Jazz Utils 1.15

In the process of creating commercial multimedia titles (often in the process of manipulating data) it has been quicker to write a FileMaker plugin function to do a specific task (or part of a task), than it would be to perform the task by other methods. As a result of these ongoing needs, the Jazz Utils plugin has developed. As we choose to work on a Macintosh, many of the plugin functions are Macintosh only.

Jazz Utils is a plugin that includes clipboard functions, HTML formatting (tagging) functions, functions to obtain the mouse location (x, y), cross-platform character conversion, ascii values, and FileMaker script debugging utilities. The mini-icons below indicate which functions have been implemented for each platform. The Windows-only function allows switching between applications.

The functions available are summarised thus:
Jazz Media-Version
Jazz-Get Clipboard
Jazz-Strip HTML
Jazz-Get Mouse
Jazz-Get Mouse Click
Jazz-Get Mouse X
Jazz-Get Mouse Y
Jazz-Mac2Win Text
Jazz-Win2Mac Text
Jazz-Win Activate
Jazz-CharToNum
Jazz-NumToChar
Jazz-Common Words (v1.15+)

The functions are by no means comprehensive, but they got me out of a bind, and hopefully will help others too.