24U SimpleDialog Plug-In Release Notes

This is a brief history of important changes across released versions.


3.1.2

- Problems with pop-up menu fixed
- Problems with Data Viewer and Script debugger fixed
- Syntax inconsistency for multiple progresses fixed
- Better documentation with examples

3.1.1

- Several fixes in serial numbers mechanism
- Fixed Windows buttons look

3.1

- New URL Link field can be used to direct users to your web pages directly from dialog
- Pop-up menu now have custom value IDs to better distinguish between menu items
- Default and cancel buttons can be set
- Calling a Wait function now automatically refresh progress bar
- Default pop-up menu item is shown even it is not inside the value list
- TextArea field can have more than 12 lines
- Checkbox can be checked by keyoboard on Mac OS X
- Custom functions now work inside FileMaker validations of fields
- TextArea can copy, cut, paste on Mac OS X

3.0.3

- Repairs pop-up menu bug in Windows

3.0.2

- Important bugfixes and stability improvements focused on Windows platform

3.0

- Static text and separators improve readability of your dialogs
- Multi-line text area field can be used to edit long text
- Dialog may take icon from a container field (any size)
- Dialog look can be enhanced by picture from a container field
- Text fields can be validated by calculations
- Custom message box can be displayed after unsuccessful validation
- More dialog parameters can be obtained from Get function
- Progress Dialog can pause execution of your script for specified time interval
- Initial active dialog field can be set

2.8.1

- Runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel based Macs
- Works with FileMaker Pro 7.0, 8.0 and 8.5

2.8

- FileMaker Pro 7 Native
- Full Unicode support
- Better performance on Windows
- Ability to return values instead of text from dialogs

2.7.2

- support for FileMaker Pro 8 added
- western accentuated charaters are displayed correctly in FM7 Pro and FM8 Pro on Windows

2.7.1

- progress dialog messages now can contain pipes ("|")
- added database of real-world examples of regular expressions
- last dialog's values can be cleared on demand for better security
- fixed text encoding for directly accessed value lists (FileMaker 6 and older)
- attempt to validate national characters with regexp does not crash any more
- pop-up menu now selects correct default value on Windows even if there are similar values
- 24U SimpleDialog Utility now generates correct number of braces
- single registration code generated for all plug-ins in a pack is now recognized

2.7

- the plug-in is now fully functional in FileMaker 7 except for foreign languages
- initialization and registration of the plug-in is much faster now
- spacing between popup and buttons has been increased on Windows
- displaying text containing longer sequences of spaces is now possible

2.0

- splash dialog is displayed on application quit by default for developer licenses
- splash dialog display can be turned off - see License Agreement
- improved compatibility with runtime and kiosk-mode solutions
- completely rewritten dialog showing engine
- improved dynamic sizing and positioning of dialog items
- dialogs can display longer text than ever before
- unlimited number of pop-up menu items
- value lists can be easily inserted in popup menus
- dialogs can have icons
- any text field can be validated with a regular expression
- dialogs with no buttons are now allowed
- automatic dismissal after specified amount of time
- customizable dialog title
- customizable dialog position (horizontal, vertical, or both)
- customizable dialog width
- progress dialogs with two text messages (above and below the progress bar)
- customizable minimum and maximum values, changeable on the fly
- indefinite progress indicator (barber pole)
- indefinite mode can be turned on/off on the fly during progress
- progress dialog function accepts Troi Dialog syntax for compatibility
- multiple progress bars can be displayed at the same time
- text in dialogs now respects system settings for message box on Windows
- fully Unicode savvy inside for future compatibility


1.1.4

- corrected behavior of document window on Mac OS X
- text is now properly transcoded with all languages

1.1.3

- SSN validation has been improved
- special characters that needed to be prefixed with backslash can now appear in buttons

1.1.2

- dialogs now handle mouse clicks in a more compatible way
- mouse cursor now appears when showing a dialog even if it was hidden

1.1.1

- field labels are now correctly right-aligned on all platforms

1.1

- added Credit Card Number, SSN, SIN, and Czech ID validations
- added 24U SimpleDialog Generator for even easier dialog configuration


1.0.3

- dialogs on Windows machines no longer show button in Windows task bar
- dialogs on Windows machines correspond to Windows appearance and childs of FileMaker Pro
- tabulator now works better on Windows machines
- works with Czech language in both 4.x and 5.x versions of FileMaker Pro
- menus can now have separator items (-) on both Mac and PC
- special characters like < or ; can now be used in popup menus on Macintosh
- tutorial now identifies platform using Abs(Status(CurrentPlatform))
- tutorial is now saved using US formats (commas in formulas)
- tutorial's pop-up menu example now shows also separator
- tutorial's pop-up menu example has now yellow as last item
- tutorial's field types value list now contains also "m" for pop-up menu
- tutorial's copyright years were changed to 2001-2002

1.0.2

- now correctly returns pressed button's number on Mac
- international text is now translated correctly on Windows

1.0.1

- added Windows compatibility
- added ability to display pop-up menus

1.0

- initial release