24U SimpleDialog Plug-In 5.0

This ReadMe file contains some important information about 24U SimpleDialog Plug-In, such as system requirements, installation guide, quick start, troubleshooting, license notice, contact information, and copyright statement.
 


Introduction

24U SimpleDialog Plug-In is a FileMaker Pro plug-in. It allows your FileMaker Pro databases to display dialog boxes with text prompts, text fields, password fields, check boxes, radio buttons, pop-up menus and pictures based on real-time data from your database. You can use this plug-in to prompt user for required data input just the same way you are used to work with the built-in Show Custom Dialog script step. Starting with the version 2.0 you can also display progress dialogs to indicate work progress to user.


     

System requirements

Recommended configuration:

Mac OS X: Any Intel Mac, 4 GB RAM, Mac OS X 10.10, FileMaker Pro 14 Advanced.

Windows: 1.6 GHz processor, 4 GB RAM, Windows 7 or newer, FileMaker Pro 14 Advanced.

Minimum requirements:

Mac OS X: Any Intel Mac, 2 GB RAM, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, FileMaker Pro 12 or newer.

Windows: 1 GHz processor, 1 GB RAM, Windows XP SP3, FileMaker Pro 12 or newer.

Installation for FileMaker Pro

To install 24U SimpleDialog Plug-In, follow these steps:

  1. If you did not do this yet, download and open the 24U SimpleDialog Plug-In distribution archive.
  2. To install the plug-in, copy its binary file into Extensions directory. If you are not sure where the binary should be placed, see UsingFMPlugIns.html
  3. Restart or start the FileMaker Pro.
  4. The plug-in should be visible in the "Plug-Ins" preference pane inside FileMaker Pro preferences (Mac OS X) / Edit -> Preferences (Windows).

Quick Start

If you are new to FileMaker plug-ins, start by checking the UsingFMPlugIns.html file inside the Documentation folder. It briefly explains what plug-ins are, why they are useful, and how they are usually used.

To learn how to use this plug-in it is recommended to open the SimpleDialogTutorial.fp7 tutorial from Documentation folder.

Troubleshooting

Before you contact our technical support regarding problems or difficulties using 24U SimpleDialog Plug-In, please check if your issue is not listed below:

Italic font style does not work on Mac OS X
Standard Mac OS X dialog font does not support italic style. You must explicitly define text font which supports italic style using TextFont function.

Initialization error: Duplicate plug-in binary on Mac OS X
24U SimpleDialog Plug-In 3.x used incompatible indexing for field "menu". Menu indexing has been 0-based (0 first line, 1 second line...) in version 3.x. This has been changed in version 4.0 to 1-based indexing (1 first line, 2 second line...). Solutions which used 0-based indexing must be changed to 1-based indexing. The only compatible number is 0 - it means the first line in both cases.
In 3.x the menu also supported line separators (character "-" placed alone in single line) but separators had indexes. In 4.0 menu separators are not counted to indexing. For example SDialog_Get function will return the same index regardless how many separators you add or remove from the menu.

SDialog_InputDialog returns a non-zero number as its result
If some SimpleDialog function fails, it will return a non-zero error code as its result. This can be caused by a system error, but more likely the reason will be an incorrectly specified dialog definition.
There is short list of possible error codes:

Plug-In is not visible in the FileMaker Pro
Check if the plug-in binary is present in the one of "Extensions" folders of the FileMaker Pro.

All plug-in functions return an "?" as a result
The 24U SimpleDialog Plug-In is probably not installed or deactivated in your application preferences. Open the Application Preferences from the Edit menu, click on the "Plug-Ins" tab, and make sure that 24U SimpleDialog Plug-In is there and that it is enabled.

If your problem is not listed above or if the recommended solution does not work for you, please contact our technical support at http://www.24uSoftware.com/support.php for assistance.

Shareware Notice

Please note that 24U SimpleDialog Plug-In is SHAREWARE. That means it is not free and you have to pay a license fee if you want to keep it. You can install 24U SimpleDialog Plug-In and try it out for the period of 14 days. After this period, 24U SimpleDialog Plug-In can stop working and require a registration code. You will get your registration code after you pay for your license.

You can freely distribute 24U SimpleDialog Plug-In as long as you distribute the original compacted archive untouched and you don't charge money for the distribution. If you want to distribute 24U SimpleDialog Plug-In on a physical medium, such as CD-ROM, or if you want to distribute it in other form than the original compacted archive, you must ask for our permission. If you are a solution developer and want to bundle 24U SimpleDialog Plug-In with your products please contact 24U Software.

Please find detailed registration instructions in the file named "HowToRegister.html".

You can find detailed license terms in the file named "24U Software License Agreement.pdf". Individual license types are described in the file named "HowToRegister.html".

Contact Information

You can contact us at one of the following addresses. We prefer being contacted via e-mail, but you can use any other method if e-mail is not good enough for you.

E-mail:   info@24uSoftware.com   general information about our products and our company
eval@24uSoftware.com free evaluation codes registration
sales@24uSoftware.com paid licenses ordering and registration
support@24uSoftware.com technical support and bug reports
 
WWW: http://www.24uSoftware.com/
 
Phone: +420-224 910 892
Fax: +420-242 487 778
 
Snail mail: 24U Software
Skochovická 88
252 45  Zvole u Prahy
Czech Republic


24U Software
The software 24U SimpleDialog Plug-In is copyright ©2001-2015 24U Software. All rights reserved.
Portions of the software are © 1984-2015 FileMaker, Inc. All rights reserved.