MBS FileMaker Plugin 16.3 development

[MonkeybreadSoftware]

Hello,

in this thread I want to post to you what's new in development of MBS Plugin, version 16.3.

Download is available as usual here:

monkeybreadsoftware.com/filemaker/files/Prerelease/

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New functions in documentation.

Thanks for supporting our plugin.

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

Greetings
Christian

[MonkeybreadSoftware]

• Added CNContactPicker.CurrentProperties function.
• Added CNContactPicker.GetDisplayedKeys and CNContactPicker.SetDisplayedKeys functions.
• Added Command-Option-T shortcut for the calculation editor to insert the current selected table occurrence in the popup menu into the text.
• Added CURL.GetSizeDelivered function.
• Added flag 4 for WebView.CreateWindow function to make the window a floating palette.
• Added flags to return JSON for SpeechRecognition.Recognize function.
• Added GridFS functions for MongoDB functions: MongoDB.GridFS.Close, MongoDB.GridFS.Drop, MongoDB.GridFS.Find, MongoDB.GridFS.FindOne, MongoDB.GridFS.FindOneByFileName, MongoDB.GridFS.GetChunks, MongoDB.GridFS.GetFiles, MongoDB.GridFS.Open, MongoDB.GridFS.Read, MongoDB.GridFS.Remove, MongoDB.GridFS.RemoveByFileName and MongoDB.GridFS.Write.
• Added JBIG2Lossy as option for DynaPDF.GetImage function.
• Added Keychain.AddGenericPassword, Keychain.DeleteGenericPassword, Keychain.FindGenericPassword, Keychain.ListGenericPasswords and Keychain.UpdateGenericPassword functions.
• Added PageRanges, PrinterName, PagesPerSide, Copies, Collation, ColorMode and Duplex parameters for WebView.SetPrintParameter function on Windows.
• Added Printer.CancelJob and Printer.GetJobsAsJSON functions.
• Added width and height for DynaPDF.GetField to ask for field size.
• Added XL.Sheet.AutoFilter.GetSortEx and XL.Sheet.AutoFilter.SortLevels functions.
• Added XL.Sheet.DataValidation, XL.Sheet.DataValidationSize and XL.Sheet.DataValidations functions.
• Added XL.Table.IsAutoFilter and XL.Table.RemoveFilter functions.
• Fixed a possible crash in GMImage.DrawPath function.
• Fixed an issue on Linux where Barcode.Generate didn't create a picture due to a link issue using the wrong zint library version (broken in 16.2).
• Fixed an issue with JSON.InsertRecord crashing when you have illegal type mismatches in the parameters.
• Fixed DynaPDF.GetField to return the correct BBox.
• Fixed memory leak in MongoDB.NowUTC, MongoDB.Time, MongoDB.ContainerToBinary and MongoDB.TextToBinary functions.
• Fixed memory leaks in Llama.Tokenize and Llama.Detokenize functions.
• Improved fmp: URL handling to work with newer version depending fmp URLs.
• Improved Llama.Chat and Llama.Query to yield time after 1000 tokens.
• Improved memory management for MongoDB functions.
• Updated CURL library to version 8.20.0.
• Updated DynaPDF to version 5.0.2.11.
• Updated expat to version 2.8.1.
• Updated jsoncons to version 1.7.0.
• Updated lcms to version 2.19.1.
• Updated LibXL to version 5.2.0.
• Updated mongo-c-driver to version 2.3.0.
• Updated Xcode to version 26.5.

[MonkeybreadSoftware]

16.3pr2:

• Added GuidedAccessState, RevertTransactionOnErrorState and WindowUUID for the get() functions help links.
• Added SerialPort.Setup function.
• Added SystemInfo.isGoldenGate function.
• Enhanced the Command-Option-T shortcut for calculation editor: If you have no selection, we insert current table occurence name. If you selected text, we select the matching table occurence in the popup menu.
• Fixed a bug in Math.FormatNumber function, introduced in pr1.
• Fixed a bug in ProcessActivity.beginActivity function not passing display sleep correctly.
• Improved PDFKit.Combine to copy metadata values from first document to the new document.
• Improved performance of Hash.RandomHexString function.
• Updated jsoncons to version 1.8.1.
• Updated mongo-c-driver to version 2.3.1.
• Updated openssl to version 3.5.7.
• Warning: The minimum macOS version is currently 10.15, but will change to 11.0 or 12.0 end of 2026.

[MonkeybreadSoftware]

16.3pr3:

• Improved Command-Option-T shortcut for the calculation editor to insert the current selected table occurrence in the popup menu into the text and cut away the field name.
• Added a display of the time needed for the execution of a calculation. Shows time needed in milliseconds or microseconds.
• Improved the DPI awareness on Windows for various window functions.
• Fixed an issue with Window.PositionNextDialog not resizing the window properly.
• Updated FM.InsertRecord to delay getting the field types until we have a field type mismatch.
• When loading schema with Audit functions, we log in trace log how long the SQL requests took.
• Added Window.Screen function.
• Improved WebView.Close to close the WebView window.
• Improved WebView window to be closable with window.close in JavaScript..
• Updated the script search. Added compact view, details toggles, exclusion, RegEx help and more.
• Added List.ColumnMatchesPostfix, List.ColumnMatchesPrefix and List.ColumnMatchesSubString functions.
• Updated DynaPDF to version 5.0.3.12.
• Added ConvGrayToSauvola to the compression filter flags for DynaPDF.Optimize function.
• Added DeleteWatermarks, DeleteWatermarkAnnots and UseSauvolaFilter for DynaPDF.Optimize function.

[MonkeybreadSoftware]

16.3pr4:

• Improved display of calculation time.
• Tuned the script search.
• Updated CURL library to version 8.21.0.
• Deprecated CURL.SetOptionStreamDepends and CURL.SetOptionStreamDependsE functions.
• Updated libarchive to version 3.8.8.
• Improved script search. You can skip disabled script steps.
• Updated expat to version 2.8.2.
• Added ScriptWorkspace.Steps function.
• Improved GMImage.WriteToWebPContainer to write WEBP containers instead of FILE containers on FileMaker 26.