This is a brief history of important changes across released versions.

6.0.6

• Support for Apple Silicon/M1 processors

6.0.5

• Fixed issue causing crash when selecting items from Drop Down menu too fast
• Minor performance and FileMaker 19 compatibility improvements

6.0.4

• Plugin works with FileMaker 14

6.0.3

• Updated license handling/and activation for eSellerate end-of-life
• Minor performance and FileMaker 18 compatibility improvements

6.0.2

• Plug-in binaries for Mac, Windows, and iOS are now code-signed

6.0.1

• Fixed issue causing crash on macOS 10.13 High Sierra
• Size of a dialog is now calculated from the screen size, not from the size of the FileMaker window

6.0

• Creating of dialogs improved on Windows version of Plu-In to suit change in FileMaker Pro 16 (All document windows are independent with its own menu)
• Added support for Native iOS FileMaker® Go applications
• Progress dialog with Pause/Resume and Cancel buttons
• Behaviour of parameter "minlines" documented
• SDialog_SetCalculation example added
• Windows: Dialogs losing focus on 64 bit fixed
• Windows: Message text doesn't fit to dialog on Windows 8 fixed
• Mac OS X: Mixed checkboxes now work

5.0.6

• Fixed issue causing crash on macOS 10.13 High Sierra

5.0.5

• Size of dialog is now calculated from size of screen, not size of FM window

5.0.4

• Fixed behaviour of dialog, when more FM windows are opened
• Fixed behaviour of ProgressDialog
• Fixed updating plugin using FM script step

5.0.3

• Fixed issue causing FM to forget successful registration on Windows 10

5.0.2

• Fixed behaviour of pressing ESC or Enter key for closing dialog

5.0.1

• Registration dialogs enabled in Runtime solutions
• Windows: Fixed 64bit plug-in issue that caused dialogs to lose focus
• Mac OS X: Minimum OS X version updated to 10.8
• Mac OS X: Registration dialog now supports Copy/Paste

5.0

• 64bit support added
• Mac OS X: Potential plug-in collisions removed

4.1.2

• Security issue regarding serial numbers fixed

4.1.1

• Error 2448 is returned if the plugin is installed in multiple extension directories
• Dialog labels fonts are set to OS default font if no font is set in FileMaker Pro text field
• Windows: Pressing Tab, ESC and Enter key does not cause a system beep
• Windows: Wrong focus in dialogs with caption is fixed
• Windows: Empty list contains as many empty lines as specified in minlines

4.1

• Full support for FM text styles in the plug-in fields (except color in Windows)
• Incr parameter alone increments progress by one
• Correct text alignment of titles for pop-up menu
• SetCalculation works with list field with one line
• Empty list field does not crash FileMaker Pro
• Progress dialog does not return to original position after each update
• FileMaker Pro does not crash when you try to close it with opened progress dialogs
• Progress dialogs closing fixed
• Plug-In does not slow down after registration
• Default and cancel status can be set on one button
• Mac OS X: The list field always shows all lines from ValueList
• Mac OS X: SetCalculation calculation is able to modify textarea field
• Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, PowerPC: The plug-in does not crash.
• Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: List fields are not narrow when overlapping scroll bars are used
• Windows: Pop-Up menu is drawn correctly with black font and separators
• Windows: InputDialog does not crash if font size is 150%
• Windows: Password fields has correct height in all situations
• Windows: Cursor remains in correct position when calculation modifies the field
• Windows: ESC key closes dialog windows
• Windows: Progress dialog is not "always on top". It is on top of standard FM Windows
• Windows: Dialog is shown in the same screen the main FM window is

4.0.1

• List field does not show garbage on Mac OS X
• List field correctly shows empty lines on Windows
• List field is no longer sorted on Windows
• Correct CR line endings are returned from multi line text on Mac OS X
• SDialog_SetCalculation properly handles field titles
• SDialog_Version function is no longer case sensitive
• List field automatically scrolls to selected line if it is not visible
• Parameter "lines" works correctly with the List field
• Any field type can be used as CurrentValue parameter in InputDialog
• Second input dialog opened fast after the first one does not cause the first one to remain on screen
• Opened progress windows no longer block FileMaker Pro from quitting

4.0

• Rewritten to work natively in FileMaker Pro 11 on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and Windows 7
• New dialog field type: list can be used to offer selection to the user
• FileMaker Pro styles can be used to enhance dialog readability
• Dialogs can be updated on the fly
• Validations work for all field types (text areas, pop-up menus)
• Progress dialog has been fixed so it does not block script debugger
• There is no frame around custom picture / icon on Mac OS X
• Improved stability when using progress dialog actions "incr" and "update"
• Pop-up menu indexing changed from 0-based to 1-based

