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Troi Automatisering releases Troi Dialog Plug-in 3.1 for FileMaker Pro

Updated plug-in adds more flexibility in creating custom dynamic dialogs in FileMaker Pro.

Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands, April 2nd--Troi Automatisering today announced the immediate availability of its Troi Dialog Plug-in 3.1 for FileMaker Pro 4.0 through 5.5.

What is Troi Dialog Plug-in?

Troi Dialog Plug-in is a very powerful tool for displaying all sorts of dialogs in FileMaker Pro. The text of the dialog and of the buttons can be created dynamically by using a calculation. All from within FileMaker you can:

  • show dialogs with variable text and up to 4 buttons
  • show an input dialog to let a user input data in up to 5 fields
  • choose these input fields to be any of the following: simple text, password field, popup list or check box
  • mix these input field types as you see fit
  • pre-enter text into all input fields
  • have the results of the dialog put into fields without parsing
  • show a list dialog
  • show temporary flash screens
  • show a progress bar for lengthy operations
  • position the dialog box anywhere on the screen
  • add a standard icon or your own icons
  • set the text for the dialog title bar

Peter Baanen, company president, states: "This release 3.1 fixes a hard to find bug in the Flash Dialog function. We also added a few wishes from our customers, making it a even more powerful resource for creating flexible dialogs!"

New Features

Troi Dialog Plug-in 3.1 adds these new features and fixes:

  • added a TrDl-GetPopup function that will return the popup lists that are currently stored in the plug-in
  • added a switch to the TrDl-DoListDialog function. You can now specify the a width and height of the list dialog
  • updated the User Guide and example files
  • fixed a bug on Mac OS where the first character would not be returned when returning a button text
  • fixed a bug with the Flash Dialog which could hang the machine

Note that the last bug would only occur when a Flash Dialog was showing at the same time as the host would ask a client to close a file.

Suggested Uses

  • Give your users better and flexible feedback.
  • Show quick instructions without the user having to dismiss the dialog every time.
  • Build multi-language systems more easily.
  • Make your solutions look more professional by using your own icons and title bars in dialogs.
  • Create a small list dialog when you have only a little list and a big one if you have a big list.

Pricing & Availability

A fully functional demo version of Troi Dialog Plug-in 3.1 is available for downloading at Troi's web site at: <http://www.troi.com/software/dialogplugin.html>.

Troi Dialog Plug-in 3.1 works with FileMaker Pro 4 and later. The plug-in is available for Mac OS 8.1-9.1, for Mac OS X and Windows95/98/Me and NT/2000, and costs US $39 until May 29th, 2002, and US$ 42 per user after May 29th, 2002.
Details on developer licenses and multi-user discounts can be found on our web site. You can order licenses from our web site.

Upgrade information

Upgrading from the 3.0 version of Troi Dialog Plug-in is free. Users who bought a license for Troi Dialog Plug-in version 2.x on or after 1 May 2001 are entitled to a free upgrade. We have emailed these registered users a new registration string.

Users who bought a license for version 2.x or earlier before 1 May 2001 will need to upgrade to use the 3.1 version. Upgrading from a single user license is $10 per user. Upgrade prices for other licenses can be found on our web site. You can order upgrades from our web site.

XML formatted information

All information for this plug-in formatted in XML can be found here:

<http://www.troi.com/info/xsd/dialogplugin.xml>.

If you list our software you can use this XML data to automatically update information of this product. For more information on this and XSD (Extendable Software Description Language) look here: <http://www.troi.com/info/xsd/>.

About Troi Automatisering

Troi Automatisering is leading developer of cross platform FileMaker Pro plug-ins and winner of the FileMaker Pro Excellence Award 2001. For more information, visit our web site at:
<http://www.troi.com/>.    

Contact information  

Diana Budding,
Troi Automatisering
Vuurlaan 18
2408 NB Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands
Telephone: +31-172-426606,
Fax: +31-172-470539

Newsroom: <http://www.troi.com/news/>

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