Release notes for version 5.1 - 19th May 2015

New functions in 5.1

• Added MarkDown functions.
• Added EnvironmentVariables functions.
• Added grouping to ListDialog.
• Added Clipboard.GetFiles and Clipboard.SetFiles functions.
• Added Dictionary.SetVariables function.
• Added Dictionary.Values, Dictionary.AddSQL, Dictionary.ValueTypeForKey and QuickList.AddSQL.
• Added DynaPDF.EditTemplate, DynaPDF.EditTemplate2 and .
• Added DynaPDF.SetFieldFont and DynaPDF.SetFieldFontEx functions to support asian characters in form fields.
• Added DynaPDF.SetPrinterSettings, DynaPDF.GetPrinterSettings and DynaPDF.GetInPrinterSettings functions.
• Added DynaPDF.SysFontInfo and DynaPDF.FontInfo functions.
• Added Files.Mount and Files.Unmount functions.
• Added FM.ArgumentCount and FM.Argument functions.
• Added FM.CurrentScriptID, FM.ScriptNameForScriptID and FM.ScriptIDForScriptName functions.
• Added FM.DisableMouseWheel for Windows to block mouse wheel usage.
• Added FM.InsertRecord function.
• Added FM.InsertRecordQuery function.
• Added FM.SQL functions to get SQL results in native data types.
• Added Folders.UserTrash function.
• Added function FM.NULL to get null values to pass to SQL.SetParamValue(s).
• Added functions FM.CurrentThreadID, FM.IsMainThread and FM.MainThreadID.
• Added GMImage.NewImagesFromContainer and GMImage.NewImagesFromFile to split tiff.
• Added inline option for SendMail.AddAttachmentFile and SendMail.AddAttachmentContainer.
• Added ListDialog.AddSQL to add list items via SQL.
• Added Menu.DefineQuickMenu.
• Added Menu.FindItemWithTag and Menu.FindItemWithTitle functions.
• Added MenuItem.ApplyColor function to color menu entries on Mac.
• Added MenuItem.GetBold, MenuItem.GetFontName, MenuItem.GetFontSize, MenuItem.GetItalic, MenuItem.GetUnderline, MenuItem.SetBold, MenuItem.SetFontName, MenuItem.SetFontSize, MenuItem.SetItalic and MenuItem.SetUnderline.
• Added MenuItem.GetRequireCommand, MenuItem.GetRequireControl, MenuItem.GetRequireOption, MenuItem.GetRequireShift, MenuItem.SetRequireCommand, MenuItem.SetRequireControl, MenuItem.SetRequireOption and MenuItem.SetRequireShift.
• Added OCR.SetResolution function.
• Added parameter for RichText.ReplaceText to replace all.
• Added parameter for various functions returning PDF containers to disable rendering of JPEG preview: SQL.GetFieldAsPDF, SQL.GetParamAsPDF, WebView.RenderPDF, CURL.GetResultAsPDF, PDFKit.GetPDFPageValue, Files.ReadPDF, Window.AsPDF, Container.DecodeFromBase64, ServiceProvider.Value, CGPSConverter.Convert, PDFKit.GetPDFPagePDF and PDFKit.GetPDFPagesPDF.
• Added parameter to Math.TextToNumber to detect dot or comma for decimal separator.
• Added parameter to Text.DecodeFromHTML to decode html entities, but leave xml entities there.
• Added parameter to XML.Query to ignore errors in parsing.
• Added Plugin.SetPreviewSize function to control preview sizes.
• Added Plugin.SetSuccessReturn and Plugin.GetSuccessReturn to modify what plugin returns for success.
• Added RegEx.FindMatches function.
• Added RichText.WritePDF and RichText.GeneratePDF functions.
• Added SerialPort.SetDataAvailableHandler and SerialPort.ClearDataAvailableHandler functions.
• Added SetFunctions to limit what functions the plugin allows you to call.
• Added SQL error code into error messages for SQL.Execute and other functions.
• Added SQL.GetFieldNameList, SQL.GetFieldValueList, SQL.GetParamNameList and SQL.GetParamValueList functions.
• Added SQL.GetFieldValue, SQL.GetParamValue, SQL.SetParamValue and SQL.SetParamValues.
• Added text encoding parameter for Barcode functions. Default stays at UTF-8.
• Added Text.CapitalCase, Text.LowerCase and Text.Uppercase with full unicode support.
• Added TimeOut option for Socket.Connect.
• Added Twain.SetPaper, Twain.SetPaperSize and Twain.GetPaper functions.
• Added UnZipFile.UsePassword and ZipFile.UsePassword to encrypt Zip archives.
• Added WebView.InstallMultiFileOpenDialog function to allow multiple selection file dialogs in a webviewer.
• Added Windows support for WebView.LoadHTML.
• Added XL.CopyContent function to copy content from one XL document to other, useful for converting between XLS and XLSX formats.
• Changed Calendar functions to return UID instead of plugin ID if possible.
• Changed DragDrop feature to accept promised file drops. This allows files to be dropped from Photos app to FileMaker.
• Changed DynaPDF.Save to close current page if you forgot that.
• Changed FM.ExecuteSQL to return error messages in clear text on error. You can use IsError function to know if it was an error.
• Changed PDF preview rendering to make smaller previews in faster speed.
• Changed PDFKit preview rendering of PDF pages to take care of rotation.
• Changed RegEx.FindMatches to switch ReturnWholeMatch parameter to true if you don't have captures in your search pattern.
• Changed ZipFile.WriteContainer to accept writing empty file.
• Fixed a bug with WebView.GetFormTextAreaValue on Windows which did crash sometimes.
• Fixed bug in GMImage.WriteImages function. Now working again.
• Fixed bug in JSON.GetObjectName. Reports now an error if index is out of bounds instead of crashing.
• Fixed bug in Path.NativePathToFilemakerPath.
• Fixed bug in Text.DecodeFromXML and Text.DecodeFromHTML about html entities not being decoded correctly.
• Fixed bug in Text.EncodeToHTML.
• Fixed GMImage.GetPixelColor to return correct error message if coordinate is out of bounds.
• Fixed problem in Files.GetPathFromNodeID function.
• Fixed SyntaxColoring for comments for FileMaker 14.
• Fixed Twain.SetDuplexEnabled so you can now disable duplex.
• Fixed WebView.SetFormSelectValue to work also if there is no form name given.
• Fixed ZipFile.WriteText function. Now text is again parameter 1 and not 2.
• Functions like IsServer now also work if demo mode expired.
• Added a version check to query server for update information while in development.
• Improved copy script text button. Should not copy the list of available script steps.
• Improved error message for Container.Export function.
• Improved error message handling for Firebird database connector part in SQL functions.
• Improved some of the Windows Webviewer functions to handle memory usage better.
• Marked a lot of functions to not be available on server due to FileMaker Server not performing Script calls on the server.
• Some smaller fixes for FileMaker 14.
• The Audit.Change function now returns an error message if the given table name is invalid.
• The Webviewer Form and Field functions now find fields and forms by ID on Mac and not just by name.
• Tracing script calls now shows also name of current script, file, user and host if available.
• Updated DynaPDF to version 3.0.39.116.
• Updated LCMS to 2.7.
• Updated libSQL to version 4.1.5.
• Upgraded Xcode to version 6.3.1

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