kargas software - Dialog Plug-in

Dialog Plug-in

The current version of the Dialog plug-in is 0.20 which was released on 15 April 2010.

Click here to download the plug-in.

This plug-in provides functions to display customised dialog boxes that do not come natively with FileMaker.

The following dialog boxes can be created:

Customised dialog boxes with up to 8 inputs and the following controls: edit box, password edit box, drop down box, date and time controls and more. Up to eight buttons can be used, four buttons on two rows
List box with single or multiple selection of rows
List box with up to ten columns and ability to right, left or centre align the columns and label each column
Dual list box similar to the FileMaker Sort and Export Dialog boxes where items in the left list can be moved to the right list
Big Edit boxes providing ability to type in entire essays
Progress bar dialog box with the ability to update the text as the bar progresses. Ability to have two progress bars running in the one dialog.
Colour Picker dialog box and the ability to create a graphic with the specified colour
A quick and simple login dialog box
Platform specific Select File and Select Folder dialog boxes
And last but not least a dialog box with up to three tabs of input controls

Below are some screenshots:

If you find any problems with the plug-in please email me at tony@kargas.net and i will put it on the to-do list

To Do List

Ability to specify a default icon; Caution, Information and Danger ass well as custom icons
For Input dialog boxes specify which field to have the cursor begin in when the dialog is first displayed
On Windows for Input dialog boxes remove the highlight from the previous field when tabbing through the fields
For List dialog boxes provide ability to double click in the row and allow the text to be modified
For Progress Bar dialog boxes provide ability to specify whether to display the window title to allow the window to be moved
Ability to specify the size and position of controls and buttons