Installation and New Features Guide
Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1 Before you begin
- About this guide
- Where to find FileMaker documentation
- Customer Support and Knowledge Base
- Product notifications
- About the license key
- Requirements for features in Windows
- Requirements for features in OS X
- Converting the trial version to the full version of FileMaker Pro
- Upgrading FileMaker Pro from a previous version
- Opening files from previous versions
- Updating your User Dictionary
- Installing under a volume license
- Chapter 2 Installing FileMaker Pro in Windows
- Chapter 3 Installing FileMaker Pro in OS X
- Chapter 4 New features
- New user interface for creating scripts and calculations
- New Launch Center window for opening files
- Improved layout design tools and controls
- New themes and improved style handling
- Improved performance and usability
- Script steps, script triggers, and functions
- Changed and removed features
- FileMaker Pro 14 Advanced
- Chapter 5 Where to go from here
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Script triggers
New script triggers
1 OnObjectAVPlayerChange – In FileMaker Go, triggers a script to run
when the state of the media in a layout object changes.
1 OnFileAVPlayerChange – In FileMaker Go, triggers a script to run if a
media file is playing from a field or URL, and a user or a script step
setting changes the playback state.
1 OnExternalCommandReceived – In FileMaker Go, triggers a script to
run when the user presses a playback button on the lock screen or on
an external device.
Changed script triggers
1 OnGestureTap – Adds compatibility with FileMaker Pro in Windows 8.
Functions
New functions
1 Get(MenubarState) – Returns a number for the current menu bar state.
1 Furigana – Converts Japanese text to Hiragana, Katakana, or Roman
text.
1 Get(ApplicationArchitecture) – Returns the current application
architecture.
1 Get(ScreenScaleFactor) – Returns the scale factor of the screen in
which the current file is open.
1 GetAVPlayerAttribute – In FileMaker Go, returns the setting of the
specified attribute for the audio, video, or image file in a container field.
1 Get(TriggerExternalEvent) – In FileMaker Go, returns a number
representing the event that activated an OnExternalCommandReceived
script trigger.
1 Get(TouchKeyboardState) – In FileMaker Go and Windows 8, returns
1 (true) if the touch keyboard is set to display automatically when
needed; otherwise, returns 0 (false).
Changed functions
1 Get(ApplicationVersion) – Returns version numbers in the format
14.X.X instead of 14.XvX for all FileMaker applications.