November 16th, 2009, Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands--Troi Automatisering today released Troi Grabber Plug-in 2.2 for FileMaker Pro 10.

What is Troi Grabber Plug-in?

Troi Grabber Plug-in 2.2 is a very powerful tool for grabbing images from a video camera and putting them directly into a FileMaker container field. All from within FileMaker Pro 10 you can:
- preview the image stream from the video input source
- crop pictures to grab only the desired part of the video image
- rotate pictures before grabbing
- grab pictures from a video input source and put them into your FileMaker database
- record a movie from a video input source for a specified number of seconds or until the mouse is clicked and save the movie to a specified file on the hard disk
- get timecodes of a recorded movie; you can get the timecode of the beginning of the movie, of the end of the movie, the timecode at the current point in the movie or the duration of the movie in timecode

Peter Baanen, company president, states: "Today we release the final version of the Troi Grabber Plug-in for Windows. Together with the Mac OS X version FileMaker developers can now easily incorporate video image grabbing into FileMaker Pro 10".

New Features and bug fixes

Troi Grabber Plug-in 2.2 has these new features:
- The Windows version is now out of beta.
- Added an extra imageName parameter to the Grab_OpenImageGrabWindow and Grab_GrabImage functions, which allows specification of a custom image name for the returned grabbed image. This is an optional parameter.
- (Mac OS X) When using the Grab_CropImage function the original image name is now preserved.
- (Mac OS X) Fixed a bug in Grab_OpenImageGrabWindow and Grab_OpenMovieGrabWindow where the Grabber window would open at a random location on the screen.
- (Mac OS X) When using QuickTimeClassic the default name of the returned image is now set to GrabberImage.jpg.
- Several improvements to the example files.

All these features also work in a runtime solution.

Suggested Uses

- a webcam database
- time lapse pictures
- festival-, meeting- or conference registration database with pictures
- making ID badges for schools and universities
- medical database with pictures of the patients' condition
- easy recording of auditions or casting
- security database
- capture a movie and log the scenes and timecodes

The possibilities are virtually limitless when using Troi Grabber Plug-in. We invite you to test drive the new functions and see what you can do with it!

Pricing & Availability

A fully functional demo version of Troi Grabber Plug-in 2.2 is available for downloading at Troi's Web site at: http://www.troi.com/software/grabberplugin.html.

Troi Grabber Plug-in 2.2 works with FileMaker Pro 9 and 10. The plug-in can also be used with runtimes from FileMaker Pro Advanced 9 or FileMaker Pro Advanced 10. The plug-in is available for Mac OS X 10.4.5 or higher, Windows XP (Service Pack 2) and Windows Vista.

Licenses cost US$ 999 for a developer license. We don't offer single licenses at the moment. More details on developer licenses can be found on our web site.

Upgrade information

Upgrading to version 2.2 is free for all users of version 2.0. The 2.2 version works with the same 2.0 registration string.

Product upgrades from an earlier cross platform developer license are available for US$ 499. Product upgrades from an earlier single platform developer license cost US$ 699.

About Troi Automatisering

Troi Automatisering is leading developer of cross platform FileMaker Pro plug-ins and winner of the FileMaker Pro Excellence Award 2001. For more information, visit our web site at:
http://www.troi.com/.

Contact information
D. Budding
Troi Automatisering
Boliviastraat 11
2408 MX Alphen aan den Rijn
The Netherlands
Telephone: +31-172-426606
Newsroom: http://www.troi.com/news/