Release notes for version 14.1 - March 2024

New functions in 14.1 and Announcement in blog.

14.1 - 12th March 2024

• Added Overlay functions to show little graphics on screen independent of FileMaker.
• Added "Copy Full Field Specification" menu command for field specify dialog in FileMaker.
• Added AVRecorder.GetVideoOrientation and AVRecorder.SetVideoOrientation function.
• Added CF function as a shortcut for FM.CF function, which assumes you store custom functions in a dictionary named CF.
• Added check to LibXL.Initialize to return error if you use the license key for a different platform.
• Added Clipboard.Clear function.
• Added DynaPDF.CreateGoToEAction function.
• Added DynaPDF.GetActionsAsJSON function.
• Added DynaPDF.Parser.SelectionText function.
• Added empty check for debugger tooltips, so we show "$variable is empty", if IsEmpty() returns true for the variable.
• Added Events.RequestFullAccessToEvents, Events.RequestFullAccessToReminders and Events.RequestWriteOnlyAccessToEvents functions.
• Added fallback to Clipboard.GetText for Windows to read ANSI text if unicode text is not available.
• Added Flags parameter to Window.List to return names instead of IDs and filter for database windows only and/or visible windows.
• Added GMImage.Statistics function.
• Added JSON.AddValueToArray and JSON.AddValueToObject functions.
• Added KeyToCopy parameter to JSON.JSONPatch.FromDiff to copy primary keys.
• Added LastErrorDetail function for Get() function links.
• Added ListDialog.SetCloseDialogOnDoubleClick and ListDialog.GetCloseDialogOnDoubleClick to decide whether the dialog closes on double click.
• Added possibility to hold option key for format button to get a calculation made compact.
• Added RemoteControl.IsAltKeyDown, RemoteControl.IsCapsLockKeyDown, RemoteControl.IsCommandKeyDown, RemoteControl.IsControlKeyDown, RemoteControl.IsFunctionKeyDown, and RemoteControl.IsShiftKeyDown functions to check if a modifier key is down.
• Added support for orientation in WebView.SetPrintParameter function for iOS.
• Added SyntaxColoring.FormatCalculation function.
• Added timeout for CLGeocoder.GeocodeAddressString and CLGeocoder.ReverseGeocodeLocation functions.
• Changed Audit.Changed to ignore empty field names.
• Changed JSON.Replace to accept text or number as replacement and convert it to JSON internally automatically instead of returning a parsing error.
• Changed PageSetupDialog.GetLastSettings, PrintDialog.GetLastSettings and PDFKit.GetPrintLastSettings to log all text for trace log.
• Changed Text.TextToRTF function to use RTF parser from macOS/iOS and Windows for these platforms.
• Changed Trace function to not shorten texts with CURL.DebugMessages or returned error.
• Disabled syntax coloring explicitly for preferences and file option dialogs.
• Enabled auto complete for dialog to specify output file. Use Option-ESC or F5 depending on macOS version to trigger auto complete.
• Fixed a bug in our syntax check button when using fancy quotes.
• Fixed a crash in ListDialog.Sort when there is no list to sort.
• Fixed a possible crash with deactivated MBS FileMaker Plugin. Still we welcome if you keep MBS FileMaker Plugin activated in FileMaker.
• Fixed a problem in Container.Decompress function.
• Fixed a problem where relationship graph search didn't work for macOS.
• Fixed a problem with auto completion with underscore variables on macOS Sonoma.
• Fixed a problem with Command - - shortcut in FileMaker.
• Fixed a problem with SendMail.AddAttachmentContainer function where the file name included the remote: prefix for external containers.
• Fixed a problem with Socket.SendMessageHex function.
• Fixed an edge case with JSON.Replace where it didn't catch all spots.
• Fixed an issue in SQL functions where an error message would be cut on the first character improperly encoded.
• Fixed bug in Events.Item.SetTimeZone function.
• Fixed bug in StoreKit.FinishTransaction function not finding the transaction.
• Fixed headers in ListDialog functions to not show check boxes.
• Fixed Window.FindByName for Windows to not find other applications windows.
• Fixed Window.FindByName to return first matching window in case of a prefix match, not last.
• Improved calculation formatting code.
• Improved Clipboard.GetRTFText, Clipboard.GetHTMLText, Clipboard.GetStyledText and Clipboard_GetText for Windows to strip out an ending NULL character if the other application added it to the clipboard text.
• Improved copying table contextual menu command to copy checkboxes as 0 or 1.
• Improved Data Detector example to include a contextual menu routine for showing actions based on RegEx.DataDetector function.
• Improved dialog functions on macOS to show buttons with borders if you have more than three buttons.
• Improved DynaPDF.GetEmbeddedFileAsContainer to return images with preview.
• Improved font mapping for DynaPDF.WriteStyledText to better handle bold fonts.
• Improved formula formatting to keep comments on the end of the line there and better handle inline comments.
• Improved IKScannerDevicePanel.Reset to clear values set with IKScannerDevicePanel.SetDocumentName, IKScannerDevicePanel.SetScanControlLabel and IKScannerDevicePanel.SetOverviewControlLabel, too.
• Improved ImageCapture functions to connect scan dialogs with other functions. This allows you to set parameters without the GUI.
• Improved ListDialog functions to match headers with all their items if you search for them.
• Improved ListDialog functions to not show empty header lines if you filter entries.
• Improved our RTF parser for Text.TextToRTF and Clipboard.GetStyledText function.
• Improved SendMail functions to allow the creation of attachment only emails.
• Improved SQL functions to better return error messages if the ODBC driver provided them with ASCII instead of UTF16/32 encoding.
• Improved variable check to run better for smaller scripts.
• Marked path functions to be free to use.
• Updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.84.246.
• Updated dyncall library to version 1.4.
• Updated our headers for NetSNMP library.
• Updated SQLite to version 3.45.1.
• Updated to newer plugin SDK.

New in version 14.0  

More details in the Release notes and Announcement in blog.