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ToolboxPack 3.6.1
Licensing - Distributors - List of routines
The ToolboxPack is a plug-in for Mac OS (8, 9, X) and 4D (v6 -> 2004)
It contains 140 utility routines
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Version 3.6 is released february, 13 2005. Version 3.6.1 is released march, 29 2005
- Free upgrade for registered users of version 3.5
- Version 3.6:
- More AppleEvent/AppleScript handling
- Draw high quality icons
- tp_IconArea and tp_GET SET ICON AREA are now in the documentation
- Version 3.6.1 : use passwords to open encrypted PDFs.
- To download version 3.6.1 with the upgrade documentation (and no sample databases), click here
Version 3.5 is released September, 15 2004
- Version 3.5 contains new routines that dramatically enhance the user interface: hierarchical popup menus built from a list (with the icons), standard navigation dialogs (choose file, folder, disk), create « Metal » windows, get/receive parameters with your AppleEvents, etc.
- Upgrade from previous version is commercial, a new serial number is required. The upgrade is free for customers who bought the ToolboxPack after july, 21 2004 (included).
- To download the plug-in versin 3.6.1 and its upgrade documentation (and no sample databases), click here
The ToolboxPack holds 140 utility routines
(See the List of routines)- AppleEvent : allows 4D to be controlled via AppleEvent, using AppleScript
- AppleScript : Read, translate, compile and execute scripts from 4D.
- BLOBs : Blob/unblob records
- Clipboard : save and restore the clipboard
- Files: standard dialogs, select several files, convert path
- Interface and miscellaneous : hide/show cursor, color-flash a rectangle, "choose color" standard dialog, dynamic tip, text height/width,
- Keyboard : get "escape" or any key without installing a heavy handler
- Menus : dynamic customization (new menu, change font and style, create hierarchical)
- OS Process : informations about other running applications, extensions
- Pictures : flip a picture, get a pixel in a picture, crop a picture
- Popup-menus : from resources, with dynamic font and size, hierarchical
- QuickTime : sample movie reader with or without the controler bar
- RotatedStrZone : rotate a string 90° left or right
- Windows : some routines that do no exist in 4D. Change Alpha chanel, set the "modified" button, collapse a windows
- Mac OS X specific stuff ! Native controls, alpha windows, toolbar button, boune in doc, get PDFs, lot, lot of interface stuff.
Version history
- Version 3.3.2 was released on october, 7 2004
- This version fixes a bug that occured in this situation: get an AppleEvent + 4D Server + compiled structure. In this case, the callback method was not executed.
- Version 3.3 was released on june, 15 2003
- This version contains new OS X plugin areas such as Bevel buttons, push button with icon and Relevance bar. Plus, routines to handle those areas and the OS X windows, a new Icon area, the Toolbar Butoon, and much more !
- Version 3.2 was released on april, 15 2003
- It brings lot of new features specifics to mac OS X such as the "sheet alerts",viewing PDFs, drawing pictures on the 4D icon in the dock. It also brings new controls such as the chasing arrows and the disclosures objects.
- Some other routines are not specifics to OS X, such as collapse/expand windows (in the Dock under OS X, ar to their title bar under OS 9), fade the screen in or out, etc.
Licensing (tax-free prices):
The plug-in is for Mac OS only. A Windows "stub" is provided, for cross platform compilation.
| Product (v 3.6.n) | Full | Upgrade (*) |
| Developer license | 59 euros | 39 euros |
| 1-10 deployments (*) | 59 euros | 39 euros |
| 1-50 deployments (*) | 119 euros | 79 euros |
| Unlimited for one application(*) | 289 euros | 179 euros |
Upgrade from 3.5.n to 3.6.n is free Distributors Order online or download an order form
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