Developer’s Guide
Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1 Welcome to FileMaker Developer
- Chapter 2 Installing FileMaker Developer in Windows
- Chapter 3 Installing FileMaker Developer in the Mac OS
- Chapter 4 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 your solution
- Converting and upgrading solution files
- Chapter 5 Creating custom layout themes
- Chapter 6 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 Scripts menus
- Adding the FileMaker Pro extension to database filenames
- Saving your settings in the Developer Tool
- Chapter 7 Distributing FileMaker Pro runtime database solutions
- Chapter 8 Publishing your database on the Web
- Types of web publishing
- Using the FileMaker Pro 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 network connection
- Opening password-protected databases remotely
- Chapter 9 Custom web publishing using CDML
- About the CDML examples
- General steps for custom web publishing using CDML
- About CDML format files
- Generating FileMaker Pro CGI requests using CDML
- Using the CDML Tool and templates
- About the CDML Reference database
- Creating error messages
- Using an encoding parameter with a CDML replacement tag
- Planning your web site
- Chapter 10 Using FileMaker Pro XML to deliver your data on the Web
- About the XML examples
- General process for custom web publishing using XML
- Generating an XML document
- Using the FMPDSORESULT grammar
- Using the FileMaker Pro Extended XML grammars
- About UTF-8 encoded data
- Generating FileMaker Pro CGI requests for an XML document
- Using style sheets with your XML document
- Comparing CSS, XSLT, and JavaScript
- Looking at the XML Inventory example
- Chapter 11 Using JDBC to deliver your data
- About the JDBC examples
- About JDBC
- Using the FileMaker JDBC Driver
- SQL supported by the FileMaker JDBC Driver
- FileMaker Pro support for Unicode characters
- About the FileMaker JDBC Driver interfaces and extensions
- Example 1: Looking at the FileMaker Pro Explorer application
- Example 2: Creating the JBuilder Inventory application
- Example 3: Creating the Visual Cafe Inventory application
- Chapter 12 Understanding external function plug-ins
- About external functions
- About the plug-in example file
- Installing, enabling, and configuring the example plug-in
- Description of the FMExample plug-in’s external functions
- Using the example plug-in
- Customizing the plug-in example
- Requirements for writing an external function plug-in
- FileMaker Pro messages sent to the plug-in
- Debugging your plug-in
- Avoiding potential Mac OS resourceconflicts
- Providing documentation for your plug-in
- Registering your plug-ins
- Appendix A Feature comparison of the runtime application and FileMaker Pro
- Appendix B Valid names used in CGI requests for FileMaker Pro 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
- 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 FileMaker Pro values for error codes
- Index
Chapter 3
Installing FileMaker Developer in the Mac OS
Before you begin the installation process, quit other open programs
and save your work. For late-breaking information about
FileMaker Developer, browse the contents of the CD and view the
Read Me file or visit www.filemaker.com.
Installation notes
Before you install FileMaker Developer, review the following notes:
• The FileMaker Developer CD contains two installer programs, one
for Mac OS 9.x or earlier, and one for Mac OS X. Before you install
FileMaker Developer, confirm your Mac OS version. With the
Finder application active, choose About this Computer or About this
Mac from the Apple menu. A window will appear that lists your
Mac OS version.
• If you’re upgrading, you can install FileMaker Developer 6
without removing the previous version of FileMaker Developer that
you may already have installed.
• If your computer is running virus protection software, turn it off
prior to installing FileMaker Developer, and then turn it back on
afterwards.
• During installation, you can choose whether to install all the
program files (an Easy Install), or to install portions of the program
(a Custom Install). For example, you may choose not to install
certain features in order to save disk space.
• Mac OS X: if you’re installing FileMaker Developer on a
computer with multiple user accounts, see “Accessing files from
other user accounts (Mac OS X)” on page 3-2 after you install
FileMaker Developer.
• Mac OS X: ODBC drivers are not automatically installed. You
must install the drivers manually. See “Installing ODBC drivers in
Mac OS X” on page 3-2.
Installing FileMaker Developer
You must use the installation program to install
FileMaker Developer—you can’t install FileMaker Developer by
dragging files to your hard disk.
To install FileMaker Developer on your hard disk:
1. Insert the CD into your CD or DVD drive.
You see the disc’s window on your screen. If you see only the disc
icon, double-click the CD icon to open its window.
2. Using the table below, locate and double-click the appropriate
Start Here file for the Mac OS version in use on your computer.
For this Mac OS version: Double-click this file:
Mac OS 9.x or earlier
Mac OS X
You see the Software License Agreement.
3. Read the Software License Agreement. If you accept the terms of
the license agreement, click
Accept.
You see the FileMaker Developer Installer dialog box.