This does not work as you must compile your solution on either a Mac for the
Mac binded runtime or on a PC for the PC one. Now, I can't imagine why such
a distributed solution would be so large, unless you have a lot of imbedded
images. If so you could - you should - have a separate folder for those
images and have only the reference of the image (its path) into the
container field of the record. Maybe this image folder with one file per
image could be left open and then be used either by the Mac runtime or the
PC one.
Just my 2 cents.
Remi-Noel

In article <454d15af$0$17258$426a74cc (AT) news (DOT) free.fr>, "Remi-Noel
Menegaux" <rnmenegaux (AT) free (DOT) fr> wrote:

You do need two separate runtime application files (and some extras),
but your database files themselves are exactly the same for both
operating systems, and will still open in FileMaker itself. This means
you only need one copy of the files ... but unless you're distributing
the files to people with a reasonable computer ability, you'll have to
include some sort of installer to install the files onto their computer
for them. These usually compress the files, but again you'll need a
separate installer for each operating system. There are probably some
installer creation packages that don't compress the files into a
proprietry format and you could then create two installers that copy
the files from a single data folder - maybe even a "simple" AppleScript
and Windows equivalent.

As long as you use the same binding key, you can also distribute later
updates by sending just the new data files - the runtime applications
won't change (until you upgrade to a newer version of FileMaker of
course).


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In article <slrnekuas0.1k3.t-use (AT) ID-685 (DOT) user.individual.de>, Martin
Trautmann <t-use (AT) gmx (DOT) net> wrote:

I don't know about FileMaker 7 or 8, but in my version the Binder asked
you to type in the binding key you wanted - you just have to remember
it for next time.



It should work fine. You can rename the runtime applications as:

"Windows users click here"
and "Apple users click here"

so that they know which one to run for their operating system.




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In article <slrnel0ntk.1k3.t-use (AT) ID-685 (DOT) user.individual.de>, Martin
Trautmann <t-use (AT) gmx (DOT) net> wrote:

There's this new fangled invention called "pen and paper" ... ;o)

You could use a word processor page, a spreadsheet or even create your
own simple FileMaker database to store the passwords and binding keys
for all the solutions you make.



Unfortunately I don't know anything about Windows shortcuts either. You
may be able to edit the shortcut after creating it via it's Properties
window (right-click on it), but I don't know if you can make it a
relative link.

Otherwise you might have to make it simply say something like:

D:runtime/data/FMP.exe

which would a problem for those that have their CD drive set-up as a
different drive letter ... and people wonder why I avoid Windows. )




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