Today we released updates to our collection of free plugins. All of our free plugins now require a (free) registration key. This change is partly due to technical reasons, but also to know better about our customers.
License keys can be obtained from our shop by clicking on the GET IT button next to the relevant plugin or bean. After filling out the registration form you will receive a free license key via email.
If you can not be 100% sure of what plugin version your solution runs with and want to prevent errors that might arise from this change, you can check if the register method actually exists by doing (example for Log-Plugin):
if (plugins.Log && 'register' in plugins.Log) {
plugins.Log.register(developer, license);
}
This way you can make sure your solution works with both the old and the new version of any free component.
We have also added an “UpdateManager” that installs into Servoy’s Tools/Plugins menu as “Servoy-Plugins.de updates…”. It presents a simple table that lists all plugins, their current and installed version. This can be used to see if you always have the latest and greatest version of one of our plugins and beans. The UpdateManager does not do anything automatically, nor does it download or update anything. The UpdateManager is an optional install in the installer.