Re: AppleScript Studio and Filemaker
Re: AppleScript Studio and Filemaker
- Subject: Re: AppleScript Studio and Filemaker
- From: Gary Lists <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 11:42:38 -0500
On or about 11/7/03 2:36 AM, Charles P. Rubin wrote:
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I am new to the Macintosh platform brought back over by a client that I
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am building a filemaker solution for (last time I used a mac was a
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classic running system 7).
Um...nice. Things have changed a little. ;)
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Is anybody familiar with AppleScript Studio and can I
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A.) Create a AS Studio app as a front end and use Filemaker as the backend?
Sure. Yes.
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or
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B) Can I use AS Studio to create wizards to walk my clients through
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multiple processes that have been automated by filemaker but still
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require user input.
Yes. You can use any AppleScript tool to help write such "wizards" (but I
certainly hope that we can dispense with that term in the Mac world).
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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.
I don't understand what this means. More "input options"...? What is an
"input option" as you consider it? There are scads of ways to design user
interfaces using FileMaker.
FileMaker has "drop down" menus for list selection. The list contents can
be static, generated from data in a database, taken from a field (or
multiple fields), graphically sculpted to whatever design you'd like.
Lack of specificity regarding the terms makes it difficult to respond in any
more meaningful way.
In general, you can use AS (and ASS particularly) to make an AS front end to
any scriptable application.
However, it might be important to point out that "just because" you can use
AS, that doesn't mean it is the best/easiest/most appropriate means of
interacting with a FM database suite. (Aside from limiting the OS-scope to
Mac-only, the use of AS in FM does cost you something in overhead...and
time...and maintenance.)
If FM can not perform some task, or does not provide the level of user
interaction that you need, then begin looking to AS to "fill in" the
functionality.
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Charles
Best, and I HTH.
--
Gary
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