Re: AppleScript Studio and Filemaker
Re: AppleScript Studio and Filemaker
- Subject: Re: AppleScript Studio and Filemaker
- From: "Charles P. Rubin" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 09:48:37 -0800
- Organization: CPRcomputing
Sorry I meant input options through dialog boxes. I already have
Filemaker bouncing to other applications (Entourage, Text Edit, etc.) as
well as multiple filemaker processes that require some user input. It
can be confusing going back and forth for the users of the system (they
are not computer people) and I would like to guide them through these
processes with a single interface with ability to make their choices and
a progress bar.
Thanks to all that responded your time is greatly appreciated.
Charles
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>I would like to add more input options than
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>Filemaker current allows and use drop down menus for easier list
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>selections. I would rather not use a plugin if I can avoid it.
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I don't understand what this means. More "input options"...? What is an
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"input option" as you consider it? There are scads of ways to design user
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interfaces using FileMaker.
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FileMaker has "drop down" menus for list selection. The list contents can
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be static, generated from data in a database, taken from a field (or
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multiple fields), graphically sculpted to whatever design you'd like.
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Lack of specificity regarding the terms makes it difficult to respond in any
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more meaningful way.
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In general, you can use AS (and ASS particularly) to make an AS front end to
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any scriptable application.
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However, it might be important to point out that "just because" you can use
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AS, that doesn't mean it is the best/easiest/most appropriate means of
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interacting with a FM database suite. (Aside from limiting the OS-scope to
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Mac-only, the use of AS in FM does cost you something in overhead...and
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time...and maintenance.)
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If FM can not perform some task, or does not provide the level of user
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interaction that you need, then begin looking to AS to "fill in" the
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functionality.
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>Charles
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Best, and I HTH.
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Gary
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