Monkeybread Software - MBS FileMaker Plugin: Component: JavaScript

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Component: JavaScript

Run Javascript without Webviewer cross-platform, even on server.

Our JavaScript functions use DukTape as engine for cross-platform JavaScript, while the JavaScriptWebKit functions use WebKit on macOS/iOS (added Windows and Linux in v13.1).

Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	Server	iOS SDK
10.0 / 11.3	✅ Yes	✅ Yes	✅ Yes	✅ Yes	✅ Yes

Item	Details
JS.AddFileMakerEvaluateFunction Adds an Evaluate function.	All 10.0
JS.AddFileMakerRunScriptFunction Adds a function to start scripts from JavaScript.	All 10.0
JS.AddFileMakerSQLFunction Defines a SQL Evaluate function for JavaScript.	All 10.0
JS.AddFunction Adds a global function defined as a text string.	All 10.0
JS.CF Calls a global function given the name with FileMaker values.	All 11.3
JS.CallFunction Calls a global function given the name with JSON data.	All 10.0
JS.CallFunctionValues Calls a global function given the name with FileMaker values.	All 11.3
JS.Evaluate Evaluates a JavaScript expression.	All 10.0
JS.EvaluateToString Evaluates a JavaScript expression.	All 10.0
JS.GetGlobalProperty Queries global property.	All 10.0
JS.GetGlobalPropertyValue Queries global property.	All 10.0
JS.InitModules Installs Duktape module loading.	All 11.2
JS.List Lists all JavaScript object references.	All 11.3
JS.New Creates a new JavaScript engine instance.	All 10.0
JS.Now Queries current time as double value.	All 10.1
JS.ObjectCount Queries global object counter.	All 10.1
JS.Release Frees the JavaScript engine.	All 10.0
JS.ReleaseAll Release all JavaScript environments.	All 10.5
JS.SetGlobalProperty Sets a global property.	All 10.0
JS.SetGlobalPropertyValue Sets a global property.	All 10.0
JS.StringCount Queries global string counter.	All 10.1
JS.TimeToDateComponents Converts time to date components.	All 10.1
JS.TimeToUTCDate Converts time value to timestamp.	All 10.1
JS.UTCDateToTime Converts date to time value.	All 10.1

24 functions shown.

These functions require a license (92%).

Release notes

Version 13.2
- Fixed JavaScript.Available to return 1 on macOS and iOS, broken in 13.1.
Version 13.1
- Added JavaScript.LoadLibrary and JavaScript.Available functions.
- Fixed JavaScript.New to work on iOS again.
Version 13.0
- Added JavaScript.List function.
Version 12.2
- Added JavaScript.CallFunction, JavaScript.GetPropertyJSON and JavaScript.SetPropertyJSON functions.
- Added JavaScript.CF function for using this JavaScript engine for custom functions, too.
- Added new parameter for JavaScript.New to name the instance.
- Updated DukTape library for JavaScript functions to version 2.7.
Version 11.2
- Fixed error handling in JavaScript functions, broken in v11.1.
Version 11.1
- Updated DukTape library for JavaScript functions to version 2.6.
Version 10.5
- Added AVExport.ReleaseAll, AVRecorder.ReleaseAll, CoreML.ReleaseAll, DNSLookup.ReleaseAll, Dictionary.ReleaseAll, FM.SQL.ReleaseAll, JS.ReleaseAll, JavaScript.ReleaseAll, LDAP.ReleaseAll, PDFKit.ReleaseAll, PKCS12.ReleaseAll, PKCS7.ReleaseAll, PKey.ReleaseAll, SSH.ReleaseAll, WinSendMail.ReleaseAll, WindowsML.ReleaseAll, WordFile.ReleaseAll, and X509.ReleaseAll.
Version 10.1
- Added time functions for JavaScript functions: JS.Now, JS.TimeToDateComponents, JS.TimeToUTCDate and JS.UTCDateToTime.
- Improved performance for using JavaScript functions in parallel scripts on Server.
Version 10.0
- Added WebView.CallFunction to call any JavaScript function on Windows.

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