
• Fixed variable auto completion to work for $~variables to work better.
• Implemented PDFKit.GeneratePreview for Windows.
• Improved AppleScript.Compile function to return error code and position.
• Improved Clipboard.GetTypes for Windows to report format list better.
• Removed MatrixDongle functions.
• Rewrote parts of the variable check in Script Workspace to better recognize variables defined via target parameter.
• Updated curl to version 8.0.1.
• Updated LibArchive to version 3.6.2.
• Updated libwebp to version 1.3.0.
• Updated SQLAPI to version 5.2.4b2.
• Updated SQLite to version 3.41.2.
• Upgraded PhotoPicker functions to work on macOS.

[MonkeybreadSoftware]

13.2pr2:

• Updated Xcode to version 14.3.
• Changed minimum version of macOS to 10.13.
• Improved EmailParser.Attachment function to better handle PDF documents and return them as PDF container with preview.
• Adjusted plugin for the next version of FileMaker.
• Fixed a bug in MessageComposer functions on newer iOS versions.
• Changed container handler to only put in MAIN item for FileMaker 13 or newer.
• Changed default for CURL.SetOptionConnectionTimeout to 10 seconds (unless you change it) to avoid long stalls in your application of 2 minutes when server is not reachable.
• Updated SQLAPI to version 5.2.4b3.
• Added identifier value to the JSON returned by CNContact.JSON function.
• Added root name parameter to Dictionary.ToXML function.
• Changed Audit.Delete and Audit.Delete2 to record new fields found before deleting with Delete instead of Create.

[MonkeybreadSoftware]

13.2pr3:

• Added flag 32 to XML.ToJSON function to keep empty nodes as text nodes instead of empty objects.
• Added sorting of scripts by IDs in addition by names. Press shift key to do sort by ID and option key for descending order.
• Added Clipboard.AddText function.
• Added DynaPDF.AddJavaScript, DynaPDF.ChangeJavaScript, DynaPDF.ChangeJavaScriptAction, DynaPDF.ChangeJavaScriptName, DynaPDF.GetActionCount, DynaPDF.GetJavaScript, DynaPDF.GetJavaScriptAction, DynaPDF.GetJavaScriptName.
• Fixed a problem in PrintDialog.GetLastSettings function reporting an exception about a nil value.
• Changed DynaPDF functions returning PDF containers to include preview via PDFKit or WinPDF, if you don't have a DynaPDF Pro license.
• Added automatic loading of zbar library if needed.
• Enabled web socket support for curl for Windows.
• Changed ListDialog.SetOtherButtonEvaluate to query selection, so you can query it using ListDialog.GetSelectedTag and ListDialog.GetSelectedTitle in your expression.
• Updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.73.213.

[MonkeybreadSoftware]

13.2pr4:

• Added LinuxARM64 version of MBS FileMaker Plugin.
• Added LinuxARM64 version of DynaPDF and LibXL libraries.
• Adjusted plugin for FileMaker 2023.
• Added Dictionary.ToMatrix function.
• Added ListDialog.IsVisible function.
• Fixed a problem with empty attributes causing an error in JSON for XML.ToJSON function.
• Fixed an issue redraw problems in debugger with code folding while scrolling.
• Fixed a bug for WebView.Passwords.Install not installing the event.
• Fixed FM.SQL.Field function to handle flags better.
• Fixed FM.SQL.Field function to return a name if there is no FNAM stream.
• Fixed a possible memory leak in Dictionary.AddSQL function.
• Fixed WebView.FindByName function to find web viewer better on other windows for macOS.
• Added new highlight style for DynaPDF.ConvertStyledText, DynaPDF.WriteStyledText and DynaPDF.WriteStyledTextEx.
• Fixed problem in WinPDF.PageImageAtSize when passing width and height as zero.

[MonkeybreadSoftware]

13.2pr5:

• Added ImagePicker.SetMediaTypes function.
• Added Window.IsKeyboardVisible function.
• Added RegEx.Release and RegEx.ReleaseAll functions.
• Updated SQLAPI to version 5.2.4.
• Added WebView.SetPrintParameter and WebView.GetPrintParameter for Windows with this parameters: paperWidth, paperHeight, bottomMargin, topMargin, leftMargin, rightMargin, orientation and shouldPrintBackgrounds.

[FileKraft]

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[MonkeybreadSoftware]

13.2pr6:

• Updated LibXL to version 4.1.2.
• Improved turning off syntax highlighting features.
• Improved WebView.Scrollbar.getHorizontalMaximum, WebView.Scrollbar.getHorizontalPosition, WebView.Scrollbar.getVerticalMaximum, WebView.Scrollbar.getVerticalPosition and WebView.Scrollbar.set to work on macOS when the web viewer is an interactive container showing a PDF document.
• Added XL.Sheet.HyperlinkIndex function.
• Improved scroll performance for script workspace related to our search feature.
• Fixed debugger tooltips to show variable name again.

[weetbicks]

hi @MonkeybreadSoftware

Perhaps a late request for the next version but was wondering if the following was possible:

So often when developing you want to just open a script to edit which is attached to a button. There's 2 ways:

1. Go to layout mode, click button, click script name, edit (though this is modal and not ideal).
2. Turn on debugger, click button, step into script, edit script, kill script execution, close debugger (4+ steps!)

What I was hoping is a shortcut for the second option

When debugger opens I see you can add your own buttons into this UI. Could there be some kind of edit button here, which basically shortcuts the following:

1. Step into script (F6)
2. Click edit script (cmd+F10)
3. Terminate running script cmd+F8
   3 (optionally just turn off debugger, I know there is no shortcut for this by default, though I have my own custom one added to the prefs file).

Even the first 3 steps would be nice. My ultimate dream would be a single click to open a script attached to any button while in browse mode (obviously a developer only tool).

[MonkeybreadSoftware]

Sounds more like you just need a kind of macro recorder to press one key combination to do the other shortcuts in one go.

[MonkeybreadSoftware]

and released
MBS Plugin 13.2 for Claris FileMaker