Existing users, 
I strongly agree this application is in need of a rewrite.
I find it embarassing that I am a database archetict and programmer and *I* cannot make filemaker work for me. Lack of real ODBC is downright silly. The design interface is buggy, the scriptmaker is extremely limited, and strangely enough so is support for AppleScript.
I have taken to doing anyting I need for DB in mySQL with AppleScript and AppleScript Studio. I have also taken to doing reporting and viewing in Excel. Not the fastest approach, but much more stable, and I can use real ODBC and real SQL to find my data. Please, someone, make filemaker as good, as, say Microsoft Access, sometime in the not too distant future. Eventually I'm sure a decent mySQL front end will exist ... hopefully.
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Contributed by: civan93 Monday, March 14 2005 @ 10:55 AM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
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On the serious rewrite problem ... - FallGuy7254
I have played around with the newest version of Open Office for the x86 architecture. Unfortunately, the OSX version of the same is available only to a small group of Beta testers & developers. However, that said it will be available for OSX at some future date, and it has an interface and functionality that is quite close to that of MS Access. I too wish we had an OSX version of Access to use, but since MS doesn't seem to be developing one, perhaps the Ooo version will work for us. I just wish I could play with it now!Saturday, June 11 2005 @ 03:20 PM PDT
On the serious rewrite problem ... - hugh10_dotmac
Hi, it seems people dont like Filemaker 7! But is there an alternative? I have 30 year of scientific data on Filemaker 2 files, but it doesnt run well in the Classic environment, and i would like to update to something better. Do I have to buy v.7 and go through the pain of conversion? or is there another option? A man in the Apple Service dept told me that Filemaker 6 seems more stable and easier to run on OSX - but is it still obtainable? And where, if so? hugh10@dotmac.comReply to This
Sunday, March 20 2005 @ 08:04 AM PST