Release notes for version 13.5 - November 2023

New functions in 13.5 and Announcement in blog.

13.5 - 7th November 2023

• Added calculation formatting function with ƒ button for custom function and calculation dialogs.
• Added JSON.Query function for JSON Path queries.
• Added JSON.Replace to replace within a JSON.
• Added JSON.Search to perform JMESPath queries in FileMaker.
• Added support for having checkboxes in a list dialog for ListDialog functions.
• Added "DefaultPDFA4" flag for DynaPDF.CheckConformance function.
• Added "PDF/A 4", "PDF/A 4e" and "PDF/A 4f" conformation types for DynaPDF.CheckConformance function.
• Added Command-Option-Shift-C to calculation text field for macOS to copy text with formatting as html:
  • Command-C: Copy as text
  • Command-Option-C: Copy as styled text
  • Command-Option-Shift-C: Copy as HTML
• Added Command-Shift-F shortcut to show find & replace interface in calculation text field.
• Added DynaPDF.CreateGeospatialMeasure function.
• Added Files.IsApplication and Files.IsPackage functions.
• Added Flags Parameter for Matrix.HTML function.
• Added Flags Parmeter for Matrix.Evaluate. Pass 2 to continue after error.
• Added functions to work with reaction effects on macOS 14 and iOS 17 with AVRecorder: AVRecorder.AvailableReactionTypes, AVRecorder.CanPerformReactionEffects, AVRecorder.PerformEffectForReaction, AVRecorder.ReactionEffectGesturesEnabled and AVRecorder.ReactionEffectsEnabled functions.
• Added goto: and script: for comment URLs in script workspace to quickly jump to lines or scripts.
• Added highlight support for Text.TextToHTML function.
• Added IsApplication and IsPackage for Files.ListAsJSON function.
• Added Matrix.Lookup function to get a value without error for invalid parameters.
• Added MongoDB Audit.fmp12 example file.
• Added new flags 512 to ignore duplicates (with FileMaker's validation) and 1024 to not create UUID fields to XML.Import and JSON.Import functions.
• Added PDF/A 4, PDF/A 4e and PDF/A 4f for DynaPDF.SetPDFVersion function.
• Added Phidget.ClearScriptTrigger function.
• Added Plugin.ObjectCounts and Plugin.UsedFunctionCounts function.
• Added Preview.SetFocus function.
• Added SkaleAnnotIcons flag for DynaPDF.SetGStateFlags function.
• Added Window.AddToTaskbar and Window.RemoveFromTaskbar functions.
• Added Window.Parent function.
• Added XML.Import.GetExtraFieldDefinitions and XML.Import.SetExtraFieldDefinitions functions to create custom fields.
• Changed AVRecorder.Release to stop session if it is running.
• Changed DynaPDF.Table.SetFont to have Style, Embed and CodePage parameters be optional with default style, embed = 1 and CodePage = Unicode.
• Changed ListDialog.ShowDialog to allow two line prompt line.
• Changed SQL functions, so you can load Actual Tech ODBC drivers directly without using iODBC.
• Changed XL.Sheet.CellReadStyledText function to fall back to XL.Sheet.CellReadText for non styled cells.
• Enabled fortified source checks for libc on Linux.
• Enabled support for WebP pictures to GraphicsMagick functions for macOS ARM target.
• Enabled WindowsOCR functions for server usage.
• Fixed a problem with AVRecorder.AddPreviewWithControl and AVRecorder.StartRecording functions when they returned OK instead of the error.
• Fixed a problem with AVRecorder.AddPreviewWithControl picking wrong window if layout and window had same name.
• Fixed an edge case for shifting formula text left.
• Fixed an exception in syntax coloring for empty texts.
• Fixed an issue with RtlProcessFlsData crashing on Windows.
• Fixed an issue with WebHook functions and HTTP headers sent in chunks.
• Fixed error message for Text.FileExtensionToMimeType function.
• Fixed Files.ListAsJSON function to not filter invisible files on macOS without asked to do that.
• Fixed find bar in data viewer for the case you got actually two of them.
• Fixed font for ListDialog's filter to make it bigger.
• Fixed OpenSSL to not depend on GLIBC_2.25, so you can use our plugin on older linux versions again.
• Fixed plugin not loading on macOS 10.13.
• Fixed problem with ListDialog functions on Windows.
• Fixed Shell.Terminate for Windows to work better.
• Fixed XML.Import.ErrorCount and XML.Import.Errors to work better.
• Improved IKDeviceBrowserPanel.Show and IKScannerDevicePanel.Show functions to internally call ImageCapture.Initialize if needed.
• Improved Matrix.Evaluate and Matrix.Current to work better in multi threading environments.
• Improved syntax coloring to recognize variable names in calculation comments, if a comment color and variable color is defined.
• Improved SystemInfo.OSVersionString, SystemInfo.MacMajorVersion and SystemInfo.MacMinorVersion to return Ubuntu version on Linux.
• Improved variable check to recognize /* or // @var $test or similar in front of Let statements to define new variables in a comment. Works with @constant, @variable or @parameter like normal comments and with multiple variables.
• Rewrote script triggers for Phidget functions to not queue up too many scripts.
• Updated CURL to version 8.4.0.
• Updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.80.232.
• Updated SQLAPI to version 5.2.6.
• Updated SQLite to version 3.44.0.
• Updated to Xcode 15.0.

New in version 13.4   New in version 14.0

More details in the Release notes and Announcement in blog.