A giant step
Congratulations to FileMaker, Inc. on the release today of version 16 of the platform.
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To do this you use the TrFile_GetIcon function. It can create icons in sizes varying from 16×16 to 1024×1024 pixels and even with double resolution for retina screens.
You can get the icon like this:
The newly released Troi Text Plug-in 4 for #FileMaker Pro 14 adds customizable (or is it customisable?) spelling functions per field. You can implement this from a calculation, for example in a script or in a calculation field. You can also ignore, learn and unlearn words, from a script.
If you regularly have to work with XML formatted data in FileMaker Pro®, getting the relevant parts of that data, and putting it into text fields can be a daunting task.
And you would probably say it is impossible to get a node of the XML out in one step as it would need a lot of script steps. But that is not the case if you use a plug-in.
Yes, it can be done!
It can be done if you install Troi Text Plug-in. This plug-in adds a function TrText_XML( ) to your arsenal of tools.
This function allows you to easily parse out a node from XML in one step! Here is the syntax of this function:
TrText_XML ("-GetNode" ; Node_to_get ; XML_data )
The function has three parameters: the first parameter specifies the action to take, in this case to get a node from the XML. The second parameter specifies which node you want to get. Finally the third parameter is the XML data you want to parse.
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If you want to meet FileMaker Plug-in makers in person: Troi Automatisering is going to the FileMaker Developer Conference in Las Vegas this year.
We will have a booth at the Product Showcase and hope to show you all the exiting new stuff we have with the Troi Plug-ins for FileMaker Pro. The FileMaker DevCon 2016 will be held July 18-21, 2016 at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, Nevada.
We hope to see you there!
With about 200 people the german developer conference is being held from 8 October until 10 Oktober.
Troi is proud sponsor of the conference. We also prepared a leaflet with our plug-ins in German:
You can the see the PDF of it here:
www.troi.com/deutsch/troi_plug-ins_fur_filemaker_pro_deutsch.pdf
Today we released an updated version of Troi File Plug-in, our plug-in for manipulating external files and folders directly from FileMaker Pro. This is a maintenance update, which has a few bugfixes and improvements in the Search, GetDate and Metadata functions. Upgrading to version 8.0.1 is free for all users of version 8.0.
More info here: www.troi.com/software/fileplugin.html
Today we released Troi File Plug-in 8.0, which adds support for 64-bit architecture with FileMaker Pro 14. We rewrote the plug-in so the TrFile_SelectFileDialog, TrFile_SelectFolderDialog and TrFile_SaveFileDialog functions are now available for you to use too.
More info here: www.troi.com/software/fileplugin.html
Receiving the data
Assume you have an external serial device connected to a (virtual) serial port on your computer. You can use a serial-USB adapter to connect to a USB port on your computer, which will then act as a virtual serial port.
To receive data from this device, first open the (virtual) serial port on your computer using the Serial_Open function. Add this script step to a ScriptMaker script:
Set Variable[ $ErrorCode; Serial_Open( "-Unused"; "COM1"; ) ]
This will open the COM1 port.
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Selecting the file
Use the TrFile_SelectFileDialog function to open up a dialog which lets the user select a file. By default all the files can be selected. If you want the user to be able to select only files with a certain extension use the TrFile_SetDefaultType function first.
To let the user select any file add these script steps to a ScriptMaker script:
Set Variable [$DontCare; TrFile_SetDefaultType( "-Unused"; "")]
Set Variable [$FilePath; TrFile_SelectFileDialog( "-Unused" ; "Please select a file.") ]
This will return the path to the file for example:
MacHD:Users:John:Documents:FinancialReport2014.xlsx
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