Advanced self-generated plug-ins

[john renfrew]

Sorry guys. Great work but I am not getting stuff from the documentation.

Can you tell me about how SMRegister ( licenseKey; registeredTo ) is supposed to work, where I use it and what it does.

Does it need to be internet connected? What about machines that are completely stand-alone??

[Jesse Barnum]

The only time you use this function is with a generated plugin, and in that case it will not be named SMRegister, it will be named xxxRegister, where 'xxx' is whatever you specify as the prefix for built-in functions when you generate the plugin.

Although generating a new plugin requires an internet connection, once you've done this step you no longer need an internet connection to register or use the generated plugin. It will work fine on stand-alone machines.

Put it in the startup script of your solution. Without it, your generated plugins will run for 2 hours every time FileMaker is launched. Once you call the register function, the generated plugin will no longer time out.

Please let me know whether this answers your questions.

[john renfrew]

Perfect explanation, and it works (obviously), thank you very much.