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- From: Joel Bowers, 71760,3365
- To: Scott S. Lawton, 70214,424
- Topic: FileMaker Improvements
- Msg #28758
- Section: Scriptable Apps [6]
- Forum: UserLand+
- Date: Tue, Nov 9, 1993, 11:55:12 PM
-
- I just got permission to post these improvements which you all may be
- interested in. Enjoy...but ask the pro - Scott Lawton - if you want to
- know what any of this means. I just hang out here on occasion when there
- isn't enough action in the FileMaker forums.
-
- Joel,
-
- Here's a rewritten article which is no longer classified as Claris Confidential,
- so you may share it in the Frontier forum. Our reasoning behind only recommending
- 2.1 Mac to customers who need additional networking support is that it is a paid
- upgrade with just one major enhancement. You're point about the upgrade being
- relevant for Apple Event adventurers is a good one and I'll start mentioning it.
-
- Mark Stobbs
- Claris Technical Support
-
- Apple Event Changes from FileMaker Pro 2.0v4 Mac to 2.1v1 Mac
-
- 1) Default type property of fields and cells now return 'PICT' for picture
- fields and 'TEXT' for all other field types.
-
- 2) You can now send Apple Events from FileMaker Pro to multiple Applets.
-
- 3) Querying the Boolean properties of windows using Frontier used return incorrect
- results. This problem is fixed in FileMaker 2.1.
-
- 4) Getting data from a record as a list used to crash if there was an empty
- picture field in the record.
-
- 5) On doing a get data we mistakenly returned data as tab delimited instead of a
- list - as described in the FileMaker Events and Objects database. Get data now
- returns data by default as a list, if you want the data returned in some other
- form then you need to use Get Data As.
-
- 6) Getting ranges of data used only return TEXT data. It now returns TEXT and
- PICT data.
-
- 7) It wasn't possible to get sounds out of FileMaker using AppleScript. It now
- is possible.
-
- 8) FileMaker now suppresses the open dialog if the application needs to be launched.
-
- 9) Unique IDs of cells, fields, records, layouts and script were non-constant
- in some circumstances. This is fixed.
-
- 10) Counting the number of cells in the non front most database e.g.
- count class cell of field 2 of document 2
- used to return the number of cells in the front most database. This is fixed.
-
- 11) In prior versions of the application you couldn't replace the contents of a
- full picture field with an empty picture field i.e. set data of an empty picture
- field into a full picture field would do nothing.
-
- 12) Count event based on default containment e.g.
- count class record
- count class field
- used fail and return "object not found".
-
- 13) Getting data from Layout 0 used return the data in the Defined field custom
- order rather than in the Define Field creation order. The data is now returned
- in the creation order. When getting data from a specific layout, data is returned
- in the tab order for that layout
-
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