Developer’s Guide
Table Of Contents
- Preface Introducing FileMaker Developer 5.5
- Chapter 1 Installing FileMaker Developer 5.5
- What you need to install FileMakerDeveloper
- System requirements for FileMaker Developer 5.5
- Networking requirements
- Web publishing requirements
- Requirements for advanced features (Windows)
- Requirements for advanced features (MacOS)
- Installing FileMaker Developer 5.5 in Windows
- Installing FileMaker Developer 5.5 in the MacOS
- New features in FileMaker Pro
- FileMaker Pro 5.5 and Mac OS X
- Contents of the FileMaker Developer 5.5 folder
- Contents of the Developer Extras folder on the FileMaker Developer 5.5 CD
- Read Me file
- Electronic documentation
- Abiding by the license agreement
- Registration and customer support
- About the TechInfo database
- Chapter 2 Creating a database solution
- Overview of preparing your solutionfiles
- Considerations for a runtime databasesolution
- Considerations for Kiosk mode
- Using scripts to control your solution
- Protecting your database solution files
- Providing user documentation
- Design tips for cross-platform solutions
- Creating a consistent appearance
- Simulating outline and shadow text styles
- Using common character sets
- Designing text layouts for cross-platform solutions
- Using a common color palette
- Using graphics in cross-platform solutions
- Using QuickTime movies in cross-platform solutions
- Showing the status bar in Windows
- Using separate scripts for printing
- Using the Status (CurrentPlatform) function
- Creating platform-specific scripts
- Your responsibilities as a developer
- Testing before and after creating yoursolution
- Converting and upgrading solution files
- Chapter 3 Creating custom layout themes
- Chapter 4 Using the FileMaker Developer Tool
- About the solution examples
- Using the FileMaker Developer Tool
- Binding your databases into a runtime database solution
- Creating Kiosk-mode solutions
- Renaming your databases
- Removing design access to your databases
- Customizing the About, Help, and Scriptsmenus
- Adding the FileMakerPro extension to database filenames
- Saving your settings in the Developer Tool
- Chapter 5 Distributing FileMakerPro runtime database solutions
- Chapter 6 Publishing your database on the Web
- Types of web publishing
- Using the FileMakerPro Web Companion
- Creating a custom home page
- Creating a custom home page for Instant Web Publishing
- Creating a custom web site using a database layout
- Web Companion support for Internet mediatypes
- Monitoring your site
- Exporting data to a static HTML page
- Testing your site without a networkconnection
- Opening password-protected databasesremotely
- Chapter 7 Using FileMakerPro XML to deliver your data
- About the XML examples
- General process for custom web publishing using XML
- Generating an XML document
- Using the FMPDSORESULT grammar
- Using the FileMakerPro Extended XMLgrammars
- About UTF-8 encoded data
- Generating FileMakerPro CGI requests for an XML document
- Using style sheets with your XMLdocument
- Comparing CSS, XSLT, and JavaScript
- Looking at the XML Inventory example
- Chapter 8 Custom web publishing using CDML
- About the CDML examples
- General steps for custom web publishing using CDML
- About CDML format files
- Generating FileMakerPro CGI requests using CDML
- Using the CDML Tool and templates
- Modified CDML tags
- About the CDML Reference database
- Creating error messages
- Using an encoding parameter with a CDML replacement tag
- Planning your web site
- Chapter 9 Using Java and JDBC to deliver your data
- About the JDBC examples
- About JDBC
- Using the FileMaker JDBC Driver
- SQL supported by the FileMaker JDBCDriver
- FileMakerPro support for Unicodecharacters
- About the FileMaker JDBC Driver interfaces and extensions
- Example 1: Looking at the FileMakerPro Explorer application
- Example 2: Creating the JBuilder Inventoryapplication
