24U SimpleHighlight Plug-In 2.0

24U SimpleHighlight Plug-In highlights text and rectangular areas with a user-defined color
24U SimpleHighlight Plug-In is a sample FileMaker Pro plug-in project based on 24U FM Template. Its purpose is to highlight text and rectangular areas with a user-defined color. The version 2.0 newly also generates pictures from numeric data.

24U SimpleHighlight Plug-In was created thanks to the collaboration of 24U Software and New Millennium Communications, Inc. A copy of 24U SimpleHighlight Plug-In was distributed with FileMaker Developer 7 and FileMaker Pro Advanced 8.0.

24U SimpleHighlight Plug-In is now both open source and shareware! A complete commented source code for limited free functionality is distributed with the plug-in, while additional advanced features can be unlocked for a fee after 14-day trial period. Registration is not required to use the free functions.

24U SimpleHighlight Plug-In implements two color highlighting functions:

X24uL_Highlight finds all occurrences of a search string in a text and highlights them with color and/or style as defined either in Preferences or via function parameters. Previous formatting of the text is preserved.

X24uL_SolidColor generates a color rectangle using color, and optionally also opacity, specified in the function parameters. The resulting image may be placed directly into a container field via the plug-in.

Main features of 24U SimpleHighlight Plug In:

Highlights occurrences of search string in text (free)

Preserves original formatting of every single character (free)

Fills rectangular area with a color, optionally transparent (free)

Returns container type data (free)

Draws color rectangles in container fields based on numeric data (paid)

Genarates images from FileMaker Pro calculations (paid)

Retrieves color information from a picture (paid)

Commented C++ source code included for free functions

Project for Visual Studio .NET 2003 and XCode 2.3

Bonus sample C++ functions for container data generation


Requirements of 24U SimpleHighlight Plug In:

Power Macintosh G3 with Mac OS 10.4 and FileMaker Pro 7

Intel Macintosh with Mac OS 10.4 and FileMaker Pro 8.5


Limitations of 24U SimpleHighlight Plug In:

14 days trial


What's New in This Release:

Full featured shareware product with open-source functions

Universal Binary - runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel based Macs

Works with FileMaker Pro 7.0, 8.0 and 8.5

Draws color rectangles in container based on numeric data (paid)

Genarates images from FileMaker Pro calculations (paid)

Retrieves color information from a picture (paid)