Our documentation is now maintained in a Wiki which you can access here: http://fusionplugins.com/groups/docs

For Dev Advanced license holders who need the BlackBox Builder documentation please refer to the link provided in the MyFP area, Resources for V3 Advanced, BlackBox Builder download notes.

No, because of the way Reactor works it needs to be embedded in FileMaker Pro itself.

However because the Web Viewer is compatible with IWP, we're interested in hearing from people who would like to see an IWP-Reactor or a way of getting Reactor type controls and widgets into IWP - send an email to reactor@fusionplugins.com and let us know what you want to do with it.

Not really because Reactor is tied very closely to the client and interacts with the client context extensively. This gives our controls the smooth tightly integration needed.

For some of the controls you could achieve a similar effect using custom web publishing from FileMaker Server, but there are some major differences:

Response time: Reactor is virtually instant because it updates data from the local client, whereas an update written to the server takes up to a second to be "seen" by the client. This makes possibilities such as the live portal filtering impractical via the server.

Serving: Reactor serves content directly from a calculation and/or container fields. This makes deployment so much simpler and easier.

Script running: Reactor can trigger a script on the users machine.

Yes - there are no known issues... and if you do find something let us know and we'll fix it with a minor update.

Since FileMaker 8 (or was it 8.5?) FileMaker has supported a user write-able directory (as opposed to the Admin only privileges of the Applications area) for plugins to be installed into.

On Mac OS it's:

~/Library/Application Support/FileMaker/Extensions/

(where ~ means the current user directory)

On Windows XP it's:

C:/Documents and Settings/{UserName}/Local Settings/Application Data/FileMaker/Extensions/

On Windows 7 it's:

C:/Users/{User Name}/AppData/Local/FileMaker/Extensions/

(On Windows, you may need to show hidden files & folders)

Note that FileMaker gives this precedence over the application extensions directory.

Yes, refer to "Deploying Reactor with a Runtime" in the documentation.

The initial release of Safari 4 brought some incompatibility issues with the web viewer in FileMaker 8.5 - 10, affecting not only Reactor but also a lot of dynamic web viewer content such as Google Maps displayed in the web viewer.

Safari 4.0.3 fixed this issue, so please upgrade to the latest version of Safari.

Reactor runs great on all modern operating systems - Windows XP, Vista and 7 and OS 10.4 and upwards.

No not at all: although our controls are built with JavaScript and can be modified by those so inclined the BlackBox Controls provided give you and enormous range of power just by using a function inside a web viewer.