Page Overview

• Description
• A few possible uses
• Features
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Library Articles
• Functions
• Special Notes

Description

SCRIPTit is an interface enhancement plug-in that uses the power of XML for defining script events and dynamic popup menus. With this plug-in you can define script events that happen immediately, at any future time, or on any repeating interval.

SCRIPTit menus are particularly exciting because they can appear anywhere on your layouts and whenever the user chooses a menu item, SCRIPTit will run a script in your database.

Dynamic popup menus can have any number of menu items, and any number of cascading sub menus. Menu items can be bold, italic, underline, or any combination of those styles. Menu items can have check marks, round bullets, and diamond shaped bullets. The entire appearance of any menu item can be changed at any time, including enabling and disabling items.

The concept of using XML may seem daunting at first, however we have gone to great lengths to make sure the XML is easy to learn. For a good SCRIPTit XML reference, take a look at the SCRIPTit documentation, or view the SCRIPTit functions.

Unsupported Software

As of September 1, 2007, this plug-in is officially retired and is no longer supported. Any bugs or problems this plug-in may have will not be fixed. If you are using FileMaker Pro 7 or above, we highly recommend you use CNS Menu or MMScript, especially since those plug-ins are supported software.

A few possible uses:

• Slim down navigation interfaces with menus
• Run a script when a field value changes
• Run a script when a user exits a field

SCRIPTit Features:

• Run scripts immediately, at any date and time, or on any given interval
• Powerful, yet easy to learn and read XML Markup for defining script events and popup menus
• Completely cross-platform
• Works with FileMaker 4.0 through 6.0, including runtime/bound solutions
• Menu items can be bold, italic, underline, or any combination of those styles
• Menu items can have check marks, round bullets, or diamond bullets
• Update the complete appearance of any menu item at any time (enable, disable, font style change, etc)
• Menu items can be selectively shown or hidden based on which modifier keys are held down (ctrl, shift, opt, cmd)
• Menus can be inserted into other menus
• Menu items can be inserted or deleted from existing menus
• A new "AUTO UPDATE" parameter has been added to the Version function to return an Auto Update-Friendly version number for working with FileMaker Server's Auto Plug-in Update feature.

SCRIPTit Frequently Asked Questions:

• Where is the full version, why do all the downloads say "demo"?
• I was told there was a newer version, but I can't find the upgrade on your site.
• SCRIPTit doesn't understand my accented (extended ASCII) characters.

SCRIPTit Library Articles:

• SCRIPTit doesn't understand my accented (extended ASCII) characters.
• More articles...

SCRIPTit Functions: (Choose a function below or Launch the "Function Browser")

Choose a function... Scrp-CancelScript Scrp-DefineXML Scrp-DefineXMLFile Scrp-DeleteMenu Scrp-DisableScripts Scrp-EnableScripts Scrp-GetPathToDB Scrp-GetPathToFM Scrp-LastMenuChoice Scrp-LastMenuName Scrp-LastMenuValue Scrp-LastScriptName Scrp-LastScriptValue Scrp-ListScripts Scrp-PopupMenuErrors Scrp-Register Scrp-ShowMenu Scrp-Version XML: deletemenuitem Tag XML: insertmenu Tag XML: insertmenuitem Tag XML: menu Tag XML: menuitem Tag XML: script Tag XML: SCRIPTit Tag XML: submenu Tag XML: updatemenuitem Tag

FileMaker 7+ Compatibility