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Signature Bean

This is a Smart Client bean that allows the user to sign their signature using their mouse to draw on the bean. It can then be captured as a JPEG image to be stored however you need. This bean uses the free JavaDraw applet.

Features:

In the internet age, everyone is working remotely, which has lots of advantages, but one of the drawbacks is getting affordable phone service to place local, and long distance calls, as well as being able to receive calls directly.  So, when you mention VOIP (Voice over IP), most people think of Skype.  However, there is another service out there, with better VOIP technology, and lots of cooler features...

Robot Plug-in

This is a client-server plugin that allows developers to get a handle to the application server, other connected clients, and headless clients running on the server. Below are screenshots and a brief feature list.

Features:

Source: Bob Cusick, Servoy

OK - so I wanted to create links in Web Client that looked the default color, but then when hovered over, would change color and be linked to a method. Here's how it works in a nutshell - you need to have a CSS style that will undecorate the text when it's a link, and do underline it when it's rolled over. Then, you create some calculations to display the data and perform the method you want. Here's ONE WAY to do it:

Column Converter Pro Plug-in

This is a client plugin that adds to the Servoy Column Converters in the column properties windows in dataproviders area. This plugin adds Blowfish Encryption/Decryption, and Global Method conversion. Below are screenshots and a brief feature list.

Using application.getUserProperty and application.setUserProperty don't work with Runtimes, but sometimes you need that type of functionality, so here is how you implement it.  These functions will create and store the properties in a new runtimes.properties file. These functions also uses a Global variable named globals.g_util_runtimeProperties that should be of type MEDIA.

#1.  A global method to run on open of your solution to read in the properties

Google Apps Plug-in

This is a Smart and Web Client plugin to integrate with Google Apps, including Accounts, Base, Blogger, and Calendar. This plugin is also open-source. The source is hosted at Google Code Hosting. Below are screenshots and examples of things you can do with this plugin.

Login Screen:

Below are some links to oldies but goodies that are sure to give you a laugh.

The Saga of the Seven Dudes
Back in the early days, the people at FileMaker liked to refer to Servoy as "Three guys and a Windmill".  This poem was written a few years later when Servoy was "Seven Dudes and a Windmill", but is still very very funny.  Credits to Michael Rochard.

SpellCheck Pro Plug-in

This is a Smart Client plugin that adds many features that are not available in the spellcheck plugin that ships with Servoy. This plugin is based on the open source JOrtho project at SourceForge which is distributed under a GPL license. For convenience, the JOrtho libraries, and the english dictionary are included in the download of this plugin. This plugin also uses Wiktionary as the dictionary. Below is a brief feature list, and a video tutorial.

Each Linux distribution is slightly different. This example should work on Debian, but should be easily modified for other linux distributions.
Name this file 'servoy' and place it in '/etc/init.d'. So, you should have '/etc/init.d/servoy'.