Troi releases Troi Serial Plug-in 6.0 for FileMaker Pro 18

September 4, 20196 yr

Serial port plug-in updated for FileMaker 18

Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands, September 4, 2019–Troi today announced the immediate availability of Troi Serial Plug-in 6.0 for FileMaker Pro 18.

Peter Baanen, company president, states: “With the rise of the Internet of Things it’s amazing that the Serial Port Interface is still used in a lot of hardware or virtually over USB. We are proud to make connecting FileMaker Pro to the serial world even easier.”

What is Troi Serial Plug-in?

Troi Serial Plug-in gives FileMaker Pro easy and powerful access to external devices with a serial interface:

read from and write to the (virtual) serial ports of the computer directly from FileMaker Pro without the need of a separate application
native FileMaker script triggering, to get incoming data into the database
“Suspend/Resume Serial Port” script step to temporarily suspend the incoming data stream and resume it when you are interested in the data
“Wait for Match” function to wait for a specific text before triggering
the possibility to open an unlimited number of serial ports and to trigger different scripts for different ports

What is new in version 6.0?

Troi Serial Plug-in 6.0 has the following changes:

Tested and made compatible with FileMaker Pro 18 and FileMaker Pro 17.0.7.
Improved the Open Serial Port script step and the Serial_Open function. You can now easily specify a match string as an optional parameter. In that case the plug-in will wait to trigger a script until the incoming data contains the match string.
Added an extra Switches parameter to the Receive Serial Data script step, allowing to specify advanced switches.
Significantly improved the Terminal.fmp12 example file, it is now optimized for FileMaker Pro 16 to 18 and demonstrates the more advanced features of Troi Serial Plug-in 6.
(macOS) Improved the Open Serial Port script step and the Serial_Open function: when reopening the port existing data still in the buffer of the operating system is now flushed. This prevents receiving stale data.

Troi Serial Plug-in 6.0 also has the following improvements:

Renamed the “Set Serial Dispatch Script” step to Set Serial Trigger Script.
Fixed a possible crash when shutting down the plug-in or disabling it in the preferences, which could sometimes occur if you had several serial ports still open when stopping FileMaker Pro.
(macOS) Fixed a potential memory leak in the Open Serial Port script step and the Serial_Open function. Also improved the Serial_Open function: when a serial port is in use the plug-in now returns the expected error code $$-97 (portInUse) instead of $$16.
Fixed a possible crash in the Receive Serial Data script step with the parameter Encoding set to UTF-8: when receiving data which contains an invalid UTF-8 character sequence the plug-in no longer crashes, but will now indicate the invalid UTF-8 characters with the string <INVALID UTF8>.
Modernized the Regifunc.fmp12 and EasyInstallTroiPlugins.fmp12 example files.

More detailed information on all changes and improvements implemented in Troi Serial Plug-in 6.0 can be found on the Serial Plug-in page.

Pricing & Availability

A fully functional demo version of Troi Serial Plug-in 6.0 is available on the Serial Plug-in page.

A cross platform developer license costs US$ 999. Details can be found on the Serial Plug-in page. You can order licenses there or from our shop.

Upgrade information

Version 6.0 uses a new v6 registration code. The upgrade is free for users who bought a license for Troi Serial Plug-in on or after August 6, 2018. Eligible users will be sent a new v6 registration. Contact us if you have not received yours after September 5, 2019.

Upgrades from a cross platform developer license bought before August 6, 2018 are available from US$ 399. You can order upgrades from the Serial Plug-in page or from our shop.

Troi Serial Plug-in 6.0 for FileMaker Pro 18

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