Optimized for FileMaker 15, the new version of bBox includes 160 examples
We are pleased to release another update to bBox, v0.84 of our free utility plug-in to extend FileMaker solutions to other programs, code libraries, and OS X functions including Python, Ruby, AppleScript, Perl, Bash/sh, XPath, and SQLite.
This version has the following changes:
- added function descriptions (FileMaker 15 only)
- was returning wrong error code if problem reading output from POSIX commands (Bash, Curl, etc.)
- new “no wait” option for Bash, Curl, and Sort to run processes asynchronously
- new bBox_PythonEval for quick & easy calls with larger Python scripts or classes
There are over 160 examples in the bBox v0.84 demo file. Some of the recently added examples demonstrate:
- using XlsxWriter to create Excel files with formatting & calcs
- using clipboard and XPath functions to list all fields from a table or layout
- running a PHP script [also see the blog post]
- LDAP & Open Directory lookups
- performing basic SMTP email sending
- parsing JSON weather data from a web API
- using xhtml2pdf to create PDF files from FileMaker data or HTML
In addition, other developers have built example solutions using bBox, including:
You can get more details on the bBox plug-in and its functions at http://beezwax.net/bbox and the bBox Wiki.
Simon
Wiki is not works for me, could you please check ?
http://beezwiki.beezwax.net/wiki/projects/bbox
Alexey – Sorry, yes, the wiki is down at the moment.
Alexey – Thanks for your patience. The wiki should be available here now:
https://beezwax.net/products/bbox/wiki/main
How does the no wait work? I’ve been doing it manually with a trailing “&”, hopefully your solution is more robust :).
@zerobatsu,
There are some complications that make just using ‘&’ not work. Some cases may require piping stdout to /dev/nul, in other cases using & and disown may work better, e.g.:
cat "/tmp/myfile" & disownThe ‘no wait’ option is still a bit beta-ish, but has been working solidly & consistently for where I’ve used it so far. The mode values that some bBox functions use are bit flags. Enabling this option is easy, just add 4 to your current mode value to get this behavior.
Simon