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
Introducing FileMaker Developer 5
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Abiding by the license agreement
The FileMaker Developer license agreement allows you royalty-free
distribution of an unlimited number of FileMaker Pro runtime
database solutions. However, there are several terms and conditions
in the license agreement you must abide by, including the following:
1 You must provide all of the end-user technical support.
1 You must distribute a license agreement with your bundled
solution. A sample license agreement is included in the Runtime
Solution Example folder:
FileMaker Developer 5 > Design Tools > Examples > Runtime Solution
Example > Sample Solution License.txt
1 You must provide an “About” layout that includes your name,
address, and the telephone number for your technical support. For
more information, see “Creating an About layout” on page 3-7.
Any end users to whom you distribute the OBDC driver will also be
subject to the ODBC driver software license agreement provided
with the ODBC driver.
Note You must read and agree to the terms and conditions of the
FileMaker Developer license agreement, available through the
FileMaker Developer installer, before using the FileMaker
Developer software.
Registration and customer support
Please complete and mail the registration card for your FileMaker
product, or register online at www.filemaker.com/register. In
FileMaker Pro, you can choose Help menu > FileMaker on the Web for
a link to the FileMaker, Inc. support pages and the online registration
form.
For information about technical support and customer service, see:
www.filemaker.com (North American customers)
www.filemaker.com/intl (customers outside of North America)
At the web site you will find the FileMaker, Inc. Service Directory,
which provides the service options available to North American
customers, links to FileMaker, Inc. international sites, answers to
frequently asked questions, and access to extensive software
libraries used by technical support staff.
Contents of the
External Function
Plug-in folder Description
Full Example Folder containing example source code files, a
compiled plug-in, and a Read Me-Full Example text
file in either the Visual C++ folder (Windows) or
CodeWarrior Pro folder (Mac OS and Windows)
For information about the example, see chapter 10,
“Writing external function plug-ins.”
Template Folder containing a Read Me-EFP Template text file
and template files for the FileMaker Pro External
Function Plug-in API in either the Visual C++ folder
(Windows) or CodeWarrior Pro folder (Mac OS and
Windows)
For information about these templates, see chapter 10,
“Writing external function plug-ins.”
Contents of the
Java Class Library
folder Description
Java Documentation Image files and HTML files that describe the
FileMaker Java API
Java Examples Folders containing two Java applets created using the
FileMaker Java API:
FMBanner
FMMemoPad
For information about these examples, see “Using the
FileMaker Java classes” on page 8-17.