- Example 3: Creating the Visual Cafe Inventory application
- Using the FileMaker Java classes
- Chapter 10 Understanding external function plug-ins
- About external functions
- About the plug-in example file
- Installing, enabling, and configuring the exampleplug-in
- Description of the FMExample plug-in’s externalfunctions
- Using the example plug-in
- Customizing the plug-in example
- Requirements for writing an external function plug-in
- FileMakerPro messages sent to theplugin
- Debugging your plug-in
- Avoiding potential MacOS resourceconflicts
- Providing documentation for your plug-in
- Registering your plug-ins
- Appendix A Feature comparison of the runtime application and FileMakerPro
- Appendix B Valid names used in CGI requests for FileMakerProXMLdata
- Generating a –find, –findall, or –findany request
- Generating a –view request
- Generating a –new request
- Generating an –edit request
- Generating a –delete request
- Generating a –dbnames request
- Generating a –layoutnames request
- Generating a –scriptnames request
- Generating a –dbopen request
- Generating a –dbclose request
- Generating a -dup request
- Generating an -img request
- Specifying parameters for the request
- –db (Database)
- –lay (Layout)
- –format (Format)
- –recid (Record ID)
- –modid (Modification ID)
- –lop (Logical operator)
- –op (Comparison operator)
- –max (Maximum records)
- –skip (Skip records)
- –sortfield (Sort field)
- –sortorder (Sort order)
- –script (Script)
- –script.prefind (Script before Find)
- –script.presort (Script before Sort)
- –styletype (Style type)
- –stylehref (Style href)
- –password (Database password)
- field name (Name of specific field)
- Appendix C FileMakerPro values for error codes
- Index
3-8 Developer’s Guide
FONT The name of the font. More
than one font name can be
specified, separated by
commas. The first font
available on a user’s
computer will be used in the
layout.
Note Font values are case
sensitive and must be entered
in sentence style with initial
caps only.
FONT = “Times New
Roman”
FONT = “Geneva”
FONT = “New York,
Times, Helvetica, Arial”
Or any other available font
(In FileMaker Pro, choose
Format menu > Font to see
the available fonts.)
HINT The name of the platform that
the theme name is edited on.
This attribute ensures that any
upper-ASCII characters
present in the THEMENAME
value (for example, an accent
over a letter in the theme’s
name) will appear in
FileMaker Pro on both
Windows and Mac OS.
HINT = “WIN”
HINT = “MAC”
ONOFF Whether a field’s border
should be displayed (turned
on or off).
VALUE =“ON”
VALUE =“OFF”
PARTNUMBER To distinguish multiple
leading or trailing
subsummary parts in a layout.
This attribute is ignored for all
other parts. FileMaker Pro
supports values 0 through 9
and ignores any other value.
VALUE =“0”
VALUE =“1”
VALUE =“2”
VALUE =“3”
VALUE =“4”
VALUE =“5”
VALUE =“6”
VALUE =“7”
VALUE =“8”
VALUE =“9”
This attribute
Is used to describe these
characteristics
And may contain
these values
PATTERN One of 64 valid patterns from
the fill pattern palette in
FileMaker Pro—for
background fills in layout
parts, fields, text, and field
labels, and for borders of
fields, field labels, and text.
See “Finding values for
patterns and colors” on
page 3-9.
PATTERN = “1”
PATTERN = “47”
PATTERN = “64”
PATTERN = “NONE”
PATTERN = “SOLID”
PATTERN = “LTGRAY”
PATTERN = “GRAY”
PATTERN = “DKGRAY”
SIDES One to four sides on a field’s
border.
To describe all four sides, you
can combine all four values.
VALUE="TOP"
VALUE="BOTTOM"
VALUE="LEFT"
VALUE="RIGHT"
Or any combination, such
as:
VALUE= “TOP BOTTOM
LEFT RIGHT”
VALUE= “LEFT TOP”
SIZE
(for the FONT
element)
The point size for a font. Any
valid point size can be
specified.
If a font size is unavailable on
the computer or for a
particular font, FileMaker Pro
will substitute the closest size.
SIZE = “36”
SIZE = “12”
SIZE = “9”
This attribute
Is used to describe these
characteristics
And may contain
these values