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- From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Brian Hughes)
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- Subject: Re: FM Pro 2 - Updating files from files
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- Date: 21 Jan 93 15:59:35 GMT
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- dremsen@mbl.edu (David Remsen) writes:
-
- >Is there any way to automate this process? I guess the bottom line
- >request is if there is any way to modify one filemaker file from within
- >another?
-
- Well, you should be able to do it using Apple Events and have a
- script in one file that opens the other file and performs a function. I
- don't know how extensive you can be with the commands you want it to
- process, but I do know that you could do this with Hypercard talking to
- FM Pro using Apple Events. Take a look at the HC example that comes with
- FM Pro 2.0.
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- -Brian V. Hughes
- "December 1 - What begins as a friendly transitional get-together between
- the Bushes and the Clintons ends in tragedy when Millie ralphs up what
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- -Brian V. Hughes
- "December 1 - What begins as a friendly transitional get-together between
- the Bushes and the Clintons ends in tragedy when Millie ralphs up what
- is later identified as Socks the cat." Dave Barry 1992 Year in Review
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