3.1.1

• Several fixes in serial numbers mechanism
• Fixed Windows buttons look

3.1

• New URL Link field can be used to direct users to your web pages directly from dialog
• Pop-up menu now have custom value IDs to better distinguish between menu items
• Default and cancel buttons can be set
• Calling a Wait function now automatically refresh progress bar
• Default pop-up menu item is shown even it is not inside the value list
• TextArea field can have more than 12 lines
• Checkbox can be checked by keyboard on Mac OS X
• Custom functions now work inside FileMaker validations of fields
• TextArea can copy, cut, paste on Mac OS X

3.0.3

• Repairs pop-up menu bug in Windows

3.0.2

• Important bugfixes and stability improvements focused on Windows platform

3.0

• Static text and separators improve readability of your dialogs
• Multi-line text area field can be used to edit long text
• Dialog may take icon from a container field (any size)
• Dialog look can be enhanced by picture from a container field
• Text fields can be validated by calculations
• Custom message box can be displayed after unsuccessful validation
• More dialog parameters can be obtained from Get function
• Progress Dialog can pause execution of your script for specified time interval
• Initial active dialog field can be set

2.8.1

• Runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel based Macs
• Works with FileMaker Pro 7.0, 8.0 and 8.5

2.8

• FileMaker Pro 7 Native
• Full Unicode support
• Better performance on Windows
• Ability to return values instead of text from dialogs

2.7.2

• support for FileMaker Pro 8 added
• western accentuated characters are displayed correctly in FM7 Pro and FM8 Pro on Windows

2.7.1

• progress dialog messages now can contain pipes ("|")
• added database of real-world examples of regular expressions
• last dialog's values can be cleared on demand for better security
• fixed text encoding for directly accessed value lists (FileMaker 6 and older)
• attempt to validate national characters with regexp does not crash any more
• pop-up menu now selects correct default value on Windows even if there are similar values
• 24U SimpleDialog Utility now generates correct number of braces
• single registration code generated for all plug-ins in a pack is now recognized

2.7

• the plug-in is now fully functional in FileMaker 7 except for foreign languages
• initialization and registration of the plug-in is much faster now
• spacing between popup and buttons has been increased on Windows
• displaying text containing longer sequences of spaces is now possible

2.0

• splash dialog is displayed on application quit by default for developer licenses
• splash dialog display can be turned off
• see License Agreement
• improved compatibility with runtime and kiosk-mode solutions
• completely rewritten dialog showing engine
• improved dynamic sizing and positioning of dialog items
• dialogs can display longer text than ever before
• unlimited number of pop-up menu items
• value lists can be easily inserted in popup menus
• dialogs can have icons
• any text field can be validated with a regular expression
• dialogs with no buttons are now allowed
• automatic dismissal after specified amount of time
• customizable dialog title
• customizable dialog position (horizontal, vertical, or both)
• customizable dialog width
• progress dialogs with two text messages (above and below the progress bar)
• customizable minimum and maximum values, changeable on the fly
• indefinite progress indicator (barber pole)
• indefinite mode can be turned on/off on the fly during progress
• progress dialog function accepts Troi Dialog syntax for compatibility
• multiple progress bars can be displayed at the same time
• text in dialogs now respects system settings for message box on Windows
• fully Unicode savvy inside for future compatibility

1.1.4

• corrected behavior of document window on Mac OS X
• text is now properly transcoded with all languages

1.1.3

• SSN validation has been improved
• special characters that needed to be prefixed with backslash can now appear in buttons

1.1.2

• dialogs now handle mouse clicks in a more compatible way
• mouse cursor now appears when showing a dialog even if it was hidden

1.1.1

• field labels are now correctly right-aligned on all platforms

1.1

• added Credit Card Number, SSN, SIN, and Czech ID validations
• added 24U SimpleDialog Generator for even easier dialog configuration

1.0.3

• dialogs on Windows machines no longer show button in Windows task bar
• dialogs on Windows machines correspond to Windows appearance and childs of FileMaker Pro
• tabulator now works better on Windows machines
• works with Czech language in both 4.x and 5.x versions of FileMaker Pro
• menus can now have separator items (-) on both Mac and PC
• special characters like < or ; can now be used in popup menus on Macintosh
• tutorial now identifies platform using Abs(Status(CurrentPlatform))
• tutorial is now saved using US formats (commas in formulas)
• tutorial's pop-up menu example now shows also separator
• tutorial's pop-up menu example has now yellow as last item
• tutorial's field types value list now contains also "m" for pop-up menu
• tutorial's copyright years were changed to 2001-2002

1.0.2

• now correctly returns pressed button's number on Mac
• international text is now translated correctly on Windows

1.0.1

• added Windows compatibility
• added ability to display pop-up menus

1.0

• initial release