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
5-2 Developer’s Guide
Other solution components that you need to provide include:
1 A license agreement — see “Including a license agreement” on
page 5-4.
1 Installation instructions — see “Documenting the installation
procedures” on page 5-5.
Generated DLL files for Windows runtime
database solutions
The following table describes the Dynamic Link Libraries (DLLs)
that are provided for your runtime database solutions running on
Windows machines. These files are generated by the Developer Tool
during the binding process and must reside in the root level of the
solution folder along with the runtime application and bound
database files.
Important In addition to the generated DLL files, there are two
required DLL files, Shfolder.dll and Comctl32.dll, that need to be
installed separately on your users’ hard disks. These DLLs are
automatically installed by Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 3 and
by Internet Explorer 4.0. If your users cannot find either of these
DLLs on their hard disks, you’ll need to instruct them to get Internet
Explorer from the Microsoft web site at www.microsoft.com.
System files for Windows solutions
The following table describes the data and graphic import files and
spelling dictionaries that you can include with your runtime database
solution for Windows.
Copy the FileMaker Developer 5.5\Developer Tool\Runtime Files\System
folder and its contents into the root level of your runtime database
solution folder. The files should immediately work with the runtime
application on the user’s hard disk.
Required DLL files Description
Fmeng10.dll Database engine
Fmcor10.dll
Fmfc10.dll
Fmgfx10.dll
Fmint10.dll
Fmnsv14.dll
Fmole10.dll
Fmqte10.dll
Fmwfc10.dll
Fmml10.dll
Fmcon10.dll
XPAL files
Fm_usr.dll Resource file for the filename extension you specified
(.USR by default)
Cllngenu.dll
Clproof.dll
Spelling checker files
Mfc42.dll MFC (Microsoft Foundation Class) file
Msvcrt.dll MSVC runtime file
Ctl3d32.dll Required by MFC
System folder and files Description
System folder Copy folder and its contents into the root level of
the runtime database solution folder—Contains
files for graphics and data import, and four
spelling dictionaries.
Fmbmp32.flt BMP graphic import filter
Fmcgm32.flt CGM graphic import filter
Fmdrw32.flt DRW graphic import filter
Fmmac32.flt MacPaint graphic import filter
Fmpcx32.flt PCX graphic import filter
Fmpic32.flt PIC graphic import filter
Fmsld32.flt Lotus SLD graphic import filter
Fmtiff32.flt TIFF graphic import filter
Fmwmf32.flt Metafile graphic import filter
Dbf.imp Used to import dBASE files