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This free utility can now auto-update old-style (FileMaker 6 compatible) plug-ins in FileMaker 7 and 8. Wednesday, October 5, 2005-- 24U Software released update of 24U Plug-In AutoInstaller to version 2.1, finally bringing support for auto-updating old-style plug-ins in FileMaker 7 and 8 on Mac OS X. What is new in the version 2.1? - Support for updating old-style plug-ins on Mac OS X - Updated for FileMaker Pro 8 and FileMaker Server 8 - Updated for latest 24U Software plug-ins - Minor fixes and improvements What is 24U Plug-In AutoInstaller? 24U Plug-In AutoInstaller simplifies automated installation, registration, and updates of FileMaker plug-ins from FileMaker Server by providing all necessary scripts ready to use. Primary features of 24U Plug-In AutoInstaller: - Simplifies automated update/installation of plug-ins in networked solutions - Requires absolutely no script editing to install all your plug-ins - Automatically registers (unlocks) all your plug-ins with serial numbers - Lets you to specify both minimum and maximum required version - Simple configuration for all plug-ins, all features, and all platforms - Pre-configured for auto-installing 24U Software plug-ins - Compatible with FileMaker Server 7 and 8 More info: Download: 24U Plug-In AutoInstaller is freeware! 24U Software offers solutions for people, not for computers! Since 2000 24U Software has been committed to production of easy to use software that makes working and developing with FileMaker and AppleScript faster, simpler and cheaper. ISO 9001:2000 certified for design, development, customization and implementation of software.

Tuesday, September 20, 2005 Today, 24U Software launches a new web site section focused on Tips & Tricks for FileMaker users and solution developers. Learn how to add better user interfaces to your FileMaker solutions quickly and easily. This year, 24U celebrates its 5th anniversary and the new web page is our second special present to you for our birthday. Starting with four examples for FileMaker 8's new features (presented at DevCon 2005), 24U is going to publish more user interface tips and tricks in the future. Because even the best database solution with poor user interface will always be less popular than the worst solution with a good user interface... Go to: http://www.24uSoftware.com/tricks The following three focused collections of tricks are immediately available at the new Tips & Tricks page: Tooltips FileMaker Pro 8 Advanced include built-in support for defining tooltips. There is currently no excuse for not using tooltips in your solutions. See some approaches how to simplify implementation and management of tooltips in your databases. Featured tricks include: - Implementing and managing multilingual tooltips - Storing tooltips in variable arrays or dynamically named variables - Switching between multiple languages or tooltip sets - Accessing related data via the GetNthRecord function More info: http://www.24usoftware.com/Tooltips Download free example: http://www.24usoftware.com/Tooltips#download Portals Not all things you would like to do with portals have natural support in FileMaker Pro, or if they have it may not be obvious how you are supposed to implement them. Our tips & tricks may help you to push the limits of FileMaker portals. Featured tricks include: - Horizontal portal (records in columns instead of rows) - Matrix portal (spreadsheet-like view of related records) More info: http://www.24usoftware.com/Portals Download free example: http://www.24usoftware.com/Portals#download Tab Control FileMaker Pro 8 introduced a new layout object type called Tab Control. I is a great space saver, but seems to be under full control of user, not developer. Our examples give the control back to developers. Featured tricks include: - Dynamically calculated tab names - Go to Tab by script (with dynymically calculated target tab number) - Get ( ActiveTabNumber ) - Unlimited nesting of tab controls to save even more space More info: http://www.24usoftware.com/TabControl Download free example: http://www.24usoftware.com/TabControl#download Other birthday presents coming soon. Keep watching the web... 24U Software offers solutions for people, not for computers! Since 2000 24U Software has been committed to production of easy to use software that makes working and developing with FileMaker and AppleScript faster, simpler and cheaper. ISO 9001:2000 certified for design, development, customization and implementation of software.

