A new version of our free FileMaker plug-in is now available. You can download the latest version at http://www.beezwax.net/download/bbox.

Changes in this version include:

• New functions for directly compiling and executing Python scripts
• Fix for character encoding issue with Euro character in the bBox_PasteboardGet function
• Fix for Unicode BOM issue on PowerPC based systems

Features already included in bBox since version 0.3d:

• execute shell scripts, with the output returned as the function’s result
• execute AppleScripts within a calculation, with parameters and the return value as the function’s result
• get or set raw clipboard (pasteboard) data
• filter text through grep, the powerful pattern matching command
• return the current time with milliseconds
• sort lines of text (optionally allowing you to specify a column or character range)
• find out what types of data are currently in the clipboard
• get a file path’s attributes, including type (file or directory), creation date, and POSIX permissions