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Re: Filemaker


  • Subject: Re: Filemaker
  • From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 06:19:45 -0700

At 09:29a -0700 07/19/2004, Roger Howard didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus:

As much as I love AppleScript, would like to see FileMaker go the route Adobe took, and provide a cross-platform scripting system (aside from ScriptMaker, which we all know is limited), perhaps using a JavaScript interpreter.

I would prefer to see a ScriptMaker-ish text-based language, so FMP developers could easily leverage their ScriptMaker knowledge. I want it to support user-defined functions, a-la FoxPro's language (which was based on dBASE III), and maybe even have those UDFs usable by calc fields. As a text-based language, it could be copied easily from one place to another. We would lose auto-updating of db/table/field/list names, but we would gain so much more. It wouldn't have to replace the existing ScriptMaker mechanism; it could run side by side and even interact with the other language. Like Excel's XLM-VBA interaction. Hmm, that might even allow some double dereferencing so the text language could leverage the auto-updating of the dialog-built language...


-boo
dreaming as usual
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