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Re: whose statement in FMP 7
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Re: whose statement in FMP 7


  • Subject: Re: whose statement in FMP 7
  • From: Bill Briggs <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 14:29:09 -0300

I've only done a few scripts for FileMaker Pro 7, but lasts week I also noted that the whose clause wasn't working as it used to. It showed up in a script I was just using for testing purposes, so I didn't pursue the matter. It appears to be a bug.

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At 10:45 AM -0500 9/20/04, Heidi McMath wrote:
I am in the process of converting an image database that I had in FileMaker 6 to 7. I have always used an applescript to automate importing folders of pictures into the database. Among other things the Applescript tested that the image file was of the correct type and was not already in the database. That way I could re-import the same folder when new images had been added to it without getting endless duplications in the database. The applescript tested for the existence of the image in the database with a line something like this:

tell application "FileMaker Developer"
exists (every record of database "Photo DB" whose cell "cImageName" is equal to "photo10")
end tell


In FMP 6 this returns true if there is a record with "photo10" in cell cImageName and false if there is not allowing me to test for true or false and allow the importation of the image or not as needed. In FMP 7 the script line returns true if the photo exists in the file but sends back an AppleScript error saying FileMaker got an error: event not handled, if there is no such record. I created a work around capturing the error number in a try statement and using that to trigger my import but I worry that since I am not sure why the event is not handled that some other error will trigger an import. Does anyone know why my statement is not returning false when the record doesn't exist?

I am running Mac OSX 10.3 and FileMaker Developer 7.

Heidi McMath


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