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JS.New

Creates a new JavaScript engine instance.

Parameters

none

Result

Returns JS reference number or error.

Description

• Running some snippet of JavaScript code without web viewer.
• Using various JavaScript libraries
• Providing a scripting language to your own solution.
• Doing JavaScript on server side.
• Working with JSON data
• Enjoy using regular expressions, unicode text functions, number parsing and formatting with no platform dependencies

Examples

Evaluate a bit of JavaScript:

Set Variable [ $js ; Value: MBS( "JS.New" ) ]
Set Variable [ $r ; Value: MBS( "JS.Evaluate"; $js; "4+5") ]
Show Custom Dialog [ "Result" ; $r ]
Set Variable [ $r ; Value: MBS( "JS.Free"; $JS ) ]

See also

• JS.AddFileMakerRunScriptFunction
• JS.AddFunction
• JS.EvaluateToString
• JS.Free
• JS.GetGlobalProperty
• JS.ObjectCount
• JS.SetGlobalProperty
• JS.StringCount
• JS.TimeToUTCDate
• JS.UTCDateToTime

Example Databases

• JavaScript/CoordinatDistance
• JavaScript/JavaScript libPhoneNumber
• JavaScript/JavaScript
• JavaScript/RichTextToJSON
• List/Sort Benchmark

Blog Entries

• New in the MBS FileMaker Plugin 10.1
• FileMaker and JavaScript - the perfect combination
• New in the MBS FileMaker Plugin 10.0
• CRC function in FileMaker using JavaScript
• Our JavaScript engine for FileMaker

Created 7th December 2019, last changed 9th December 2019

JS.GetGlobalPropertyValue   -   JS.Now

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