Troi Automatisering releases Troi Dialog Plug-in 3.5.1
for FileMaker Pro
Updated cross platform plug-in adds unrivalled
flexibility in creating custom dynamic dialogs in FileMaker
Pro.
Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands, November 10th,
2003--Troi Automatisering today announced the immediate
availability of its Troi Dialog Plug-in 3.5.1 for FileMaker
Pro 6.
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 9 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
What is fixed in version 3.5.1?
Troi Dialog Plug-in 3.5.1 is a maintenance release. This
release does not bring new functions. It has these
fixes:
- Fixed a bug where after a TrDl-InputDialog an older
result could be returned with TrDl-GetInput.
- Improved TrDl-InputDialog: paste now works in
bulleted input fields. And we fixed a bug: Copy and Paste
now works in the input fields.
- You can now remove an empty line at the end from all
next list dialogs.
- Fixed a bug in TrDl-ListDialog with blank lines: when
the preselection string is an empty string now no
preselection is made (instead of the first blank line in
the list).
- In the TrDl-ListDialog function: any return character
in the items of a list now will be replaced by an
underscore: "_".
- Improved "TrDl-SetPosition" function: You no longer
will see a white area in the database window if you give
a dialog a different position and different size.
- Added a note and workaround in the Delay.fp5 example,
about TrDl-DelayTicks and Mac OS X: There is a problem
where FileMaker does not update the screen after a
TrDl-DelayTicks step.
New Features introduced in version 3.5
Troi Dialog Plug-in 3.5.1 has the same features as
version 3.5, which added these new features:
- added a big input dialog function in which the user
can enter a long text (up to the FileMaker limit of 64000
characters)
- improved the InputDialog function significantly: you
can now have up to 9 input fields!
- added possibility to preload bulleted fields in the
InputDialog
Furthermore we improved the list dialog
significantly:
- you can now use GetButton and GetInput functions with
the list dialog function
- added possibility to get out of a list dialog by
pressing the escape key
- you can now press a letter to select an item
beginning with that letter in the list dialog. If the
user presses the same letter again, the next occurrence
is selected. When there are no more occurrences the first
one is selected again
- added possibility to preselect an item from the list
in the list dialog function
More improvements and fixes:
- the progress bar function is improved; it can handle
bigger numbers and you can change the time of automatic
removal of the window, and on Windows you can now also
show a barber pole style dialog
- the flash dialog can display icons (even your
own)
- fixed the tab order of input dialogs on Windows to
always run from top to bottom
- fixed the DoDialog function to retrieve higher ASCIIs
correctly with the GetInput function
Suggested Uses
- give your users better and flexible feedback
- show quick instructions without the user having to
dismiss the dialog
- 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
- control the way users type in data: You can, for
example, let them type more than 10 and less than 40
characters
Pricing & Availability
A fully functional demo version of Troi Dialog Plug-in
3.5.1 is available for downloading at Troi's web site at:
<http://www.troi.com/software/dialogplugin.html>.
Troi Dialog Plug-in 3.5.1 works with FileMaker Pro 6 and
FileMaker Pro 5.x. The plug-in is available for Mac OS
version 9.1 through Mac OS 9.2.2, Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
and Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0 (Service Pack 6),
Windows 2000 or Windows XP.
Licenses cost US$ 49 per user. 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
The update is free for all users of version 3.5. The
3.5.1 version works with the 3.5 registration string. Users
who bought a license for Troi Dialog Plug-in version 3.x on
or after 1 March 2003 are entitled to a free upgrade. We
have emailed these registered users a new registration
string. Please email us if you have not received a new
registration string
Users who bought a license for version 3.x or earlier
before 1 March 2003 will need to upgrade to use the 3.5.1
version. Upgrading from a single user license is $19 per
user. Upgrade prices for other licenses can be found on our
web site. You can order upgrades from our web site.
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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