24U Software announces Public Beta version of 24U SimpleTalk Plug-In. This plug-in allows FileMaker Pro to communicate with user, another FileMaker Pro, and other applications via TCP/IP. Primary features: - act as server, waiting for a TCP/IP connection from a client app/computer - run a script on demand from the client app/computer - evaluate a calculation on demand from the client app/computer - perform custom commands/actions depending on received data - act as client - connect to a server, send commands, wait for responses - talk to another instance of itself via TCP/IP - let users connect via Telnet and run a script or evaluate a calc More info: http://www.24usoftware.com/SimpleTalk Download: http://www.24usoftware.com/SimpleTalk#download Prices of 24U SimpleTalk Plug-In! 24U SimpleFile Plug-In will sell for $57 for 1 user ($449 Developer license). 24U Software will be accepting pre-orders for a discounted price of $46 for 1 user ($359 Developer license). 24U Software offers solutions for people, not for computers!

24U Software announces Public Beta version of 24U SimpleFile Plug-In. This file management plug-in for FileMaker Pro allows you to create, delete, copy, move, rename, read and edit all your files and folders directly from your databases. Primary functions: - creating files and folders - deleting files and folders (including complete contents) - copying files and folders (including complete contents) - moving files and folders (including complete contents) - renaming files and folders - checking kind of items (file/folder/not found) - checking size of files and folders (data fork/resource fork/file/folder) - checking and setting creation and modification date & time - checking and setting file/folder privileges - choosing file, folder and new file name via system dialog - reading folders (list of items) - reading files (whole contents or part) - writing files (whole, append, modify) - support for full and relative paths (cross-platform) - FileMaker 7 native - 100% Unicode More info: http://www.24usoftware.com/SimpleFile Download: http://www.24usoftware.com/SimpleFile#download Limited functionality is also available for FileMaker 4-6 as bonus 24U SimpleFile Plug-In 0.1 included for free with 24U SimpleFile Plug-In 1.0. Prices of 24U SimpleFile Plug-In! 24U SimpleFile Plug-In will sell for $48 for 1 user ($371 Developer license). 24U Software will be accepting pre-orders for a discounted price of $37 for 1 user ($297 Developer license). 24U Software offers solutions for people, not for computers!

Monday, April 12, 2005 24U Software has released version 1.1 of 24U SimpleHighlight Plug-In, the plug-in for highlighting text and rectangular areas with a user-defined color. This update brings support for transparency, source code for CodeWarrior, Visual Studio and XCode, and a few more improvements. This version is an update to the copy distributed with FileMaker Developer 7. What is new in the version 1.1? - Based on 24U FM Template 2.1 - Added project for Visual Studio .NET 2003 - Added project for CodeWarrior 9.4 - Added project for XCode 1.1 and 1.5 - X24uL_Highlight accepts color and style as optional parameters - X24uL_Highlight preserves original style of every single character - X24uL_SolidColor has new optional parameter to specify an opacity - X24uL_SolidColor now expects color as a result of the RGB function for consistency with FileMaker's built-in functions - X24uL_SolidColor now does not generate an unwanted gradient on Windows, the issue is solved by generating PICT instead of GIF - More C++ example functions for container data generation in X24uL_SolidColor More info: http://www.24usoftware.com/SimpleHighlight Download: http://www.24usoftware.com/SimpleHighlight#download What is 24U SimpleHighlight Plug-In? 24U SimpleHighlight Plug-In is a sample FileMaker Plug-In project based on 24U FM Template 2.0. It was created thanks to the collaboration of 24U Software and New Millennium Communications, Inc., and is available for download, including source code, from both companies. It implements two color highlighting functions: - X24uL_Highlight finds all occurrences of a search string in a text and highlights them with color and/or style as defined either in Preferences or via function parameters. Previous formatting of the text is preserved. - X24uL_SolidColor generates a color rectangle using color, and optionally also opacity, specified in the function parameters. The resulting image can be placed directly into a container field via the plug-in. 24U SimpleHighlight is freeware! 24U Software offers solutions for people, not for computers! Since 2000 24U Software has been committed to production of easy to use software that makes working and developing with FileMaker and AppleScript faster, simpler and cheaper. ISO 9001:2000 certified for design, development, customization and implementation of software.

