April 2025 - MBS FM Plugin - lists.monkeybreadsoftware.com

[ANN] 15.2pr7
by Christian Schmitz 30 Apr '25

30 Apr '25

Hi, * Updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.100.285. * Added PremulAlpha as a possible raster flag for DynaPDF.RenderPage, DynaPDF.RenderPDFFile and DynaPDF.RenderPDFFileEx functions. * Improved Bonjour functions to cleanup threads better. Greetings Christian — See you at the EngageU conference 9th to 11th November 2025 in Antwerpen, Belgium https://engageu.eu/

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[ANN] 15.2pr6
by Christian Schmitz 25 Apr '25

25 Apr '25

Hello, * 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. A few more bug fixed and we may release 15.2 on 6th May. Greetings Christian — See you at the EngageU conference 9th to 11th November 2025 in Antwerpen, Belgium https://engageu.eu/

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MBS Birthday sale ends 30th April
by Christian Schmitz 22 Apr '25

22 Apr '25

Hello, You may have seen the blog posts about our 25 year celebration. If anyone needs a new license, you can still use the coupon code Birthday in our web shop. Valid until end of April. Greetings Christian — See you at the EngageU conference 9th to 11th November 2025 in Antwerpen, Belgium https://engageu.eu/

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[ANN] 15.2pr5
by Christian Schmitz 22 Apr '25

22 Apr '25

Hi, * 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. Greetings Christian — See you at the EngageU conference 9th to 11th November 2025 in Antwerpen, Belgium https://engageu.eu/

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[ANN] Priority Support
by Christian Schmitz 21 Apr '25

21 Apr '25

Hello everyone, We got asked by clients for support contracts or options. In general we offer support to all our clients at a best effort level. You know, as time permits. Usually that tends to be within minutes or hours when someone is in the office. But sometimes when traveling, vacation, holidays or similar, there is a delay. And some more complex support requests may take days until we get an answer. Our clients in general appreciate our responsiveness. We get praises about having a very complete documentation and functions working as advertised or documented. Since we got asked, we will introduce a priority support level. If you get priority support for a fee, we make sure your support requests are flagged as important and answered quicker. Usually this may not make a difference, except when time for support is tight and we have to pick who to answer first. Our priority support comes in two variants. General MBS Plugin support and separated DynaPDF support. And if you order priority support for DynaPDF, we include the priority support from DynaForms with 24h reaction time and 7 days fix time. Beside standard or priority support, there is also paid support available. Some clients prefer to pay by the hour to get their problems resolved or a helping hand implementing a plugin feature. We'll see how well this is received and appreciated. Let us know if you have a question. Greetings Christian — See you at the EngageU conference 9th to 11th November 2025 in Antwerpen, Belgium https://engageu.eu/

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[ANN] 15.2pr4
by Christian Schmitz 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

Hi, * Improved Container.GetBase64 to work better if you don't specify a name or index. * Changed Container.GetHex to have name or index parameter optional. * Added DynaPDF.SetBidiMode and DynaPDF.GetBidiMode functions. * Updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.99.284. * Fixed link detection to work again in calculations. * Updated CURL library to version 8.13.0. * Added CURL.SetOptionTCPKeepCount and CURL.SetOptionUploadFlags functions. * Fixed an issue with ListDialog.AddSQL function where filename parameter was ignored if no other parameters followed. * Moved FM.Variable* functions into Variable.*. The old names stay valid. * Added Variable.ValueCount function. * Added Variable.AppendValue and Variable.PopValue functions. * Added Variable.AppendJSON and Variable.PopJSON functions. * Added Audit.GetAuditLogTableName and Audit.SetAuditLogTableName functions. Greetings Christian — See you at the EngageU conference 9th to 11th November 2025 in Antwerpen, Belgium https://engageu.eu/

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[ANN] 15.2pr3
by Christian Schmitz 10 Apr '25

10 Apr '25

Hi, * Updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.99.283. * Fixed Archive.Compress to better compress folder itself if file list is empty. * Rewrote parts of TOTP.Calculate function, broken with Xcode upgrade. * Updated SQLAPI to version 5.3.6. * Added ListDialog.SetOtherButtonNeedsSelection and ListDialog.GetOtherButtonNeedsSelection functions. * Added ListDialog.SetSwapButtons and ListDialog.GetSwapButtons functions. * Upgraded NSAttributedString handling to better work with postscript font names. This affects Clipboard.SetStyledText, Clipboard.GetStyledText and other functions on macOS using styled text. * Added Folders.UbiquityContainer function. * Fixed an error in XL.Sheet.SetProtectEx function parsing the protection flags. Greetings Christian — See you at the EngageU conference 9th to 11th November 2025 in Antwerpen, Belgium https://engageu.eu/

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[ANN] 15.2pr2
by Christian Schmitz 07 Apr '25

07 Apr '25

Hi, * Fixed a bug in Process.GetCurrentDirectory function. * Improved functions like Container.ReadFile to return empty result if file size is zero. * Updated to Xcode 16.3 with the newer clang and stdc++ library. * Enabled MBS Auto complete for more specify file dialogs, so we can auto complete variable for file paths. * Updated LibXL to version 4.6. * Added XL.Sheet.AddTable to add a table to a sheet. * Added XL.Sheet.SetBorder to set border fo sheet. * Improved ListDialog.SetOtherButtonEvaluate and ListDialog.SetOtherButtonLabel to allow three other buttons. * Added ListDialog.SetCancelButtonValue, ListDialog.SetOtherButtonValue and ListDialog.SetSelectButtonValue to set what value is returned by ListDialog.ShowDialog function. * Added ListDialog.GetCancelButtonValue, ListDialog.GetOtherButtonValue and ListDialog.GetSelectButtonValue functions. * Fixed a bug in DuckDB client for SQL functions. Greetings Christian — See you at the EngageU conference 9th to 11th November 2025 in Antwerpen, Belgium https://engageu.eu/

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[ANN] 15.2pr1
by Christian Schmitz 01 Apr '25

01 Apr '25

Hi, Let's start a new round for MBS Plugin development: * 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. Download at https://www.monkeybreadsoftware.com/filemaker/files/Prerelease/ or ask for being added to the DropBox shared folder. New functions here: https://www.mbsplugins.eu/newinversion152.shtml Please also go to the FM Soup forum and setup "Watching First Post" for the MBS category, so you get an email when I start my pre-release topic. Then once you see that, please put the topic on watching, so you get an email for every new posting from me. https://the.fmsoup.org/c/plugins/mbs-plugins/58 Greetings Christian — See you at the EngageU conference 9th to 11th November 2025 in Antwerpen, Belgium https://engageu.eu/

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