Script Steps Reference

138 FileMaker Script Steps Reference
Example
The following example opens an application:
Send Event ["TextEdit", "aevt", "oapp"]
Send Event (Windows)
Format
Send Event [“<aevt>”; “<event name>”; “<filename>”]
Options
Click Specify to display the “Send Event” Options dialog box, where you can set the
following options.
•For Send the <event name> message, select:
• open document/application to tell FileMaker Pro to open a document file or
application. Documents are opened using the application that Windows has
associated with the document’s file type.
• print document to tell FileMaker Pro to print a document in another application.
• Select File or click Specify to specify a document/application to open, or a document
to print. For more information, see FileMaker Pro Help.
• Select Calculation or click Specify to create a message from a calculation.
• Select Text to manually enter text for the message to be sent.
• Select Bring target application to foreground to activate the target application and
display it on the screen. Displaying the target application can slow down the
performance of your script. If Bring target application to foreground is not
selected, the event is performed in the background.
Web compatibility
This script step is not web-compatible.
Description
Starts another application, opens a document in another application, or prints a document
in another application. For additional scripting capabilities, you can create a program in
Basic or C and run that program with this script step.
Note When specifying a document or application by calculation or text, the file type or
application name will appear as <unknown> in the script definition.