CNS Menu - Меню Hierarchal где-нибудь в FileMaker
  4.25 MB | Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later | Demo

CNS Menu allows you to place hierarchal menus anywhere on a FileMaker layout. When a menu item is chosen, the script of your choice in the database of your choice is performed. Menus can have any number of sub menus and can be displayed with a variety of styles and bullet marks. Creating menus with CNS Menu is as easy as handing the plug-in a return delimited string of menu items to display. Your menu items can have a display name, and a value that can be used in your scripts, so the end user can see useful information such as a customer name while the value can be a Customer ID number.

CNS Menu ships with the "CNS Menu.fp7" example database which includes 15 examples demonstrating ways to use and understand the CNS Menu plug-in. The database is fully unlocked so you can explore every detail. We have also included the documentation for each example inline, so you can both examine the example and see its explanation all from one layout. Examples include, QuickMenu, Menu Placement, MenuBuilder, Value List to QuickMenu, Hidden Items, Menu Decoration, Mouse Grabber, Right Click, Data Entry, Layout Navigation, Update Menu Item, Bookmark Example, External XML Menu, and RSS Menu.

CNS Menu has many advantages over its predecessor, SCRIPTit including MenuBuilder in the configuration dialog which allows you to quickly build new menus without having to know XML.

You can then simply use menus built in MenuBuilder in your database, or copy the XML which is generated for you. CNS Menu also includes a brand new way to create menus called "QuickMenus". A QuickMenu takes a return seperated list of items and creates a menu for you without having to know or use any XML.

Here are some key features of "CNS Menu":

· Dynamically create popup menus.
· Easily convert return delimited items such as value lists, layout names, and more, into QuickMenus.
· Add styles to menu items such as bold, underline, italic, and any combination of those.
· Add bullets to your menu items including check marks, circular bullets, and diamonds.
· Pass script parameters through menus to your scripts.
· Enable and disable menu items on the fly.
· Update menu items dynamically.
· Precisely display menus using left, top, align, and minWidth.
· Use the built in MenuBuilder to quickly build XML menus - without having to learn XML.
· Use modifier keys to display alternate menu items including Shift, Control, Command, and Option.
· Get mouse coordinates with the CNSMenu_GetMouseCoordinates function.
· Get the mouse button number clicked with the CNSMenu_GetMouseButton function.
· Simple data entry by allowing a user to find items quickly through sub menus.
· Display a user friendly menu item, but pass a value such as a Customer ID to your scripts.
· Load an XML menu from your hard drive.


Requirements:

· CNS Menu requires FileMaker Pro 7.0 and above.

Limitations:

· The demo version of CNS Menu will display a splash screen every fifteen minutes that you use.





What's New in This Release:

· Fixed some issues with running the plug-in on Mac OS X 10.3.9 and above.
· Fixed some issues where scripts were not always being called again when selecting the same menu items.
· Fixed an internal crashing bug with menus defined with modifier keys but not defaultdb/defaultscript parameters where all menus would stop functioning.
· Fixed an issue with detecting right-clicks on Mac in FileMaker Pro 8.5 and above.
· Fixed a menu placement issue in FileMaker Pro 8.5 and above when non-modal dialogs are visible.
· Added support for the Zoom Level in FileMaker Pro 8.0 and above so that menus are placed correctly even if Zoomed in.
· Updated core plug-in code to include all changes/enhancements from other CNS Plug-ins.
· Rewrote core Menu functions to work around bugs and to generally work better.
· Added "meta tags" to QuickMenus to allow you to define items as disabled, bold, italic, check marked, etc. so you no longer have to use the xml updatemenuitem tag.
· Added an IgnoreMetaTags parameter to DefineQuickMenu to skip the processing of the above new "meta tags" if you need to show the special characters on your menus.
· Added CNSMenu_LeftMouseButton, CNSMenu_RightMouseButton, and CNSMenu_ThirdMouseButton constant values for use in FileMaker Pro Calculations.
· Added a Persistent parameter to DefineQuickMenu to allow for saving a QuickMenu to the hard drive.
· Added the option to turn off the auto setting of blank values to the menu item name.