24U SimpleHighlight Plug-In is a sample FileMaker Pro plug-in project based on 24U FM Template. Its purpose is to highlight text and rectangular areas with a user-defined color. The version 2.0 newly also generates pictures from numeric data.

24U SimpleHighlight Plug-In was created thanks to the collaboration of 24U Software and New Millennium Communications, Inc. A copy of 24U SimpleHighlight Plug-In was distributed with FileMaker Developer 7 and FileMaker Pro Advanced 8.0.

24U SimpleHighlight Plug-In is now both open source and shareware! A complete commented source code for limited free functionality is distributed with the plug-in, while additional advanced features can be unlocked for a fee after 14-day trial period. Registration is not required to use the free functions.

24U SimpleHighlight Plug-In implements two color highlighting functions:
· X24uL_Highlight finds all occurrences of a search string in a text and highlights them with color and/or style as defined either in Preferences or via function parameters. Previous formatting of the text is preserved.
· X24uL_SolidColor generates a color rectangle using color, and optionally also opacity, specified in the function parameters. The resulting image may be placed directly into a container field via the plug-in.

Here are some key features of "24U SimpleHighlight Plug In":

· Highlights occurrences of search string in text (free)
· Preserves original formatting of every single character (free)
· Fills rectangular area with a color, optionally transparent (free)
· Returns container type data (free)
· Draws color rectangles in container fields based on numeric data (paid)
· Genarates images from FileMaker Pro calculations (paid)
· Retrieves color information from a picture (paid)
· Commented C++ source code included for free functions
· Project for Visual Studio .NET 2003 and XCode 2.3
· Bonus sample C++ functions for container data generation