Monday, March 14, 2005 Today, 24U Software announces an update of 24U FM Template, the ultimate template for building FileMaker 7 native plug-ins. The new version 2.1 is an update to the copy distributed with FileMaker Developer 7. What is new in the version 2.1: - Added project for CodeWarrior 9.4 - Added project for Xcode 1.5 - Added project for Xcode 1.1 - Added project for MS Visual Studio .NET 2003 - Added 24U plist compiler to substitute CodeWarrior's property list compiler which is not available in Xcode - Several minor improvements... More info: http://www.24usoftware.com/FMTemplate Download: http://www.24usoftware.com/FMTemplate#download What is 24U FM Template? This product is a template project for developing FileMaker Pro external function plug-ins using popular development environments. It is intended for beginning plug-in developers as well as for experienced developers who don't want to spend too much time configuring parts of the External Function Plug-In API, but want to concentrate on developing new functionality for FileMaker Pro. The 24U FM Template 2 was created thanks to the collaboration of 24U Software and New Millennium Communications, Inc., and is available for download from both companies. The primary features: - Single point of configuration - Ability to build single-file cross-platform plug-ins (version 1.1 only) - Pre-configured version function - Detailed comments in all user-editable files - Easily readable compact code - Pre-configured special targets for debugging - Ready-to-use project files for popular development environments - Detailed description of the template's contents 24U FM Template is freeware! 24U Software offers solutions for people, not for computers!

Monday, March 14, 2005 Today, 24U Software announces an update of 24U FM Template, the ultimate template for building FileMaker 7 native plug-ins. The new version 2.1 is an update to the copy distributed with FileMaker Developer 7. What is new in the version 2.1: - Added project for CodeWarrior 9.4 - Added project for Xcode 1.5 - Added project for Xcode 1.1 - Added project for MS Visual Studio .NET 2003 - Added 24U plist compiler to substitute CodeWarrior's property list compiler which is not available in Xcode - Several minor improvements... More info: http://www.24usoftware.com/FMTemplate Download: http://www.24usoftware.com/FMTemplate#download What is 24U FM Template? This product is a template project for developing FileMaker Pro external function plug-ins using popular development environments. It is intended for beginning plug-in developers as well as for experienced developers who don't want to spend too much time configuring parts of the External Function Plug-In API, but want to concentrate on developing new functionality for FileMaker Pro. The 24U FM Template 2 was created thanks to the collaboration of 24U Software and New Millennium Communications, Inc., and is available for download from both companies. The primary features: - Single point of configuration - Ability to build single-file cross-platform plug-ins (version 1.1 only) - Pre-configured version function - Detailed comments in all user-editable files - Easily readable compact code - Pre-configured special targets for debugging - Ready-to-use project files for popular development environments - Detailed description of the template's contents 24U FM Template is freeware! 24U Software offers solutions for people, not for computers!

Monday, March 14, 2005 Today, 24U Software announces an update of 24U FM Template, the ultimate template for building FileMaker 7 native plug-ins. The new version 2.1 is an update to the copy distributed with FileMaker Developer 7. What is new in the version 2.1: - Added project for CodeWarrior 9.4 - Added project for Xcode 1.5 - Added project for Xcode 1.1 - Added project for MS Visual Studio .NET 2003 - Added 24U plist compiler to substitute CodeWarrior's property list compiler which is not available in Xcode - Several minor improvements... More info: http://www.24usoftware.com/FMTemplate Download: http://www.24usoftware.com/FMTemplate#download What is 24U FM Template? This product is a template project for developing FileMaker Pro external function plug-ins using popular development environments. It is intended for beginning plug-in developers as well as for experienced developers who don't want to spend too much time configuring parts of the External Function Plug-In API, but want to concentrate on developing new functionality for FileMaker Pro. The 24U FM Template 2 was created thanks to the collaboration of 24U Software and New Millennium Communications, Inc., and is available for download from both companies. The primary features: - Single point of configuration - Ability to build single-file cross-platform plug-ins (version 1.1 only) - Pre-configured version function - Detailed comments in all user-editable files - Easily readable compact code - Pre-configured special targets for debugging - Ready-to-use project files for popular development environments - Detailed description of the template's contents 24U FM Template is freeware! 24U Software offers solutions for people, not for computers!