Developer’s Guide
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Chapter 1 Introducing FileMaker Developer 5
- Chapter 2 Customizing your database solution
- About the custom solution examples
- Using the FileMaker Developer Tool
- Binding your databases into a runtime database solution
- Displaying databases in Kiosk mode
- 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 3 Preparing files for a custom solution
- About the Relational Example
- General steps for preparing your solutionfiles
- Issues to consider before creating a runtime database solution
- Opening files in Kiosk mode
- Design tips for navigating in Kiosk mode
- Creating startup scripts
- Using button image samples
- Documenting your database solution
- 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
- Protecting your runtime database solutionfiles
- Testing before and after creating yoursolution
- Converting and upgrading solution files
- Chapter 4 Distributing FileMakerPro runtime database solutions
- Chapter 5 Creating custom layout themes
- Chapter 6 Publishing your database on the Web
- Moving forward using open web standards
- Using the FileMakerPro Web Companion
- Displaying a custom home page
- Using a custom home page with Instant Web Publishing
- Monitoring your site
- Exporting data to a static HTML page
- Testing your site without a networkconnection
- Opening password-protected databasesremotely
- Using the Web Security Database
- 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 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 9 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
- New and 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 10 Writing external function plug-ins
- About the plug-in examples and templates
- Installing, enabling, and configuring FileMakerPro plug-ins
- Using external functions in a calculation
- 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
- Naming and registering your plug-ins
- Appendix A Feature comparison of the runtime application and FileMakerPro
- Appendix B Valid names used in CGI requests for FileMaker XML data
- 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
- 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 FileMaker Pro values for error codes
- Index
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Developer’s Guide
About the FileMaker JDBC Driver
interfaces and extensions
The FileMaker JDBC Driver implements all of the following JDBC
interfaces:
1 CallableStatement
1 Connection
1 DatabaseMetaData
1 Driver
1 PreparedStatement
1 ResultSet
1 ResultSetMetaData
1 Statement
The following FileMaker Pro-specific extensions have been added:
The following classes have been added in support of the
FileMaker Pro extensions:
The API documentation for these standard interfaces and the
FileMaker extensions is included in HTML format in the FileMaker
Developer 5 folder:
FileMaker Developer 5 > External FileMaker APIs > FileMaker JDBC
Driver > Documentation
Example 1: Looking at the FileMaker Pro
Explorer application
This developer-tool-independent example is a Java application used
for displaying FileMaker Pro database information, similar to the
Windows Explorer and Mac OS Finder applications. You can use the
FileMaker Pro Explorer application along with the FileMaker JDBC
Driver to view any open database on any computer that’s shared via
the Web Companion, by specifying the JDBC URL that includes the
IP address of the computer where FileMaker Pro is running. You can
view the application’s source code in any text editor or Java editing
tool.
The application was created using the basic Java classes to display a
database tree, and FileMaker Pro-specific extensions have been
added to provide detailed information about the fields and layouts.
The user interface was created using the Swing 1.1.1 class library—
an add-on to the Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.1.8.
For information on the Swing class library, go to the Sun
Microsystems web site at www.javasoft.com.
Setup requirements
Included with the example is the swingall.jar file, installed in the
FileMaker Developer 5 folder.
FileMaker Developer 5 > External FileMaker APIs > FileMaker JDBC
Driver > Examples > FileMaker Explorer > swingall.jar
This JDBC interface Includes this FileMaker Pro extension
java.sql.DatabaseMetaData com.fmi.jdbc.DatabaseMetaDataExt
java.sql.ResultSetMetaData com.fmi.jdbc.ResultSetMetaDataExt
Class name Description
com.fmi.fmpdb.FMPError FileMaker Pro error codes
com.fmi.fmpdb.FMPLayoutField Information associated with a
field on a layout
com.fmi.fmpdb.FMPLayoutFieldEnumerator Class for enumerating the
fields on a layout
com.fmi.fmpdb.FMPLayoutMetaData Metadata for a given layout
com.fmi.jdbc.Array Class used to represent
repeating and related fields