The Troi File Plug-in gives you all of these capabilities and about forty more. Text handling is not necessarily something you’ll want to do with FileMaker on a regular basis, but there may come a time when you want to display information stored in a text file, create or move a folder on your hard drive or even import batches of images. What you gain by using Troi Dialog is the use of standard Mac and PC dialog boxes, truly Mac-like progress bars, and significantly less scripting. It should be noted that while Troi Dialog is a very powerful plug-in, many of the same features could be created using a standard FileMaker layout. You can also receive text input from your users and even create and use standard progress bars in your dialogs.

It gives you the added benefit of using variable text in any dialog, therefore making it possible to change what a user sees depending on an unlimited number of variables. You can change dialog box icons to more familiar Mac standards - such as Stop or Caution - or you can create custom icons. Troi Automatisering’s Dialog plug-in allows you to customize FileMaker in myriad ways. Dialog boxes in FileMaker Pro tend to be intransigent: they are what they are and it’s not easy to change them.

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