Re: FileMaker 8 is out!


Zomoniac wrote:
The
> built-in tab option is fucking wonderful, and with advanced you get Tooltips
> (pop-up rollovers previously available with the 24U SimpleHelp plugin) and
> Custom Menus (previously available with Menu Magic plugin).

The version of 8 that I had a look at had tabbed layouts which was
great until you tried to do something upon switching from 1 tab to
another. You couldn't attach a script to the tab and I didn't see a
script command that said "Go To Tab#..."; meaning you can't apply any
security to the different tabs. What's so great about this?


> And the best thing: You can copy and paste fields! Wonderful, wonderful
> thing. If you need a field or many fields in lots of tables for
> relationships or just want to move old fields to a new database, you can
> just select the fields you want to move, Ctrl (or Cmd) + V, move to the
> other table, and Ctrl + V, and there they all are, with all definitions
> still in tact. And an old file made in 7 will work too, just open it in 8
> and you can move all the fields across to a new file.

I spend 80% of my time in Script Maker where I often have to use the
application "Grab" on OS X to take a picture of a script because I need
to add similar script steps to a different script. The highly educated
design team at FileMaker gives me the ability to copy fields from 1
table to another (yes, I will use this) BUT where is copy & paste in
scripts?


As far as the relationship graph goes, the version I saw allowed me to
put coloured rectangle as a background in the graph and then put my
table occurrences on it as a way to group them, AND I could type some
text on the rectangle. Give me a text version of this any day!

As far as the upside is concerned, I did see a very useful thing which
hasn't been mentioned; the ability to transfer my found set of records
into another window.

All in all I have to agree with most people, the added features are an
improvement, but the real reason to update is in the hopes that this
version is going to be supported until it's bug free.
If FileMaker releases version 9 without doing that, then in my books,
I'll put them at the same level as Microsoft.

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