Filemaker Scripting Plugins
Filemaker Scripting Plugins
- Subject: Filemaker Scripting Plugins
- From: Bruce Robertson <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 21:50:38 -0700
I'm principally a Filemaker developer; and Filemaker has a plugin
architecture. There are a lot of plugins out there but they are mostly
special purpose. I'm working towards making the plugin more of a conduit to
the outside world. Wayne Walrath of Acme Tech seems to be working in sort of
the same vein but is much farther along and bases what he is doing on Java.
See
<http://www.acmetech.com/products/filemaker_java_plugins/javacompanion.html>
There is also a very interesting xplat plugin from Abstrakt that does shell
scripts: <http://www.abstrakt.com/shell.html>
I have been working on a Filemaker applescript plugin using some code
supplied here, combined with Filemaker plugin code.
<http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1026.html>
The plugin is working now but still in development. I've also wondered about
a Python plugin, is there something similar to the article cited above that
lets Python and C communicate?
Applescript support in Filemaker is pretty good using existing script
methods, but plugins are based on the calculation engine so they allow
values to be generated or actions to be performed strictly as a result of
data entry.
One problem I have not yet solved is that standard Filemaker
perform-applescript statements can read or write data from Filemaker, change
layouts, etc. But the plugin method cannot do that - so far - because
Filemaker is busy talking to the plugin.
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