24U SimpleHighlight Plug-In

24U SimpleHighlight Plug-In is a sample FileMaker Plug-In project based on 24U FM Template. Its purpose is to highlight text and rectangular areas with a user-defined color. The new version 1.0.1 is an update to the copy distributed with FileMaker Developer 7.

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

• X24uL_Highlight(SearchString; Text) finds all occurrences of SearchString in Text and highlights them with color and/or style as defined in Preferences. All previous formatting of Text remains unchanged.


• X24uL_SolidColor(Red; Green; Blue) generates a single pixel GIF image, which has the color specified by the Red, Green and Blue values. This image can be placed directly into a container field via the plug-in.

The primary features:

• highlights occurrences of search string in text
• preserves original text formatting
• fills rectangular area with a color
• returns container type data
• commented C++ source code included

24U SimpleHighlight Plug-In was created thanks to the collaboration of 24U Software and New Millennium Communications, Inc., and is available for download from both companies.

What is 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 7.0, 8.0 and 8.5
• Draws color rectangles in container based on numeric data (paid)
• Genarates images from FileMaker calculations (paid)
• Retrieves color information from a picture (paid)

Requirements: