📣 ANN Troi releases Troi Text Plug-in 6.0 for Claris FileMaker 2024

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Text manipulation plug-in is compatible with Claris FileMaker Pro 20 and 21 and returns the text content of the clipboard.

Lienden, the Netherlands, October 10, 2024–Troi today announced the immediate availability of Troi Text Plug-in 6.0 for FileMaker Pro 17 to 21.

What is Troi Text Plug-in?

Troi Text Plug-in is a very powerful tool for dealing efficiently with text in your FileMaker Pro database. All from within FileMaker you can:

• Customize spell checking
• Quickly copy FileMaker scripts or script steps
• Parse XML text into fields
• Get (unique) lines and sort words and lines
• Combine sets from 2 text fields:
  • get all lines that are the same
  • get all lines that differ
  • and other combinations

What is new in version 6.0?

We updated Troi Text Plug-in for FileMaker 20 (2023) and 21 (2024) and made the following changes and improvements:
Improved compatibility

• Tested and made compatible with Claris FileMaker 2023 (FileMaker Pro 20)
• Tested and made compatible with Claris FileMaker 2024 (FileMaker Pro 21).
• Tested and made compatible with macOS 13 (Ventura), macOS 14 (Sonoma) and macOS 15 (Sequoia).
• Tested and made compatible with Windows 11, including Windows 11 version 23H2 (October 31, 2023).

New functionality and improvements

• Added new TrText_GetClipboardAsText function, which returns the text contents of the clipboard. This function can also return fmxmlsnippets that are on the clipboard as text. A fmxmlsnippet is XML formatted data that is put on the clipboard when you copy scripts or other structure elements of a FileMaker database.
  You can get these types of fmxmlsnippets as text:
  • Script(s) copied from Script Workspace
  • Script step(s) copied from Script Workspace
  • Field(s) copied from Manage Database
  • Table(s) copied from Manage Database
  • Value List(s) copied from Manage Value Lists
  • Layout object(s) copied from a layout.

Unicode improvements

• (macOS) When returning a text the Unicode characters are now normalized (to the NFC normal form). This means that all characters are now precomposed. For example: ö will now always be returned as one Unicode point: U+00F6 (before this could be two code points: U+006F U+0308). The FileMaker platform internally expects precomposed characters.

Startup Registration Log

• Improved the EasyInstallTroiPlugins.fmp12 example file (v1.8.8): added a script which adds the Startup Registration Log to the log field. This will get a text log of the startup registration process of the plug-in.
• Added an example script “Get Startup Registration Log of the plug-in” to Version.fmp12, which gets the text log of the startup registration of the plug-in.
• Added switch “-GetStartupRegistrationLog” to the TrText_Version function. This will return a text log of the plug-in’s registration process at startup time of FileMaker Pro. When you have problems registering the plug-in, you can see if the payment certificate was found and if a valid registration code was found.
• (macOS) modernized the code for registration and flash dialog handling.

Improved security, speed enhancements and other changes

• Improved the security in several placed and updated the source code.
• Improved the speed of the TrText_SortLines function.
• Improved memory handling in several functions, the plug-in now has less memory overhead for large texts.
• Several small bug fixes and improvements
• IMPORTANT The minimum supported FileMaker version is now FileMaker Pro 17. Also the minimum supported macOS version is now macOS 11 (Big Sur). For Windows the minimum supported version is Windows 10.

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

Pricing & availability

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

Licenses cost US$ 59 per user. Details on developer licenses and multi-user discounts can be found on the Text Plug-in page. You can order licenses from our shop.

Upgrade information

Version 6.0 needs a new registration. The upgrade is free for users who bought a license for Troi Text Plug-in on or after October 1, 2023. Eligible users will be sent a new registration. Contact us if you have not received yours after October 14, 2024.

Upgrades from licenses bought before October 1, 2023 are available from US$ 39 per user. Upgrade prices for other licenses can be found in the shop. You can order upgrades there.