Developer’s Guide
Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1: Installing FileMaker Pro Developer Edi...
- Chapter 2: Binding solution files
- The binding process—an overview
- Before binding
- Binder and runtime terminology
- Specifying the primary file
- Naming the runtime solution
- Assigning the binding key
- Choosing auxiliary files
- Choosing binding options
- Assigning the three-character extension
- Specifying a location for solution files
- What happens during binding
- Binding cross-platform solutions
- Changing solutions
- Chapter 3: Preparing and managing runtime soluti...
- Chapter 4: Distributing your bundled solution
- Appendix A: Feature comparison—runtime Appendix ...
- Appendix B: About the TechInfo database
- Index
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Printing tips
Scripts that include Page Setup/Print Setup and Print are not 100%
compatible cross-platform. The print steps in ScriptMaker rely upon the
current printer driver in order to determine the paper sizes that are
available, page orientation, and so on. Even if a computer using Windows
and another with the Mac OS are connected to the same printer, the drivers
themselves are significantly different—so FileMaker Pro is unable to
restore page setup and print options cross-platform.
To work around this, you can:
1 Create separate scripts for Windows and the Mac OS. Create the
Windows script on a computer using Windows and the Mac OS script
in the Mac OS. Use the Status (CurrentPlatform) function to
determine whether to run the Windows or the Mac OS script. For
more information, see “About the Status (CurrentPlatform) function”
on page 3-15.
1 In your Print script steps, be sure Perform Without Dialog is not selected.
This will allow end users to change the setup options before they print.
1 Specify document margins by selecting Layout Setup when in
Layout mode.
QuickTime movies
To use a Mac OS QuickTime movie with FileMaker Pro for Windows,
first save the movie in a format playable on non-Apple computers.
Use a QuickTime editing application or a utility such as MoviePlayer,
which is available with Mac OS 8. For more information, visit the Apple
web site: http://www.apple.com.
To save a movie in a format for other platforms:
1. In the Mac OS, start MoviePlayer.
2. Open the QuickTime movie you want to convert.
3. Choose Save As from the File menu.
4. Name the file in the Save As dialog box. If you will be distributing
your solution to Windows 3.x users, use no more than 8 characters.
Be sure to add the .mov filename extension.
5. Select Make movie self-contained.
6. Select Make playable on non-Apple computers.