MBS FileMaker Plugin 15.2 development

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Hello,

in this thread I want to post to you what's new in development of MBS Plugin, version 15.2.

Download is available as usual here:

monkeybreadsoftware.com/filemaker/files/Prerelease/

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If not, well you can ignore it.

New functions in documentation.

Thanks for supporting our plugin.

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

Greetings

Christian

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15.2pr1:

  • Added AbortProc and an event processing loop to DynaPDF printing to help with updating a progress dialog.
  • Added DynaPDF.ReadImageFormatFile and DynaPDF.ReadImageResolutionFile function to inspect images files on disk.
  • Added DynaPDF.RenderJob function.
  • Added ExtensionFilter parameter to Files.ListRecursive function.
  • Added flag 128 for matching substring with the ExtensionFilter parameter for the Files.List, Files.ListAsJSON and Files.ListRecursive functions.
  • Added MapView.GetWindow function.
  • Added more Python functions to query time and library information.
  • Added ScriptWorkspace.IsFocusOnScriptList and ScriptWorkspace.SetFocusToScriptList functions.
  • Changed tooltips for fields to use FieldType() instead of SQL for better performance.
  • Fixed an issue with Audit.BuildCaches function missing the FieldName.
  • Fixed SQL.ConvertDateTimeFromSQL to return empty result if the date value is not valid.
  • Fixed SSH2 library for Windows to use OpenSSL instead of Windows API again. Broken in last release.
  • Implemented a maximum for sockets. Now limited to 1000 concurrent sockets to avoid crashing FileMaker when running out of file handles.
  • Implemented text selector for ScriptWorkspace.StyledScriptText function.
  • Improved Archive.Compress to compress folder itself if file list is empty.
  • Improved exceptions handling for GraphicsMagick functions.
  • Improved OCR error messages about missing functions to show the function name. you may see such an error if you have an older tesseract or leptonica library, which doesn't contain the functions we look for.
  • Improved PDFKit.SelectPrinter to return an error when we fail to create the dialog.
  • Improved performance of DynaPDF generating previews for container values for large files.
  • Improved showing IDs for Database Design dialog to not rebuild cache for new fields.
  • Improved the If/Loop highlighting to also highlight Enter Find Mode and Perform Find.
  • Updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.98.281.
  • Updated expat library to version 2.7.1.
  • Updated libarchive to version 3.7.9.
  • Updated Saxon library to 12.5.1 pre-release.
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15.2pr2:

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15.2pr3:

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15.2pr4:

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15.2pr5:

  • Fixed XL.CopyCellValue, XL.CopyColumn and XL.CopyRow to work if second document has more sheets.
  • Added shortcuts to calculation dialog to pick return type just like field types.
  • Changed shortcut to show ruler in calculation dialog to using command-option-R.
  • Changed shortcut to show indivibles in calculation dialog to using command-option-I.
  • Added Audit.SetUUIDFields and Audit.GetUUIDFields function.
  • Updated plugin SDK.
  • Improved auto complete to work better with XL functions.
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I love these shortcuts

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Screenshot 2025-04-23 at 11.08.22 AM

I noticed this in the latest pre-release where get functions are highlighted and clicking this takes you to the documentation. This is actually incredibly annoying, as any click on this opens the browser. Often I want to double click the functions parameter and replace it, and I can't now by double+clicking to select text.

Also, in-line in a script step if I happen to click into the calculation on one of these highlighted entries it will open the browser tab.

I'm unable to see a preference to disable this, if there is one can you please let me know what it is ? Ideally I don't want to have to add a script step to an MBS function to disable this.

Config for reference:

Screenshot 2025-04-23 at 11.12.52 AM
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You already disabled links, but I broke that option. Sorry.
Should be fixed for next pre-release.

And when links are enabled and you want to change them, you can either click somewhere before/after or you click and drag on the link to mark it.

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Maybe a combination like option + click would be useful here, instead of a simple click, since a normal repositioning of the cursor is probably what you usually wanna do. I love this feature very much but I also tend to click the link unintentionally every once in a while.

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control-click on the link selects it all and shows the contextual menu.
So you could control-click and then pick cut from the menu or cancel menu and delete text.

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15.2pr6:

  • Changed tracing to log time with start script if Trace.SetWithTimes function.
  • Fixed a problem with linux and endless loop with BeginLayer function in DynaPDF.
  • Fixed a bug in Path.LastPathComponent function where the last character got cut off.
  • Fixed a bug in DynaPDF.PageStatistics function, so it works on the last page of the document.
  • Added JSON.ToCSV function.

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