Hi All,
does anyone use FileMaker AND Macromedia Director?

regards

Chris Brown
University of Adelaide

Yes, but I haven't tried to do anything combining them.

I assume you mean building data-driven Director projects, as FileMaker will
not do anything useful with an embedded Director movie except launch it. You
can use JavaScript or Lingo to do this. Most of the examples I'm aware of
talk to MySQL tables. I guess on a Macintosh it would theoretically be
possible to use AppleScript as well.

Bill

"Chris Brown" <cbrown (AT) medicine (DOT) adelaide.edu.au> wrote

In article <qtudnZAyJM7nFOzenZ2dnUVZ_sKdnZ2d (AT) comcast (DOT) com>, wjm (AT) wjm (DOT) org
says...
FWIW FM rarely makes the most sense for a database engine that is only
going to be accessed via ODBC. (If you are using FM elsewhere, by all
means... use the odbc support to push the data out ... but its really
not the right tool if its primary goal is to be the database backend to
sql queries via odbc).

FM can do it, and its improved dramatically over the last few versions,
but FM's strength is still in its proprietary client/server technology,
and its ease of use with respect to IWP etc, and not its ODBC support.

Its ODBC is not going to win any speed races, nor any features or
standards implemented showdowns against the likes of mysql, postgresql,
or ms sql server...

42 wrote:
I have an academic user who runs both at the same time (it is a major
work flow) and for a considerable time, FM has been grinding to a
halt/crashing if MM is open - which it needs to be as he passes info
including a considerable amount of graphic content between the two. This
is a Patient diagnoses/training and graphic resource pair.

He is on a Mac powerBook running 10.4.3.

Being the FM developer I am fairly sure it is the MM projectors that are
causing a very system level resource issue. the MM developer sees it
from a somewhat different perspetive (naturally). MM appears to hog all
avaliable CPU ...

I really looking for someone who runs both together on a similar system,
without problems. We are rather at a loss as to where to go next;
current favoured solution is just buy another laptop and run MM on one
and FM on the other; tedious ongoing swapping, and considerable o/s
travel may this undesirable, but if there is no other way - mandatory


regards

Chris

I have both open quite often and do not notice any problems of that sort.

"Chris Brown" <cbrown (AT) medicine (DOT) adelaide.edu.au> wrote