Its been almost a year since we’ve mentioned bBox on this venue, but we are now pleased to announce that version 0.80 is publicly available.
bBox 0.80 Now Available
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Tag: Python
Working with JSON data in FileMaker
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There are a number of ways of working with JSON data in FileMaker. At least two typical ones are:
- Custom Functions based parsing & encoding
- using a WebViewer & JavaScript
Version 0.71 of bBox Now Available
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A new version of our free bBox FileMaker plug-in is now available.
Some of the changes since the last release are:
- better support for Python results, in particular lists & sets
- curl, sort, bash, and grep commands now allow up to 7 parameters
- better handling of invalid parameters to FileRead and PasteboardGet functions
- added the Python function fm.evaluate
- more examples in the demo file
Version 0.63 of bBox Now Available
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A new version of our free bBox FileMaker plug-in is now available.
Some of the changes since the last release I blogged about are:
- new fm.executesql Python function
- additional types when converting to/from Python
- new bBox_FileWrite, bBox_FileSymlink, and bBox_FileRead functions
Using Cocoa’s PDFDocument class from FileMaker
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I’ve been looking for a way to interface with some Cocoa classes in the Mac OS X API from FileMaker for a while. My initial target was PDFDocument, part of the PDF Kit suite of classes. For more information on Cocoa’s PDF Kit see here: Introduction to PDF Kit Programming Guide
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